EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program
June 14, 2016 Dear Parent/Guardian, I hope this letter finds you well and eagerly anticipating an enjoyable and relaxing summer. Summer is a wonderful time for children to pursue interests that extend beyond those offered in our schools while also allocating time to read and build on academic curiosities. In selecting books for your child to read this summer, please take advantage of the attached summer reading list. We have included a broad array of titles, genres, and areas of interest. We have also partnered with Eastchester’s Public Library to ensure many current titles are reflected on our list, and that they are carrying many of the books. In addition, we are sponsoring a “Summer Reading Challenge” for all students in grades 1-5. The student who reads the greatest number of pages on each grade level in each school will enjoy lunch with Dr. Moran, his or her school principal, and me. Each child is also welcome to invite a parent or guest. While visiting Eastchester (or Tuckahoe) Public Library this summer, be sure to have a librarian sign and place a sticker on your child’s reading log to earn 100 additional bonus pages. The “Summer Reading Challenge” log, to record the number of pages read this summer, can be found on page 17 of this packet. In conversations with parents, I am often asked how to best support a child’s academic growth during extended vacations, such as summer recess. In response, I offer two suggestions. First, ensure your child is reading. Please take advantage of the thoughtful selections included in our summer reading list and ask your child questions about what he or she has read. Second, I hope you take the opportunity to visit museums, zoos, aquariums, and historical sites with your children. These experiences provide your children with authentic, first-hand learning opportunities that make the content of the curricula more meaningful. Not surprisingly, when asked for extended written responses for class assignments and assessments, children naturally draw on these experiences. I wish you all an enjoyable and safe summer, filled with special family memories. Sincerely,
Dr. Ron Hattar Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction
EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program
Choosing a “Just Right” Book Below are some questions to consider when selecting a “just right” book: Are you interested in the topic? Do you like the illustrations? Can you read or figure out almost all the words?
Use the Five Finger Rule--as you read, count on one hand any unknown words. If you counted 5 words you didn’t know on a page, this book is too hard for you right now and you should try another book.
Can you understand what you are reading? Are you reading the text smoothly without stopping to sound out unfamiliar words?
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Eastchester UFSD Summer Reading Program Students Entering Grade 1 Picture Books (any books written by the authors below) Verna Aardema Eric Carle Kevin Henkes Helen Lester Bernard Mos Dr. Seuss
Aliki Doreen Cronin Ezra Jack Keats Leo Lionni Beatrix Potter William Steig
Tedd Arnold Tomie dePaola Stephen Kellogg Robert McCloskey H. A .Rey Rosemary Wells
Picture Books – Individual Titles Author Barman Barnett Bingham Boelts Buehner Collins Cooper Cordell Coudray Cronin Daywalt Dewdney DiCamillo Falconer Fleming Fogliano Grey Hobbie Idle Jenkins Kaplan Kann Klassen Moore Morales Reynolds Vernick Watt Wiesner Willems Winter
Title Creaturepedia Extra Yarn Z is for Moose Happy Like Soccer Snowmen at Work (any in series) Year of the Jungle Train Another Brother Benjamin Bear In Fuzzy Thinking (any in series) Diary of a Worm The Day the Crayons Quit Llama Llama and the Bully Goat Bink and Golly: Best Friends forever (any in series) Olivia and the Fairy Princesses (any in series) Oh, No! And Then It’s Spring Traction Man is Here Toot & Puddle (any in series) Flora and the Flamingo That New Animal and Other Stories About Babies Betty Bunny Wants Everything Emeraldalicious (any in series) This is Not My Hat Lucky Ducklings Nino Wrestles the World I’m Here Brothers At Bat Scaredy Squirrel (others in series) Mr. Wuffles The Duckie Gets a Cookie!? (others in series) Here Comes the Garbage Barge
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Easy Reader Series-Independent Reading Author Arnold Capucilli Cazet Henkes Hood Lobel Maitland Minarik O’Connor Pizolli Rylant Rylant Rylant Rylant Scieszka Thomas Van Leeuwen Willems
Title Fly Guy Biscuit Minnie & Moo Penny and Her Doll Pup & Hound Frog and Toad Bookstore Ghost Little Bear Fancy Nancy (I Can Read) The Watermelon Seed (not a series) Mr. Putter and Tabby Annie and Snowball Henry and Mudge Puppy Mudge Trucktown Good Night, Good Knight Amanda and Oliver Pig Elephant & Piggie
For additional titles, look for author and easy reader format. Mostly Informational Author Adoff Brenner Cobb Davis Florian Freymann Gottfried Guiberson Hoberman Holland Hopkins Huber Jenkins Katz Markle Markle McDermott Meltzner Meltzner Neubecker
Title Touch the Poem Abe Lincoln’s Hat Face the Wind Woof & Wag: Bringing Home a Dog Shiver me Timbers!: Pirate Poems & Paintings Fast Food Good Dog Frog Song The Llama Who Had No Pajamas Ferdinand Fox’s First Summer Sports! Sports! Sports! Flight of the Honeybee My First Day Pocket Poems Bats, Biggest, Littlest Snow School Monkey A Trickster Tale Fom India I am Abraham Lincoln I am Amelia Earhart Wow! City!
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program
O’Connell Rosen Rosen Rusch Sayre Sayre Ward
A Baby Elephant in the Wild Bananas In My Ears-A Collection of Nonsense Stories Poems, Riddles and Rhymes Volcano Rising Eat Like A Bear Here Come the Humpbacks What Happens to Our Trash
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Students Entering Grade 2 Picture Books – Individual Titles Author Andrews Carbone Child Connor Demi Ernst Henkes Hesse Hoffman Hopkinson Knudsen Markel Moundlic Myers Munsch Napoli Ochiltree Proimos Rodman Rosenstock Willems Woodson Lewis Birdsall Dahl Byng McDonald Lindgren Author Byars Chaaconas Griffiths Marshall Miller Parish Pilkey Rylant Yolen
Title The Very Fairy Princess-Here Comes the Flower Girl (any in series) Heroes of the Surf : A Rescue Story Based on True Events Clarice Bean, Guess Who’s Babysitting (any in series) Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel One Grain of Rice Any title by this author Any title by this author The Cats in Krasinski Square Amazing Grace (Any in series) Apples to Oregon Library Lion Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909 The Bathing Costume or the Worst Vacation of My Life H.O.R.S.E. : A Game of Basketball and Imagination Any title by this author Albert Molly By Golly: The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter Paulie Pastrami Achieves World Peace My Best Friend Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Show Way The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (series), 940 The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (series), 850 Matilda,840 Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism (series),770 Meet Julie, An American Girl (series),770 Pippi Longstocking (series), 870 Easy Readers Title Golly Sisters Cork and Fuzz The Big Fat Cow that Goes Kapow Fox on the Job Three Stories You Can Read to Your Teddy Bear Amelia Bedelia Dragon High-Rise Private Eyes Commander Toad
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Longer Fiction Series Author Brown Christopher Cleary Coven DiCamillo Gannett Greene Holm Howe Kerrin Kline Lowry Meadows Miles Park Pope Pope-Osborne Sachar Speck
Author Fisher Florian Florian Florian Gans Hughes Hoberman Hooper Lauber Macaulay McNulty McReynolds Peterson Pfeffer Rosenstock Tang Thomson
Title Flat Stanley Soccer Cats Henry (any story in the seris) Heidi Hecklebeck Mercy Watson My Father’s Dragon Princess Posey Babymouse Houndsley and Catina Martin Bridge Song Lee and Horrible Harry Goonybird Green Rainbow Magic (fairies) Puppy Place Junie B. Jones Magic Tree House Tales from the Odyssey Marvin Redpost Maybelle in the Soup Mostly Informational Title How High Can a Dinosaur Count? Summersaults: Poems and Paintings Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings Poem Runs Baseball Poems and Paintings Rock Collecting National Geographic Big Book of Space You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You (series-shared reader) Pebble in My Pocket Be a Friend To Trees Castle: How It Works If You Decide to Go To The Moon Eight Days Gone Leopard & Silkie : one boy's quest to save the seal pups From Tadpole to Frog The Camping Trip That Changed America : Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parks Math for All seasons: Mind Stretching Math Riddles Amazing Sharks
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Biographies Author Adler Berne Ferris Golenbock Kalman Lawlor Lee Nivola Rappaport Rockliff Rockliff Rusch Smith Stanbridge Sweet
Title A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln (any in series) On A Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein Noah Webster and His Words Hank Aaron, Brave in Every Way Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything Rachel Carson and Her Book that Changed the World Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle Elizabeth Started All the Troubles Anything but Ordinary Addie Mesmerized Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World Small Wonders: Jean-Henri Fabre & His World of Insects The Extraordinary Music of Mr. Ives: The true Story of a Famous American Composer Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade “Challenge” Books
Author Birdsall Byng Dahl Lewis Lindgren McDonald
Title The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (series) Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism (series) Matilda The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (series) Pippi Longstocking (series) Meet Julie, An American Girl (series)
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Students Entering Grade 3 Picture Books – Individual Titles Author Fern Fleming Malaspina Murphy Smith Smith Thaler Scieszka Woodson Yolen
Title Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World Papa’s Mechanical Fish Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage John, Paul, George and Ben Abe Lincoln’s Dream Teacher From the Black Lagoon…(Any in series) (any picture book by this author) This is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration Encounter Longer Fiction Series
Author Barrows Cleary de Paola DiTerlizzi DiTerlizzi Griffiths Holm Jenkins Kinney Krulik Look McDonald Osborne Pennypacker Rylant Scieszka Tripp Vernon Warner
Title Ivy and Bean Ramona 26 Fairmont Avenue Spiderwick Chronicles Geronimo Stilton The 13-Story Treehouse Squish Toys Go Out Diary of a Wimpy Kid Katie Kazoo, Switchero Ruby Lu, Brave and True Judy Moody Magic Tree House Clementine The Lighthouse Family Time Warp Trio American Girl Dragon Breath Ellray Jakes
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Other Fiction Author (Williams) Bianco Cleary DeCamillo Estes Mills
Author Arnold Butterworth Cate Clements Eggers Floca Florian Gibbons Hawes Jenkins Jenkins Kvatum London Schaefer Simon Tatham Yezerski Author Asim Berne Brown Corey Poole Sis Winter Adler Weatherford Bryant Van Allsburg Rappaport
Title The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real Muggie Maggie The Magician’s Elephant The Hundred Dresses Kelsey Green, Reading Queen Mostly Informational Title A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to Butterflies, How Climate Change Affects Wildlife Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish Look Up Birdwatching In Your Own Backyard Brave Norman This Bridge will not be Gray Locomotive Lizards, Frogs and Polliwogs (poetry) Ladybugs (or any of her non-fiction (informational) texts) Why Frogs Are Wet Eye to Eye Eggs: Nature’s Perfect Package Saving Yasha: The Incredible True Story of an Adopted Moon Bear Panther: Shadow of the Swamp Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animals Lives Coral Reefs Baby Sea Otter Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story Biographies Title Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein Here Come the Girl Scouts Anne Frank Starry Messenger Dizzy A Picture Book of…. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin Queen of the Falls Eleanor, Quiet No More: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt Other topics pertaining to the curriculum include: maps, countries, fossils, rocks and mineral, and deserts.
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program
“Challenge” Books Author Konigsburg Bosch Broach Crowell Lewis
Title From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler The Name of This Book is Secret (series) Masterpiece How to Train Your Dragon (series) The Magician’s Nephew
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Students Entering Grade 4 Picture Books – Individual Titles Author Cole Polacco Van Allsburg
Title Unspoken Any title by this author Any title by this author Longer Fiction Series
Author Angelberger Avi Birney Bosch Buckley Cleary Clements Simon Danziger Dashner DiTerlizzi Eager Erdrich Greene Gutman Kessler Klise Lovelace McDonald Moss Riordan Russell Sachar Van Draanen Various authors
Title Origami Yoda Poppy and Rye (Dimwood Forest series) The World According to Humphrey (Humphrey series) Name of This Book is Secret (The Secret Series) The Sisters Grimm (The Fairy Tale Detectives series) Henry Huggins Jake Drake Cupcake Diaries series Amber Brown Infinity Ring series The Spiderwick Chronicles Half Magic Chickadee (several about these characters) Queen Sophie Hartley (several about this character) My Weird School, My Weirder School, etc. Emily Windsnap 43 Old Cemetery Road Betsy-Tacy Judy Moody Amelia’s Notebook Percy Jackson & the Olympians Dork Diaries Wayside School Shredderman 39 Clues and 39 Clues Cahills vs. Vespers
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program
Author Airgood Christopher Christopher Clements Creech Creech Dahl DiCamillo DiCamillo Dorris Gardiner Henkes Hill Ibbotson Rockwell
Author Cerullo Cheney Collard Craft Hatkoff Harvey Hepperman Lauber Lewis Lita Maestro Murphy Prelutsky Pringle Pringle Roth St. George St. George Silverstein Sturges White DeMuth
Other Fiction Title Prairie Evers The Spy on Third Base The Lucky Bat About Average (others by author) Love that Dog Hate that Cat James and the Giant Peach The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Flora & Ulysses : the Illuminated Adventures Sees Behind Trees Stone Fox The Year of Billy Miller Bo at Ballard Creek The Secret of Platform 13 (any by author) How to Eat Fried Worms Mostly Informational Title Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster When Washington Crossed the Delaware Sneed B. Collard III's most fun book ever about lizards King Midas and the Golden Touch Owen and Mzee Super Nature Encyclopedia City Chickens Tubs, Toilets, Showers Monumental Verses (poetry) Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why A More Perfect Union I Am Sacajawea; I am York: Our Journey West with Lewis and Clark If Not for the Cat (poetry) Ice! The Amazing History of the Ice Business Frogs!: Strange and Wonderful. Any in series Parrots Over Puerto Rico So You Want to Be an Explorer The One and Only Declaration of Independence Where the Sidewalk Ends Bridges are to Cross I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote What Was Pearl Harbor What Was series--Various authors/various historical events
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Biographies Author Adler Close Chambers Greenberg Kerley Macy Old St. George Wadsworth Yolen
Title Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man Chuck Close: Face Book Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa Action Jackson What To Do About Alice Bull’s Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers You’re on Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Anderson “Challenge” Books
Author Paulsen Montgomery Hiaasen Alcott Flanagan
Title Hatchet Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest New Guinea Hoot (Other similar books by him Little Women Ranger’s Apprentice
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Students Entering Grade 5 Fiction-Favorite Series Author Bean Birdsall Bartoletti Blackwood Colfer Collins Grabenstein Gutman Haddix Haddix Klise Korman Mazer Nimmo Patterson Riordan Van Draanen Lasky
Title Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls (others with Emmy) The Pendericks Down the rabbit hole : the diary of Pringle Rose Shakespeare Scribe other (Shakespeare books) Artemis Fowl Gregor the Overlander Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library (Baseball Card Adventures) Among the. . . The Missing Regarding the… Zoobreak (Griffin stories) A Boy at War (others with this character) Charlie Bone I funny (Middle School Novels) (The Kane Chronicles) Sammy Keyes mysteries The Royal Diaries Other Fiction
Author Abbott Abbott Alcott Avi Balliet Christopher Clements Codell Cushman Creech DiCamillo Erskine Farmer Giff Giff Hannigan Ibbotson Kadohata Korman Morpurgo Palacio Paterson
Title Fire Girl Lunch-Box Dream Little Women A Book without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic (most by author) Chasing Vermeer (any book by this author) (any book by this author) Sahara Special Rodzina Granny Torelli Makes Soup Tale of Despereaux Mockingbird : (Mok'ing-bûrd) The Sea of Trolls Nory Ryan’s Song Lily’s Crossing Ida B Star of Kazan Cracker? The best dog in Vietnam Ungifted An Elephant in the Garden Wonder Bread and Roses Too (most books by this author)
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program Ryan Ryan Sachar Sachar Raskin Schmidt Selznick Stead Stead Selznick Tolan
Esperanza Rising Echo Fuzzy Mud Holes The Westing Game Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Wonderstruck Liar & Spy When You Reach Me Invention of Hugo Cabret Surviving the Applewhites Mostly Informational
Author Aronson Brown Cowan Curlee Curlee Curlee Delano Fritz Grandits Lupton Maestro Markle Murphy Nelson Prelutsky Smith Sidman Silverstein Simon Somervill Thimmesh Weitzman
Title The Skull in the Rock: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origin The Great American Dust Bowl Captain Mac: The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer Brooklyn Bridge Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Rushmore Master George’s People Leonardo’s Bridge Technically It’s Not My Fault: Concrete Poems The Adventures of Odysseus Liberty or Death: The American Revolution, 1763-1783 The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery The Giant and How He Humbugged America Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Pizza the Size of the Sun Science Verse Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night Light in the Attic Gorillas The Story Behind Glass Scaly spotted feathered frilled: how do we know what dinosaurs really looked liked? A Subway for New York
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EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Summer Reading Program
Biographies Author Hopkinson Burleigh Bridges Goodall Fleischman Borden Fleming Christopher Krull Nelson
Title A Boy Called Dickens George Bellows: Painter With a Punch! Through My Eyes The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s Amazing Life Any biography by this author Lives of the Scientists… experiments, explosions (and what the neighbors thought) Nelson Mandela “Challenge” Books
Author Anderson Avi Hopkins
Title Fever, 1793 True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
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Eastchester UFSD Summer Reading Challenge Please submit this log to your teacher on the first day of school
Student Name ___________________________ Grade ______
School ________________________ Total Pages Read This Summer _____________
**The child on each grade level who reads the greatest number of pages this summer will win lunch with the Superintendent!**
Book Title 1.
Author
Pages
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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Book Title 10.
Author
Pages
Would you recommend this book to a friend?
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Additional paper may be used, if needed.
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