St. Michael Lutheran School
Summer Reading List Gr. 3-5Text Box:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Listed below you will find books by Author and Title that the instructional staff of SMLS recommend for summer reading.  The books on this list are available at your local library.

 

The following tips were taken from a recent issue of FYI, sent to Advantage Learning Systems by the school’s Accelerated Reader Coordinator, Mary Jo Straney.  This was the advice to parents titled “Ways to Help”:

 

1.      Help your child find a special place to keep any book that comes home from school or the library.

2.      Look at the TOPS Reports your child brought home during the school term. Praise him/her for good work or effort.

3.      Encourage your child to read more at home. Establish a certain time and place for reading.

4.      Sign a contract with your child to reward his or her reading effort with a special treat, etc.

5.      Read to your child.

6.      Listen to your child read.

7.      Ask a few questions about the book.

 

 

 

 

 


1.     Greene, Constance

A Girl Called Al

2.     Hurwitz, Johanna

Aldo Books

3.     Cleary, Beverly

all books

4.     Bulla, Clyde

all books

5.     Selden, George

all books

6.     Wilder, Llaura

all Little House books

7.     Taylor, Sydney

All-of-a-kind Family and sequels

8.     Shaw/Adler/Schur/ Trip

American Girls Collection

9.     Greene, Constance

Beat the Turtle Drum

10. Beatty, Patricia

Behave Yourself, Bethany Brant

11. Kjelgaard

Big Red

12. Farley, Walter

Black Stallion stories

13. Gates, Doris

Blue Willow

14. Warner

Boxcar Children mysteries

 

15. Howe, James

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-tale of Mystery

16. Brink

Caddie Woodlawn

17. Sperry

Call It Courage

18. McCloskey, Robert

Centerburg Tales

19. Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Glass Elevator

20. Parish, Peggy

Clues in the Woods and other mysteries

21. Dalgliesh, Alice

Courage of Sarah Noble

22. Dahl, Roald

Danny, the Champion of the World and other stories.

23. Caudill, Rebecca

Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charlie?

24. deAngeli

Door in the Wall

25. Beatty, Patricia

Eight Mules from Monterey

26. Sobol

Encyclopedia Brown stories

27. Adler, David

Fourth Floor Twins mysteries

28. Konigsburg

From the Mixed -up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

29. Paterson

Great Gilly Hopkins

30. Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy and other stories

31. Clifford, E.

HELP! I'm a Prisoner in the Library

32. Konigsburg

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley & Me, Elizabeth

33. Robertson, Keith

Henry Reed and the sequels

34. McCloskey, Robert

Homer Price

35. Fritz, Jean

Homesick: My Own Story

36. Henry, Marguerite

Horse stories

37. Howe, James

Howliday Inn

38. Estes, Eleanor

Hundred Penny Box

39. DeJong

Hurry Home, Candy

40. Burch, Robert

Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain

41. Lord, Bette Bao

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

42. Burnford, Charlotte

Incredible Journey

43. Dahl, Roald

James and the Giant Peach

44. Fleisechman, Sid

McBroom stories

45. Byars, Betsy

Midnight Fox

46. Estes, Eleanor

Moffats

47. O'Brien Robert

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

48. Lindgren, Astrid

Pippi Longstocking and sequels

49. Burch, Robert

Quennie Peevie

50. North

Rascal

51. Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

52. McLachlan

Sarah Plain and Tall

53. Christian, Mary Blount

Sebastian Super Sleuth Mysteries

54. Lenski

Strawberry Girl

55. White, E. B.

Stuart Little

56. Byars, Betsy

Summer of the Swans

57. Norton, Mary

The Borrowers

58. Stoltz, Mary

The Bully of Barkham Street

59. Fritz, Jean

The Cabin Faced West

60. Byers, Betsy

The Cartoonist

61. Howe, James

The Celery Stalks at Midnight

62. Byers, Betsy

The Pinballs

63. Fleisechman, Sid

The Whipping Boy

64. DeAngeli

Thee Hannah

65. White, E. B.

Trumpet of the Swan

66. Beatty, Patricia

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

67. Konigsburg

Up From Jericho

68. DeJong

Wheel on the School, The

69. Singer, Isaac

When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw