Fifth Grade
Chasing Vermeer Shakespeare’s Secret Gregor the Overlander Skylar Ida B. Book of a Thousand Days Warriors (Series) The Phantom Tollbooth Lawn Boy Freak the Mighty Pish Posh Paint the Wind Pond Scum
Mysterious...Allbright Academy
The Bed and Breakfast Star
Balliett Broach Collins Cuffe-Perez Hanningan Hale Hunter Juster Paulsen Philbrick Potter Ryan Silberberg Stanley Wilson
Internet Sites
Sea Gate Elementary Accelerated Reading List http://collier.k12.fl.us/sge/lmc/index.html Click on the Interactive Sea Gate AR list on the Media Center page. You may search for AR quizzes by level, title, author, and subject. www.tumblebooklibrary.com Login—Seagate Password—books This site is an online collection of animated, talking picture books. There are also puzzles, games and activities that go along with the books. www.kidsreads.com This site offers a place for parents and children to explore books and their reviews. ALA Awards and Grants www.ala.org/alsc/awards.html This American Library Association web page contains numerous lists of present and past ALA bookaward winners, often with illustrations. It is an invaluable resource for “best books” and also offers information on notable children’s recordings, computer software, videos and web sites.
Suggested Summer Reading List
Sea Gate Elementary School
Sixth Grade
The Underneath The Seer of Shadows Games Getting Air The Old Willis Place Bird Lake Moon Middle School is Worse... Spy Cat Hattie Big Sky Gossamer Miss Spitfire Time Hackers Clemency Pogue Elephant Run Bella at Midnight Surviving Antarctica Appelt Avi Gorman Gutman Hahn Henkes Holm Kehret Larson Lowry Mier Paulsen Petty Smith Stanley White
www.kids.mysterynet.com Children can solve the mysteries and learn to perform magic tricks. Learn about some famous mystery writers and their books. www.bookadventure.com Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 titles and take multiple choice quizzes on the books they’ve read. www.janbrett.com Explore this famous author’s web site. It contains over 3592 pages of free activities, coloring pages and projects relating to her books. www.storyplace.org Interactive stories, activities and book lists by themes. Available in Spanish and English.
Summer 2009
This book list has been compiled by the faculty at Sea Gate Elementary to assist students in selecting books for recreational reading during summer vacation. Students should look at the grade level list for the grade they will be attending next fall. Please remember that these are only suggestions, children and parents should select books that are interesting and appropriate for each individual reader. Remember, it doesn’t matter what they read as long as they read! Laurie Arnez Media Specialist
First Grade
Cloudy With a Chance … Arthur (Series) Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Edward and the Pirates The Paper Bag Princess Magic Tree House (Series) Piggie Pie Dory’s Story Junie B. Jones (Series) The Hello Goodbye Window Officer Buckle & Gloria Nate the Great (Series) Alexander and the Terrible… Flotsam Barrett Brown Henkes McPhail Munsch Osborn Palatini Pallotta Park Raschka Rathmann Sharmat Viorst Wiesner
Third Grade
Pony Pals (Series) Room One Amber Brown (Series) Obi The Miraculous Journey… The White Elephant Piper Reed: Navy Brat On The Run (Series) Alvin Ho Judy Moody (Series) Time Warp Trio (Series) Geronimo Stilton (Series) Shredderman (Series) No Dogs Allowed Betacourt Clements Danziger Delaney DiCamillo Fleischman Holt Korman Look McDonald Scieszka Stilton Van Draanen Wallace World According to Humphrey Birney
Principal’s Picks:
Stephanie’s Ponytail The Giving Tree Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Series of Unfortunate Events Munsch Silverstein Dahl Snicket
Kindergarten
The Art Lesson Olivia Bark George Owen Bedtime For Frances Pinkalicious Leo the Late Bloomer Duck for President Fancy Nancy Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready... Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive... Alphabet Adventures DePaola Falconer Feigger Henkes Hoban Kann Kraus Lewin O’Connor Slate Willems Wood
Second Grade
Cam Jansen (Series) Mercy Watson (Series) The Man Who Walked… Gooney Bird Green Tikki Tikki Tembo Zen Shorts Amelia Bedelia M & M (Series) Henry & Mudge (Series) Skippyjon Jones Wild About Books The Three Pigs Show Way Adler DiCamillo Gerstein Lowry Mosel Muth Parrish Ross Rylant Schachner Sierra Wiesner Woodson
Fourth Grade
The Frog Princess Cicada Summer The Summer of the Swans Al Capone Does My Shirts School Story Free Baseball Ruby Holler My Weird School (Series) Edward’s Eyes Saving the Griffin A Year Down Yonder The Big One-Oh Dragon Egg Aurora County All Stars Baker Beatty Byars Choldenko Clements Corbett Creech Gutman MacLachalan Nitz Peck Pritchford Thomas Wiles
Somebody and the Three Blairs Tolhurst