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Here is the list of favorite books that many people sent me. I want to say
a big THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to reply.
Deloris Burke BURKED@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US
K-6
Media Specialist
Terror At The Zoo by Peg Kehret
Two children get a night of camping at the zoo as a present. The
same night, and escaped felon is hiding out in the zoo and the three
cross paths. The title is a bit extreme. it's a good, safe thriller.
Rosemary's Witch by Ann(?) Turner
Wierd thingtart happening when a family from out of town moves
into an old house on the outskirts of town. The dsource of the problems.
A very popular
"scary book." A 1993 Washington Child aloud to my 6th graders; they
insisted I read thesequel, _Toby Alone_ before the holidays began. Now they
insist I read the next, _Toby and Johnny Joe_. All 3 are by Robbie
Branscum. of Also, I recently read _Bill_ and can't remember the author,
but it is a definite keeper a picture
of herself, as a little girl, on the milk carton. The first book . The
sequel is that answer, but it is not nearly as good as the first.
A dry series (
draw fifty cartoons, draw fifty athletes, draw fifty cars and trucks- they
are given a real workout.
Redwall by Brian Jacques (also all of the seqMartin the
Warrior, etc.) They have been great favorites with 4th and 5th grade.
In my school almost every 4-6th grader hOW
YOU'RE DEAD, BUT... by Elvira Woodruff. It is about a 5th grade boy with
aassmates are
writing to actors and sports people, he writes to Napolean and G about
history, but who must now live
in a nursing home. WONDERFUL.
Sixth graders seem to read a lotire, The Lotus Caves, The
Guardians, The Prince in Waiting, Beyond the Burning They are also reading
Tolkien.
All my fourth graders girls are reading the American Girl series. Also
third graders.
HE BEAUTIFUL series about the individual states.
Everyone is reading the AmerNatural History Books on
dinosaurs.
Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, is readgraders. It's
about a girl who reluctantly accompanies her family to the Passover
Seder, only to be transported back in time to Pola were killed in the
concentration
camps, and she meets the person she is namedfter, who saved her aunt
from the gas chambers. A good Holocaust book.
Girl series
Monkey see, monkey do - DeClements
Goosebumps serink "Mask"is the best
Maniac Magee - Spinelli
Hatch - Paulsen
loved clowns - Wood
4-6th grade students at St. Pius X School enjoy Shiloh ahyllis Naylor and
Where the Red Fern grows by Rawlings. Teacher enthusaism pratly influence
these favorite.
*Night of the twisters* by Ivy Ruckman and *Watalie Downing Hahn have been
popular at our school for several
years.
I haverade; he enjoys books by John Grisham and has read
The Chamber and The Client My sister-in-law read them first
because she feared they were not appropriate.
Two nieces, one in 4th and one in 5th grade, like the Ramona bookd the
Stine books at camp and have fun
with them at sleepovers. "They are scavorites is a chapter book called
_Maniac Magee_
by Jerry Spinelli. It won thewbery award in 1991 and is
also one of my personal favorites. The main characor kids and the story
moves along well.
Redwall (B. Jacques)--a young mouse mve the fortress of
Redwall from Cluny the rat. (It's a bit on the long side bucharacters and
lots of adventure)
Dealing with Dragons (P. Wrede)--Cimorene, eaves her castle
and becomes a dragon's assistant instead of marrying some pris in mind.
(The girls like this one, but there's enough adventure for the
malat Horn Spoon (S Fleischman)--A young lad and his man-servant,
Praiseworthy, tl to San Francisco to find gold during the CA Gold Rush.
Fleishchman (The Whipping Boy is also a good one) writes with wry wit and
Praiselso gives a little bit of insight into one of the over-looked eras of
American history.
One book that I would recommend is "The Sub" by Peterwitch desks when they
have a substitute teacher to trick her but the trick bacb stays for three
days. One boy is very messy while the other one is very neat and the neat
one really gets n trouble, the wrong name is put on the board. This is a
book that 4th-6th graders can really identify with as the events in thould
like the Orphan Train series by Joan Nixon Lowry.
I am a K-5 librarian i. These books seem to be very popular with
grades 4 and 5:
One series I do nry but which most kids are reading in the
Goosebumps series. Stine horror sto kids tell me are not gross at
Scieszka- The Stinky Cheese Man. All grades sse take off stories on fairy
tales
Bellairs--House with Clock in Its Walls.
supernatural touch
Blume--Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing. Grade 4 espeicallybook
of Fudge and Peter. Also popular are the two sequels
Dah--Matilda A rout a genius in a dreadful school. Heavy
humor
Hahn-Following the mystery mach appeals to grade 5 girls.
I believe the scary books are the most popular; lm-net.
Please post a hit when you get it; I am new at this age group and coulnal
ideas. I do promote our state young readers' books
called Golden Sower. the Boxcar Children series by
Gertrude Chandler Warner.
Every spring I m come up with a few titles and then we
have a grade level vote for our fahe Wyoming Middle
School. Last spring both the fourth and sixth graders v Cheese Man by
Jon Sch....(sorry I'm at home and can't remember how to
spey like the absurdity of this story. The fifth
graders voted for The View eary
about the 10 year old Bosnian girl is getting a lot of circulation.
Hsen--survival story, quick action, character development
Canyon Winter, Walt M as above, but snaps you right
into the action from paragraph one
Beauty--Billory--character development strong, surprise in
story
books by Avi--what a tale many styles
Wait till Helen Comes By Mary Downing Hahn
Where the Red Fern lson Rawls
Bridge to Terabithia By Katherine Paterson
The Tries of 3 books, around a 3rd grade level) By John
Szciesca
Shiloh ynolds Naylor
Stepping on the Cracks also by Mary Downing Hahn
Goosebump (series) by R.L. Stine (ugh!)
The Stinky Cheese Ma Jon Scieszka
Hatchet and it's sequel The River - Gary Paulsen
Hank the Cowdogny of the Eyewitness books (series)
Indian in the Cupboard - Lynn Reid Banks
SMa 13 yr old boy whose plane crashed in the
Canadian wilderness (the pilot dien for 52 days.
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN (George) - a runaway 13-yr-old boy lithe Catskill
Mts.
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine is the hands down for all grades 2s
becoming just as popular by 6th graders.
All of Brian Jacques books in Redwoks such as I spy Mystery.
Our favorite books are series: Goosebumps by R.L.
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