2009 Summer Reading Club - Reading Lists

Robert W. Carbonaro School
USFD #24

Entering Grade 1 and 2

*E Adler	Adler, David A. Bones and the dinosaur mystery. Young Detective Jeffrey Bones investigates the disappearance of the plastic dinosaur his grandfather just bought for him in a museum gift shop.	b111301336 c. 1
*E Adler	Adler, David A. Young Cam Jansen and the double beach mystery. Cam uses her photographic memory and her brain to solve two mysteries at the beach, involving a missing mother and a missing set of papers.	b109019179 c. 1, 2, 3
*E Arnold	Arnold, Tedd. Super fly guy. Fly Guy visits the school cafeteria and gets the lunch lady fired.	b111711903 c. 1
Ask Librarian to interloan.	Corey, Shana. First graders from Mars - Episode 1 : Horus's horrible day. As the school year begins on Mars, Horus the Martian gets off to a rocky start, but soon discovers that first grade is not really as bad as he thought.	.
*E Danziger	Danziger, Paula. Second grade rules, Amber Brown. Amber Brown loves the second grade but wonders if she will ever receive an award from Deskarina, the desk fairy, for keeping her desk clean.	b110359021 c. 1, 2
Sp J 398.2 D	Deedy, Carmen Agra. Martina the beautiful cockroach : a Cuban folktale. A humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale in which a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.	b113248003 c. 1
J FIC Greene	Greene, Stephanie. Owen Foote, super spy. Owen and his friends decide that spying on the school principal at his own house will be a fun challenge.	b10870399X c. 1
J FIC Gutman	Gutman, Dan. Miss Daisy is crazy! Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.	b110303611 c. 1
J 811 Hoberman	Hoberman, Mary Ann. You read to me, I'll read to you : very short stories to read together. A book of children's poetry which encourages young children to read with an adult.	b108593174 c. 1, 2
J FIC Holm	Holm, Jennifer L. Babymouse: queen of the world. An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.	b111573130 c. 1
J 398.09667 K	Kimmel, Eric A. Anansi and the moss-covered rock. Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.	b10646792X c. 2
J 398.09667 K		b103350457 c. 1
J FIC Lowry	Lowry, Lois. Gooney Bird Greene. A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.	b109171500 c. 1
E Meddaugh	Meddaugh, Susan. Martha blah blah. When the current owner of the soup company breaks the founder's promise to have every letter of the alphabet in every can of soup, Martha, the talking dog, takes action.	b106444906 c. 1, 2, 3
J FIC Miller	Miller, Sara Swan. Three more stories you can read to your dog.	b10803754X c. 1, 2
*E Parish	Parish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia and the baby. Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes' baby.	b110831391 c. 1, 2
J FIC Park	Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones is Captain Field Day. As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events.	b110574114 c. 3
J FIC Park		b108331180 c. 1, 2 (Billed)
J FIC Pennypacker	Pennypacker, Sara. Clementine. While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.	b11225827X c. 1, 2
E Pilkey	Pilkey, Dav. Dogzilla. A monstrous mutt terrorizes the residents of Mousopolis in this spoof of the Godzilla movies.	b104461597 c. 1
*E Rylant	Rylant, Cynthia. Mr. Putter & Tabby write the book. During a big snow, Mr. Putter decides to write a mystery novel, but what he ends up with is entirely different.	b113017610 c. 1
E Schachner	Schachner, Judith Byron. Skippyjon Jones. Skippyjon Jones, a little kitten with a big imagination, is sent to his room to contemplate what it means to be a cat, but instead embarks on an imaginary adventure in which his Zorro-like alter ego, El Skippito, rescues a group of chihuahuas from a bean-eating bumblebee.	b109696888 c. 1, 2
*E Schwartz	Schwartz, Alvin. In a dark, dark room, and other scary stories. Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.	b104905426 c. 1, 2, 3
E Seuss	Seuss, Dr. Horton hears a Who! Horton the elephant goes to great trouble to protect some very small creatures who make their home on a speck of dust.	b106094580 c.18, 25, 27
J FIC Silverman	Silverman, Erica. Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa. Cowgirl Kate and her cowhorse Cocoa, who is always hungry, count cows, share a story, and help each other fall asleep.	b110792038 c. 1
J 591.39 S	Simon, Seymour. Baby animals. Presents photographs and facts about baby animals, including horses, lions, pigs, chickens, cows, whales, rhinos, ducks, dogs and cats, eagles, snakes, deer, and rabbits.	b109151240 c. 1
E Teague	Teague, Mark. How I spent my summer vacation. A schoolboy tell his class about his summer vacation, during which he joined a group of cowboys and stopped a cattle stampede.	b105940070 c. 1 (L&P), 2
J FIC Thaler	Thaler, Mike. The class trip from the Black Lagoon. The students must deal with a scary bus driver named Mr. Fenderbender, mosquitoes as large as Dracula, and their mean teacher, Mrs. Green, on their class trip to the Black Lagoon.	b110288051 c. 1, 2
E Willems	Willems, Mo. The pigeon wants a puppy! The pigeon really, really wants a puppy, but when a puppy arrives the pigeon changes its mind.	b114010936 c. 1, 2

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Entering Grade 3 and 4

J FIC Atwater	Atwater, Richard. Mr. Popper's penguins. Mr. Popper starts out with one penguin in his house, but before he knows it there are twelve.	b100998720 c. 10, 13, 16
J FIC Atwater		b106037353 c. 11, 12
J FIC Benton	Benton, Jim. The Fran with four brains (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, #6). Franny tries to find a way out of the predicament of having too much to do.	b11310201X c. 1
J FIC Blume	Blume, Judy. Tales of a fourth grade nothing. Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.	b10128570X c. 26 (L&P), 27, 31, 35, 37
J FIC Child	Child, Lauren. Utterly me, Clarice Bean. When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.	b113829553 c. 1
J FIC Clements	Clements, Andrew. Lost and found. Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.	b114117603 c. 1, 2
J FIC Clements	Clements, Andrew. Jake Drake bully buster. When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Danity Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast--too fast! Why? Because Jake is kind of smart, and he's not a tattletale, and he doesn't have a big brother to protect him...".	b108442585 c. 1, 2, 3 (L&P)
J FIC Curtis	Curtis, Christopher Paul. Mr. Chickee's funny money. Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell's dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with the image of James Brown on it.	b111394909 c. 1
J FIC Dahl	Dahl, Roald. Matilda. Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.	b101895884 c. 1
J FIC Dahl		b110518755 c. 5
J FIC DiCamillo	DiCamillo, Kate. The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane. Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.	b111697177 c. 1, 2, 3
J FIC Funke	Funke, Cornelia Caroline. Dragon rider. After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.	b110413829 c. 1
J FIC Greenburg	Greenburg, Dan. Secrets of Dripping Fang (The Onts : Book 1). Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffins have a hard time at Cincinnati's Jolly Days orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in the Dripping Fang Forest.	b111228529 c. 1
J FIC Gutman	Gutman, Dan. Nightmare at the book fair. On his way to lacrosse tryouts, the president of the PTA asks Trip Dinkelman to help her with the book fair, resulting in Trip sustaining a head injury which causes him temporary amnesia and makes for an interesting journey home.	b114151805 c. 1
J FIC Hahn	Hahn, Mary Downing. Wait till Helen comes : a ghost story. Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.	b102751468 c. 1
Ask Librarian to interloan.	Hicks, Betty. Swimming with sharks. Rita tries to improve her times and flip turns as she struggles to decide whether to remain the best swimmer on the Dolphins team or the worst on the Sharks team, where she could be with her friends.	.
J FIC Jenkins	Jenkins, Emily. Toys go out. In the backpack, where it is very dark -- The serious problem of Plastic-ness -- The terrifying bigness of the washing machine -- The possible shark -- How Lumphy got on the big high bed and lost something rather good-looking -- It is difficult to find the right birthday present. Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.	b112176598 c. 1
J FIC Kerrin	Kerrin, Jessica Scott. Martin Bridge on the lookout! Yesterday's party -- Field trip -- Polly. Three more stories of Martin's plans unraveling. This time, he has to entertain an unwanted guest, share lunch with a boy who eats erasers and embark on a madcap search for his school's escaped pet parakeet.	b111278533 c. 1
J FIC King-Smith	King-Smith, Dick. Lady Lollipop. A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are royally rewarded after they reform a spoiled princess.	b108530930 c. 1
J FIC Kinney	Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules.	b113434261 c. 1, 2
J FIC McDonald	McDonald, Megan. Stink : the incredible shrinking kid. The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.	b110832693 c. 1, 2
J FIC Martin	Martin, Ann M. The doll people. Annabelle doll's secret -- Mystery of Auntie Sarah -- Where could she be? -- Hello, Funcrafts -- Funcrafts come visiting -- Annabelle downstairs -- Doll state -- Selmp -- Exploring -- Uncle doll moves out -- Attic -- Dolls go visiting -- Where's papa? -- Funcrafts to the rescue -- Into the attic -- Dolls make a plan -- Captain helps out -- Annabelle's birthday party -- Grandma Katherine and the dolls. A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.	b108149274 c. 1
J-CASS Martin		b108607185 c. 1
J FIC Osborne	Osborne, Mary Pope. Stage fright on a summer night. Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.	b108906723 c. 1, 2 (L&P)
J FIC Pitchford	Pitchford, Dean. The big one-oh. Determined not to be weird all his life like his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw himself a tenth birthday party, complete with a "house of horrors" theme, but first he will have to make some friends to invite.	b112631526 c. 1
J 811.54 Prelutsky	Prelutsky, Jack. The new kids on the block : poems. Presents humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.	b104530753 c. 1
J FIC Scieszka	Scieszka, Jon. Summer reading is killing me! At the beginning of summer vacation Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well-known children's books.	b10722267x c. 1
J FIC Scieszka		b111006843 c. 2 (MISSING)
J FIC Selden	Selden, George. The cricket in Times Square. The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.	b106266627 c. 4, 5
J FIC Winkler	Winkler, Henry. Summer school: what genius thought that up? Stuck in summer school while his friends enjoy a "Passport to Hawaii," Hank needs to earn an A on an oral report about Einstein in order to participate in Magik 3's talent show act at the luau extravaganza.	b111079159 c. 1, 2

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Entering Grade 5 and 6

J FIC Birdsall	Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy. While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.	b111063553 c. 1
Ask Librarian to interloan.	Brittney, L. Nathan Fox : dangerous times. After Nathan Fox--an actor in the same company as Shakespeare--is hired by England's spymaster general, he is trained and sent on a mission to Venice to forge an alliance against the King of Spain, eventually crossing paths with General Othello and becoming involved with Desdemona, a young noblewoman.	.
J FIC DiCamillo	DiCamillo, Kate. The tale of Despereaux. The adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.	b109665776 c. 1 (L&P), 2, 3
J FIC DuPrau	DuPrau, Jeanne. The city of Ember. In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.	b109312776 c. 1
YA FIC DuPrau		b109312776 c. 1
J FIC Ferris	Ferris, Jean. Once upon a marigold. A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.	b109201565 c. 1
J FIC Funke	Funke, Cornelia Caroline. The thief lord. Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.	b109149117 c. 1, 2
J FIC Gaiman	Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.	b109059748 c. 1, 2
YA FIC Gaiman	Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book. The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.	b114154314 c. 1
J FIC Gutman	Gutman, Dan. The homework machine. Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.	b11173180X c. 1, 2
J FIC Gutman	Gutman, Dan. Honus and me : a baseball card adventure. Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.	b10663365X c. 1
J FIC Haddix	Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the hidden. In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.	b107290935 c. 1
YA FIC Haddix		b112940110 c. 1 (L&P)
Ask Librarian to interloan.	Hayes, Joe. Ghost fever = : mal de fantasma. In the 1950s, fourteen-year-old Elena Padilla and her father move into a haunted house in Duston, Arizona, where only Elena can see and help the ghost of the young girl who died there.	b c.
J FIC Hiassen	Hiassen, Carl. Hoot. Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.	b110163837 c. 2
J FIC Hiassen		b109169219 c. 1
J-CD FIC Hiassen		b109390015 c. 1
YA FIC Horowitz	Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker. After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.	b108526100 c. 1
J FIC Nimmo	Nimmo, Jenny. Midnight for Charlie Bone.	b109416119 c. 1, 2
Ask Librarian to interloan.	Lemna, Don. When the sergeant came marching home. When his father returns from the war in 1946, a ten year old boy and his family move from their home in a Montana town to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere where they work hard trying to make ends meet.	.
J FIC Lord	Lord, Cynthia. Rules. Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.	b111807323 c. 1
J FIC Lupica	Lupica, Mike. Heat. Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.	b111832032 c. 1
YA FIC Lupica		b111832032 c. 1
J FIC Marino	Marino, Nan. Neil Armstrong is my uncle and other lies Muscle Man Mcginty told me.	b115499672 c. 1
YA FIC Riordan	Riordan, Rick. The lightning thief. Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.	b112013910 c. 1, 2
J Fic Selznick	Selznick, Brian. The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.	b112575985 c. 1(Billed) , 2
YA Fic Selznick		b112575985 c. 1
Ask Librarian to interloan.	Somper, Justin. Demons of the ocean. Connor, who was rescued by pirates after his ship was wrecked, believes his twin sister, Grace, was abducted by the Vampirates and is determined to find her.	.
J FIC Stewart	Stewart, Trenton Lee. The mysterious Benedict Society. After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.	b113918902 c. 1
J FIC Stewart		b112611199 c. 1, 2
J FIC Tarshis	Tarshis, Lauren. Emma-Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree. A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.	b112631538 c. 1
J FIC Urban	Urban, Linda. A crooked kind of perfect. Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.	b113202787 c. 1
J FIC Woodson	Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion. Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.	b109350388 c. 1