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Recommended Summer Reading List
First Grade
Ian Falconer -"Olivia saves the circus" ISBN: 068982954X
At school, Olivia tells about her vacation and how, when she went to the circus and all the performers were out sick, she saved the day, becoming Olivia the Tattooed Lady, Olivia the Lion Tamer, The Amazing Flying Olivia, and more. (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001)
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Second Grade
David A. Adler - "Cam Jansen and the birthday mystery" ISBN: 0142403547
Not only does Cam Jansen have a birthday mystery to solve...she has one to celebrate! The Cam Jansen series marks its twentieth year with the twentieth book featuring Cam Jansen and her photographic memory. When Cam's grandparents are robbed on their way to a surprise birthday party, Cam puts her memory to work to solve the mystery. The clue is in the story--try to find it before Cam does! Illustrated by Susanna Natti. (Puffin Books,2005)
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Third Grade
Judy Cox - "Weird stories from the Lonesome Cafe" ISBN: 0439219426
Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a cafe in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot. Illustrated by Diane Kidd. (Scholastic, 2001)
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Fourth Grade
Avi - "Ragweed (The Poppy Stories)" ISBN: 0380801671
Ragweed, a country mouse, leaves his mother and father to look for adventure, and by chance lands in the big city of Amperville. And immediately, the troubles begin. Silversides, a cat with beautiful white fur and a vendetta against mice, hopes to rid the town of all mousey influences. Along with his new friends Clutch and Blinker, Ragweed manages to make life a little easier for the mice in Amperville. Illustrations by Brian Floca. (HarperTrophy; Reprint edition - May 2, 2000)
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Fifth Grade
Richard Peck - "The Teacher's Funeral" ISBN: 0142405078
With apologies to all the teachers out there, the first line of The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck is: "If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it." This lovingly nostalgic look back at turn-of-the-20th century Indiana features 15-year-old Russell, who doesn't see the point of spending time in his one-room schoolhouse when all he wants to do is hop a train to the Dakotas to work on the new threshing machines. But when his older sister takes over the school after his teacher dies, she's bound and determined that Russell graduate, no matter how much he hates going. (Puffin; Reprint edition - April 20, 2006)
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Sixth Grade
Jeanette Winterson - "Tanglewreck" ISBN: 1599900815
Time is not behaving itself. Trains stall in time, then rush ahead as if to catch up, pyramids appear in London, a school bus gets sucked into a Time Tornado and vanishes, and there have been woolly mammoth sightings in the park. Most people can't make any sense of it, and it's getting worse. And the people who do understand it, well, they might be the most dangerous of all. (Bloomsbury USA Children's Books; Reprint edition - May 15, 2007)
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