Welcome to Summer Reading

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Welcome to Summer Reading

• Grade 5 Themes

Journeys Expeditions
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Welcome to the Middle School Summer Reading
This years 5th grade theme is Journeys
Expeditions! Two of the three books you must read
have to come from the theme book list. Remember
you will be involved in a seminar discussion
about your two theme books. In order to get the
most out of your reading, jot some notes down
about the characters, setting, and plot so
youll remember what the book was about in
September! Dont forget, you are required to do a
writing assignment about your theme books when
you come to the middle school in September.
Happy Reading!!! See you in September!!!
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The Gawgon and the Boy By Lloyd Alexander
This great summer reading book has a slightly old
fashioned feel with an inter-generational
friendship. Eleven year old David is deemed too
frail to return to school because of his bout of
the New Monia (pneumonia), so instead his elderly
aunt Annie, whom he dubs the Gawgon because of
her forbidding appearance, tutors him and
encourages him to pursue his dream of becoming an
artist.
http//www.titlewave.com/search?SID142c77500f5f3f
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Genre Realistic Fiction
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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Click on Natalie Babbitt And well hear what she
has to say about Tuck Everlasting
Winnie lives with her family outside the town of
Treegap.  The Fosters are not the kind of people
who welcome you to their home.  That is probably
why no one ever trespasses on the woods on their
land.  Winnie rarely goes into the woods but on
this beautiful day, she does.  And what does she
find?  A teenage boy drinking from a spring that
flows deep in the woods.  Winnie questions the
young man about why he is on her land.  The young
man tries to explain what is happening but then
Winnie finds herself the victim of a kidnapping! 
Can what this strange family tell her possibly be
true?  They tell her they will live forever.  You
see, the water from the spring has magical
qualities and once you drink it, you never grow
older again.  And, you can never die.  What seems
to be a good thing can actually be a curse.  The
Tucks try to convince Winnie not to tell anyone
about their secret.  But isn't this a miracle
that should be shared? If it's true that they
have found the fountain of youth?  Would you take
a sip if it were offered to you?
http//www.titlewave.com/search?SID 0980c6505ff12
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Genre Fantasy
http//nancykeane.com/booktalks/babbitt_tuck.htm
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Read Eva Ibbotsons exciting novel,Island of the
Aunts in which three children are kidnapped by
three kind but eccentric women living on an
uncharted island where they rescue creatures in
distress.
And then kick back and explore the Amazon with
Maia Fielding and the dreadful Carter family in
exotic Brazil in 1910 in the novel Journey to the
River Sea.
Genre Realistic Fiction
http//www.titlewave.com/search?SID142c77500f5f3f
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Click here to visit the Amazon
http//www.theparrotsocietyuk.org/sounds.shtml
Genre Fantasy
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Mary, a bitter young orphan girl from India, is
brought to England to live with her uncle on the
Yorkshire Moors. Upon encountering numerous
problems in adjusting to the rigid, lonely, and
unfamiliar life of her uncle's mansion, she
gradually befriends Dicken and her cousin Colin.
Together, they venture to restore the Secret
Garden, into which entry had been forbidden by
Mary's uncle. The story culminates when the
garden flourishes once again and Mary's cousin
is able to walk again, thanks to her, after
spending years confined to a bed, believing he
was forever destined to be a hunchback. The
Secret Garden conveys a message of hope--a
message based on the powerful role of friendship
in bringing about a change for the better.
http//www.easyfunschool.com/article1848.html
The Secret Garden
Genre Classic Literature
by Francis Hodgson Burnett
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The Incredible Journey By Sheila Burnford
The Incredible Journey tells the story of of
three pets, a Labrador retriever, bull terrier,
and Siamese cat, who are stranded two hundred
miles from home. They face many obstacles on
their journey across the Canadian wilderness to
reach home.
http//www.titlewave.com/search?SID142c77500f5f3f
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Genre Realistic Fiction
If you liked the book, rent the video!
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The Wanderer By Sharon Creech
Here what Sharon Creech has to say about the
story behind why she wrote this novel. Sharon
Creech
Genre Realistic Fiction
Thirteen-year old Sophie talks her adoptive
parents into letting her sail with her three
uncles and two cousins across the Atlantic to
see her grandfather, Bompie.  The voyage becomes
an exciting, perilous trip with treacherous
storms, family conflicts, and tests of personal
courage.  The story is told through journals
kept by Sophie and her cousin Cody.  The journey
to England becomes a journey into Sophie's past
as she remembers her forgotten life before she
was adopted.  This high sea adventure and
mystery wil keep you on board until the journey's
end! 
http//nancykeane.com/booktalks/creech_wanderer.ht
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Boy Tales of Childhood Autobiography by Roald
Dahl
Click on the official Roald Dahl website to find
the latest news, stories, and views on this
author http//www.roalddahl.com/
Famous author of James and the Giant Peach and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tells of his
boyhood adventures at a boys' boarding school,
summer vacation trips, and typical boyhood
tricks and punishments.
http//nancykeane.com/booktalks/dahl_boy.htm
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The
Balloons
By William Penne duBois
Read about the incredible adventures of Professor
William Waterman Sherman who sets off in a
in 1883 to cross the Pacific Ocean.
Genre Fantasy/Adventure
http//www.wannalearn.com/Classic_Literature/Child
ren/0670734411.shtml
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My Side of the Mountain By Newbery award winner
Jean Craighead George
A young boy relates his adventures during the
year he spends living alone in the Catskill
Mountains including his struggle for survival,
his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and
his ultimate realization that he needs human
companionship.
Genre Adventure
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Joe Stoshack, known as Stosh, has a special gift.
Just by holding a historic baseball card, he can
travel back in time to interact with the player
on that card.
A Baseball Card Adventure Series
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what better way to research the subject ofJackie
Robinson, than to take a trip back to 1947? But
Joe's wish to know what it was like for Robinson
lands Joe in Brooklyn as an African American, and
he experiences firsthand the racial prejudice and
discrimination of the time
This time Joe and his Dad travel back in time to
the 1932 World Series to answer one question In
Game 3, did Babe Ruth call his famous home run
before he hit the ball?
Baseball Card Adventure series, in which Joe
Stoshak travels back to 1951 to meet Mickey
Mantle, but a last-minute card switch by Joe's
little cousin sends him to the wrong year, the
wrong league, and the wrong Mickey.
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Stowaway by Karen Hesse
Presented in diary format, Karen Hesse has taken
a few meager facts known about Nicholas Young, an
11 year-old stowaway on Captain cooks ship
Endeavor in this spirited 18th century sea story,
and describes their historic first voyage around
the world.
Could this be what Captain Cooks ship looked
like?
Genre Historical Fiction
http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/ exploratio
n/endeavour_3d.shtml
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Number the Stars By Lois Lowry
This is a story of friendship and the
determination of the people of Denmark to get the
Jews to safety while the Nazis were equally
determined to annihilate them. (From the back
cover) Ten year old Annemarie Johansen and her
best friend Ellen Rosen often think about life
before the war. But it's now 1943 and their life
in Copenhagen is filled with school, food
shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in
their town. The Nazis won't stop. The Jews of
Denmark are being "relocated" so Ellen moves in
with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the
family. Then Annemarie is asked to go on a
dangerous mission. Somehow she must find the
strength and courage to save her best friend's
life. There's no turning back now..
http//www.titlewave.com/search?SID142c775 00f5f3
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Genre Historical Fiction
Why did Lois Lowry chose the words, Number the
Stars for her title? What stars is she referring
to? Look at her dedication "For my friend
Annelise Platt, Tusind Tak". Is Annelise,
Annemarie? Look at the chapter titles. Each one
represents a decision on the part of Ms. Lowry.
Many of them are quotes from the story. Would you
have chosen the same ones? Or you can respond by
going to http//www.cdli.ca/CITE/ns_reaction.pdf
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The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson
This book is about an eleven-year-old girl whose
name is Galadreal Hopkins.  Most people call her
Gilly. Her mother lives in California and she
doesnt know her dad. Gilly doesnt want to live
anywhere but only with her real mother. Gilly
plans to keep moving out of foster homes so much
so they will get sick of her and send her back to
her real mother. In the past three years she has
been in three different foster homes. This will
be her fourth one. While shes in her fourth
foster home she earns money for babysitting her
new little brother and for reading aloud to them
after supper. If she keeps saving up she might
have enough to take a train or a bus to
California to get to her mom. But the only things
holding her back is  How will she save enough
money? How will she find where her mother lives?
And what will her foster parents think of that?
Read The Great Gilly Hopkins to find out what
happens in the end. http//nancykeane.com/bookta
lks/paterson_great.htm
http//www.titlewave.com/cover?SIDe6e5478a732dcbc
7fd50bd7d130286a0isbn0690038380
Click here to learn About the author
http//www.terabithia.com/about.html
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Summer Reading Books on Tape Available at Public
Library My Side of the Mountain The Great Gilly
Hopkins Number the Stars Tuck Everlasting The
Twenty-One Balloons
http//www.newburyportpl.org/
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Have any thoughts or questions about the
books.? Send me an email and Ill try to help.
emenesale_at_newburyport.k12.ma.us