My second quarter reading goal is to read 5 non-fiction picture or chapter books. After you finish a book from the list, you must complete a book response form and turn it in to Mr. Roe. Here are some ideas to get you started. You can also suggest or propose books to Mr. Roe! This goal is due December 19th.
The Who Was? series
The I Survived series
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series
Books by Nic Bishop
Books by Seymour Simon
Books by Jean Fritz
Books by Sid Fleischman (biographies of Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and Harry Houdini)
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark
Rutherford B., Who Was He? By Marilyn Singer
How Do You Burb in Space? By Susan E. Goodman
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Electric Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World by Elizabeth Rusch
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Mezmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France by Mara Rockliff
Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryan and Melissa Sweet
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book by Tonya Bolden
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness by Donna Bowman
Titanosaur: Discover the World’s Largest Dinosaur by Jose Luis Carballido
With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School by Suzanne Slade
Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman
Rutherford B. Who Was He? Poems about our Presidents by Marilyn Singer
The Eye that Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln by Marissa Moss
Ice Cream Man: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better by Glenda Armand
Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep by Elaine Alexander
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers by George Shea
Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City by Phillip Hoose
Go Free or Die: A Story of Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris
All Stations! Distress! The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown
From Slave Ship to Freedom by Julius Lester and Rod Brown
Becoming a Space Walker: My Journey to the Stars by Jerry Ross
Book recommendations for your own personal reading:
4th Grade:
· Books by Roald Dahl, such as James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Magic Finger, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Danny, the Champion of the World, The Enormous Crocodile, The Twits, George's Marvelous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, The Giraffe the Pelly and Me, Esio Trot, and Matilda
· Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
· Shiloh and sequels by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
· The Indian in the Cupboard and sequels by Lynne Reid Banks
· From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
· Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
· The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
· Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
· Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
· Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
· Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
· So You Want to be President? By Judith St. George
· Non-fiction history books by Jean Fritz
***Challenge Books*** (5th Grade and above):
· The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
· Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
· The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
· Holes by Louis Sachar
· The Giver by Lois Lowry
· Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
· Chasing Vermeer and sequels by Blue Balliett
· The Cay by Theodore Taylor
· Hatchet and sequels by Gary Paulsen
· Books by Gary Paulsen, such as Woodsong, Tracker, and Dogsong
· Blood on the River by Elisa Lynn Carbone
· The Mouse and the Motorcycle and sequels by Beverly Cleary
· The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
· The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
· The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
· The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
· Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
· Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
· Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
· Sid Fleischman biographies: Sir Charlie (Charlie Chaplin), The Trouble Begins at 8 (Mark Twain), and Escape! (Harry Houdini)
· Books by Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The Little Princess
· The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
· Rutherford B., Who Was He? by Marilyn Singer
· Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
· Electric Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World by Elizabeth Rusch