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Grade 5- 2016 University School Summer Reading Boys are required to read and write during the summer. 5th graders must read over the summer: 1. The Li...
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Grade 5- 2016 University School Summer Reading Boys are required to read and write during the summer. 5th graders must read over the summer: 1. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 2. At least 1 other book of your own choice, fiction or nonfiction. This list contains some suggestions but you may also read things that are not listed here. 3. Complete the writing assignment attached to this list, you can hand-write or type it to bring when you come back to school in September. • •

Read every day, share books you like with family and friends. Many of these titles make great readalouds. You may contact Mrs. Carroll with questions or for book recommendations at: [email protected] or 216-321-8260 x8241.

Fiction Alexander Applegate Avi Balliett Bartoletti Boyne Clements Curtis Curtis Farmer Funke Gaiman Gantos Gantos Haddix Hiaasen Holm Holyoke Hopkinson Horowitz London Lord Lowry Mulligan Napoli Nielsen Palacio Pearsall Paulsen Preus Ryan Sachar Stead Turnage Van Draanen Vanderpool

Science Fiction & Fantasy The Crossover The One and Only Ivan Murder at Midnight or Seer of Shadows *Chasing Vermeer The Boy Who Dared The Boy in the Striped Pajamas No Talking Bud, Not Buddy or Elijah of Buxton Watsons go to Birmingham The Ear, the Eye, & the Arm The Thief Lord The Graveyard Book Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Dead End in Norvelt *Among the Hidden or *Found Hoot or Hush or Scat The Fourteenth Goldfish Neptune Project Great Trouble *Stormbreaker The Call of the Wild Rules or Touch Blue Number the Stars Trash North A Night Divided Wonder All Shook Up or The 7th Most Important… *Hatchet Heart of a Samurai or The Bamboo Sword Echo Holes or Small Steps When You Reach Me or Liar & Spy Three Times Lucky *Secret Identity or Flipped Navigating Early

Barry Booth Clayton Collins DuPrau Funke Hunter Jacques Kerr Kingsley MacHale Nielsen Nix Paolini Riordan Rowling Stone Tanner

*Peter and the Starcatchers *Doctor Illuminatus *The Roar *Gregor the Overlander *The City of Embr *Dragonrider or *Inkheart *Into the Wild (Warriors Series) *Redwall *The Akhenaten Adventure *Erec Rex *Merchant of Death (Pendragon series) *Mark of the Theif *Mister Monday *Eragon *The Red Pyramid or The Lost Hero *Harry Potter *Tiger (5 Ancestors Series) *Icebreaker

Nonfiction Armstrong Aronson Bascomb Benchley Dahl DK Fleishman Giblin Jarrow Leyson Murphy Schyffert Sheinkin Swanson

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World Sugar Changed the World Nazi Hunters Shark Life Boy *Cool Stuff & How it Works Phineas Gage Good Brother, Bad Brother Red Madess or Fatal Fever Boy on the Wooden Box An American Plague Man who Went to the Far Side of … King George: What was His Problem? or Bomb Chasing Lincoln’s Killer or The President Has Been Shot

SUMMER WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2016 Name______________________________________________________

Grade 5

Please type or neatly write your answers in complete sentences. BOOK #1 – The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 1. Describe what kind of a student Percy Jackson is. What troubles does he have in school?

2. What does the word “hero” mean to you? List some examples of how Percy becomes a “hero” throughout the story

3. What was Percy’s main “quest” in the story?

4. How are the gods different from or similar to humans? Examples?

5. The Lightning Thief has many characters that represent ancient Greek gods, demigods, and monsters. List and describe 3 of your favorite “Greek god” characters from the book. Which of these characters would you most like to be and why?

6. What does the term “Western Civilization” mean and why do the Olympians constantly move to a time and place in the universe where the “spirit” of Western Civilization burns the brightest?

7. How does the following prophecy from The Lightning Thief come true? Explain. “You shall go west and face the god who has turned you shall find what was stolen and see it safely returned you shall be betrayed by the one who calls you a friend and fail to save what matters most in the end.”

8. Like Percy, have you ever had a teacher you wanted to do well for? If so, what made you respect that teacher’s opinion? If you can’t think of a teacher like that, what would a teacher have to be like to make you respect them?

BOOK #2 Title_________________________________________________ Author____________________ In a few sentences, write about the key conflict or idea in this book.

Did you enjoy this book? Why or why not?

ATTACH A LIST OF OTHER BOOKS YOU READ!