School Reading List 2010/2011

Reading List for the 2010/2011 school year

Read Alouds and Audiobooks (longer ones):

• Currently: Ben and Me by Robert Lawson, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg 
• The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (audiobook)
• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (audiobook)
• These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (audiobook)
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt 10/7 (audiobook)
• Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett 10/20 (audiobook)
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri (audiobook)
  
• The Indian in the Cupboard (audiobook)
• The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett (audiobook)
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 12/9 (audiobook)
• The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder 12/29
• The Calder Game by Blue Balliett (audiobook)
• Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks (audiobook)
• Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild 1/27 (audiobook)
• The Day It Rained Forever, A Story of the Johnstown Flood by Virginia T. Gross 2/22
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss 3/3 (audiobook)
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
• Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop 4/12
• The Hobbit 4/15
• Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 5/7
• Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis 5/19
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis 6/2
• The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis 6/11
• The BFG by Roald Dahl 7/1
• The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
• The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
• Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Shorter Literature and Picture Books:

• From Slave to Soldier by Deborah Hopkinson
• Billy and the Rebel by Deborah Hopkinson
• Drummer Boy, Marching to the Civil War by Ann Turner
• Cecil’s Story by George Ella Lyon
• Li’l Dan the drummer boy by Romare Bearden 10/1
• We Played Marbles by Tres Seymour 10/1
• Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt by Barbara Smucker
• The Promise Quilt by Candice F. Ransom
• The Blue and the Gray by Eve Bunting
• When I First Came to This Land retold by Harriet Ziefert
• The Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin
• The Long Way Westward by Joan Sandin
• The Legend of the Candy Cane by Lori Walburg 12/9
• There Was No Snow on Christmas Eve by Pam Munoz Ryan
• The Beautiful Christmas Tree by Charlotte Zolotow
• Where is Christmas, Jesse Bear? by Nancy White Carlstrom
• Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise by Michael Bond
• Through the Animals’ Eyes, a Story of the First Christmas by Christopher Wormell
• Katie’s Wish by Barbara Shook Hazen 12/13
• The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff 1/7
• Annushka’s Voyage by Edith Tarbescu 1/7
• Twenty-One Elephants and still standing by April Jones Prince 1/12
• Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting
• Archie’s War, My Scrapbook of the First World War 1914-1918 by Marcia Williams (WWI)
• Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon (WWI)
• Casey Over There by Staton Rabin (WWI)
• The Letter Home by Timothy Decker (WWI)
• The Language of Doves by Rosemary Wells (WWI)
• What You Know First by Patricia MacLachlan
• The Girl on the High-Diving Horse by Linda Oatman High
• Don’t Forget Winona by Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson
• Leah’s Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich
• Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner
• Potato, A Tale from the Great Depression by Kate Lied
• The Little Ships, The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II by Louise Borden (WWII)
• One Splendid Tree by Marilyn Helmer (WWII)
• Pennies in a Jar by Dori Chaconas (WWII)
• Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki (WWII)
• A Place Where Sunflowers Grow by Amy Lee-Tai (WWII)
• But No Candy by Gloria Houston (WWII)
• Wind Flyers by Angela Johnson (WWII)
• The Farm Summer 1942 by Donald Hall (WWII)
• Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey (WWII)
• Across the Blue Pacific by Louise Borden (WWII)
• Nim and the War Effort by Milly Lee (WWII)
• The Yellow Star, The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy 4/12  (WWII)
• The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco 4/13  (WWII)
• Lisette’s Angel by Amy Littlesugar 4/14 (WWII)
• All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen
• Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming 4/22
• The Greatest Skating Race by Louise Borden 4/22
• The Bicycle Man by Allen Say 4/20
• The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida 4/20
• The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
• The Balloon Sailors by Diane Swanson 5/15
• Patrol: An America Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers 5/27

Poetry:

• Sing a Song of Seasons illus. by Sally Gregory
• Father Fox’s Pennyrhymes by Clyde Watson

Nonfiction History and Geography:

• If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore
• B is for Battle Cry, a Civil War alphabet by Patricia Bauer
• Kids During the American Civil War by Lisa A. Wroble 9/27
• Food and Recipes of the Civil War by George Erdosh 9/27
• Hold the Flag High by Catherine Clinton 9/27
• Duel of the Ironclads, the Monitor vs. the Virginia by Patrick O’Brien 10/1
• Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln–the story of the Gettysburg Address by Jean Fritz 10/8
• The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg by Linda Oatman High 10/8
• The Silent Witness–a true story of the Civil War by Robin Friedman
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be in the First Submarine by Ian Graham
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Civil War Soldier by Thomas Ratliff 10/5
• The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln, illus. by Michael McCurdy 10/8
• Marching to Appomattox, The Footrace That Ended the Civil War by Ken Stark 10/16
• The Transcontinental Railroad by John Perritano 11/2
• You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Railroad by Ian Graham 11/2
• L is for Last Frontier, An Alaska Alphabet by Carol Crane 11/5
• Krakatoa, History’s Loudest Volcano by Kathy Furgang 11/12
• Now That’s Big! The Suez Canal by Kate Riggs
• Ellis Island by Lori Mortensen 11/29
• Ellis Island by Terry Allan Hicks 11/29
• You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on an Irish Famine Ship by Jim Pipe 12/13
• *A Small Miracle by Peter Collington
• The Long March: The Choctaw’s Gift to Irish Famine Relief by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick 1/8
• Excerpts from Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their Stories by Paul Robert Walker 1/8
• Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee 1/15
• Excerpts from The Aftermath of the Civil War by Dale Anderson 1/11
• Excerpts from The Gilded Age by Ann Morrow
• Going to War in World War I by Adrian Gilbert
• Fly, Cher Ami, Fly by Robert Burleigh
• The Donkey of Gallipoli, a True Story of Courage in World War I by Mark Greenwood
• Silent Night, Holy Night, the Story of the Christmas Truce as narrated by Walter Cronkite
• You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic! by David Stewart
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be on the Hindenburg! by Ian Graham
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Suffragist by Fiona Macdonald
• The Roaring Twenties by R. Conrad Stein
• The Great Depression by R. Conrad Stein
• Children of the World War II Home Front by Sylvia Whitman
• Remember Pearl Harbor by Thomas B. Allen 4/5
• Elsie’s War, a story of courage in Nazi Germany by Frank Dabba Smith (WWII)
• Children of the Relocation Camps by Catherine A. Welch
• One More Border by William Kaplan 4/13
• Always Remember Me, How one family survived WWII by Marisabina Russo 4/13
• The Grand Mosque of Paris by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
• The Manhattan Project by R. Conrad Stein 4/18
• You Wouldn’t Want to Be a World War II Pilot by Ian Graham 4/
• World War II Spies by Tim O’Shei 4/
• Remember D-Day by Ronald J. Drez 4/14
• One Thousand Tracings by Lita Judge 4/22
• Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven 4/22
• Candy Bomber by Michael O. Tunnell
• Looking at Israel by Kathleen Pohl
• The Golden City, Jerusalem’s 3000 Years by Neil Waldman
• The Berlin Wall by Debbie Levy
• As Good As Anybody by Richard Michelson 5/19
• Knowing Your Civil Rights by Christin Ditchfield 5/20

Biographies:

• Queen Victoria by Dorothy Turner
• Florence Nightingale by Lucile Davis
• Manjiro by Emily Arnold McCully
• Young Abe Lincoln The Frontier Days, 1809-1837 by Cheryl Harness
• Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington 1837-1865 by Cheryl Harness
• Thank You Very Much, Captain Ericsson by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
• Abe’s Honest Words by Doreen Rappaport 10/1
• A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee by David A. Adler 10/8
• Read About Geronimo by Stephen Feinstein 1/14
• First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers 1/19
• Alexander Graham Bell: Setting the Tone for communication by Mike Venezia 1/21
• A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison by David A. Adler 1/21
• Norman Rockwell by Mike Venezia 1/28
• Aaron Copland by Mike Venezia 1/28
• Frank Lloyd Wright by Scott Ingram 1/29
• The Heroine of the Titanic by Joan W. Blos
• The Champion of Children–the Story of Janusz Korczak by Tomek Bogacki 4/12
• Passage to Freedom, The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki 4/14
• A Picture Book of John F. Kennedy by David A. Adler 5/17
• A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler 5/19
• Rosa (Parks) by Nikki Giovanni 5/19

Science Nonfiction:

• Iron by Salvatore Tocci 11/12

A’s Personal Reading (4th grade):

• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
• The 39 Clues
• The 39 clues, book 2
• The Sword Thief, The 39 Clues book 3 by Peter Lerangis
• Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (reread) 1/3
• The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull 1/11
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 2 The Burning Bridge by John Flanagan 1/16
• Irish immigrants in America : an interactive history adventure by Elizabeth Raum
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 1/24
• The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien 1/28
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book #: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan 2/1
• The Night the Bells Rang by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock 2/16
• LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 2/15
• LOTR: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien 3/5
• LOTR: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 3/28
• Coastwatcher by Elise Weston 3/29
• Toro! Toro! by Michael Morpurgo 3/30
• Dear America: The Journal of Ben Uchida, Mirror Lake Internment Camp 1942 4/2
• The Mysterious Benedict Society 4/6
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London 4/
  
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
• White Fang by Jack London 4/16
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 4: The Battle For Skandia by John Flanagan 4/18
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 5: The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan
• The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
• The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby 4/
• Holes by Louis Sachar 5/1
• On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells 6/1
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart 6/3
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart 7/3
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 6: The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 7: Erak’s Ransom by John Flanagan
• The 39 Clues book 4
• The 39 Clues book 5
• The 39 Clues Book 6: In Too Deep 
• The 39 Clues Book 7: The Viper’s Nest 
• The 39 Clues Book 8: The Emperor’s Code 7/17
• The 39 Clues Book 9:
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 8: The Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 9:

C’s Personal Reading (2nd grade):

• Mystery in the Sand by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• Snowbound Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
• The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson 9/5
• Grace’s Letter to Lincoln by Peter and Connie Roop 9/10
• The Drummer Boy’s Battle by Dave and Neta Jackson 9/
• The Secret Valley by Clyde Robert Bulla 10/2
• Socks by Beverly Cleary 10/10
• Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary 10/11
• All Their Names Were Courage by Sharon Phillips Denslow 10/13
• Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet 11/1
• The 39 Clues book 1 by Rick Riordan 11/3
• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
• Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
• The Great Turkey Walk
• The Three Investigators–the Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur
• The Klondike Kid, Book 1: Sailing for Gold by Deborah Hopkinson
• Sitting Bull, Dakota Boy by Augusta Stevenson (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
• Pioneer Plowmaker, a Story about John Deere by David R. Collins
• The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron
• We’ll Race You, Henry: A Story About Henry Ford by Barbara Mitchell
• Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco by Kathleen Kudlinski 1/24
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 1/26
• Bully For You, Teddy Roosevelt! by Jean Fritz 1/27
• The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 1/29
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 2/4
• The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
• Irish immigrants in America : an interactive history adventure by Elizabeth Raum
• Good-bye, Billy Radish by Gloria Skurzynski 2/4
• Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry 2/6
• Hero Over Here by Kathleen V. Kudlinski 2/7
• A Dog of Flanders by Ouida 2/9
• Kitty and Mr. Kipling by Lenore Blegvad 2/21
• The Doll Shop Downstairs by Yona Zeldis McDonough 2/21
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• All Sail Set by Armstrong Sperry
• Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan
• Supersonic Saints by John Bytheway
• The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull 3/5
• Supersonic Saints 2 by John Bytheway 3/7
• Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic, The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, 1912 by Ellen Emerson White 3/7
• The Dragon of Lonely Island by Rebecca Rupp 3/9
• Balto and the Great Race by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
• The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle 3/14
• Homesick, My Own Story by Jean Fritz 3/16
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• Man O’War, Best Racehorse Ever by Jennifer Guess McKerley
• Pearl Harbor is Burning! by Kathleen V. Kudlinski 3/19
• Ranger’s Apprentice, book 2 The Burning Bridge by John Flanagan 3/22
• Dear America: The Journal of C. J. Jackson, a Dust Bowl Migrant, 1935
• Toro! Toro! by Michael Morpurgo 3/28
• The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong 3/29
• Coastwatcher by Elise Weston 3/30
• On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck 4/10
• The Sinking of the Bismarck by William L. Shirer 4/9
• Exploring the Bismarck by Robert Ballard 4/
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart 4/19
• The Victory Garden by Lee Kochenderfer 4/
• The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
• Fire in the Sky by Candice F. Ransom 4/
• Discovery at Flint Springs by John R. Erickson 4/
• War Dog by Martin Booth
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 5/2
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 3: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan 5/25
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 4: The Battle For Skandia by John Flanagan 4/18
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 5: The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 6/3
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart 6/6
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma by Trenton Lee Stewart 6/9
• Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts 6/
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 6/20
• Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg 6/27
• Harry Potter books 1, 2, 3, 4 again
  
• The 39 Clues Book 2:
• The 39 Clues Book 3: The Sword Thief
• The 39 Clues Book 4: Beyond the Grave
• The 39 Clues Book 5: The Black Circle
• Harry Potter 5 (again) 7/14
• The 39 Clues Book 6: In Too Deep 7/14
• The 39 Clues Book 7: The Viper’s Nest 7/15
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 6: The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan 7/16
• The 39 Clues Book 8: The Emperor’s Code 7/17
  
• The 39 Clues Book 9
• The 39 Clues book 10
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 7: Erak’s Ransom by John Flanagan
  
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 8: The Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan
  
• Ranger’s Apprentice Book 9: Halt’s Peril by John Flanagan 8/6

FIAR Books and go-alongs: (* denotes our favorites)

*The Finest Horse in Town

• Horses by Gail Gibbons
• Horses by Seymour Simon
• *L is for Lobster, a Maine alphabet by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
• Horse Heroes, True Stories of Amazing Horses
• The Clock Struck Nine, a Time-Telling Tale by Trudy Harris
• *Bunny Day, Telling Time from Breakfast to Bedtime by Rick Walton
• The Ice Horse by Candace Christiansen

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

• Construction, a First Discovery Book
• *The Diggers by Margaret Wise Brown
• Diggers by Derek Zobel
• B is for Bulldozer, a construction ABC by June Sobel
• Bodies of Water: Canals
• The Erie Canal by Lisa Bullard

*They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson

• The Magic School Bus inside a Beehive
• Honey in a Hive by Anne Rockwell
• *Homeplace by Anne Shelby
• *Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne
• Who’s Who in My Family by Loreen Leedy

Warm as Wool by Scott Russell Sanders

• *Pelle’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow
• *”Charlie Needs a Cloak” by Tomie dePaola
• Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon by David Williams
• Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner
• *Homespun Sarah by Verla Kay

Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin

• *Thank You, Sarah, The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Thanksgiving at Our House by Wendy Watson
• *The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh
• *Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness
• *Across the Wide Dark Sea by Jean Van Leeuwen
• Thanksgiving is… by Gail Gibbons

Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton

• The Story of Snow
• Snowflake Bentley

The Glorious Flight

• First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers
• The Airplane Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta
• *Roman Numerals I to MM by Arthur Geisert
• Nobody Owns the Sky by Reeve Lindburgh
• To Fly, The Story of the Wright Brothers by Wendie Old

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Owl Moon by Jan Yolen

• DK Eyewitness Books “Moon”
• Baby Owl by Aubrey Lang
• Footprints on the Moon by Mark Haddon
• The Moon Seems to Change by Franklyn M. Branley
• Ookpik, The Travels of a Snowy Owl by Bruce Hiscock

*All Those Secrets of the World by Jane Yolen

Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say

• not-quite-so-easy Origami by Mary Meinking
• Looking at Japan by Jillian Powell
• Japan in Colors by Sara Louise Kras
• The Bicycle Man by Allen Say

*A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert

• “Charlie Needs a Cloak” by Tomie dePaola
• Blackberry Booties by Tricia Gardella
• Pelle’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow
• *Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat
• *How a Shirt Grew in the Field by Konstantin Ushinsky, adapted from the Russian by Marguerita Rudolph
• Sheep by Sara Swan Miller
• See How They Grow: LAMB
• Looking at Germany

The Duchess Bakes A Cake

• The Giant Jam Sandwich
• Knights in Shining Armor by Gail Gibbons
• The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake
• Stephen Biesty’s Castles
• Usborne The Great Castle Search
• Kingfisher Castles
• A MAZE ing Adventures: Storming a Castle

Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha

• The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow
• Yankee Doodle Numbers, a Connecticut Number Book by Elissa D. Grodin
• N is for Nutmeg, a Connecticut Alphabet by Elissa D. Grodin
• Jellyfish by Judy Wearing
• Dollars and Cents for Harriet by Betsy and Giulio Maestro