School Reading List

Reading List for the 2011/2012 school year

Read Alouds and Audiobooks:

• Ben and Me by Robert Lawson (boys’ bookclub)
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick 8/13
• Urchin of the Riding Stars, Mistmantle Chronicles book 1
• 50 Famous Fairy Tales 
• 100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson 9/29
• The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists’ Club by Bertrand R. Brinley 10/11 (boys’ bookclub)
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (boys’ bookclub)
• How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
• How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell
• How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick 2/13 (boys’ bookclub)
• The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit 2/16
• Freddy the Pilot by Walter Brooks
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
• Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
• King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
• Currently: Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff,
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Shorter Literature and Picture Books:

• Ten Little Mummies, An Egyptian Counting Book by Philip Yates
• Croco’nile by  Roy Gerrard
• Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile by Tomie dePaola
• Temple Cat by Andrew Clements
• The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
• Rimonah of the Flashing Sword adapted by Eric A. Kimmel 9/28
• Anansi and the Talking Melon retold by Eric A. Kimmel
• Zomo The Rabbit by Gerald McDermott
• The Winged Cat by Deborah Nourse Lattimore
• Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
• Abu Ali, Three Tales of the Middle East retold by Dorothy O. Van Woerkom
• The Three Princes retold by Eric Kimmel
• Gilgamesh the King retold by Ludmila Zeman
• Ali and the Magic Stew by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
• The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
• The Golden Sandal by Rebecca Hickox
• Forty Fortunes, a Tale of Iran by Aaron Shepard
• The Legend of the Persian Carpet by Tomie DePaola
• King Midas and the Golden Touch as told by Charlotte Craft
• Lord of the Cranes retold by Kerstin Chen
• Ten Suns, a Chinese Legend retold by Eric A. Kimmel
• The Lost Horse by Ed Young
• The Dragon Prince by Laurence Yep
• The Master Swordsman and The Magic Doorway, Two legends from Ancient China retold by Alice Provensen
• One Grain of Rice by Demi
• Once a Mouse… by Marcia Brown
• Buddha Stories by Demi
• The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdone
• Nine Animals and the Well by James Rumford
• The Hero and the Minotaur by Robert Byrd 1/24
• Mr. Semolina-Semolinus retold by Anthony L. Manna and Christodoula Mitakidon
• Atalanta, the Fastest Runner in the World by Priscilla Galloway
• Hercules by Robert Burleigh
• Rome Antics by David Macaulay
• Brave Cloelia by Jane Louise Curry
• Roman Diary by Richard Platt

Nonfiction History and Geography:

• Archaeologists Dig For Clues by
• How the Sphinx Got to the Museum by Jessie Hartland****
• Seeker of Knowledge, the Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs by James Rumford *****
• Pharaoh’s Boat by David Weitzman****
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Pyramid Builder by Jacqueline Morley***
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy by David Stewart***
• Hieroglyphs from A to Z by Peter Der Manuelian
• Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be Tutankhamen by David Stewart
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Sumerian Slave by Jacqueline Morley
• The Babylonians, Life in Ancient Babylon by Martha E. H. Rustad 11/9
• You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Great Wall of China by Jacqueline Morley
• D is for Dragon Dance by Ying Chang Compestine
• The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher
• Ancient China by Mel Friedman
• The Emperor’s Silent Army by Jane O’Connor
• Sacred River by Ted Lewin
• I Am Buddhist by Daniel P. Quinn
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Greek Athlete
• Count Your Way Through Greece by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson
• Thanassis, a Child of Greece
• Kids in Ancient Greece by Lisa Wroble
• The First Marathon, the Legend of Pheidippides by Susan Reynolds 2/27
• Olympia: Warrior Athletes of Ancient Greece by Dyan Blacklock*****
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece by Fiona Macdonald
• The Parthenon by Elizabeth Mann (portions) ****
• Bodies From the Ash by James M. Deem
• Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Pope Osbourne
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Roman Gladiator by John Malam
• Tales of the Dead, Ancient Rome by Stewart Ross
• Gladiator by Richard Watkins (selections)

Nonfiction Science:

• The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten, a Book about Food Chains
• What’s Alive by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
• A Desert Habitat by Kelley MacAulay and Bobbie Kalman
• Grasslands by Cathryn Sill
• A Walk in the Deciduous Forest by Rebecca L. Johnson
• The Arctic Habitat by Molly Aloian and Bobbie Kalman
• Inside Your Outside by Tish Rabe
• Cells Are Us by Fran Balkwill
• Dem Bones by Bob Barner
• Bones by Stephen Krensky
• The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino
• You Can’t Make A Move Without Your Muscles by Paul Showers
• Professor I.Q. Explores the Brain by Seymour Simon
• A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers
• Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers
• The Respiratory System
• What Happens to a Hamburger? by Paul Showers
• Christian the Lion by Anthony Bourke and John Rendall 1/3
• Baby Lion by Aubrey Lang 1/3
• About Mammals by Cathryn Sill 1/7
• DK Eye Know mammal 1/7
• Cheetahs For Kids by Winnie MacPherson 1/7
• Zebras by Anthony D. Fredericks
• Hippos by Marianne Johnston
• Owen and Mzee, The Language of Friendship 
• Little Bull, Growing up in Africa’s Elephant Kingdom by Ellen Foley James
• Elephant Families by Arthur Dorros
• Tarra and Bella, The elephant and dog who became best friends
• A Giraffe Grows Up by Amanda Doering Tourville 1/24
• Chee-Lin, A Giraffe’s Journey by James Rumford 1/24
• Camels, Ships of the Desert by Eulalia Garcia 1/25
• Kangaroos by Sara Louise Kras 2/22
• About Marsupials by Cathryn Sill 2/22
• Baby Koala by Aubrey Lang 2/24
• Beaver at Long Pond by William T. George 2/27
• Amazing Whales by Sarah L. Thomson
• Whales by Gail Gibbons
• Dolphins by Melissa Stewart
• Raising Cows on the Koebels’ Farm by Alice K. Flanagan
• Goats by Sara Swan Miller
• See How They Grow: Pig
• How Do Birds Find Their Way? by Roma Gans
• Baby Owl by Aubrey Lang

Biographies:

• Hatshepsut, The Princess Who Became King by Ellen Galford ****
• Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabuda 9/30 ****
• Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled by Milton Meltzer

• Hammurabi
• Buddha by Demi

A’s 5th Grade Personal Reading:

• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 10: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja by John Flanagan 8/10
• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• The Long Patrol by Brian Jacques
• Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Rakkety Tam by Brian Jacques 10/30
• Doomwyte by Brian Jacques 11/7
• The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan 12/27
• The Throne of Fire  by Rick Riordan 1/6
• The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence 1/14
• Middleworld by J & P Voelkel 1/14
• The Medusa Plot by Gordon Korman 1/14
• The Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence 1/16
• A King’s Ransom by Jude Watson
• Hercules retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Perseus retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
• The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
• The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

C’s 3rd Grade Personal Reading:

• The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
• Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
• Casting the Gods Adrift by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Tut Tut by Jon Scieszka
• The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
• Silver Chief to the Rescue by Jack O’Brien
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• Mummies and Pyramids by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne
• The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne
• The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson
• Egyptian Diary by Richard Platt
• The Curse of King Tut’s Mummy by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
• Bernard the Brave by Margery Sharp
• Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp
• Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson
• The Book of Pirates by Michael Hague
• The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
• Tall Timber Tales by Dell J. McCormick
• Nurse Matilda Collected Tales by Christianna Brand
• The Long Patrol by Brian Jacques
• Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls 10/27
• Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean
• The Arabian Nights by Wafa’ Tarnowska
• The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor retold by John Yeoman
• Cloud Weavers, Ancient Chinese Legends by Rena Krasno and Yeng-Fong Chiang
• The Children of Battleship Row by Joan Zuber Earle
• The Medusa Plot by Gordon Korman 1/16
• Middleworld by J & P Voelkel 1/23
• A King’s Ransom by Jude Watson 1/25
• 300 Heroes, the Battle of Thermopylae by Terri Dougherty
• Hercules retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Theseus retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
• Perseus retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
• The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
• The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

D’s 1st Grade Personal Reading:

• Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss