2010+Summer+Reading+List

Type in the content of your page here. =DRAFT= =Elementary K-1= __Fiction__ All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel Chalk by Bill Thomson Cool Cat by Nonny Hogrogian The Curious Garden by Peter Brown Have I Got a Book for You by Melanie Watt Keisha Ann Can by Daniel Kirk Lawn to Lawn by Dan Yaccarino Let's Do Nothing by Tony Fucile Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don't) by Barbara Bottner Our Library by Eve Bunting Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach by Melanie Watt

__Nonfiction__ The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story of Annette Kellerman by Shana Corey Life-size zoo : from tiny rodents to gigantic elephants, an actual-sized animal encyclopedia by Teruyuki Komiya Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales by Lucy Cousins

__Authors and Series__ Mo Willems Tedd Arnold Amy Krouse Rosenthal

=Elementary 2-3= = __Fiction__ = = Just Grace and the Snack Attack by Charice Mericle Harper = = The Last Polar Bear by Jean Craighead George = = Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers = = Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes by Kate DiCamillo = = Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee = = Once Upon a Twice by Denise Doyen = = The Orange Shoes by Trinka Hakes Noble Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel by Ruth McNally Barshaw = = = = = = __Nonfiction__ = The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors. By Chris Barton Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci by Gene Barretta Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer Dogku by Andrew Clements No Easy Way: The Story of Ted Williams and the Last .400 Season by Fred Bowen Stargazer's Alphabet: Night-sky Wonders from A to Z by John Farrell Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature's Footprints by Jim Arnosky Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle by Major Brian Dennis, Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery

= __Authors and Series__ Moxy Maxwell by Peggy Gifford (series) Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka (series) = = Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (series) Willimena (series) by Valery Wilson Wesley = = Piper Reed (series) by Kimberly Willis Holt, Capital Mysteries (series) by Ron Roy = = = = = =Elementary 4-5= __Fiction__ Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Alvin Ho by Lenore Look (series) Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell (series) Sunny Holiday/Sweet and Sunny by Coleen Paratore Masterpiece by Elise Broach Everything for a Dog by Ann M. Martin The Birthday Ball by Lois Lowry Being Bee by Catherine Bateson Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel by Ruth McNally Barshaw Swindle by Gordon Korman

__Nonfiction__ You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! By Jonah Winter. Face-to-Face with Animals series (assorted authors) Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer Saving the Bagdhad Zoo: A true story of hope and heroes by Kelly Halls and Major William Sumner Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepist by Timothy J. Bradley

__Authors:__ Dan Gutman, Patricia Reilly Giff, Rick Riordan, Ann M. Martin

=Middle School= __Fiction__ When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Extra Credit by Andrew Clements Bystander by James Preller Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Mostly True Adventure of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Defiance by Valerie Hobbs Malice by Chris Wooding Amulet: Books 1 and 2 by Kazu Kibuishi Winning Words: Sports Stories and Photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr. Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows by Ann Brashares I. Q. Independence Hall by Roland Smith Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford

__Nonfiction__

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy Saving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy Montgomery Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone Claudette Colvin by Phillip Hoose Shake, Rattle and Turn That Noise Down!: How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom by Mark Alan Stamaty You Wouldn't Want to Be a World War II Pilot! by Ian Graham

Authors: Mike Lupica, Rick Riordan, Tim Green, Roland Smith, Meg Cabot = = High School ** Suggested authors: Laurie Halse Anderson, Nancy Werlin, Chris Crutcher, Todd Strasser, Paul Volponi, Sarah Dessen, ** __Fiction__ Anderson Laurie Halse. //Wintergirls.// 278 p. ** Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder. Presents a comic book style depiction of the Battle of Gettysburg; the national movement to create a memorial at the battle site; and the day of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863, drawn from first-person letters, speeches, and other primary sources. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own. Devon Davenport is a straight-A student and prominent player on her school's soccer team, but when she is linked to an abandoned baby found in the trash she is accused of attempted murder. While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death. Yanked out of his city life and plunked down in a small Montana town with his newly outed father and his father's boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Ben, angry and resentful about the changed circumstances of his life, begins to notice something is not quite right with the little boy next door and determines to figure out what is going on. Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water. DJ is back home in WI after caring for her injured brother and getting ready for the basketball season, hoping to fade back into the woodwork, where she's most comfortable. Unfortunately, her talent and the people around her force her farther into the spotlight than she ever wanted. Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives. Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town. Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
 * Buck, Pearl S. //The Good Earth.// 418 p. ** Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival.
 * Butzer, C. M. //Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel. 80 p.// **
 * Collins, Suzanne. //The Hunger Games// or the sequel //Catching Fire – 3rd coming in Aug.// **** 374 p. **
 * Dashner, James. //The Maze Runner.// 375 p. **
 * Dessen, Sarah. //Along for the Ride.// 383 p. **
 * Efaw, Amy. //After.// 350 p. **
 * Forman, Gayle. //If I Stay.// 201 p. **
 * Harmon, Michael. //The Last Exit to Normal.// 275 p. **
 * Korman, Gordon. //Pop. 260 p.// **
 * Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. //Front and Center. 254 p.// (Final book after //Dairy Queen// and //The Off Season//)**
 * Ness, Patrick. ** **// The Knife of Never Letting Go //**** . 479 p. **
 * Small, Betty. //A Tree Grows in Brooklyn//. 493 p. ** Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
 * Stockett, Kathryn. //The Help. 431 p.// **
 * Stork, Francico X. //Marcelo in the Real World.// 312 p. **

** __Non-Fiction:__ ** Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey to reach inhabited land. Examines the origins of the different food chains that have sustained humans throughout history, discussing how certain foods and cuisines have become a popular part of people's daily diets. The author details how he ignored naysayers and was able to bring electricity and running water to his Malawian village when he built a makeshift windmill out of scrap metal and spare parts. Brooklyn-based publicist Giulia Melucci shares the tales of her relationships gone awry, and the food that sustained her through it all.
 * Armstrong, Jennifer. //Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance.// 134 p.**
 * Billick, Brian & Michael MacCambridge. //More Than a Game: the Glorious Present and Uncertain Future of the NFL//. 229 p.** Explores how competition off the field, between players, coaches, television sponsors, owners, and partners, is influencing how football is played on the field in the NFL.
 * Chevat, Richie. **//** The Omnivore's Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat. **//** 298 p. **
 * Kamkwamba, William. //The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope.// 273 p.**
 * Melucci, Giulia. //I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: a memoir//. 276 p. **

Presents a case study of Oelwein, Iowa, a rural community that became a mecca of crystal methamphetamine production when residents could no longer support themselves through agriculture and business, introduces some of the people involved with the drug, and looks at efforts to save the town. (Notable Books of the Year for Non-Fiction, 2009) **Walls, Jeannette. //The Glass Castle//. 288 p.** The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
 * Nelson, Peter. //Left for Dead: a Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis.// 201 p ** . Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the Navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.
 * Reding, Nick. //Methland: the Death and Life of an American Small Town.// 255 p.**
 * Small, David. //Stitches: a memoir.// 329 p. ** A graphic novel that chronicles the life of American author and illustrator David Small, detailing his sickly childhood and teenage years, relationship with his parents, his cancer, and more.
 * Smithson, Ryan. //Ghosts of War: the True Story of a 19 year-old GI.// ** **321 p.** Ryan Smithson recounts the experiences he had serving his first tour of duty as an Army engineer in Iraq when he was only nineteen.