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Some great books to read this summer
See Mrs. Lentz's recommendations for students in 4th Grade, 5th Grade,
6th Grade, Advanced Readers
2002 YOUNG READERS CHOICE AWARDS (You voted on these):
BUD, NOT BUDDY, by Christopher Paul Curtis - JUNIOR DIVISION WINNER
This book tells of an orphan on the run looking for any part of his family. The setting is the Great Depression.
MARY, BLOODY MARY, by Carolyn Meyer - INTERMEDIATE DIVISION WINNER
Teen fans of the movie Elizabeth will be fascinated with the pomp and sinister intrigue of Mary, Bloody Mary, an engrossing story about the teen years of Mary Tudor, half sister to Queen Elizabeth and daughter to Henry VIII.
REWIND, by William Sleator - SENIOR DIVISION WINNER
Rewind starts with a bang -- literally: on the first page, 11-year-old Peter is hit and killed by a neighbour's car. But he isn't permanently dead, or at least not yet. He finds himself inside a great white light, where a disembodied voice informs him that he is being given a chance to go back and prevent his death.
. . . YOUNG READERS CHOICE AWARD 2003 NOMINEES
The Young Readers Choice Award (YRCA) Nominees are almost always great books.
JUNIOR DIVISION 4th – 6th GRADES
AFTER HAMELIN by Bill Richardson
After Hamelin picks up the story where the Browning poem and other tellings of The Pied Piper of Hamelin leave off. Told with a sense of adventure and humor, the author uses inventive wordplay and uninhibited imagination to spin a narrative tale through strange lands inhabited by characters both good and evil.
THE AUSTERE ACADEMY by Lemony Snickert
BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE by Kate Dicamillo
THE DOLL PEOPLE by Ann M. Martin
Annabelle Doll is ready for some excitement. Never mind that she's a doll that's been living in a dollhouse for over a hundred years. Now that a new family, the Funcrafts, has moved in, the dollhouse is about to experience a real shake up. Mystery, fantasy and adventure combine to make this a fun read.
DON’T TELL ANYONE by Peg Kehret
I WAS A RAT by Phillip Pullman
When a grubby young pageboy knocks on the door of Bob the cobbler and Joan the washerwoman's house, the kindly couple hardly knows what to think. Could this delusional boy be the answer to their prayers for a little one of their own? And was he really once a rat?
JOEY PIGZA LOSES CONTROL by Jack Gantos
NORY RYAN’S SONG by Patricia Reilly Giff
From the first scene on a cliff’s edge, the characters in Giff’s latest novel balance perilously between survival and loss. Set on the west coast of Ireland during the great famine, the story belongs to 12-year-old Nory, who lives with her grandfather, two sisters, and a small brother in a tiny, earthen-floor home.
INTERMEDIATE DIVISION 7th – 9th GRADES
THE AMBER SPYGLASS by Phillip Pullman
THE BOOK OF THE LION by Michael Cadnum
Returning to the same era of his "In a Dark Wood", Cadnum's majestic novel--part mystery, part history--chronicles the pageantry and brutality of the Crusades under King Richard.
HOMELESS BIRD by Gloria Whelan
Koly, a 13-year-old girl in India, is getting married. Her family has followed tradition and chosen her husband. But Koly's groom is a very sickly boy, and soon after the wedding day he dies, leaving Koly a widow. Now, with only her talent for reading and embroidery, she must find a way to make a new life for herself in a society that does not encourage independent women.
KIT’S WILDERNESS by David Almond
NO MORE DEAD DOGS by Gordon Korman
STARGIRL by Jerry Spinelli
TURNABOUT by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Melly and Anny Beth are both over one hundred in the year 2000 when they are selected to participate in project turnabout. They are given an injection that will reverse the aging process. At some point, they are supposed to recieve another injection that will stop them from growing younger and keep them at the same age forever. They will become immortal.
But everyone who receives the second shot dies.
Now, in 2085, Melly and Anny Beth are in their teens and haven’t stopped unaging. They must find someone to take care of them when they grow too young to take care of themselves. But who can they trust? Time is running out.
THE WANDERER by Sharon Creech
SENIOR DIVISION 10th – 12th GRADES
BATTLE DRESS by Amy Efaw
" Beast: that is what the first six weeks of intensive training are known as at West Point Academy. It is unbearable even for many that make it as far as acceptance into the elite training camp, but Andi Davis knows she can hack it. Her life at home has no order, and she has always stood on the outside of a group. If she can handle her unpredictable mother and her distant father, she can handle anything. Even being one of two girls in her whole platoon. She thinks."
DREAMLAND by Sarah Dessen
HOPE WAS HERE by Joan Bauer
When Tulip changes her name to Hope, she figures that it would make everything okay in her life. She soon discovers that a name, no matter how positive it is, doesn't always ensure a perfect life.
MEN OF STONE by Gayle Friesen
THE STERKARM HANDSHAKE by Susan Price
The Sterkarms have plundered the border between Scotland and England for generations. Suddenly intruders, calling themselves Elves, want the Sterkarms to stop their violent ways. The Elves, time travelers from the 21st century, have found a way back to the 16th century and plan to do their own plundering of the land's rich natural resources. Their only mistake is foolishly underestimating the Sterkarms themselves.
THE 2002 NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER:
A SINGLE SHARD, by Linda Sue Park
The orphan Tree-ear dreams of becoming a potter. How can he convince the master potter Min that he deserves a chance?
2002 NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS:
EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE by Polly Horvath
Eleven-year-old Primrose is having a difficult time. Her parents have been lost at sea, but she knows --- somewhere, deep inside herself --- that they are still alive.
CARVER: A LIFE IN POEMS by Marilyn Nelson
The reason I wanted to read it was because the first two books were good. It takes place in
London and a school of witch craft Hogwarts. The author makes the story sound real.
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