Choose two books from this list to read, and then write a short summary of each book. Be sure to include the title, author, number of pages, and type of book. These will be collected the first day of school.
Abbott, Tony – The Postcard
Anderson, Laurie - Fever, 1793
Appelt, Kathi - The Underneath
Avi – Crispin, Strange Happenings
Baccalario, Pierdomico- The Door to Time
Baker, E.D. - The Frog Princess books
Banks, Lynn Reid - Secret of the Indian, Return of the Indian and sequels
Bauer, Marion - On My Honor , The Double-Digit Club, Hope was Here
Bawden, Nina - Humbug
Birdsall, Jeanne - The Penderwicks
Birney, Betty – The World According to Humphrey
Bunting, Eve - Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island, Sharing Susan
Byars, Betsy - Wanted, Mud Blossom; Computer Nut
Clements, Andrew – No Talking
Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl and sequels
Collins, Susan - Gregor the Overlander
Coman, Carolyn - The Big House
Conly, Jane - The Rudest Alien on Earth
Cooper, Susan - The Boggart; Over Sea, Under Stone, and sequels
Curtis, Richard Paul - The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Cushman, Karen - Catherine Called Birdy, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
DuBois, William P. - The Twenty-One Balloons
DuPrau, Jeanne - The City of Ember, The People of Sparks
Farmer, Nancy - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Feldman, Jody – The Gollywhopper Games
Fitzgerald, John - The Great Brain and sequels
Freedman, Russell - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Funke, Cornelia - The Thief Lord, Inkheart , Dragon Rider
Giff, Patricia Reilly - Nory Ryan's Song
Gordon, Roderick - Tunnels
Gutman, Dan - Honus and Me, others
Hobbs, Will - Jason's Gold
Haddix, Margaret Peterson - Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Found
Hahn, Mary Downing - Daphne's Book, Stepping on the Cracks
Hobbs, Will - Kokopelli's Flute, Wild Man Island
Holm, Jennifer - Penny from Heaven
Kehret, Peg - The Ghost's Grave
Kelly, Jacqueline - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Konigsburg, E..L. - The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Levine, Gail - Ella Enchanted, The Wish, Dave at Night
Law, Ingrid - Savvy
Lowry, Lois - The Willoughbys
Mass, Wendy – 11 Birthdays
Murphy, Jim - Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America, The Boy's War
Nixon, Joan Lowery - A Family Apart series
O’Brien, Robert - The Silver Crown
O'Connor, Barbara - How to Steal a Dog
Paterson, Katherine - The Great Gilly Hopkins, The Bridge to Terabithia
Patron, Susan - The Higher Power of Lucky
Paulson, Gary - Lawn Boy
Peck, Richard - On the Wings of Heroes
Philbrick, Rodman - Freak the Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Young Man in the Sea
Reeder, Carolyn - Shades of Gray, Across the Lines, Grandpa's Mountain
Riordan, Rick - The Lightening Thief and sequels
Sanderson, Brandon - Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians and sequel
Skye, Obert –Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
Spinelli, Jerry – Wringer, Maniac Magee
Stanley, Diane - The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine
Stead, Rebecca - When you Reach Me
Urban, Linda - A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Weisman, Elissa – Standing for Socks
White, Ruth - Tadpole
Yolen, Jane - The Devil's Arithmetic