All she wants is to be treated like everyone else and not like a girl suffering from a disease of the nervous system that has put her mother in a wheelchair. So Arlene decides to run for Student Council Secretary even though the office is usually held by a 5th or 6th grader. Follow her amazing campaign to get enough votes and help her school community to be open to all kinds of kids. Grade 3 - 5.
Here are some of the new fiction and informational books I read over break and recommend! Look for them in the coming cold weeks of January. Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman is the imaginative and unusual story with drawings told by a father who goes out to buy milk for his children's breakfast and returns very late with entertaining and very tall reasons for his delay! Grade 3-5 The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandits by Octavia Spencer, stars 12 year old Randi who has recently moved from Brooklyn, New York to a tiny town in Tennessee with her father, after her mother dies. Randi's father used to write detective mysteries and now it is Randi and some new friends, who are determined to solve the mystery of the time-capsule and rumored treasure that disappears from Deer Creek's town square. Grade 3-5. Road Trip by Gary Paulsen, takes the reader on a roller coaster road trip as Ben's dad suddenly decides they should get on the road to pick up a border collie puppy that needs rescuing. Along for the ride is Ben's older friend, who has had trouble with the police in the past, and some new friends they meet along the way after their truck has engine trouble and they trade it in for a souped up school bus! Grade 5. The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs by Sandra Markle, is a real "scientific mystery". In the mountain cloud forests of Panama, the Panamanian golden frog, although just 1.5 inches long was an abundant noisy and constant voice. But when scientists start to discover too many dead golden frogs, they realize a mysterious and unknown disease is causing this beautiful breed, and Panama National symbol, to die out. Enter an amazing team of biologists, pathologists and zoologists to study the problem, and work toward collecting these tiny frogs and saving their lives until the reason they are dying can be found and resolved. In Arlene on the Scene by Carol Liu, the reader meets a spunky 4th grader who is determined not to let her new leg braces slow her down. All she wants is to be treated like everyone else and not like a girl suffering from a disease of the nervous system that has put her mother in a wheelchair. So Arlene decides to run for Student Council Secretary even though the office is usually held by a 5th or 6th grader. Follow her amazing campaign to get enough votes and help her school community to be open to all kinds of kids. Grade 3 - 5. Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan introduces the reader to the unforgettable Willow Chance. Although Willow has a special and amazing brain, making friends is hard for her, and nobody but her parents really understand her. But when her parents die suddenly in a car accident, a diverse group of almost strangers come into her life and help her cope, as she helps change and improve their lives as well. Grade 5 In Rooftoppers, Katherine Rundell takes the reader on a fantastic adventure with Sophie, who is found and rescued as a baby floating in a cello case after the Queen Mary ship goes down. She is raised by Charles in London to be a free spirited, home-schooled, pants wearing, tree-climbing tomboy who loves art and music. But when the authorities in London decide Sophie is not being raised properly for a "girl", Charles and Sophie escape to Paris to search for Sophie's mother who everyone but Sophie believes died when the ship sank. Aided by Matteo and his gang of "rooftoppers", Sophie may just be right! Grade 3 - 5 The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson, Ph. D, explains in beautiful striking photographs and detail, how a snow crystal is formed, grows and can become a snowflake. Find out the types of snow crystals that can develop, all about their symmetry and whether each is really unique! A 2014 Bluestem nominee. Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner is set some time in the future when global warming has resulted in super storms so violent that areas of the World have been abandoned and people are afraid to spend much time outdoors. But Jaden's father, a meteorologist and scientist has used technology to create a town that the storms seemingly avoid. Jaden is happy to have a more normal life again until she and her friends begin to wonder how the storms avoid the town and could there be something sinister happening in Placid Meadows. Grade 4 - 5.
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AuthorI am the Library Media Center director at Patton School in Arlington Heights where I help students from kindergarten through 5th grade find terrific independent reading for enjoyment and information, and teach students the skills to use information and technology safely and productively and to connect, communicate and share with others. I have four grown children, a large black dog, (flat coat retriever) and a small striped cat. I am an obessive Chicago Cubs fan and I love to run. Patton LMC Summer Reading Blog |