WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
TITLE
AUTHOR
LENGTH GENRE
TOPIC/THEME
LEXIL INTEREST SUMMARY
E
LEVEL
Birthdays, Friends
650 3-5
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays
and friendship
together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on
their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last
year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday
separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the
day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and
over again.
610 3-6
When their beloved Aunt Grace dies, Dan, 11, and
Amy, 14-along with other Cahill descendants-are
faced with an unusual choice: inherit one million
dollars or participate in a perilous treasure hunt. As
the siblings work together to solve puzzles and
survive dangers, they develop into well-drawn
individuals with their own strengths and
personalities. Supporting Cahill cast members come
across as intentionally exaggerated caricatures,
adding to the tale's breathless fun.
11 Birthdays
Mass, Wendy
267 p.
Fiction
Comedy and
Humor
39 Clues: The Maze of the Riordan, Rick
Bones
220 p.
Fiction
Adventure,
Mystery and
Suspense
Abel's Island
Steig, William
117 p.
Fiction
Animals
Language Arts
Adam of the Road
Gray, Elizabeth
Janet
317 p.
Historical
Fiction
Adventurous Deeds of
Deadwood Jones
Hemphill, Helen
192 p.
Fiction
Aesop's Fables
McGovern, Ann
78 p.
Classics
Animals, Character
Fables
and values
Folk Tales and
Myths
920 3-6
Middle ages, Life
experiences,
Relationships
Travel and places
1
1030 4-6
720 5-8
780 4-6
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very
civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and
endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to
survive and return to his home.
The adventures of an eleven-year-old boy in 13th
century England as he searches for his father and his
dog.
Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his elevenyear-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a
cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas,
where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they
find adventure and face challenges as AfricanAmericans in a land still recovering from the Civil
War
67 fables, with a short profile of Aesop
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Afternoon of the Elves
Lisle, Janet Taylor 122 p.
Fantasy
Cleaverness,
Creativity and
imagination,
Families and social
structures, Friends
and friendship,
Disease and illness
82 3-5
As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly
built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes
more and more curious about Sra-Kate's real life
inside her big, gloomy house with your mysterious,
silent mother. Deals with poverty, neglect, and
prejudice. Teacher discussion needed.
Cleaverness,
Creativity and
imagination,
Courage and honor,
Families and social
structures, Magic
900 6-8
John & Phillipa, twelve-year old twins discover they
are djinn, they go to live with their uncle in
England, where takes them to Egypt to learn about
their extraordinary powers.
Manners and
conduct
Magic and
Supernatural
Cleverness
Creativity and
imagination
Realistic
Changes and new
Fiction
esperiences
Farma dn ranch life
Extended family
Science fiction Civics and
and fantasy
government
Series
Courage and honor
Families and social
structures
Friends and
friendship
860 3-6
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a
world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
1460 6-8
A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by
irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer
on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two
elderly brothers.
In a future where the Population Police enforce the
law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has
lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his
family's farm, until another "third" convinces him
that the government is wrong. World governments,
5th & 6th grades.
Akhenaten adventure,
Kerr, P.B.
The: Children of the lamp
355 p.
Adventure
Series
Fantasy
Alice in Wonderland
Carrol, Lewis
159 p.
Classics
Fantasy
Alida's Song
Paulsen, Gary
88 p.
Among the Hidden
Haddix, Margaret
Peterson
153 p.
Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates, Elizabeth
181 p.
Historical
Fiction
Social studies
African Americans
World history
Character and
values
2
800 6-8
1090 6-8
The life of an eighteenth-century African prince who
after being captured by slave traders, was brought to
Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was
able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Anastasia Krupnik
Lowry, Lois
113 p.
Fiction
Comedy and
humor
Families and social
structure
Childhhod and
education
Hispanic
700 5-8
And Now Miguel
Krumgold, Joseph 245 p.
Classics
Fiction
Angel on the Square
Whelan, Gloria
293 p.
Hisorical
fiction
Social studies
World history
Character and
values
Friends and
friendship
820 5-8
Anna All Year Round
Hahn, Mary
Downing
133 p.
Fiction
Culture and
diversity
Character and
values
Friends and
friendshop
610 3-5
Eight year old Anna experiences a series of
episodes, some funny others sad, involving family
and friends during a year in Baltimore just before
World War One.
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L.M. 304 p.
Classics
Realistic
fiction
Determination and
perserverence
Adoption and foster
care
Changes and new
experiences
Friends and
friendship
School life
American history
990 5-8
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake
to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister
on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to
make an indelible impression on everyone around
her.
730 5-8
Culture and
diversity
740 3-5
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover longhidden family secrets while staying in their
grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also
become involved with a German artist who is
suspect of being a spy. Graphic persecution
scenes, suicide, shooting. Grades 5 & 6
Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the
poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but
his own efforts to create a special perfume are
disastrous.
Art of Keeping Cool, The Lisle, Janet Taylor 250 p.
Historical
Fiction
Attaboy, Sam
Fiction
Lowry, Lois
116 p.
3
780 6-8
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like
falling in love and really getting to know her
grandmother and some good things like finding out
about an impending baby brother.
Miguel lives with his family on a sheep ranch in
New Mexico. More than anything else, he longs to
go with the men to the Sangre de Christo
Mountains. More for boys, role of females is
superficial.
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly
anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though
not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a
lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II,
but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution,
and undreamed of changes to her life.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Babe: the Gallant Pig
King-Smith, Dick
118 p.
Animal Stories Animals
Character and
values
Baby
MacLachlan,
Patricia
132 p.
Fiction
Babymouse 2, Our Hero
Holm, Jennifer
91 p.
Fantasy
Ballad of Lucy Whipple,
The
Cushman, Karen
218 p.
Historical
Fiction
Bandit's Moon
Fleischman, Sid
136 p.
Historical
Fiction
Banner in the Sky
Ullman, James
Ramsey
285 p.
Adventure
Bat 6: a novel
Wolff, Virginia
Euwer
230 p.
Battle for the Castle, The Winthrop,
Elizabeth
211 p.
Culture and
diversity
Character and
values
1040 3-5
A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at
the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and
discovers a special secret to success.
670 3-5
Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of
the tourist season helps a family come to terms with
the death of their own infant son. 5th & 6th grade,
gifted
An imaginative young mouse is terrified to face her
enemy in dodge ball, but with the help of her best
friend and support from her mother, she not only
plays the game, she proves herself a hero. Graphic
novel
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning
Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught
when her mother moves the family from
Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
Blunt terms
Twelve-year-old Annyrose, left behind when her
brother joins the Gold Rush, escapes the
unscrupulous woman with whom she is staying and
sets out on a grand adventure with the notorious
bandit Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws.
3-5
American history,
Westward
expansion, Changes
and new
experiences
social studeies,
culture and
diversity, Character
and values, Friends
and Friendship
Character and
values, Friends and
friendship
Historical
World War II, Pride
Fiction
and self-esteem,
Prejudice and
racism, softball,
Japanese and
Japanese American
Fiction,
Animals, culture
Adventure,
and diversity,
Science fiction Middle ages,
and fantasy
Character and
values, Friends and
friendship
4
1030 7-12
690 3-5
680 6-8
Sixteen-year-old Rudi dreams of being the first to
climb the highest mountain in Switzerland.
930 6-8
In a small town, in post-Word War II Oregon,
twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an
annual softball game, during which one girl's
bigotry comes to the surface. 5th & 6th grade.
References to religion and an illegitimate baby.
700 3-5
Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to
return, through the toy castle in his attic, to the
medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced
by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of ravenous rats.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Be a Perfect Person in Just Manes, Stephen
Three Days!
76 p.
Comedy and
Humor
Beany and the Dreaded
Wedding
121 p.
Language Arts
Bear Dancer: the Story of Wyss, Thelma
a Ute Girl
181 p.
Historical
Fiction
Beasts of Tarzan, The
Burroughs, Edgar
Rice
240 p.
Language Arts
Because of Mr. Terupt
Rob Buyea
269 p.
Fiction
560 3-6
Because of Winn-Dixie
DiCamillo, Kate
182 p.
Language Arts
610 3-6
Becoming Naomi Leon
Ryan, Pam Muñoz 246 p.
Language Arts
830 5-8
Behind the Bedroom Wall Williams, Laura F. 169 p.
Historical
Fiction
660 5-8
Bella at Midnight
Stanley, Diane
Fantasy
950 5-8
Best School Year Ever,
The
Robinson, Barbara 117 p.
Wojciechowski,
Susan
278 p.
Manners and
conduct
720 3-5
Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and
classmates, finds a book in the library which
promises to make him perfect in just three days.
770 3-6
Beany loves her cousin Amy but is worried about
something going wrong if she agrees to be the
flower girl in Amy's wedding.
Elk girl, a member of the Ute tribe is captured by
the Cheyenne during the 1860s, sold to an Arapaho
warrior, rescued by a white soldier, and finally
returned to her family
Stranded on a deserted island, Tarzan, now Lord
Greystoke, calls upon the beasts of the jungle to
help him save his abducted wife and son.
3-6
1360 AD
Language Arts
1020 3-6
5
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in
Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for
the better because of their teacher Mr. Terupt.
Ten-year-old, India Opal Buloni describes her first
summer in the town of Naomi, Florida and all the
good things that happen to her because of her big
ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim
her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her greatgrandmother and younger brother, in search of her
father.
Ten year old Korinna must decide whether to report
her parents to her Hitler Youth group when she
discovers they are hiding Jews in a secret place
behind Korinna's bedroom wall. Gifted 5th or 6th
grade
Bella's peasant life is changed when her real father,
a knight who abandoned her when she was a baby,
comes and reclaims her, moving her to his home
where lives with a resentful stepmother and two
horrible stepsisters and learns about a plot to kill her
friend, Prince Julian.
The six horrible Herdman kids cause mayhem
throughout the school year
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Binky the Space Cat
Spires, Ashley
64 p.
Graphic
Novels,
Fiction/comics
740 2-6
"A Binky adventure"--Cover. Binky, a house cat
who believes the family home is actually a space
station, trains and prepares to travel into outer
space, where his humans go everyday and need his
protection. (Instructional Recommendations-Good
for a storyboard and writing or Read Aloud.)
Black Beauty
Sewell, Anna
258 p.
Language Arts
450 5-8
Black Cauldron, The
Alexander, Lloyd
182 p.
Fantasy
760 5-8
Black Stallion
Farley, Walter
197 p.
Language Arts
680 5-8
Blood on the River
Elisa Carbone
237 p.
Historical
Fiction
820 5-8
A horse in 19th century England recounts his
experiences with both good and bad masters
Taran, assistant pig-keeper of Prydain, faces even
more dangers as he seeks the magical black
cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of
Arawn, lord of the land of Death.
The story of the understanding and love between a
boy and a magnificent wild horse and the
adventures and dangers they share.
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to
Captain John Smith, when an orpahn, Samuel
Collier, settles in the new colony of James Town.
Bloomability
Creech, Sharon
273 p.
Language Arts
850 3-6
Blue Fingers: A ninja's
tale
Whitesel, Cheryl
Aylward
252 p.
Historical
Fiction
Book Without Words: a Avi
Fable of Medieval Magic
203 p.
Fantasy
960 5-8
Borrowers, The
180 p.
Fantasy
780 3-6
273 p.
Historical
Fiction
690 5-8
Norton, Mary
Boston Jane: an Adventure Holm, Jennifer
5-8
6
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico
to Lugan, Switzerland, to attend an international
school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers her world
expanding.
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji
is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where he
remains disloyal until samurai have burned his
former village.
Thorston, an alchemist who has spent his life trying
to decipher the secret to immortality is on the brink
of realizing his dream when he drops dead.
Miniature people survive in an old country house by
borrowing things from the humans who live there
also.
Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for
manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific
Northwest and while living among American
traders and Chinook Indians. Reference to female
anatomy and references to mature adult
interpersonal relationships. For grades 5 & 6.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Bound for Oregon
Van Leeuwen, Jean 167 p.
Historical
Fiction
Boxcar Children, The
(Series)
Warner, Gertrude
Chandler
150 p.
Mystery
Boy at War, A: a Novel of Mazer, Henry
Pearl Harbor
104 p.
Historical
Fiction
530 5-8
Boy Who Saved Baseball Ritter, John
216 p.
Language Arts
660 5-8
Boy Who Saved Cleveland Giblin, James
Cross
64 p.
Historical
Fiction
740 3-6
Boy: Tales of childhood
Dahl, Roald
176 p.
Biography
1090 5-8
Brian's Winter
Paulsen, Gary
133 p.
Survival
1140 5-8
Bridge to Terabithia
Paterson, Katherine 128 p.
Language Arts
810 5-8
Brighty of the Grand
Canyon
Henry, Marguerite 222 p.
Language Arts
880 5-8
Bronze Bow, The
Speare, Elizabeth
George
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
760 5-8
254 p.
830 5-8
320-400 3-6
7
Mary Ellen Todd and her family travel from their
home in Arkansas westward over the Oregon trail in
1852. They encounter stroms, Indians, disease and
death. Science and health
A series of mysteries, solved by four siblings,
featuring simple vocabulary and sentence structure
While fishing with his friends in Honolulu, Adam is
caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and tries
to find his father who was serving on the U.S.S.
Arizona. Discusses racist views toward the
Japanese
The fate of a small California town rests on one
baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his
team to victory with the secrets of a disgraced
player.
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth
century Cleveland, ten-year old Seth Doan surprises
everyone by having enough strength and energy to
grind enough corn to feed everyone
Humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood,
including his summer vacations in Norway and life
at an English boarding school.
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in
Hatchet, this story portrays what would have
happened to Brian had he been forced to spend a
winter in the wilderness.
The life of a ten-year old boy in rural Virginia
expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer
who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to
reach their hideaway Terabithia during a storm.
Brighty is the story of a free-spirited wild donkey.
As he roams the Grand Canyon he encounters an
old miner, President Teddy Roosevelt, and a
ruthless claim-jumper. Desert biomes.
A young boy seeks revenge from the Romans for
killing his parents, but is turned away from
vengeance by Jesus
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Bully for You, Teddy
Roosevelt
Fritz, Jean
127 p.
Biography
980 3-6
Bunnicula: a rabbit tale of Howe, Deborah
mystery
98 p.
Language Arts
700 3-6
Cabin Faced West, The
Fritz, Jean
124 p.
Historical
Fiction
860 3-6
Caddie Woodlawn
Brink, Carol Ryrie 242 p.
890 5-8
Caddie grows up with her six brothers and sisters
on the Wisconsin frontier.
Cages
Kehret, Peg
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Language Arts
660 5-8
Caleb's Story
Patricia MacLahlan 134 p.
Social Studies,
Historical
Fiction
290 3-6
Kit gains a new perspective on life when she is
sentenced to twenty hours of volunteer work at the
humane society for shoplifting.Addresses issues of
abuse, alcoholism.
Sequel to: Skylark
Calico Captive
Historical
Fiction
Language Arts
900 5-8
Call it Courage
Speare, Elizabeth 274 p.
George
Sperry, Armstrong 95 p.
Candy Shop War, The
Mull, Brandon
409 p.
Fantasy
750 5-8
Case of the Missing
Marquess, The: an Enola
Holmes mystery
Springer, Nancy
216 p.
Mystery
1020 5-8
179 p.
Fantasy
750 3-6
62 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
1000 5-8
137 p.
Language Arts
860 5-8
Castle in the Attic, The
Winthrop,
Elizabeth
Cat Who Went to Heaven, Coatsworth,
The
Elizabeth
Cay, The
Taylor, Theodore
150 p.
5-8
8
Follows the life of the dynamic 26th President
including his conservation work, hunting
expeditions, family life and political career
Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the
cat tries to warn his human family that their
foundling baby bunny must be a vampire
Ten-year old Anna overcomes loneliness and learns
to appreciate the importance of her role in settling
the wilderness of Western Pennsylvania.
Miriam Willard becomes a captive during the
French and Indian war in 1754. 5th & 6th grade.
Mafatu overcomes his terrible fear of the sea
When four fifth graders meet the owner of the new
candy shop in town, and are given a magical candy,
they acquire super powers that come with dangerous
consequences.
Enola Holmes the younger sister of Sherlock
Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to
unravel the mystery of her missing mother.
Advanced 5th & 6th graders
A gift of a toy castle, complete with a toy knight
starts William on a magical quest.
The tale of a cat who brings good fortune to a
painter. The painter knows that the cat wants to be
in his painting, but it will ruin his reputation
After the freighter on which Philip and his mother
were traveling is torpedoed, the boy finds himself
dependent on an old West Indian man for survival
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Chalk Box Kid
56 p.
Language Arts
270 K-3
Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, so
he creates a garden in an unusual place.
Charlie and the Chocolate Dahl, Roald
Factory
Charlie and the Great
Dahl, Roald
Glass Elevator
Charlotte's Web
White, E.B.
155 p.
Language Arts
810 3-6
159 p.
Language Arts
720 3-6
184 p.
Language Arts
680 3-6
Five children win a trip in Mr. Wonka's mysterious
chocolate factory
Charlie, his family and Mr. Wonka find themselves
launched into space.
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate, when he discovers that
he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner.
Chasing Redbird
Creech, Sharon
261 p.
Language Arts
860 3-6
Children of the River
Crew, Linda
213 p.
Historical
Fiction
700 YA
Chocolate Fever
Smith, Robert
Kimmel
93 p.
Language Arts
680 3-6
Chocolate Touch, The
Catling, Patrick
Skene
Skye, Obert
126 p.
Fantasy
770 3-6
327 p.
Magical
Fiction
700 4-6
Evans, Richard
Paul
89 p.
Language Arts
830 5-8
Cinderellis and the Glass Levine, Gail
Hill
Carson
104 p.
Fantasy
600 3-6
Circle of Gold
134 p.
Realistic
Fiction
Fantasy
610 5-8
Choke
Christmas Box, The
City of Ember
Bulla, Clyde R.
Boyd, Candy
Dawson
DuPrau, Jeanne
270 p.
680 5-8
9
Zinnia deals with the deaths of her cousin Rose and
her Aunt Jessie while growing up in an eccentric
family in Kentucky
Having fled Cambodia to escape the Khmer Rouge
army, 17 year old Sundara is torn between
remaining faithful to her own people and adjusting
to life as an American in Oregon. For mature 6th
grade girls.
Henry breaks out in brown bumps from eating too
much chocolate which helps him foil some
hijackers.
A boy acquires a magical gift, that turns everything
his lips touch into chocolate.
Using his renowned lack of common sense, fifteenyear-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends
Kate and Wyatt embroiled in more dragon
adventures, as they discover and hatch the last
remaining dragon stone.
A young family moves in with a widow and
together they discover the first gift of Christmas.
Deals with the death of a child.
A male Cinderella story in which a lonely young lad
uses his inventive ability to win the hand of a
princess
Mattie copes with the loss of her father and her
mixed feelings towards her mother
The city of Ember is running out of Electricity. Lina
must find a way for the people of Ember to return to
Earth
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Clementine
Pennypacker, Sara 133 p.
Realistic
Fiction
750-790 3-6
Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while
helping her father banish the pigeons from their
apartment building.
Nellie's family moves from Tennessee to Chicago,
hoping to escape the racism of the South behind.
Deals with prejudice.
Tigre, a Mayan boy, living in the Yucatan, must
learn to be a man when his father is injured.
Glossary for Spanish & Mayan words.
Color Me Dark: the diary McKissack,
of Nellie Lee Love, the
Patricia C.
great migration north
Corn Grows Ripe, The
Rhoads, Dorothy
218 p.
Historical
Fiction
680 5-8
88 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
Honor
750 3-6
Courage of Sarah Noble,
The
Dalgliesh
52 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
610 3-6
Sarah finds courage to go alone with her father to
build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness
among the Indians. Reference to Bible reading.
Cracker Jackson
Byers, Betsy
146 p.
Realistic
Fiction
710 3-6
After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife
abuse, Cracker gains insight into the sadness of
failed heroics. Deals with spouse & child abuse.
Crash
Spinelli, Jerry
162 p.
Realistic
Fiction
560 3-6
Crazy Lady
Conly, Jane Leslie 180 p.
Realistic
Fiction
570 5-8
John is a bully until his grandfather moves in and
has a stroke and her considers the importance of
family. For mature students.
A young boy discovers that sometimes the people
you and your friends make fun of can turn out to be
friends , even though they may have problems.
(Alcoholism, mental retardation)
Cricket in Times Square,
The
Selden, George
132 p.
Fantasy
780 3-6
Crispin: The Cross of
Lead
Avi
262 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Dancing in the Cadillac
Light
Holt, Kimberly
Willis
167 p.
Language Arts
760 5-8
Daniel's Story
Matas, Carol
136 p.
Historical
Fiction
720 5-8
5-8
10
The adventures of a country cricket who
unintentionally arrives in New York and is
befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned
peasant boy in 14th century England flees his
village and meets a juggler who holds a dangerous
secret. For 6th grade only.
Jaynell's life in Moon, Texas is enlivened when her
eccentric grandpap comes to live with her and her
family.
Daniel whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to
power, describes his imprisonment in a
concentration camp. Graphic portrayal of
Holocaust. Mature 6th grade only
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Daphne's Book
Hahn, Mary
Downing
Dead Man in Indian Creek Hahn, Mary
Downing
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Cleary, Beverly
177 p.
Language Arts
710 5-8
130 p.
Mystery
820 5-8
133 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
910 3-6
Two seventh grade girls are paired for a picture
book contest. Daphne's life as an orphan living with
an impoverished and unstable grandmother troubles
both girls.
Matt and Parker learn the body the found in Indian
Creek is a drug related death.
In letters to his favorite author, Leigh copes with his
parents' divorce and being the new boy in school.
Detectives in Togas
Winterfield, Henry 249 p.
Historical
Fiction
700 5-8
Devil's Arithmetic
Yolen, Jane
170 p.
Historical
Fiction
5-8
Dive (Series)
Korman, Gordon
150 p.
Language Arts
Door in the Wall, The
DeAngeli,
Marguerite
120 p.
990 3-6
A handicapped boy in 14th century England proves
his courage and earns recognition from the king.
Dragon Rider
Funke, Cornelia
523 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Fantasy
710 3-6
Dragon's Gate
Yep, Laurence
273 p.
730 YA
Dragonslayers, The
Coville, Bruce
119 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Honor
Fantasy
Firedrake, a silver dragon is joined by a brownie
and an orphan boy embark on a journey to magical
lands where they meet marvelous creatures and one
ruthless villain.
A young boy must leave China and join his father
and uncle working on the transcontinental railroad
in the Sierra Nevada mountains. For high readers.
Dragonsong
McCaffrey, Anne
192 p.
Language Arts
960 YA
Earthquake Terror
Kehret, Peg
132 p.
Survival
690 5-8
Egypt Game, The
Snyder, Zilpha
Keatley
215 p.
Mystery
880 3-6
700-760 3-6
680 3-6
11
A group of young friends living in ancient Rome,
search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the
temple wall. 6th grade
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage
until time travel places her in the middle of a small
Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Four students work as interns for an oceanography
institute. Treasure hunters try to prevent the kids
from keeping the treasure they find.
Witch Grizelda creates a dragon so fierce that it
frightens even the king's knights.
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music, a girl
on planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with fire
lizards.
Jonathan must help his handicapped sister, when an
earthquake his an island in California where they
are camping.
A group of children are visited by an oracle,
befriend a professor and become involved in a
murder.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Encyclopedia Brown
(Series)
Sobol, Donald
80 p.
Mystery
560-880 3-6
Endless Steppe: growing
up in Siberia
Hautzig, Esther
243 p.
Memoir
940 YA
Enormous Egg, The
Butterworth, Oliver 187 p.
Fantasy
900 3-6
Everest (series)
Korman, Gordon
150 p.
Survival
690-710 3-6
Every Living Thing
Rylant, Cynthia
81 p.
Language Arts
5-8
Everything on a Waffle
Horvath, Polly
149 p.
Language Arts
950 5-8
Everywhere
Brooks, Bruce
70 p.
Language Arts
880 3-6
Evolution of Calpurnia
Tate
Kelly, Jacqueline
340 p.
Historical
Fiction, Family
life, Naturalists
Fiction
830 5-8
Extra Credit
Clements, Andrew 183 p.
Fiction
830 3-6
Three young middle-school-age children, Abby,
Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth
between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of
Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across
cultural and religious divides.
Eye of the Great Bear
Wallace, Bill
161 p.
Language arts
640 3-6
Fablehaven
Mull, Brandon
351 p
Fiction
700 5-8
Bailey Trumbull proves his courage when he
confronts a bear in Montana
Kendra and Seth find themselves in the midst of a
battle between good and evil when they visit their
grandparents' estate and discover that it is a
sanctuary for magical creatures
12
Each book has ten cases solved by a boy detective.
Solutions provided in the back of the book.
The author recounts five years of hardship and trials
spent in Siberia after she and her family were
arrested in Poland during World War II.
Problems develop when Nate's hen lays an egg that
hatches into a dinosaur.
Four climbers enter a contest to be the youngest
person to climb Mt. Everest and face life or death
challenges.
Twelve stories in which animals change peoples
lives for the better. For pet lovers.
Primrose lives in a fishing village in British
Columbia. She recounts her adventures as an
orphan trying to prove her parents did not perish in
a storm.
Afraid that his grandfather will die after suffering a
heart attack, a boy joins his friend in performing a
mysterious ritual called soul switching.Confusing
story line
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee
Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns
about love from the older three of her six brothers,
and studies the natural world with her grandfather,
the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Fair Weather
Peck, Richard
146 p.
Historical
Fiction
670 5-8
Fairest
Levine, Gail
Carson
326 p.
Fantasy
590 5-8
Fame and Glory in
Freedom, Georgia
O'Connor, Barbara 104 p.
Language Arts
740 3-6
Family under the Bridge
Carlson, Natalie
Savage
123 p.
Language Arts
680 3-6
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl, Roald
81 p.
Language Arts
600 3-6
Three farmers, each one meaner than the next, try all
out warfare to get rid of Mr. Fox and his family.
Farmer Boy
372 p.
Historical
Fiction
Historical
Fiction
550 3-6
Finding Buck McHenry
Wilder, Laura
Ingalls
Slote, Alfred
Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New
York State at the end of the 19th century
Jason enlists his custodian Buck McHenry as the
coach of his baseball team when he finds he is a
famous pitcher from the old Negro league. Note: No
consequences for lying and deceiving others.
Flea Circus Summer
Ware, Cheryl
135 p.
Language Arts
3-6
Venola, West Virginia's best newspaper carrier tells
humorous stories in letters to her friend and the
Underwater Flea Circus Co.Light & funny.
Flipped
Van Draanen,
Wendelin
212 p.
Language Arts
720 5-8
Flunking of Joshua T.
Bates, The
Susan Shreve
82 p.
890 3-6
Flush
Hiaasen, Carl
263 p.
Writing, Bully
Issues &
learning
i
Language
Arts
Two teenagers describe who their feelings about
themselves, each other, and their families change
over the years.
A Yearling book." Driving home from the beach on
Labor Day, Joshua receives some shocking news
from his mother: he must repeat third grade.
250 p.
500 3-6
830 5-8
13
Rosie and her family travel from their Illinois farm
to Chicago in 1893 to attend the World's Columbian
Exposition, which turns out to be a life changing
experience for everyone
An unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns
to balance her appearance with her talent, while the
queen attempts to use her talents for her own gain.
Burdette Weaver persuades a new boy at school,
whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her
partner for the spelling bee and try to win a trip to
Disney World.
An old hobo in Paris finds his life changed when he
discovers three children under a bridge.
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat,
Noah and his sister gather evidence that the owner
of a floating casino is emptying his bilge tank into
the protected waters of the Florida Keys.For
advanced 6th grade students
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Flying Solo
Fletcher, Ralph
138 p.
Language Arts
590 5-8
Rachel, who chooses to be mute, after the death of a
classmate, chooses along with her classmates not to
report that the substitute teacher does not arrive.
Teaches Voice 6-traits.
Fog Magic
Sauer, Julia
107 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
Honor
800 3-6
A child of Nova Scotia who loves the fog, is
transported by it to a secret world.
Follow My Leader
Garfield, James B. 191 p.
Language Arts
670 3-6
After being accidently blinded by a firecracker,
Jimmy learns to live a normal life with the help of
Leader, his seeing eye dog
Dan travels to the past and becomes involved in a
calamity involving the Black Death
Lief and Barda search for the seven lost stones of
the Belt of Deltora, hoping to rid their land of the
evil Shadow Lord, who has enslaved Deltora's
people and hidden the stones in the most dangerous
places in the kingdom.
Kenric sets off to find his father who has been
kidnapped by the evil Lord Mordig. He receives
help from goblins and Fey fold. Easy read for low
readers 4th & 5th grade.
After falling through a forgotten door and ending up
on the strange planet Earth, Jon discovers he has put
the lives of a friendly family in danger and must find
the secret passage home.
When his older brother joins the army during WW
II and his best friend, a Japanese boy, is sent to a
camp, Foster must deal with the rages of his harsh
father. Japanese are referred to as "Japs"
Footprints at the Window Naylor, Phyllis
Reynolds
Forests of Silence, The
Emily Rodda
175 p.
Forging of the Blade, The Lafevers, R.L.
123 p.
Language Arts
630 3-6
Forgotten Door, The
Key, Alexander
140 p.
Fantasy
720 3-6
Foster's War
Reeder, Carolyn
267 p.
Historical
Fiction
940 5-8
Frankenbug
Cousins, Steven
151 p.
Science,
Insects
770 3-6
Freckle Juice
Blume, Judy
40 p.
Language Arts
370 3-6
131 p.
Freedom Walkers: The
Freedman, Russell 114 p.
story of the Montgomery
bus boycott
Historical
Fiction
Read Aloud,
Visualization
5-8
690 5-8
Nonfiction
1110 3-6
14
Bug lover Adam Crinklestein decides to create a
monster bug that will protect him from the school
bully. Science & insects
Andy wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's
freckle recipe for fifty cents
The story of the Montgomery bus boycott, includes
key people and events that contributed to the yearlong struggle for civil rights on Montgomery's city
buses.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Friendship, The
Taylor, Mildred
53 p.
Historical
Fiction
750 3-6
Gathering Blue
Lowry, Lois
215 p.
Language Arts
680 5-8
Gathering of Days, A
Blos, Joan
144 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
960 5-8
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year
she lived on the family farm, records daily events in
her small New Hampshire town, her father's
remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
Gawgon and the Boy, The Alexander, Lloyd
199 p.
Language Arts
720 5-8
George Washington's
Socks
Woodruff, Elvira
166 p.
Historical
Fiction
840 3-6
George's Marvelous
Medicine
Dahl, Roald
88 p.
Language Arts
640 3-6
Ghost of Fossil Glen, The Alphin, Elaine
Marie
Giant Rat of Sumatra or Fleischman, Sid
Pirates Galore
167 p.
Mystery
710 3-6
194 p.
Historical
Fiction
5-8
Gold Cadillac, The
Taylor, Mildred
43 p.
Historical
Fiction
650 3-6
Gold Dust
Lynch, Chris
196 p.
Historical
Fiction
690 5-8
Golden and Grey (An
unremarkable boy and a
rather remarkable ghost)
Arnold, Louise
267 p.
Language Arts
In depression-era Philadelphia, 11-year old David is
too ill to attend school, he is tutored by his
adventurous Aunt Annie which greatly enriches his
life. For 5th & 6th grades
Five children find themselves transported back to
the time of George Washington where the learn the
sober realities of war
George decides that his grumpy, selfish old
grandmother must be a witch and concocts some
medicine to take care of her
Allie hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye a girl
who is asking for help.
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San
Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United
States and Mexico.
Two black girls living in the north are proud of their
families Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the
South and encounter racial prejudice
Richard befriends Napoleon, a newcomer to Boston
from the Caribbean. He teaches him baseball, and
sees him face racial prejudice.
The adventures of a downhearted ghost who
befriends a boy, who is an outcast.
1000 3-6
15
Four children witness a confrontation between an
elderly African-American man and a white
storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Racial tensions
Three orphaned children hold the continuation of a
society's culture in their hands. The book alludes to
cultural segregation based on personal physical
characteristics and violent treatment of certain
societal members. Recommended for mature
readers with teacher discussion.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Golden Goblet
McGraw, Eloise
248 p.
Good Master, The
Seredy, Kate
196 p.
Good Night, Maman
Mazer, Norma Fox 185 p.
Good Night, Mr. Tom
930 5-8
A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous
crime and reshape his own destiny.
640 3-6
Two cousins spend an adventurous summer on a
ranch on the Hungarian plains. Their attitude and
behavior change as she is led by the good master
Historical
Fiction
510 5-8
Magorian, Michelle 318 p.
Historical
Fiction
760 5-8
After spending year fleeing the Nazis two children
find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New
York
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is
adopted by an old man in the English countryside
during World War II. Deals with child abuse.
Gooney Bird Greene
Lowry, Lois
88 p.
Language Arts
590 3-6
Gossamer
Lois Lowry
140 p
Fiction
660 5-8
Granny Torrelli Makes
Soup
Creech, Sharon
141 p.
Language Arts
810 3-6
Grasshopper Summer
Turner, Ann
149 p.
Language Arts
580 3-6
Great Brain, The (Series) Fitzgerald, John D. 175 p.
Historical
Fiction
790 3-6
Great Gilly Hopkins, The Paterson, Katherine 148 p.
Language Arts
800 5-8
Green Book, The
Science Fiction
5-8
Walsh, Jill Paton
69 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Honor
Language Arts,
Newbery
Honor
16
A student who loves being the center of attention
entertains her class with absolutely true stories. Use
for writing.
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream
giver tries to save an eight-year old boy from the
effects of both his abusive past an the nightmares
inflicted on him by the frightening Sinsteeds.
With the help of her wise old grandmother Rosie
works out problems with her best friend Bailey and
hears stories of Italy.
In 1874 Sam and his family move from Kentucky to
the Dakota territory where a plague of hungry
grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.
The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah
are related by his younger brother. He schemes for
prestige and money.
A foster child copes with her longings and fears as
she schemes against everyone who tries to be
friendly.
A group of refugees from Earth struggles to make
their strange new planet provide necessities.
Environmental and survival issues
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Gregor the Overlander
Collins, Suzanne
311 p.
Fantasy
630 3-6
Guests
Dorris, Michael
119 p.
Historical
Fiction
850 3-6
Gypsy Game
Snyder, Zilpha
Keatley
217 p.
Language Arts
880 3-6
Half and Half
Namioka, Lensey
136 p.
Language Arts
800 3-6
Half Magic
Eager, Edward
217 p.
Fantasy
830 3-6
Harriett's Hare
King-Smith, Dick
104 p.
Language Arts
690 3-6
Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets
Rowling, J.K.
341 p.
Fantasy
940 5-8
Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire
Rowling, J.K.
734 p.
Fantasy
880 5-8
Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban
Rowling, J.K.
435 p.
Fantasy
880 5-8
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone
Rowling, J.K.
309 p.
Fantasy
880 5-8
Hatchet
Paulsen, Gary
195 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
Honor
1020 5-8
17
When Gregor and his sister are pulled into a strange
underground world, they trigger an epic battle
involving humans, rats, bats, cockroaches and
spiders.
An Algonquin boy and girl struggle with the
problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area
during the time of the first Thanksgiving
Six school makes embark on a game in which they
pretend to be gypsies, but one of the boys runs away
and takes up with a group of homeless people.
Fiona and her brother are torn between trying to
make their Chinese grandmother and their Scottish
grandparents happy.
Four children find themselves in a series of
extraordinary adventures after one of them finds a
magic coin.
A young girl's life with her father on a farm in
England is changed when she befriends a talking
hare. Recommended for lower level readers.
Second year student, Harry Potter, finds himself in
danger from a dark power that has been released on
the school.
Fourth year student, Harry Potter. longs to escape
his family and live as a normal wizard. For mature
readers.
Third year student, Harry Potter, must confront the
devious and dangerous wizard that killed his
parents. Teachers that the love of a mother and
father is a most powerful force
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and
uncle, Harry discovers his own powers when he is
invited to attend the sorcerers' academy.
After a plane crash, Brian spends 54 days in the
wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a
hatchet.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Heartbeat
Creech, Sharon
180 p.
Language Arts
Heaven
Johnson, Angela
138 p.
Helen Keller: toward the
Light
Hello, My Name is
Scrambled Eggs
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the
Library
Henry Reed, Inc.
Graff, Stewart and 80 p.
Polly Ann
Gilson, Jamie
159 p.
NP
5-8
Annie ponders the many rhythms of life, the year her
mother gets pregnant, her grandfather becomes
faltering and her best friend becomes distant.
Language Arts
790 YA
Biography
620 3-6
730 3-6
Marley's life seems perfect in Heaven, Ohio, until
she discovers that her mother and father are not her
real parents. Swearing and reference to scars of
self mutilation.
Helen Keller rises above her physical disabilities to
achieve international renown
When his parents host a Vietnamese family, Harvey
enjoys Americanizing 12-year old Tuan
Two girls spend an adventurous night trapped in the
public library during a blizzard.
Henry Reed keeps a journal of his summer activities
which include a number of profitable projects.
Clifford, Eth
96 p.
Historical
Fiction
Language Arts
Robertson, Keith
239 p.
Language Arts
880 3-6
Hero Revealed
Boniface William
294 p.
Language Arts
3-6
Hero, The
Woods, Ron
215 p.
Realistic
Fiction
800 5-8
High King, The
Alexander, Lloyd
253 p.
Fantasy
900 5-8
In this final part of the chronicle of Prydain, the
forces of good and evil meet in an ultimate
confrontation, which determines the fate of Taran,
the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wanted to be a hero.
Holes
Sachar, Louis
233 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
660 5-8
Homecoming, The
Voight, Cynthia
402 p.
5-8
Homer Price
McCluskey, Robert 149 p.
Realistic
Fiction
Language Arts
Stanley Yelnats is sent to a juvenile detention
center, where he finds his first real friend, a treasure
and a sense of himself. High ability readers,
teacher direction to appreciate the
foreshadowing.
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a
search for a home and an identity
Four episodes about Homer, including one about a
pet skunk and another about a doughnut machine.
630 3-6
1000 3-6
18
When an ordinary boy wishes for super hero
powers, he finds himself in situations that require
bravery and courage.Graphic novel
Despite his father's rules and his own fear of the
water, Jamie and his cousin take their raft out on the
river where a tragic accident occurs. Read the
book thoughtfully before using it for study.
Discusses values, ethics and gray areas.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Honus and Me
Gutman, Dan
138 p.
Language Arts
690 5-8
Hoot
Hiaasen, Carl
292 p.
Language Arts
760 YA
House of Sixty Fathers
DeJong, Meindert
189 p.
Historical
fiction
820 5-8
126 p.
Mystery
780 3-6
How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas 115 p.
Language Arts
650 3-6
Hundred Dresses, The
House on Hackman's Hill Nixon, Joan
Lowery
Joey, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and
travels back in time to meet him.
In his small Florida community, Roy tries to save
the burrowing owl from a proposed construction
site. Environmental lesson.
Alone in his sampan, with his pig and three
ducklings, A Chinese boy begins a dangerous
journey in search of his family after they escape
from the Japanese army.
Two children find a stolen Egyptian mummy in an
old house and become trapped there by snow.
Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a
delicious meal.
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive,
a tight-lipped Polish girl teaches her classmates a
lesson.
Michael's love for his great-great aunt leads him to
intercede with his mother, who wants to toss out all
her old things. Sophisticated theme and style.
Teaching should be teacher directed.
A brief biography explaining the conflicts and
politics that influences the civil rights movement.
Esters, Eleanor
Ruth
80 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
3-6
Hundred Penny Box, The Mathis, Sharon
Bell
47 p.
Language Arts
700 K-3
I Have a Dream: the story Davidson,
of Martin Luther King
Margaret
127 p.
Biography
680 3-6
Iceberg Hermit, The
Roth, Arthur
219 p.
Historical
Fiction
1060 5-8
Ida B. and Her Plans to
Maximize Fun, Avoid
Disaster and (Possibly)
Save the World
Hannigan,
Katherine
246 p.
Language Arts
970 3-6
Ida Early Comes over the Burch, Robert
Mountain
145 p.
Historical
Fiction
720 3-6
Tough times in rural Georgia during the depression,
take a lively turn when Ida is hired as a housekeeper
for four children whose mother has died.
I'm Not Who You Think I Kehret, Peg
Am
Impossible Journey, The Whelan, Gloria
154 p.
Language Arts
640 5-8
248 p.
Historical
Fiction
790
Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman
who claims to be her birth mother.
Marya and her brother set out on a journey to
Siberia to find their mother. Sequel toAngel on the
Square .
19
Shipwrecked in 1757, in the Arctic seas with an
orphaned polar cub, 17 year old Allan begins a
struggle for survival.
In Wisconsin, Ida B. spends happy hours being
home schooled, until her mother begins treatment
for breast cancer and they must sell part of the
orchard and send her to public school.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
In-between Days
Bunting, Eve
118 p.
Language Arts
700 3-6
George is bothered that his father has a girlfriend, so
he comes up with a terrible plan to get rid of her.
He then apologizes and things work out.
Incredible Journey
Burnford, Sheila
148 p.
Language Arts
1320 5-8
Indian Captive: the story
of Mary Jemison
Lenski, Lois
298 p.
Historical
Fiction
800 5-8
A Siamese cat, a bull terrier, and Labrador retriever
travel 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to
find their family.
In 1758, Mary is captured by a Shawnee war party
during the French and Indian war, she is rescued but
chooses to live her life with the Indians
Inkheart
Funke, Cornelia
534 p.
Language Arts
780 5-8
Into the Wild
Hunter, Erin
272 p.
Language Arts
790 5-8
Iron Dragon Never Sleeps, Krensky, Stephen
The
90 p.
Historical
Fiction
390 3-6
Island (Series)
130 p.
Language Arts
600-620 3-6
Island of the Blue Dolphin O'Dell, Scott
181 p.
Language Arts
1000 5-8
Island on Bird Street
Orlev, Uri
162 p.
Historical
Fiction
690 5-8
It's Like This, Cat
Neville, Emily
Cheney
180 p.
Language Arts,
Newbery
810 5-8
Jack Black and the Ship of Hughes, Carol
Thieves
229 p.
Language Arts
680 5-8
Korman, Gordon
20
Meggie learns that her father Mo can bring
characters out of books to life. He bring an evil
ruler into Meggie's world and must stop the magic
and restore peace.
Rusty, a bored house kitten, is apprentice by the
ThunderClan, and becomes the bravest warrior of
all when the feral cats are threatened by the
ShadowClan.
In 1867, Winnie meets a Chinese boy, and tensions
arise over working conditions while building the
Intercontinental Railroad. Chinese racial
relationships.
Six children try to survive after being shipwrecked,
they meet up with some dangerous smugglers.
A young Indian girl spends 18 years alone on an
island off the coast of California, she learns to
survive and finds a measure of happiness in her
solitary life.
A Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a
Ghetto in Poland where he must learn to survive
under life-threatening conditions. Caution:
language
A quietly humorous story of one kind of
contemporary New York city boyhood, a 14-yearold and his family, his friends, and a stray tomcat.
Jack blunders into a feud on a pirate ship and
encounters danger, intrigue and treachery
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Jacob's Rescue: a
Holocaust story
Drucker, Malka
117 p.
Historical
Fiction
680 5-8
A man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood
when a brave Polish couple hid him from the Nazis.
Jaguar
Smith, Roland
247 p.
Language Arts
690 5-8
Janitor's Boy, The
Clements, Andrew 140 p.
Language Arts
770 3-6
Jason's Gold
Hobbs, Will
Historical
Fiction
860 5-8
While accompanying his father on an expedition up
the Amazon river to a jaguar preserve, Jacob, must
contend with dangerous animals and fortune
hunters. Violence and unmarried couple living
together.
Jack finds himself the subject of ridicule when it
becomes known that his father is one of the janitors,
and he turns his anger on his father.
Jason embarks on a 10,000 mile journey in 1897 in
hopes of striking it rich in Canada's Yukon territory.
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, Koningsberg, E.L. 117 p.
William McKinley and
Me, Elizabeth
Language Arts,
Newbery
Honor
680 3-6
Elizabeth is very lonely until she meets Jennifer who
is a witch and teaches Elizabeth to become a witch
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Coville, Bruce
Hatcher
Johnny Tremain
Forbes, Esther
151 p.
Language Arts
710 3-6
269 p.
Historical
Fiction
840 5-8
Harlow, Joan Hiatt 143 p.
Historical
Fiction
520 3-6
Jeremy unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. Shows
love and honesty with a great moral
A silversmith's apprentice in Boston, becomes a
messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before
the American Revolution.
During the 1919 influenza pandemic in Boston, a
boy must support his family by selling newspapers.
He becomes involved in the "Great Molasses
Flood".
An indentured servants keeps a journal of his
experiences on the Mayflower and during the
building of Plimoth Plantation in 1620
Journey, 11 and his sister are left by their mother.
He searches photographs for answers and finds that
the camera is a means of finding things his naked
eye missed.
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938,
endures innumberable separations before the are
reunited again.
Mem records the trip she and her family made on
the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the
New World.
Joshua's Song
221 p.
Journal of Jasper Jonathan Rinaldi, Ann
Pierce: a pilgrim boy
155 p.
Historical
Fiction
680 5-8
Journey
MacLachlan,
Patricia
83 p.
Language Arts
630 3-6
Journey to America
Levitin, Sonia
150 p.
Historical
Fiction
750 5-8
Journey to the New
World: the diary of
Remember Patience
Whipple
Lasky, Kathryn
173 p.
Historical
Fiction
5-8
21
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Journey to the River Sea
Ibbotson, Eva
298 p.
Historical
Fiction
860 5-8
Journey to Topaz: a story Uchida, Yoshiko 149 p.
of the Japanese-American
evacuation
Judy Moody
McDonald, Megan 160 p.
Historical
Fiction
970 5-8
Jump Ship to Freedom
Collier, James
Lincoln
198 p.
Historical
Fiction
850 5-8
Junebug
Mead, Alice
135 p.
Language Arts
570 3-6
Kid in the Red Jacket, The Park, Barbara
113 p.
Language Arts
640 3-6
Kidnappers, The: a
mystery
Roberts, Willo
Davis
137 p.
Language Arts
860 3-6
King of the Wind: the
story of Goldolphin
Arabian
Kiss the Dust
Henry, Marguerite 172 p.
Language Arts
5-8
Laird, Elizabeth
278 p.
Historical
Fiction
850 YA
Kneeknock Rise
Babbitt, Natalie
126 p.
Language Arts
760 3-6
Kokopelli's Flute
Hobbs, Will
148 p.
Language Arts
870 5-8
Land I lost, The:
adventures of a boy in
Vietnam
Nhuong, Huynh
Quang
127 p.
Memoir
Language Arts
390-600 3-6
1090 3-6
22
Sent by her governess to live with the dreadful
Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures
many hardships before fulfilling her dream of
exploring the Amazon river
After the Pearl Harbor attack and 11 -year old and
her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in
Utah.
Third grader, Judy Moody is in a bad mood until
she gets an assignment to create a collage about
herself. Good for 4th grade and below.
By rights young Daniel and his mother, slaves in
Captain Ivers house in Connecticut in the 1770's
should be free, but instead the Captain sells Daniel
on board a ship to the West Indies. Racial issues
Junebug is a 4th grade boy who lives in an inner
city black community and encounters manyu
difficult situations.
Howard has to move with his family to a distant
state, adjust to a new school and get used to being
shadowed by a little girl.
Joey claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the
class bully outside their expensive private school.
Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco
to France to England, where Sham's majesty is
recognized.
A 12-year old and her Kurdish family are trapped in
the IranIraq war and a daring escape. This is a tale
of courage. Advanced 5th & 6th grade readers.
Egans senses a spell cast over the villagers and he
climbs a peak for answers.
Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in
New Mexico and through its power learns about
Native American magic
The author tells of his youth in a hamlet in the
highlands of Vietnam. Not well written and slow
moving.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Landry News, The: a
brand new school story
Clements, Andrew 138 p.
Language Arts
950 3-6
Last Lobo, The
Smith, Roland
178 p.
Language Arts
850 5-8
Last Man's Reward, The
Patneaude, David
192 p.
Language Arts
660 5-8
Last of the Really Great
Whangdoodles, The
Edwards, Julie
Andrews
277 p.
Language Arts
620 3-6
With help from an eccentric professor, three
children go on a quest for the elusive whangdoodle
and learn valuable lessons. Discusses cloning
Last Safe House, The
Greenwood,
Barbara
119 p.
Historical
Fiction
850 3-6
Leanin' Dog
Nuzum, K.A.
250 p.
Fiction,
Animal
Rescue, Grief.
960 5-6
Legend of Jimmy Spoon, Gregory, Kristiana 202 p.
The
Historical
Fiction
790 5-8
Letters from Rifka
Hesse, Karen
148 p.
660 3-6
Leven Thumps and the
Gateway to Foo
Skye, Obert
368 p.
Historical
Fiction
Fantasy
Liberation of Gabriel
King, The
Light at Tern Rock, The
Going, K.L.
151 p.
780 5-8
Sauer, Julia
62 p.
Historical
Fiction
Language Arts
Eliza Jackson is on the run from a souothern
plantation. She follows the network of hiding
places into Canada.Includes activities
Eleven-year-old Dessa Dean, mourning the death of
her mother, finds an injured dog on her porch,
which allows both Dessa and the dog to heal
together with a friendship that shapes both of their
lives.
Jimmy Spoon lives in Salt Lake City in the mid 19th
century. When two Shoshone boys offoer hm a
horse, he discovers that he is expected to stay with
them.
A young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight
from Russia in 1919.
"Book one" Fate brings fourteen-year-old Leven
Thumps and thirteen- year-old Winter together, as
they discover that for mankind to continue
dreaming, the gateway between reality and the land
of dreams and hopes--Foo--must be found and
demolished. Read aloud only 4th grade.
Classroom approved 5-6.
Gabriel, a white boy is being bullied while Grita a
black girl faces prejudice in Georgia in 1976
Ronnie and his aunt take care of the light house.
The book deals lwith anger and broken promises.
850 3-6
820 5-8
23
A 5th grader starts a newspaper with an editorial
that prompts her burnt out teacher to start really
teaching again.
When Jake takes his grandfather on a visit to their
Hopi homeland, he finds himself fighting to save the
endangered wolf.
Albert and his four friends hide a secret box with a
treasure, vowing that its valuable contents will
belong to the one who is the last man in their
neighborhood. Advanced 5th & 6th graders.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Light in the Forest, The
162 p.
Historical
Fiction
870 5-8
John Cameron Butler, kidnapped by the Lenne
Indians when he was only 4 years old, is returned to
his white family eleven years later and struggles to
fit in to the unfamiliar culture.Violence, mature
theme requires teacher discussion, for mature
5th & 6th grades.
Light in the Storm, A:
Hesse, Karen
civil war diary of Amelia
Martin
Lighting thief, Percy
Riordan, Rick
Jackson of the Olympians
169 p.
Historical
Fiction
850 5-8
377 p.
Fiction,
Voyages and
Gods Fiction
470 5-8
Lion, the Witch and the
Lewis, C.S.
Wardrode (Narnia series)
189 p.
Fantasy
940 5-8
Amelia lives at a light house on an island off the
coast of Delaware, and tells how the Civil War
divides and devastates her state.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman
and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy
is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself,
and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a
war between the gods.
Four English children find their way to Narnia and
meet Aslan, the lion and the White Witch
Listening for Lions
194 p.
Historical
Fiction
900 5.8
Little House on the Prairie Wilder, Laura
(series)
Ingalls
335 p.
Historical
Fiction
760 3-6
Little Princess, A
245 p.
Historical
Fiction
Realistic
Fiction
490 3-6
Survival
Fiction
720 5-8
Lone Wolf
Long Walk to Water
Richter, Conrad
Whelan, Gloria
Burnett, Francis
Hodgson
Franklin, Kristine
L.
Linda Sue Park
214 p.
121 p.
680 5-8
24
Left an orphan in the influenza pandemic of 1919,
Rachel who lives in Africa is tricked into assuming
a neighbor's identity returns to England where her
goal is to raise money to rebuild her parent's
hospital
A family moves from the big woods of Wisonsin to
the prairie, meet Indians, dig a well and face a
prairie fire
Sara Crew, living in Victorian England, is left in
poverty when her father dies
Perry is hurt by his sister's death and his parents
divorce, but a friendship helps him deal with his
feelings.
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in
1985, elevan-year old Salva becomes separated from
his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe
members through southern sudan, Ethiopia, and
Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life
of Salva Hut, who, after emigrating to America in
1996, began a project to dig water wells in the
Sudan
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Long Way from Chicago Peck, Richard
148 p.
Lord of the Deep
Salisbury, Graham 182 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Honor
Language Arts
750 5-8
A boy recounts his visit to his larger than life
grandmother in rural Illinois during the great
depression.
400 YA
Mikey works with is father on a fishing boat in
Hawaii. He learns about fishing, taking risks,
making sacrifices and making difficult choices
Zinkoff is labeled a loser, but he loves school, is
persisten and keeps trying
The story of the 19th century Frenchman who was
blinded at three and invented a system of reading for
the blind.
A young student learns to love poetry and writes his
own inspired poem. Six-trait writing, voice
Loser
Spinelli, Jerry
218 p.
Language Arts
650 3-6
Louis Braille: the boy who Davidson,
invented books for the
Margaret
blind
Love that dog
Creech, Sharon
80 p.
Biography
510 K-3
86 p.
Poetry
Love, Ruby Lavender
Wiles, Deborah
188 p.
Realistic
Fiction
570 3-6
Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi,
she befriends chickens, the new girl in town and
deals with her grandfather's death.
M.C. Higgins, the great
Hamilton, Virginia 232 p.
620 YA
Maggie's door
Giff, Patricia Reilly 158 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Historical
Fiction
Magic Thief
Sarah Prineas
419 p.
Langauge Arts,
Beehive
680 3-6
Matchlock gun, The
Edmonds, Walter
50 p.
860 3-6
Mayfield Crossing
Nelson, Vaunda
Micheaux
88 p.
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Historical
Fiction
As a slag heap in Ohio, gets closer to his home,
M.C. his torn between moving his family and
fighting for his home.
Nora and her friend Sean set out separately on a
dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland to
America
Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick
the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a
strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the
boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches
him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person
responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic
supply
In 1756, during the French and Indian war, 10-year
old Edmund tries to protect his family with a much
to heavy gun.
A small town school is shut down and forces the
children to attend a large school where the black
children encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
A baseball game breaks the ice. Deals with racial
problems, school integration.
1010 3-6
720 5-8
720 3-6
25
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Maze of Bones: 39 Clues Riordan, Rick
220 p.
Mystery,
Historical
Family fiction
610 3-6
Me and the Pumpkin
Queen
Kennedy, Marlane 181 p.
Fiction, SingleParent families
Fiction
790 3-6
Measle and the
Wrathmonk
Ogilvy, Jan
210 p.
Fantasy
900 5-8
Mercy Watson to the
Rescue
DiCamillo, Kate
68 p.
Language Arts
450 K-3
Midnight for Charlie Bone Nimmo, Jenny
401 p.
Fantasy
630 3-6
Midnight Fox
Byars, Betsy
134 p.
Language Arts
970 3-6
Midnight Magic
Avi
247 p.
Language Arts
660 5-8
Midnight Rider
Harlow, Joan Hiatt 372 p.
Historical
Fiction
720 5-8
Historical
Fiction,
Newbery
Historical
Fiction
1240 YA
Historical
Fiction
660 3-6
Midwife's Apprentice, The Cushman, Karen
122 p.
Milkweed: a novel
208 p.
Spinelli, Jerry
Minstrel in the Tower, The Skurzynski, Gloria 60 p.
510 YA
26
Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill
family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which
will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out
what really happened to their parents.
Although Aunt Arlene tries to interest her in
clothing and growing up, ten-year-old Mildred is
entirely focused on growing a pumpkin big enough
to win the annual Circleville, Ohio, contest, as her
mother dreamed of doing before she died.
12-year old orphan Measle Stubbs is shrunk down
to half an inch tall and placed in a train set by his
evil guardian, Wrathmonk.
After Mercy the pig snuggles up to sleep with the
Watson family all three wake up to find the bed
teetering over a big hole in the floor.Great for
struggling readers or ESL students.
Charlie Bone discovers he can hear people in
photographs talking and his horrible aunts send him
off to Bloor's Academy for Gifted Children.
A young boy saves the life of a fox that has been
raiding his uncle's farm.
In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his
apprentice are summoned to the Palace to see if the
Princess is being haunted by a ghost.
14-year old Hannah, an orphan indentured to the
family of a British general in 1775, begins attending
meetings of the Sons of Liberty disguised as a boy.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is
taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife. Approved
for 6th grade only.
An orphan boy living in a Warsaw ghetto in Nazi
occupied Poland learns to steal to exist.For sixth
grade only.
In 1195, during the crusades, Roger and his sister
travel through the French countryside in search of
their uncle.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Miracles on Maple Hill
Sorenson, Virginia 232 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
750 5-8
Miraculous Journey of
Edward Tulane, The
DiCamillo, Kate
198 p.
Language Arts
700 3-6
Miss Hickory
Bailey, Carolyn S. 120 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
870 3-6
Missing May
Rylant, Cynthia
89 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
980 5-8
Mississippi Bridge
Taylor, Mildred
62 p.
Historical
Fiction
810 3-6
Moccasin Trail
McGraw, Eloise
247 p.
Historical
Fiction
960 5-8
Molly Moon's Incredible
Book of Hypnotism
Byng, Georgia
371 p.
Language Arts
770 3-6
Monkey Island
Fox, Paula
151 p.
Language Arts
830 5-8
Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool
351 p.
Historical
Fiction
800 5-8
More Perfect Than the
Moon
Patricia MacLahlan 80 p.
Forshadowing,
Langauge Arts
420 3-6
27
After her father returns from the war moody and
tired the family relocates to the Pennsylvania
countryside and their spirits are restored
Edward Tulane a cold-hearted toy rabbit loves only
himself until he is separated from the little girl who
adores him. For younger readers.
The adventures of a country doll made of a twig and
a hickory nut.
After the death of her beloved Aunt, Summer and
her uncle leave their West Virginia trailer in search
of the strength to go on living
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s Mississippi a
bus driver orders all the blacks off the
bus."Nigger" is used, for 5th & 6th grades only.
A pioneer boy brought up by Crow Indians is
reunited with his family and must orient himself to
white culture.
Molly Moon lives in a dreary orphanage in a small
English town. She discovers she has a talent for
hypnotism and uses it to achieve stardom in New
York City
Forced to live on the streets of New York after his
mother disappears, Clay is befriended by two
homeless men who help him survive
After a life of riding the rails with her father, 12 year
old Abilene can't understand why he sent her away.
She goes to Manifest Missouri to stay with Pastor
Shady Howard and Abilene quickly finds friends
and uncovers a local mystery. The "spy hunt' reveals
deep-seated secrets and helps restore residents' faith
in the bright future once promised on the town's
sign
Sequel to: Caleb's story. Eight-year-old Cassie
Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother,
Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal
that belonged to her brother Caleb helps her sort out
her feelings and understand that Sarah will always
love her.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer
Wiser, G. Clifton
131 p.
Historical
Fiction
800 5-8
Mr. Tucket
Paulsen, Gary
166 p.
Historical
Fiction
5-8
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats
of NIMH
O'Brien, Robert C. 233 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
780 3-6
Mudville
Scaletta, Kurtis
265 p.
Fiction
680 3-6
Twelve-year-old Roy McGuire, an aspiring major
leaguer, does not get much time to practice as it has
been raining in his town for over twenty years, but
when foster child Sturgis comes to live at his house,
the rain finally stops, giving the boys a chance to
organize a baseball team--an endeavor that changes
their lives.
Murder at Mill Hollow
Barton, Peggy
66 p.
Language Arts
3-6
Cousins Peter and Catherine go to a remote science
camp while their parents are in London. While there
they become involved in a murder mystery.
Music of Dolphins, The
Hesse, Karen
181 p.
Language Arts
560 3-6
A tragic story of a young girl, who was raised by
dolphins and what happens to her when society tries
to do what is best for her and it backfires.
MyBrother Made Me Do Kehret, Peg
It
130 p.
Language Arts
800 3-6
My Name is Not Angelica O'Dell, Scott
130 p.
Historical
Fiction
750 5-8
Julie writes letters to her 89-year old pen pal and
tells about her juvenile arthritis, and running in a
marathon
A young Senegalese girl is brought as a slave to the
island of St. John and participates in the Great Salve
Rebellion of 1733.Some disturbing incidents.
My Secret War: the World Osborne, Mary
War II diary of Madeline Pope
Beck
My Teacher is an Alien
Coville, Bruce
186 p.
Historical
Fiction
740 5-8
123 p.
Language Arts
650 3-6
28
Willie becomes and 11-year old Civil War drummer
and the youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor
In 1845 while on a wagon train headed to Oregon
Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians,
then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches
him survival skills.
A field mouse asks the clever escaped lab rats to
help save her son.
Madeline reveals her experiences living on Long
Island during World War II, while her father is
away in the Navy.
After Susan sees Mr. Smith, their substitute teacher
peel off his face she knows he is an alien and the
adventure begins.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Mystery at Blackbeard's
Cove
Penn, Audrey
351 p.
Mystery
760 5-8
After giving their friend, Mrs. McNemish a pirate
burial at sea, four friends in Okracoke Island, North
Carolina find themselves on a treasure hunt
involving Blackbeard. Read aloud only for 5th &
6th grade students. Teachers should pre-read to
edit for language and intense scenes.
Naked Mole Rat Letters,
The
Amato, Mary
266 p.
Language Arts
670 3-6
Frankie, a seventh grade girl, begins acting out
when she discovers her father is dating someone.
Naya Nuki, Shoshone Girl Thomasma,
Who Ran
Kenneth
175 p.
Historical
Fiction
790 5-8
Next Spring an Oriole
60 p.
Historical
Fiction
830 3-6
Niagara Falls or Does It? Winkler, Henry
133 p.
Language Arts
610 3-6
Nightmare Mountain
Kehret, Peg
164 p.
Mystery
700 5-8
No Dogs Allowed!
Wallace, Bill
214 p.
Language Arts
610 3-6
After being taken prisoner by an enemy tribe, a
Shoshone girl escapes and makes a 1,000 mile
journey in search of her people
In 1937, 10 year old Libby journey by covered
wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they live near
friendly Indians.
Hank enlists the help of his friends to stop his
parents from attending parent-teacher conference
because he thinks he is failing 4th grade. Teaches
writing
Molly's visit to her aunt & uncles llama ranch in
Washington lead to unexpected adventure and
suspense.
Kristina is struggling to come to terms with the
death of her beloved horse. She finds it difficult to
accept the new dog she receives for her birthday.
No Talking
Clements, Andrew 146 p.
School Fiction
820 3-6
Noonday Friends, The
Stolz, Mary
Realistic
Fiction
790 3-6
Nory Ryan's Song
Giff, Patricia Reilly 148 p.
Historical
Fiction
600 5-8
Language Arts
690 3-6
Whelan, Gloria
Not-just-anybody Family, Byars, Betsy
The
182 p.
176 p.
29
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary
school challenge the equally noisy girls to a "no
talking" contest.
A family tries to make ends meet. Fanny has to do
her share by tending her little brother after school.
She longs to be able to spend more time with her
friends. Set in the mid 1960s
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop
in 1845 Nory's courage and ingenuity help her
family survive.
With a young brother in the hospital and a
grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with
the rodeo. Maggie and Vern must solve the family
problems. For grades 4 & 5.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Nowhere to Call Home
DeFelice, Cynthia 199 p.
Historical
Fiction
870 5-8
Old Willis place, The: a
ghost story
Hahn, Mary
Downing
199 p.
Mystery
630 5-8
Old Yeller
Gipson, Fred
181 p.
910 5-8
On My Honor
Bauer, Marion
90 p.
Historical
Fiction
Language Arts
On the Wings of Heroes
Peck, Richard
160 p.
Historical
Fiction
730 5-8
Once Upon a Marigold
Ferris, Jean
266 p.
Fantasy
840 5-8
One Eyed Giant
Osborne, Mary
105 p.
Pope
Krumgold, Joseph 248 p.
Mythology
700 3-6
Language
Arts/Newbery
710 5-8
Onion John
750 5-8
Orphan Train Adventures Nixon, Joan
(Series)
Lowery
160 p.
Historical
Fiction
830 5-8
Otherwise Known as
Sheila the Great
Blume, Judy
138 p.
Language Arts
590 3-6
Our only May Amelia
Holm, Jennifer
253 p.
Historical
Fiction
900 5-8
Over Sea, Under Stone
Cooper, Susan
196 p.
Fantasy
830 5-8
Owls in the Family
Mowat, Farley
91 p.
Language Arts
980 3-6
30
When her father kills himself after losing his
money, Frances jumps a train and lives as a hobo.
For mature 5th & 6th graders only
Diana befriends the daughter of the new caretaker
and release the spirit of an evil crazy woman who
once ruled the place.
In the late 1860s in Texas, a boy and a big yellow
dog form a close loving relationship
When his best friend drowns when they are both
swimming in a treacherous river that they had
promised never to go near, Joel is devastated at
facing the consequences.
An Illinois boy remembers the home front years,
during WW II and especially his two heroes, his
brother and his father.
A young man with a mysterious past leaves the troll
who raised him, meets an unhappy princess and
discovers a plot against her father. Six tr aits:
voice, word choice.
A retelling of the battle between Odysseus and the
Cyclops
His friendship with the town's odd-jobs man, Onion
John causes conflict between a boy and his father.
A young widow makes the ultimate sacrifice and
sends her children west on the orphan train to find
better lives.
A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y. is fun for Sheila even
though her friends make her face up to some selftruths.
As the only girl in a Finnish-American family of
seven children, Amelia resents being asked to act
like a lady in Washington in 1899.
Three children on a vacation in Cornwall find an
ancient manuscript which sends them on a
dangerous quest.
A young boy decides to raise two owlets as pets.
They provide excitement for the boy in Saskatoon,
Canada
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
P.S. Longer Letter Later
Danziger, Paula
234 p.
Paint the Wind
Ryan, Pam Muñoz 327 p.
Language Arts
5-8
Best friends Elizabeth and Tara continue their
friendship through letters. Approved only for 6th
grade students. The girls are physically
maturing, and their letters talk about this and
divorce.
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke,
Maya leaves her restricted life in California to live
with her mother's family on a remote ranch in
Wyoming.
Written as a diary by Columbus' cabin boy, presents
a personal view of the discover of America.
Historical
Fiction
780 3-6
80 p.
Historical
Fiction
1030 5-8
198 p.
Mystery
960 3-6
225 p.
Fantasy
730 3-6
Peter and the Starcatchers Barry, Dave
451 p.
Fantasy
770 3-6
Philip Hall Likes Me. I
Reckon Maybe.
135 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
Honor
Language
Arts/Newbery
Honor
Magical
Fiction
900 3-6
Beth thinks Philip likes her but often wonders
650 5-8
600 3-6
670 3-6
Hollis is a a12-year old orphan who has been in
foster homes for years. She yearns for a place to
belong. A happy ending
Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck
Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had
never met in a remote manor house, where he learns
that his family suffers from a curse that allows him
to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs
hatch.
Three lonely foster children learn to care about
themselves and each other.
Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a
horse and a monkey, but no parents, on the edge of a
Swedish village.
Poppy, a deer mouse urges her family to move, but a
terrifying owl. Mr. Ocax has other plans. For lower
level 4th grade
Pedro's Journal: a voyage Conrad, Pam
with Christopher
Columbus
Peppermints in the Parlor Wallace, Barbara
Brooks
Perloo the Bold
Avi
Greene, Bette
Pictures of Hollis Woods Giff, Patricia Reilly 166 p.
Pillage
Skye, Obert
312 p.
Pinballs
Byars, Betsy
136 p.
Pippi Longstocking
Lindgren, Astrid
160 p.
Realistic
Fiction
Language Arts
Poppy
Avi
156 p.
Fantasy
670 5-6
870 3-6
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Newly orphaned Emily enters their once happy
mansion to find unimaginable horrors.
Perloo is assigned to be the leader of the furry
underground people, and soon finds himself in
danger.
Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off
thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret away
from the evil Black Strache. A pre-Peter Pan story.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Postman Always Brings
Mice, The
Holm & Hamel
129 p.
Mystery
Prince and the Pauper
Twain, Mark
294 p.
Language Arts
420 YA
Princess Academy
Hale, Shannon
314 p.
Fantasy
890 5-8
Pushcart War, The
Merrill, Jean
222 p.
Language Arts
Rainbow People, The
Yep, Laurence
194 p.
Folk tales
680 5-8
Ralph S. Mouse (series)
Ramona (series)
Cleary, Beverly
Cleary, Beverly
160 p.
180 p.
3-6
850 3-6
Ramona and Her Father
Cleary, Beverly
186 p.
Fantasy
Realistic
Fiction
Realistic
Fiction
Historical
Fiction
Regarding the Fountain: a Klise, Kate
138 p.
tale, in letters, of liars and
leaks
Reluctant God, The
Service, Pamela F. 182 p.
Language Arts
830 5-8
Fantasy
870 5-8
Ribsy
Cleary, Beverly
820 3-6
Riding Freedom
Ryan, Pam Muñoz 138 p.
Realistic
Fiction
Historical
Fiction
Rifles for Watie
Keith, Harold
Historical
Fiction/Newbe
ry
Language Arts
910 5-8
Ravenmaster's Secret:
Woodruff, Elvira
Escape from the Tower of
London
Robin Hood of Sherwood McGovern, Ann
Forest
224 p.
190 p.
332 p.
128 p.
3-6
1020 5-8
840 3-6
750 3-6
720 3-6
1050 3-6
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A dashing British feline spy finds himself stranded
in New Jersey, and is adopted by a family where he
puts his talents to work.
The boy kind, Edward the VI of England, and a
poor boy accidentally change places
While attending a strict academy for potential
princesses, Miri discovers unexpected talents and
connections to her homeland. Curriculum tie to
economy
A satire on modern city life, depicting a war
between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers
20 Chinese folk tales, under the categories of
Trickster, Fools, Virtues and Vices, Chinese
America and Love.
The adventures of a motorcycle riding mouse
The adventures of Ramona, a precocious,
mischievous girl and her family
The family routine is upset when Ramona is in
second grade and her father loses his job
The son of the Ravenmaster befriends a Jacobite
rebel being held prisoner. Presents the life and
difficulties of the Middle Ages. 6th grade
curriculum.
When a principal asks a fifth grader to write a letter
regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain,
chaos ensues.
While his brother prepares to mount the throne of
Egypt, the teenage prince Ameni, in sealed in a
secret tomb, to be revived 4,000 years later.Use
with caution for 6th graders only
Ribsy gets separated from his owner and begins a
series of bewildering adventures
Charlotte runs away from an orphanage, poses as a
boy, moves to California where she is injured and
loses an eye. She is the first woman to vote.
Jeff faces struggles on his 300 mile escape route
during the Civil War.
10 adventures of Robin Hood and his band of loyal
men
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Rodzina
Cushman, Karen
215 p.
Historical
Fiction
740 5-8
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Taylor, Mildred
Cry
276 p.
Historical
Fiction/Newbe
ry
920 5-8
Roller Skates
Sawyer, Ruth
186 p.
810 3-6
Rosa Parks, My Story
Parks, Rosa
192 p.
Historical
Fiction/Newbe
ry
Autobiography
Rowan of Rin
Rodda, Emily
151 p.
Fantasy
660 3-6
Ruby Holler
Creech, Sharon
310 p.
Language Arts
660 3-6
Ruby Lu, Brave and True Look, Lenore
105 p.
Realistic
Fiction
640 K-3
Ruins of Gorlan, The
Flanagan, John
249 p.
Fantasy
920 5-8
Rules
Lord, Cynthia
200 p.
Realistic
Fiction
780 3-6
Running Out of Time
Haddix, Margaret
Peterson
184 p.
Language Arts
730 5-8
Sammy Keyes and the
Hotel Thief
Sarah Bishop
Van Draanen,
Wendelin
O'Dell, Scott
163 p.
Mystery
840 5-8
230 p.
Historical
Fiction
760 5-8
Sarah, Plain and Tall
MacLachlan,
Patricia
58 p.
Historical
Fiction/Newbe
ry
560 3-6
970 5-8
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A 12-year old Polish American girl is loaded on an
orphan train Spouse/child abuse, sexual innuendo,
abandonment. 5th & 6th grades
An African-American family living in Mississippi
during the Great depression face prejudice and
discrimination. For 6th grade only.
The discoveries and adventures of 10-year old
Lucinda as she spends a year discovering the New
York of the 1890s. Slow-moving
Rosa reveals the deliberate choices she made to earn
the title "Mother of the Movement"
Only Rowan can read the magical map, he faces a
dragon to saves his village.
Twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a
terrible orphanage, but their lives change when a
sweet older couple take them each on an adventure.
We see the power of love and kindness
Ruby Lu , an 8-year old Asian American girl,
spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese
school, and performs magic tricks
Will is rejected by battleschool, and becomes the
reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt,
where he protects the kingdom from danger.
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, Catharine
longs for a normal existence, while making friends
with a paraplegic.
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840s village,
Jessie discovers it is actually a tourist site run by
heartless scientists. Complex issues of right &
wrong, values, acceptance. Teacher discussion
required.
Sammy involves herself in the investigation of a
robbery at a seedy hotel
Sarah struggles to shape a new life in the wilderness
after the deaths of her father and brother who took
opposite sides in the War for Independence.
Caleb and Anna are captivated by the mail-order
bride their father has invited to live with them in
their prairie home.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Sasquatch
Smith, Roland
188 p.
Language Arts
School Spirits
Tunnell, Michael
O.
201 p.
Mystery
School Story, The
Clements, Andrew 196 p.
680 5-8
3-6
Language Arts
760 3-6
Dylan follows his father into the woods on the
slopes of Mt. St. Helens, which is on the brink of
eruption, to protect the Sasquatch
When Patrick moves to a new town he has problems
with bullies and meets a ghostly boy who asks for
help.
Natalie writes a wonderful novel and her friend Zoe
helps her get it published. Teaches how a book is
published.
A 7th grade boy unveils a family secret as he does a
genealogy project for school.Techniques for doing
family history. For 4th & 5th grade.
Search for the Shadowman Nixon, Joan
Lowery
149 p.
Mystery
780 5-8
Secret Garden
358 p.
Language Arts
350 5-8
10-year old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on
the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin
and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Secret of Platform, 13, The Ibbotson, Eva
231 p.
Fantasy
910 5-8
Under Platform 13 on a busy train station in London
is an old doorway, Behind it is a magical island
kingdom with mermaids, ogres, and mist makers.
A beastly woman kidnaps the island's young prince.
Secret of the Andes, The
Clark, Ann Nolan
120 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
710 3-6
Secret School, The
Avi
157 p.
Historical
Fiction
540 3-6
Sees Behind Trees
Dorris, Michael
104 p.
Language Arts
840 3-6
Series of Unfortunate
Events
Snicket, Lemony
220 p.
Language Arts
Serpent Tide
Fogg, K.L.
391 p.
Language Arts
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley
in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his
Incans ancestors. Discusses blood sacrifice and
chewing coca leaves.
In 1925,14-year old Ida takes over as a teacher in a
one room schoolhouse in rural Colorado, when the
board closes it unexpectedly.
A native American boy with a special gift to "see"
beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old
warrior to a land of mystery and beauty
Tales of three likeable, resilient, unfortunate
Baudelaire orphans in search of a home. The stories
are irreverent, literary and hilarious
Wesley Vandergrift, whose mother is a billionaire
mother, wonders why he isn't like the other boys in
his coastal South Carolina town. Soon he is on an
adventure involving shipwrecks, venomous snakes
and kidnappers.
Burnett, Francis
Hodgson
10001370
5-8
5-8
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WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Seven Wonders of
Sassafras Springs
Birney, Betty G.
210 p.
Language Arts
790 3-6
Shades of Gray
Reeder, Carolyn
152 p.
Historical
Fiction
800 3-6
Shadow of a Bull
Wojciechowska,
Maia
165 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
740 5-8
Shadows on the Sea
Harlow, Joan Hiatt 244 p.
Historical
Fiction
670 5-8
Shakespeare Stealer, The Blackwood, Gary
L.
216 p.
Historical
Fiction
840 3-6
Sherlock Holmes (series) Doyle, Arthur
Conan
Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis
Reynolds
250 p.
Mystery
370 YA
137 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
890 3-6
Sideways Stories form
Wayside School (series)
Sachar, Louis
118 p.
Language Arts
440 3-6
Sign of the Beaver, The
Speare, Elizabeth
George
135 p.
Historical
Fiction
770 5-8
Silent thunder: a Civil
War story
Pinkney, Andrea
Davis
218 p.
Historical
Fiction
880 5-8
Sing Down the Moon
O'Dell, Scott
137 p.
Historical
Fiction
820 5-8
Sisters Grimm, The
(series)
Buckley, Michael
280 p.
Fantasy
Skinnybones
Park, Barbara
111 p.
Language Arts
720-840 3-6
590 3-6
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Eben McAlister searches his small town to see if he
can find anything comparable to the seven wonders
of the world.
At the end of the Civil War, Will, having lost all his
family, leaves his home in Virginia to live with his
Northern cousins, whom he considers to be traitors.
Manolo has to make a decision; follow in his
father's footsteps and become a bullfighter or follow
his heart and become a doctor.
In 1942, Jill goes to Maine to stay with her
grandmother where she discovers that the war is
closer than she thought.
A young orphaned boy is ordered by his master to
infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troop and to copy the
play Hamlet. Should he betray his cruel master or
his new friends
Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson solve
mysteries in 19th century England
When he finds a lost beagle near his West Virginia
home, Marty hides it from his family and the dog's
abusive owner.
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the 13th
floor of the Wayside school, which was built
sideways.
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in
Maine, a boy has a struggle to survive until the
Indians teach him their skills.
In 1862 Summer and her brother, slave children on
the Parnell plantation, learn to read and wish for
freedom.Six traits: voice
A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864,
when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner,
New Mexico as prisoners of white soldiers.
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to
live with their eccentric grandmother who they
believed was dead.
Alex's sense of humor helps him get by in a hectic
world.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Smart Dog
Vande Velde,
Vivian
146 p.
Language Arts
840 3-6
Snow Treasure
McSwigan, Marie
196 p.
Historical
Fiction
690 3-6
Soft Rain: a story of the
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Cornelissen,
Cornelia
115 p.
Historical
Fiction
3-6
Soldier's Heart: a novel of Paulsen, Gary
the Civil War
106 p.
Historical
Fiction
1000 YA
Someone Was Watching
Patneaude, David
220 p.
Mystery
710 YA
Song of the Wanderer
Coville, Bruce
330 p.
Fantasy
810
Sounder
Armstrong,
William Howard
116 p.
Historical
Fiction/Newbe
ry
900 5-8
Spiderwick Chronicles
DeTerlizzi, Tony
120 p.
Fantasy
700 3-6
Stepping on the Cracks
Hahn, Mary
Downing
216 p.
Historical
Fiction
780 3-6
Sticks
Bauer, Joan
182 p.
Language Arts
750 3-6
Stinker from Space
Service, Pamela F. 84 p.
Fantasy
820 3-6
Stone Fox
Gardiner, John
Reynolds
Language Arts
550 3-6
83 p.
36
Amy finds her life is complicated when she finds
and tries to hide a smart, talking dog who has
escaped from a university lab
In 1940 when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches
his village, Peter use their sleds to transport nine
million dollars worth of gold
Soft Rain, a Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate
along with her family from North Carolina to the
west.
Charlie has a change of heart after experiencing the
physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War
combat. Graphic descriptions, suicide.
When his baby sister disappears from the river,
Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned.
Having jumped in Luster, land of the unicorns, Cara
makes a perilous journey to bring back her
grandmother, "The Wanderer"
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father
is jailed for stealing food, a young boy grows in
courage and understanding with the help of his
devoted dog.
When the Grace children go to live at their great
aunt Lucinda's very worn Victorian house, they
discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures
and have some unusual adventures.
In 1944 while her brother is overseas fighting World
War II, Margaret finds that the school bully is
hiding his brother, who is a desert.
Mickey prepares to compete in the most important
pool championship of his life. A hilarious novel.
Mathematics
An agent from the Sylon Confederacy, fleeing from
enemy ships, crash lands on Earth, transfers his
mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of
two children to return to his planet.
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his
grandfather's farm with the prize from a dog sled
race he enters.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Stones in Water
Napoli, Donna Jo
209 p.
Historical
Fiction
630 5-8
Story of Benjamin
Davidson,
Franklin: amazing
Margaret
American, The
Story of Harriet Tubman, Sterling, Dorothy
The: Freedom Train
92 p.
Biography
760 3-6
191 p.
Biography
910 5-8
Harriet Tubman, known as the Moses of her people,
escapes slavery, then risks her life to bring other
slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Story of MyLlife: Helen
Keller
Stray, The
Keller, Helen
225 p.
Autobiography
1090 YA
King-Smith, Dick
139 p.
Language Arts
840 3-6
Strider
Cleary, Beverly
179 p.
Language Arts
840 3-6
Stuart Little
White, E.B.
131 p.
Fantasy
920 3-6
Summer of the Bonepile
Monster, The
Henderson, Aileen 137 p.
Kilgore
Language Arts
810 5-8
Helen Keller tells of her early life and her
relationship with her teacher, Anne Sullivan
75 year old Henny runs away from the hold folks
home, she meets five children and her parents how
welcome them into their home
Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents'
divorce, joins the track team and adopts an
abandoned dog.
After being adopted by a human family, a tiny
mouse sets out to befriend a resentful new brother
and fend off a gang of cats.
Hollis and his sister Lou are sent to live with their
blind great-grand mother. The discover some dark
family secrets.
In rural Oklahoma at the turn of the century, Jay
discovers a tree full of monkeys, and learns
important life lessons.
A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her
family when her mentally handicapped brother gets
lost
Peter describes the highs and lows of his life with
his younger brother, Fudge
Nick signs up for Karate to prepare to defend
himself against the school bully, but instead
discovers how to forge a great friendship.
Community of caring.
Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls, Wilson
The
290 p.
Language Arts
810 YA
Summer of the Swans,
The
Byars, Betsy
142 p.
Realistic
Fiction
830 3-6
Superfudge
Blume, Judy
178 p.
Language Arts
560 3-6
Surviving Brick Johnson
Myers, Laurie
74 p.
Language Arts
410 3-6
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After being taken by German soldiers, along with
other Italian boys and his Jewish friends, Roberto is
forced to work in Germany, and survive a Ukrainian
winter, as he tries to make his way back home.
Shows the horrid aspects of war, reference to
circumcision.
Biography of the writer, inventor and statesman.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Swift Rivers
Meigs, Cornelia
267 p.
Historical
Fiction
1160 5-8
Swiss Family Robinson,
The
Wyss, Johann
David
341 p.
Language Arts
380 5-8
Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing
Taste of Blackberries, A
Blume, Judy
120 p.
Language Arts
470 3-6
Smith, Doris
Buchanan
Teacher's Funeral, The: A Peck, Richard
comedy in three parts
58 p.
Language Arts
640 3-6
190 p.
Historical
Fiction
750 5-8
The Silver Crown
Robert O'Brian
322 p.
Fantasy
790 3-6
The Year the Swallows
Came Early
Fitzmaurice,
Kathryn
277 p.
750 3-6
In 1835 Chris decides to harvest some of the timber
on his grandfather's land in Minnesota, and float the
logs down the Mississippi.
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they
adapt to life on an island. Sophisticated
vocabulary, tedious reading.
Peter finds his demanding two-year old brother an
ever increasing problem.
A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the
accidental death of his best friend
In rural Indiana in 1904, Russell's dream of quitting
school his changed when his older sister becomes
his teacher. Read aloud, much background
knowledge needed.
On her birthday, Ellen wakes up to find a siver
crown on her pillow. When her parents disappear,
she is launched on an adventure involving a trek
through the woods, a castle full of captives, and the
powerful Hieronymus Machine which wants her
crown.
After her father is sent to jail, eleven-year-old
Groovy Robinson must decide if she can forgive the
failings of someone she loves
An unmanageable, but lovable 11 year old misfit,
learns to believe in himself when he gets to know
the school counselor, who is also a misfit.
There's a Boy in the Girls Sachar, Louis
Bathroom
195 p.
Fathers and
daughters
Fiction
Language Arts
There's an Owl in the
Shower
George, Jean
Craighead
133 p.
Language Arts
670 3-6
When a young boy brings home an injured owl, his
father is angry because the owl's endangered status
threatens his livelihood. Environmental lessons
Thief and the Beanstalk,
The
Cantanese, P.W.
272 p.
Fairy Tale
780 5-8
Thief Lord, The
Funke, Cornelia
349 p.
Language Arts
640 5-8
Nick joins a band of thieves and must break into a
large white castle that allegedly holds an old man,
Jack--rich from a quest up a magical beanstalk--but
when Nick has to journey up the same beanstalk, it
holds unfamiliar foes.
Orphaned brothers run away from their cruel aunt
and uncle and hide in Venice. They meet the Thief
Lord, who leads a crime ring of street children.
490 3-6
38
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Things Not Seen
Clements, Andrew 251 p.
Language Arts
690 5-8
Thomas A. Edison: boy
inventor
Guthridge, Sue
192 p.
Biography
620 3-6
Three Cups of Tea: Young Morentson, Greg
Readers Edition
Adapted by
Thomson, Sarah
209 p.
Non Fiction
910 3-6
Thunder Cave
Smith, Roland
250 p.
Language Arts
610 5-8
Thunder from the Sea
Harlow, Joan Hiatt 243 p.
Language Arts
700 5-8
Thunder Rolling in the
Mountains
O'Dell, Scott
128 p.
Historical
Fiction
680 YA
Time Cat: the remarkable Alexander, Lloyd
journeys of Jason and
Gareth
206 p.
Language Arts
660 5-8
Time for Andrew: a ghost Hahn, Mary
story
Downing
165 p.
Language Arts
710 5-8
Toothpaste Millionaire,
The
Merrill, Jean
129 p.
Language Arts
820 3-6
Tracker
Paulsen, Gary
90 p.
Language Arts
1010 5-8
Trapped in Death Cave
Wallace, Bill
170 p.
Mystery
630 3-6
Trial by Journal
Klise, Kate
238 p.
Language Arts
850 5-8
39
When Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible,
he and his blind girl friend tries to find out what
caused it and how to reverse it. Mature 5th & 6th
grades.
This biography focuses on the childhood of Thomas
Edison, showing how his curiosity led to his
inventions. Science
Adapts for young readers Greg Mortenson's book in
which he recounts the experiences he had while
trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's
Karakoram Himalaya build schools for their
children.
Jacob goes to Kenya in search of his father, and
with his Masai friend help save the elephants from
extinction.
Set in Newfoundland in 1929. Tom is adapted by a
family and rescues a dog, but faces challenges
when his adoptive mother becomes pregnant and
another family claims the dog
In late 19th century, a young Nez Perce girl relates
how her people were driven off their land. Violent
images.
Jason and his magic cat travel through time to visit
countries throughout the world and throughout
history. Shallow plot and characters.
Andrew is drawn 80 years into the past to trade
places with his great-great uncle who is dying of
diphtheria.
Kate explains how her friend went from being a
poor sixth grade to a millionaire by manufacturing
toothpaste. Economics
John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for
his family's winter meat and examines how he feels
about hunting.
Gary sets out to find treasure and his grandfather's
killer.
Twelve-year old Lily finds herself on the jury of a
murder trial while conducting her own undercover
investigation.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Tripods, The (series)
Christopher, John
200 p.
Science Fiction
Trouble River
Byars, Betsy
106 p.
Historical
Fiction
770 3-6
True Confessions
Tashjian, Janet
169 p.
Language Arts
920 5-8
True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle
Avi
278 p.
Historical
Fiction
740 5-8
Trumpet of the Swan
White, E.B.
251 p.
Language Arts
750 3-6
Truth is a Bright Star
Price, Joan
150 p.
Historical
Fiction
690 5-8
Tucket's Travels (series)
Paulsen, Gary
166 p.
Historical
Fiction
5-8
Twenty-one Balloons
DuBois, William
Pene
179 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
Two Princesses of
Bamarre, The
Levine, Gail
Carson
241 p.
Fantasy
570 5-8
Under the Blood-red Son Salisbury, Graham 246 p.
Historical
Fiction
640 5-8
Upstairs Room, The
Memoir
380 5-8
Reiss, Johanna
196 p.
760-970 5-8
1070 3-6
40
Will Parker and his companions hope to escape
from the ruling Tripods to capture mature human
beings and make them obedient, docile servants.
A twelve year old boy builds a raft which becomes
the only means of escape for him and his
grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their
prairie home.
Tru tells of her desire to cure her handicapped twin
brother and her desires to create a television show.
As the lone young lady on a transatlantic voyage,
Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and
the crew rebellious.
A voiceless trumpeter Swan, tries to win the love of
Serena and learns to play the trumpet
Loma, a young Hopi girl, kidnapped by Spanish
soldiers and sold into slavery, forms a friendship
with his owner.
Francis Tucket is a traveler during the time of the
Oregon trail. Realistic violence and mature
themes in books 3,4 & 5)
Three weeks after leaving San Francisco in a
balloon to fly across the Pacific, Professor Sherman
is picked up in the Atlantic clinging to wreckage.
With her adventurous sister Meryl suffering from
the gray death, meek and timid Princess Addie must
go to find a cure and fight ogres, specters, gryphons
and dragons.
Everything changes for Tomi, a Japanese boy living
in Hawaii in 1941, when Pearl Harbor is attacked.
He must accept extra responsibilities when his
father is taken into custody and deal with fears of
people about his ancestry. Grades 5 & 6.
A Dutch-Jewish girl describes the 2 1/2 years she
spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's
house during World War II
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Velveteen Rabbit, The
Williams, Marjorie 44 p.
Language Arts
820 3-6
View from the Cherry
Tree, The
Wait 'Till Helen Comes
Roberts, Willo
Davis
Hahn, Mary
Downing
181 p.
Mystery
770 3-6
184 p.
Language Arts
750 5-8
Wanderer, The
Creech, Sharon
305 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
Honor
830 3-6
Sophie and her family set sail on "The Wanderer"
across the Atlantic Ocean towards England. Sophie
faces memories of her forgotten past and the crew
discover the joys & trials of belonging to a family.
Wanted: Mud Blossom
Byars, Betsy
148 p.
Language Arts
650 3-6
Watchdog and the Coyotes Wallace, Bill
104 p.
Language Arts
600 3-6
Water Horse, The
King-Smith, Dick
118 p.
Fantasy
910 3-6
Weasel
DeFelice, Cynthia 119 p.
Historical
Fiction
870 5-8
Wednesday Wars
Schmidt, Gary
264 p.
Historical
Fiction
990 5-8
Weedflower
Kadohata, Cynthia 260 p.
Historical
Fiction
750 5-8
Week in the Woods, A
Clements, Andrew 190 p.
Language Arts
820 5-8
Language
Arts/Newbery
710 5-8
Convinced the Mud is responsible for the
disappearance of the school hamster, Junior decides
to try the dog for his crime
Sweetie, a watchdog must protect his home and
friends when coyotes and a burglar come to the
house.
In 1930s on the coast of Scotland, Kirstie finds a
large egg which hatches into an unusual sea
creature. For younger readers.
Alone in the frontier wilderness, in the winter of
1839, Nathan runs afoul of a renegade killer and
learns about revenge.
During the 1967 school year, 7th grader Holling
Hoodhood stays after school with Mrs. Baker and
reads the plays of Shakespeare, while learning about
the world around him.
Sumiko and her family are relocated from the flower
farm in Southern California to an internment camp
on the Mojave Indian reservation and befriends an
Indian.
The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods
test Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to
a teacher who is out to get him.
The residents of a small town in Holland try to bring
storks to nest in their village.
Wheel on the School, The DeJong, Meindert
298 p.
41
By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out
and about to be burned, he has almost given up
hope of finding the magic called Real
Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one
believes him, except the murderer
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new
stepsister, but realize they must try to save her when
she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
When Hitler Stole Pink
Rabbit
Kerr, Judith
191 p.
Historical
Fiction
940 5-8
When My Name Was
Keoko
Park, Linda Sue
199 p.
Historical
Fiction
610 5-8
When the Circus Came to Horvath, Polly
Town
138 p.
Language Arts
810 3-6
When the Soldiers Were
Gone
Propp, Vera W.
101 p.
Historical
Fiction
540 5-8
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
199 p.
Language Arts,
Newberry
750 5-8
When Zachary Beaver
Came to Town
Holt, Kimberly
Willis
227 p.
Historical
Fiction
700 5-8
Where I Live
Spinelli, Eileen
112 p.
Poetry
Where the Mountain
Meets the Moon
Lin, Grace
278 p.
Fairy Tales,
Dragons
Fiction &
Moon Fiction
810 3-6
Where the Red Fern
Grows: the story of two
dogs and a boy
Rawls, Wilson
212 p.
Language Arts
700 5-8
White Fang
London, Jack
206 p.
Language Arts
510 YA
White Star: a dog on the
Titanic
Crisp, Marty
150 p.
Historical
Fiction
780 3-6
3-6
42
The adventures of a 9-year old Jewish girl and her
family as they travel from Germany to England in
the 1930s
A brother and sister face the occupation of Korea by
Japan. They are forced to take Japanese names and
speak only Japanese.
Not all the townspeople are thrilled to have the
circus people as neighbors. A funny book that
teaches about acceptance.
After the German occupation of the Netherlands,
Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he
has been hiding, and adjusts to his real Jewish
family.
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the
1980s television game show, "The $20,000
Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl
tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes
received from an anonymous source that seems to
defy the laws of time and space
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town,
Toby and Cal meet Zachary, the fattest boy in the
world. Acceptance, Vietnam war.
In a series of poems, Diana writes about her life
before and after her family moves far away to live
with Grandpa Joe.
Includes bibliographical references. Minli, an
adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical
goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on
a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of
bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to
Jade River.
A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his
heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two
redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion
hunter.
The adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he
makes his peace with man in the Canadian
wilderness.
Sam, a passenger on the Titanic, volunteers to help
care for the dogs, and befriends an Irish setter.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Wind in the Door
L'Engle, Madeleine 245 p.
Fantasy
790 5-8
Wind in the Willows, The Grahame, Kenneth 244 p.
Fantasy
570 5-8
Windcatcher
Mystery
540 3-6
Winter of the Red Snow, Gregory, Kristiana 173 p.
The:P the Revolutionary
War diary of Abigail Jane
Stewart
Winter Room, The
Paulsen, Gary
103 p.
Historical
Fiction
870 5-8
Abigail tells of life in Valley Forge during the
winter of 1777 as George Washington prepares his
troops to fight the British.
1170 5-8
A young boy growing up on a Northern Minnesota
farm describes the scenes around him and tell tales
of his Norwegian uncle's logging past.
Wizard of Oz
Baum, Frank
187 p.
Fantasy
Wolf Brother
Paver, Michelle
295 p.
Wonderful Flight to the
Mushroom Planet, The
Cameron, Eleanor 195 p.
Fantasy
970 3-6
Word Eater, The
Amato, Mary
151 p.
Fantasy
590 3-6
Words of Stone
Henkes, Kevin
152 p.
Realistic
Fiction
770 3-6
World According to
Humphrey, The
Birney, Betty G.
124 p.
Language Arts
670 3-6
Avi
120 p.
Language
Arts/Newbery
Honor
370 5-8
660 5-8
43
With Meg's help, the dragon's her brother saw in the
vegetable garden, play an important part in the
struggle between life and death.
The adventures of four animal friends, Toad, Mole,
Rat, and Badger who live along a river on the
English countryside.
While learning to sail along the Connecticut shore,
Tony becomes excited by rumors of sunken treasure
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz,
Dorothy seeks the help of the Great Wizard to return
to Kansas.
Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a
dangerous journey to "The Mountain of the World
Spirit" to fulfill an oath made to his dying father.
Graphic depiction of an animal attack.
A mystery man inspires two boys to build a
spaceship and fly it to the Mushroom Planet. Goes
well with Planet X science unit form William &
Mary.
Lerner Chanse, a new student at Cleveland Park
Middle School, finds a worm that magically makes
things disappear and she hopes it will help her fit in
or get revenge.
Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his
troubled feelings for his dead mother, 10-year old
has his life changed when he meets the boisterous
and irresistible Joselle.
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow school, learns
that he has an important role to play in helping his
classmates and teacher.
WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options
Year of Miss Agnes, The Hill, Kirkpatrick
115 p.
Historical
Fiction
790 3-6
Year of the Panda, The
Schlein, Miriam
83 p.
Realistic
Fiction
520 3-6
Yellow Star
Roy, Jennifer
227 p.
Historical
Fiction
710 5-8
Yolonda's Genius
Fenner, Carol
211 p.
Realistic
Fiction
710 5-8
Zach's Lie
Smith, Roland
211 p.
Realistic
Fiction
580 5-8
When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's
custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to
his family's sudden move to Elko, Nevada after
entering the Witness Security program: Refers to
drug dealing, confusing reading with flashbacks.
Zeely
Hamilton, Virginia 122 p.
Language Arts
690 5-8
Autobiography
640 5-8
Geeder's summer at her uncles farm is made special
because of her friendship with a very tall, composed
woman who raises hogs and looks like a Watusi
queen. African History
The diary of a girl living in Sarajevo, begun when
she was eleven and there was still peace in her
country.
Zlata's Diary: a child's life Filipovic, Zlata
in Sarajevo
197 p.
44
Fred narrates the story of school and village life
among the Athabascans in Alaska during 1948
when Miss Agnes arrives as the new teacher and
opens a new world for her students.
A Chinese boy rescues a starving baby panda and
learns why they are endangered and what the
government is doing to save them
From 1939 to 1945, Sylvia, a Jewish girl struggle to
survive in a ghetto in Poland during the Nazi
occupation. Told in free verse
After moving from Chicago to Grand River,
Michigan, big and strong for her age, determines to
prove that her brother is not a slow learner, but a
true musical genius. Refers to drugs and street
life in Chicago. For mature 5th & 6th graders.