My third quarter reading goal is to read 5 books from the “Favorite Authors” list. 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 Friday, March 13th.
John David Anderson (who is coming to our school for an author visit later this year)
Richard Atwater (Mr. Popper’s Penguins)
Matt Christopher (sports stories)
Beverly Cleary (Beezus and Ramona, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Ralph S. Mouse)
Andrew Clements (Frindle, No Talking, Lost and Found)
Jean Craighead George (My Side of the Mountain)
Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach)
Tomie dePaola (Strega Nona, The Clown of God)
Kate DiCamillo (The Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Because of Winn-Dixie)
Sid Fleishman (nonfiction biographies; Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, Harry Houdini)
Esther Forbes (Johnny Tremain)
Jean Fritz (non-fiction, American history)
Francis Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy)
Jennifer Holm (Turtle in Paradise)
Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows)
Tim Green (sports)
Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)
Zilpha Keatley Snyder (The Egypt Game)
Robert Kimmel Smith (The War with Grandpa)
E.L. Konigsburg (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler, The View from Saturday)
Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, When the Sea Turned Silver)
Lois Lowry (Number the Stars, The Giver)
Mike Lupica (sports)
Scott O’Dell (Island of the Blue Dolphins)
Gary Paulsen (Hatchet, Dogsong, Tracker, Woodsong)
Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game)
Wilson Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows)
Lynn Reid Banks (The Indian in the Cupboard)
Louis Sachar (Holes, Wayside School)
Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)
Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee)
Dr. Seuss (longer, more challenging books)
Theodore Taylor (The Cay)
E.B. White (Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan)
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