| DERBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUMMER READING LIST 2009 FIRST- SIXTH GRADE |
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| STUDENTS ENTERING FIRST GRADE |
| BOOK TITLE | AUTHOR |
| Miss Nelson is back | Allard, Harry G. |
| A lot of otters | Berger, Barbara Helen |
| Clifford gets a job | Bridwell, Norman |
| Watch out! A Giant! | Carle, Eric |
| Tub Grandfather | Conrad, Pam |
| School bus | Crews, Donald |
| Giggle, giggle, quack | Cronin, Doreen |
| Olivia | Falconer, Ian |
| Story about Ping | Flack, Marjorie |
| Shelia Rae's peppermint stick | Henkes, Kevin |
| Bedtime for Frances | Hoban, Russell |
| Harold and the purple crayon | Johnson, Crockett |
| The snowy day | Keats, Ezra Jack |
| Three little pigs | Kellogg, Steven |
| How I became a pirate | Long, Melinda |
| Soccer game | Maccarone, Grace |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin, Bill |
| Pigs aplenty, pigs galore | McPhail, David |
| Martha calling | Meddaugh, Susan |
| Dogs don't wear sneakers | Numeroff, Laura |
| The hello, goodbye window | Juster, Norton |
| The dot | Reynolds, Peter, H. |
| Someone says | Schaefer, Carole Lexa |
| Where the wild things are | Sendak, Maurice |
| Doctor DeSoto goes to Africa | Steig, William |
| Joseph had a little overcoat | Taback, Simms |
| Little Quack | Thompson, Lauren |
| Alexander who's not (do you hear me? I mean it!) going to move | Viorst, Judith |
| Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day | Viorst, Judith |
| A chair for my mother | Williams, Vera B |
| How do dinos say goodnight | Yolen, Jane |
| STUDENTS ENTERING SECOND GRADE |
| Ben's dream | Van Allsburg, Chris |
| "Wait for me!" said Maggie McGee | Van Leeuwen, Jean |
| The Three pigs | Weisner, David |
| STUDENTS ENTERING THIRD GRADE |
| Fairy Tales | Anderson, Hans Christian |
| Mr. Popper's penguins | Atwater, Richard and Florence |
| The one in the middle is a green kangaroo | Blume, Judy |
| The most beautiful place in the world | Cameron, Ann |
| Goldilocks returns | Campbell, Lisa |
| Ramona Quimbly, Age 8 | Cleary, Beverly |
| A job for Jenny Archer | Conford, |
| The great McGonnigle (series) | Corbett, Scott |
| Abraham Lincoln | Cohn, Amy |
| Evans, | |
| Lizards, frogs and polliwogs | Florian, Douglas |
| My father's dragon | Gannett, |
| Rosa | Giovanni, Nikki |
| Three young pilgrims | Harness, Cheryl |
| Under the quilt of night | Hopkinson, Deborah |
| Busybody Nora | Hurwitz, Johanna |
| Soccer Cats (series) | Christopher, Matt |
| Erandi's braids | Madrigal, Antonio |
| Lulu's hat | Meddaugh, Susan |
| Tomas and the library lady | Mora, Pat |
| Zen shorts | Muth, Jon |
| Loud Emily | O'Neill, Alexis |
| New York's bravest | Osborne, Mary Pope |
| Rikki Tikki Tavi | Kipling, Rudyard |
| Stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales | Scieszka, Jon |
| A is for America | Scillian, Devin |
| Enclyclopedia Brown series | Sobol, Donald J. |
| When Abraham talked to the trees | Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth |
| Charlotte's web | White, E.B. |
| Amber was brave, Essie was smart | Williams, Vera B. |
| Raising Yoder's barn | Yolen, Jane |
| STUDENTS ENTERING FOURTH GRADE |
| Paddington takes to TV | Bond, Michael |
| The sisters Grimm: the fairy-tale detectives | Buckley, Michael |
| Ramona's world | Cleary, Beverly |
| Capital | Curlee, Lynn |
| Battlefield Ghost | Cuyler, Margery |
| Charlie and the chocolate factory | Dahl, Roald |
| The Great Brain | Fitzgerald, John D. |
| Bandit's Moon | Fleischman, Sid |
| Amazing Life of Ben Franklin | Giblin, James Cross |
| Fourth Grade Celebrity | Giff, Patricia Reilly |
| The Chimpanzees I Love | Goodall, Jane |
| Winds in the Willows | Grahame, Kenneth |
| Babe & Me | Gutman, Dan |
| A Llama in the Family | Hurwitz, Johanna |
| Three Terrible Twins | King-Smith, Dick |
| Shooting for the Moon: Annie Oakley | Krensky, Stephen |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | MacLachlan, Patricia |
| An Almost Perfect Game | Manes, Stephen |
| Goin' Someplace Special | McKissack, Patricia |
| The Bravest Thing | Napoli, Donna Jo |
| Skinnybones | Park, Barbara |
| Soup | Peck, Robert Newton |
| Be the Best You Can Be | Puckett, Kirby |
| Bearskin | Pyle, Howard |
| How to Eat Fried Worms | Rcokwell, Thomas |
| A to Z Mysteries series | Roy, Ron |
| Rootabaga Stories | Sandburg, Carl |
| Time Warp Trio (Knights of the kitchen table) | Scieszka, Jon |
| Prarie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave | Singer, Marilyn |
| Abel's Island | Steig, William |
| Grapes of Math | Tang, Greg |
| Basil of Baker Street | Titus, Eve |
| Stuart Little | White, Elwyn Brooks |
| Disappearing Alphabet | Wilbur, Richard |
| Scooter | Williams, Vera B. |
| Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
| Castle in the Attic | Winthrop, Elizabeth |
| Skunk Scout | Yep, Laurence |
| STUDENTS ENTERING FIFTH GRADE |
| Whittington | Armstrong, Alan |
| House With a Clock in its Walls | Bellairs, John |
| Don't You Know There's a War On | Avi |
| After the Goat Man | Byars, Betsy |
| Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul | Canfield, Jack |
| Secret of the Andes | Clark, Ann Nolan |
| The School Story | Clements, Andrew |
| Monsters of Morley Manor | Coville, Bruce |
| Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade | DeClements, Barthe |
| Tale of Despereaux | DiCamillo, Kate |
| Ghosts of the White House | Harness, Cheryl |
| Seven Brave Women | Hearne, Betsy |
| Stowaway | Hesse, Karen |
| Starring Grace | Hoffman, Mary |
| Big Red | Kjelgaard, Jim |
| Visiting Miss Caples | Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody |
| From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Konigsburg, E.L. |
| Chronicles of Narnia | Lewis, C.S. |
| Strawberry Girl | Lenski, Lois |
| Anastasia | Lowry, Lois |
| Hob and the Goblins | Mayne, William |
| Anne of Green Gables | Montgomery, L.M. |
| Door to Time | Moore, Ulysses |
| Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis |
| Great Gilly Hopkins | Paterson, Katherine |
| Tom's Midnight Garden | Pearce, Philippa |
| Lizard Music | Pinkwater, Manus |
| Yo, Aesop!: get a load of these fables | Rosenthal, Paul |
| Wainscott Weasel | Seidler, Tor |
| Light in the Attic | Silverstein, Shel |
| Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine | Stanley, Diane |
| American Girl Mysteries Series | Various Authors |
| STUDENTS ENTERING SIXTH GRADE |
| Little Woman | Alcott, Louisa May |
| Crispin: the cross of lead | Avi |
| Macaroni boy | Ayers, Katherine |
| The Warriors | Bruchac, Joseph |
| Shoeshine girl | Bulla, Clyde Robert |
| Granny Torrelli makes soup | Creech, Sharon |
| Door in the wall | deAngeli, Marguerite |
| City of Ember | DuPrau, Jeanne` |
| Seedflolks | Fleischman, Sid |
| Radiance descending | Fox, Paula |
| Book of dragons | Hague, Michael |
| Princess Academy | Hale, |
| Thunder from the sea | Harlow, Joan Hiatt |
| Outcast of Redwall | Jacques, Brian |
| Gifts from the sea | Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie |
| Wrinkle in Time | L'Engle, Madeleine |
| The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe | Lewis, C.S. |
| Kensuke's kingdom | Morpurgo, Michael |
| The Dark Thirty | McKissack, Pat |
| Half and Half | Namioka, Lensey |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton, Juster |
| Islands of the Blue Dophins | O'Dell, Scott |
| Same Stuff as Stars | Paterson, Katherine |
| Mr. Tucket | Paulsen, Gary |
| Where the Red Fen Grows | Rawls, Wilson |
| The Boy Who Saved Baseball | Ritter, John H. |
| Harry Potter Series | Rowlings, J.K. |
| Becoming Naomi Leon | Ryan, Pam Muņoz |
| I Had Seen Castles | Rylant, Cynthia |
| Brianboy and the Deathmaster | Seidler, Tor |
| Taste of Blackberries | Smith, Doris |
| Series of 8 Titles | Snicket, Lemony |
| Witch of Blackbird Pond | Speare, Elizabeth George |
| The Hobbit | Tolkien, J.R.R |