St. Michael Lutheran School
Summer Reading List Gr. 4-5Text 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

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20. Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Glass Elevator

21. Parish, Peggy

Clues in the Woods and other mysteries

22. Dalgliesh, Alice

Courage of Sarah Noble

23. Dahl, Roald

Danny, the Champion of the World and other stories.

24. Caudill, Rebecca

Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charlie?

25. deAngeli

Door in the Wall

26. Beatty, Patricia

Eight Mules from Monterey

27. Sobol

Encyclopedia Brown stories

28. Adler, David

Fourth Floor Twins mysteries

29. Konigsburg

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

30. Paterson

Great Gilly Hopkins

31. Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy and other stories

32. Clifford, E.

HELP! I'm a Prisoner in the Library

33. Konigsburg

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

34. Robertson, Keith

Henry Reed and the sequels

35. McCloskey, Robert

Homer Price

36. Fritz, Jean

Homesick: My Own Story

37. Henry, Marguerite

Horse stories

38. Howe, James

Howliday Inn

39. Estes, Eleanor

Hundred Penny Box

40. DeJong

Hurry Home, Candy

41. Burch, Robert

Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain

42. Lord, Bette Bao

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

43. Burnford, Charlotte

Incredible Journey

44. Dahl, Roald

James and the Giant Peach

45. Fleisechman, Sid

McBroom stories

46. Byars, Betsy

Midnight Fox

47. Estes, Eleanor

Moffats

48. O'Brien Robert

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

49. Lindgren, Astrid

Pippi Longstocking and sequels

50. Burch, Robert

Quennie Peevie

51. North

Rascal

52. Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

53. McLachlan

Sarah Plain and Tall

54. Christian, Mary Blount

Sebastian Super Sleuth Mysteries

55. Lenski

Strawberry Girl

56. White, E. B.

Stuart Little

57. Byars, Betsy

Summer of the Swans

58. Norton, Mary

The Borrowers

59. Stoltz, Mary

The Bully of Barkham Street

60. Fritz, Jean

The Cabin Faced West

61. Byers, Betsy

The Cartoonist

62. Howe, James

The Celery Stalks at Midnight

63. Byers, Betsy

The Pinballs

64. Fleisechman, Sid

The Whipping Boy

65. DeAngeli

Thee Hannah

66. White, E. B.

Trumpet of the Swan

67. Beatty, Patricia

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

68. Konigsburg

Up From Jericho

69. DeJong

Wheel on the School, The

70. Singer, Isaac

When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw