Recommended Reading
Nonfiction
All About Sleep from A to Zzzz by Elaine Scott. Viking
Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System! by Kathleen Kudlinski.
Dutton.
Cinco de Mayo by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. Holiday House.
Eat Right! How You Can Make Good Food Choices by Matt Doeden. Lerner
Flying Animals by June Loves. 2002, Chelsea House Publications.
Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher by
Marfe Ferguson Delano. National Geographic
Lincoln Shot!: A President's Life Remembered by Barrry Denenberg.
Feiwel and Friends
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace
Fleming. Schwartz and Wade
My Dog May Be a Genius by Jack Prelutsky. Greenwillow
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and other Native American Folktales Retold
by James Bruchac and Joseph Bruchac. Sterling
The Moon by Seymour Simon
The Moon & You by E. C. Krupp
Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker
The Chimpanzees I Love, Jane Goodall by Jo S. Kittinger. 2001,
Scholastic Press.
Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac
Ben Franklin's Almanac:Being a True Account of the Good Gentlemen's Life by
Candace Fleming. 2003, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
What To Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley. Scholastic.
Fiction
Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow.
Black and White by Jeanne Betancourt. 2003, Scholastic.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
The 39 Clues series: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan, One
False Note by Gordon Korman, Scholastic.
The Flying Lesson by Virginia T. Gross. Addison-Wesley Educational
Publishers, Inc.
Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle. Philomel.
Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing) by Alison McGhee. Scholastic.
Mr. Magorium's Magic Emporium
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsberg
Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner. 1995, Aladdin Paperbacks.
Fit to Read: Books to Inspire Healthy Living
These selections are available at the Chicago Public Library. These books
are recommended by the CPL.
Eat Right!:How You Can Make Good Food Choices by Matt Doeden. Lerner,
2008.
The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body by Richard Walker.
Oxford, 2008.
The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body by Richard Walker.
Oxford, 2008.
Trade Books
Sudoku
Summer Reading Recommendations
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsberg
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka.
Satchmo's Blues by Alan Schroeder.
SCHOLASTIC READING COUNTS LIST:
http://www2.fcsconline.org/staff/mccainm/ReadingCounts/RCListTitle.pdf