Delaware Township School Summer Reading Lists 2006

Prepared by Carol McGann

http://www.education-world.com/summer_reading/

If you find that these lists are not enough this is a good website to check for some more. Happy Summer Reading!!

http://www.njsummerreading.org/index.php

This site offers some more suggestions and activities to do!

Grades K-3 Summer Reading

Fiction

Hi! Fly Guy by Teddd Arnold

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silverman

Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo

Stink: the Incredible Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonald

Down Girl and Sit by Lucy Nolan

Kamishibai Man by Allen Say

Papa Do you Love Me? By Barbara Joosse

Island counting by Frane Lessac

If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty

Once Upon a Time, the End by Geoffrey Kloske

Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin

Terrific by Jon Agee

Misery Moo by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross

Meet the Gecko (Shredderman) by Wendelin Van Draanen

For the Younger Set

To the Beach! By Linda Ashman

Click Clack, Quackity-quack by Doreen Cronin

Goodnight My Duckling by Nancy Tafuri

Froggy’s Sleepover by Jonathan London

So Happy by Kevin Henkes

A Truck goes Rattley-bumpa by Jonathan London

Two Dogs Swimming by Lynn Reiser

We’ve All Got Bellybuttons by David Martin

What the No Good Baby is Good for by Elise Broach

Wiggle by Doreen Cronin

A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom

Minding Your P’s and Q’s

Yes, Please! No, Thank You! By Valerie Wheeler

Time to Say Please! By Mo Willems

How Do Dinosaurs Eat their Food? By Jane Yolen

Mind Your Manners! By Diane Goode

Nonfiction

Doodler Doodling by Rita Gelman

Oh, No! Where are my pants? And Other Disasters: Poems edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

Hachiko: The true Story of a Loyal Dog by Pamela Turner

The Librarian from Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter

My Light by Molly Bang

I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda Arms White

Mice, Morals,and Monkey Business: Lively Lessons From Aesop’s Fables by Christopher Wormell

Omnibeasts by Douglas Florian

A Play’s the Thing by Aliki

Sets and Series:

Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpa’s – Cynthia Rylant

Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day by Jean Van Leeuwen

Minnie and Moo by Denys Cazet

May Belle and the Ogre by Bethany Roberts

Gooney Bird & the Room Mother by Lois Lowry

Horrible Harry and the Goog by Suzy Kline

Judy Moody Declares Independence by Megan McDonald

Shredderman series by Van Draanen

Grades 4-5 Summer Reading

Fiction

A Dog’s Life: Ann Martin

That Crazy Eddie and the Science Project of Doom: Judy Cox

Pure Dead Trouble: Debi Gliori

The Scarecrow and His Servant: Philip Pullman

Flush: Carl Hiaasen

Beany and Meany:Susan Wojciechowski

The Penderwick’s: Jeanne Birdsall

Sequels

Poppy’s Return: Avi

Willow Run: Patricia Reilly Giff

Series Fiction

My Side of the Story-Kingfisher Publishers

The Brothers War

Escape From War

Journey to Jamestown

Portraits- Scholastic Publishers

Dancing Through Fire

Of Flowers and Shadows

Fantasy Series

Land of Elyon

The Dark Divide Patrick Carman

The Gatekeeper: Anthony Horowitz

Rowan Hood: Nancy Springer

Magyk: Angie Sage

Magic By the Book: Nina Bernstein

Nonfiction

Monumental Verses: J. Patrick Lewis

Sports Hall of Weird: Kevin Sylvester

Chameleon, Chameleon: Joy Cowley

Amelia to Zora: Cynthia Chin-Lee

Brothers of Hope: Mary Williams

Americans Who Tell the Truth: Robert Shetterly

Nonfiction Series

National Geographic How To Be…

Medieval Knight

Pirate

Samurai Warrior

Time For Kids…

Benjamin Franklin, a Man of Many Talents

Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President

John F. Kennedy: The Making of a Leader

Middle School Level Summer Reading

Be Adventurous

*Alanna, The First Adventure Pierce

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, and learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.\

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*The Blue Sword McKinley

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

*Downriver Hobbs

Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school decide to abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon themselves.

*Stormbreaker Horowitz

After the death of his uncle and guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced into continuing his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6 going on mission after mission and risking his life in the process.

Blood Red Horse Grant

You need three things to become a brave and noble knight: a war horse, a fair maiden, a just cause. Will has a horse, the Crusades in the Holy Land is his cause, but his fair maiden is supposed to marry his older brother.

Cruel as the Grave Penman

The murder of a Welsh peddler's daughter seems insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even the threat of a French invasion can keep him from investigating her death.

The Ropemaker Dickinson

When the magic that protects their Valley starts to fail, Tilja and her companions journey into the evil Empire to find the ancient magician Faheel, who originally cast the protection spells and ask for his help to save them from disaster.

Code Talkers Burchac

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay is recruited by the Marines to become a Code Talker, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

My Friend the Enemy Cheaney

During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl becomes friends with a young Japanese-American boy she discovers being sheltered and hidden by her neighbor and finds herself questioning what makes someone an enemy.

*Bloody Jack Meyer

Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.

*Tom Cringle Hausman

This is a fast-paced and gripping story of life on the high seas, of conflicting allegiances, and of finding friends where they are least expected. But most all, it is the tale of a boy who seeks a personal code of honor to guide him through unpredictable and perilous times.

Dragons, & Monsters & Aliens, Oh My

*Eragon Paolini

In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown parentage called Eragon, finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny and adventure.

*Artemis Fowl Colfer

Artemis is the most ingenious mind ever known and he’s only twelve-years-old!  He captures Holly Short, a lieutenant in the LepRecon organization, in order to get a ransom of gold from the Fairy folk.

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment Patterson

Normal.  What is that, exactly?  Max and her "flock" are kids who like to play outside, eat lots of junk food, fly...you heard right, fly!  So flying is not exactly normal but they were science experiments who escaped from "school" and the tortures they experienced at the hands of deranged doctors and are now on their own, so for them normal is relative.

*Inkheart Funke

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

It's So Today

Here Today Martin

In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.

Hoot Hiaasen

Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of endangered burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

I Am the Wallpaper Hughes

No matter how pretty the wallpaper is, it's still just background that no one notices.  Have you ever felt that way?  Floey has been wallpaper for most of her life, so she can sympathize.  Her older sister is the flamboyant one who attracts all the attention so when she suddenly gets married, Floey decides that it's her time to come off the wall. 

Lord of the Deep Salisbury

Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii teaches thirteen-year-old Mikey about fishing, about taking risks, making sacrifices, and facing some of life's difficult choices.

Tangerine Bloor

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and, in the process, slowly begins to remember the horrific incident that damaged his eyesight.

There's a Girl in my Hammerlock Spinelli

Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.

Very Funny

*No More Dead Dogs Korman

After he insults his English teacher’s favorite book, Wallace is sentenced to attending rehearsals for the school performance of it.  He begins to make suggestions for modifications that change the play as well as himself.

*Romeo and Juliet-Together At Last Avi

The eighth grade's plan to get two reluctant "lovers" together by means of a classroom production of Shakespeare's play has some very unexpected results.

Saving Francesca Spinelli

Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.

The Schwa Was Here Schusterman

A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters Giles

Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died in a fire months earlier.

Following Fake Man Holmes

Twelve-year-old Homer, together with his new friend Roger, is determined to find the truth about himself, his long-dead father, and a mysterious costumed man.

*Montmoreny: Thief, Liar, Gentleman Updale

After his life is saved by a young physician, Montmorency uses the knowledge he gains from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study to escape prison and create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. 

*Sammy Keyes mysteries Van Draanen

Read how this intrepid, girl-detective solves the mysteries that seem to follow her wherever she goes.

 * indicates other books by the author you  might like or a title in a series.