Sunshine State Books
The Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Program is a statewide
reading program for students in grades 3-8. It is sponsored by
the Florida Department of Education. Students must read at least
3 books to be eligible to vote in the spring statewide election for
their favorite book.
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin (Lexile 670)
The Middle of Somewhere by J.B. Cheaney (Lexile 900)
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies (Lexile 630)
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming
(Lexile 580)
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It by Sundee Frazier (Lexile 630)
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke (Lexile 900)
Found by Margaret Haddix (Lexile 750)
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs (Lexile 640)
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell (Lexile 780)
Me and the Pumpkin Queen by Marlane Kennedy (Lexile 790)
The Year of the Dog by Lin Grace (Lexile 690)
Highway Cats by Janet Lisle (Lexile 810)
Punished by David Lubar (Lexile 540)
Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury (Lexile 530)
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (Lexile 730)
Storytown Robust Vocabulary Words
**Vocabulary Clarification** 9/7/11
These are vocabulary words that we use in the context(use) of reading
each story and are not the vocabulary words that are included on the weekly
tests from the "Green Vocabulary Enrichment Book"!) These Storytown vocabulary
words are defined at the beginning of the stories and are then used in the
story and included in the questions asked about the story.)
THEME 1
Lesson 1- “Ruby the Copycat”, “The Singing Marvel”
Robust Vocabulary Words: coincidence, pleasant, modeled,
murmured, loyal, recited
Lesson 2 – “The Day Eddie Met the Author”, “Good Books, Good
Times”, “Surprise”
Robust Vocabulary Words: assembly, plenty, dismiss,
squirmed, patchwork, autographed
Lesson 3 – “Schools Around the World”, “Keys to the Universe”
Robust Vocabulary Words: chores, certain, resources,
culture, tutor, uniforms
Lesson 4 – “Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut”, “What’s in the News”
Robust Vocabulary Words: talented, apply, research,
invention, hinder, disappointed
Lesson 5 – “The School News”, “I Live in a Town”
Robust Vocabulary Words: viewers, survives, camouflage,
concealed, independent, donated
THEME 2
Lesson 6 – “The Babe and I”, “America’s National Pastime”
Robust Vocabulary Words: shabby, embarrass, midst,
elevated, dazed, collapses
Lesson 7 – “Aero and Officer Mike”, “It’s About Dogs”
Robust Vocabulary Words: scent, wanders, whined,
obey,demonstrate, patrol
Lesson 8 – “How Animals Talk”, “Partners in the Wild”
Robust Vocabulary Words: signal, flick, alert,
communicate, chatter, grooms
Lesson 9 – “Stone Soup”, “The Legend of Johnny Appleseed”
Robust Vocabulary Words: generous, banquet, gaze,
agreeable, curiosity, famine
Lesson 10 – “The Case of the Three Bears’ Breakfast”, “How Living Things
Survive”
Robust Vocabulary Words: investigate, expert, laboratory,
various, suspect, confess
THEME 3
Lesson 11 – “Loved Best”, “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf”
Robust Vocabulary Words: encouraging, brief, chuckling,
soothing, sobbed, praised
Lesson 12 – “A Pen Pal for Max”, “Postcards from Around the Globe”
Robust Vocabulary Words: translate, repairs, heaving,
bothersome, din, dodging
Lesson 13 – “A Tree is Growing”, “Ancient Trees Survive in California’s
Mountains”
Robust Vocabulary Words: columns, absorb, protects,
rustling, dissolve, particles
Lesson 14 – “One Small Place in a Tree”, “Be a Birdwatcher”
Robust Vocabulary Words: suppose, roost, spears,
strikes, glimpse, maze
Lesson 15 – “Ask the Experts”, “Iris and Walter: True Friends”
Robust Vocabulary Words: issue, advice, consult,
recommend, sensible, devise
THEME 4
Lesson 16 – “Lon Po Po”, “Abuelita’s Lap”
Robust Vocabulary Words: tender, delighted, brittle,
embraced, cunning, disguised
Lesson 17 – “Two Bear Cubs”, “Brave Measuring Worm”
Robust Vocabulary Words: glancing, scolding, console,
heroic, drowsy, burden
Lesson 18 – “Me and Uncle Romie”, “The Art of Collage”
Robust Vocabulary Words: glorious, memory, ruined,
streak, crept, yanked
Lesson 19 – “Half-Chicken”, “I Sailed on Half a Ship”
Robust Vocabulary Words: suggested, enormous,exclaimed,
swift, vain, overheard
Lesson 20 – “Backstage with Chris and Casey”, “The Cracked Chinese Jug”
Robust Vocabulary Words: versions, rehearse, mandatory,
criticize, immerse, dialogue
THEME 5
Lesson 21 – “Antarctic Ice”, “Diary of a Very Short Winter Day”
Robust Vocabulary Words: absence, shelters, permanently,
drifts, scarce, dim
Lesson 22 – “Bat Love the Night”, “Bottlenose Dolphins”
Robust Vocabulary Words: nocturnal, effort, dozes,
swoops, detail, fluttering
Lesson 23 – “Chestnut Cove”, “Mayors”
Robust Vocabulary Words: fondness, emotion, ridiculous,
disgraceful, decent inherit
Lesson 24 – “Ramona Quimby, Age 8”, “Slam Dunk Water”
Robust Vocabulary Words: clutter, visible, mentioned,
beckoned, remark, flustered
Lesson 25 - “The Robodogs of Greenville”, “Fighting for our Freedoms”
Robust Vocabulary Words: required, functional,inhabitants,
amazement, ample, responsibility
THEME 6
Lesson 26 – “Charlotte’s Web”, “Caterpillars Spin Webs Too!”
Robust Vocabulary Words: summoning, nuisance, sedentary,
oblige, boasting, sway
Lesson 27 – “Spiders and Their Webs”, “For You”
Robust Vocabulary Words: prey, shallow, strands,
social, spiral, reels
Lesson 28 – “The Science Fair”, “Advice from Dr. Fix-it”
Robust Vocabulary Words: sprinkled, expand, erupt,
thorough, deliberation, grainy
Lesson 29 – “The Planets”, “Jeremy’s House”
Robust Vocabulary Words: rotates, surface, steady,
reflects, appears, evidence
Lesson 30 – “Voyage Across the Solar System”, “Energy”
Robust Vocabulary Words: magnify, observed, generates,
confirm, picturesque, safeguard
