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2015 RECOMMENDED

READING LISTS

GRADE
LEVEL:
4th-5th

o u t t o d a y at y o u r s c h o o l l i b r a r y.
T h e s e t i t l e s h a ve b e e n s e l e c t e d b y C P S l i b r a r i a n s a s g r e at r e a d s ! C h e c k t h e m

Stories
AUTHOR TITLE

Bell, Cece
Abbott, Tony
Booth, Coe
Torday, Piers
Martin, Ann M.
Moses, Shelia P
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
Flake, Sharon
Scattergood, Augusta
Rosengren, Gayle
Bass, Patrik Henry

El Deafo
The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone
Kinda Like Brothers
The Last Wild
Rain Reign
The Sittin' Up
Streetball Crew Book One: Sasquatch in the Paint
Unstoppable Octobia May
The Way to Stay in Destiny
What the Moon Said
The Zero Degree Zombie Zone

Poetry
AUTHOR TITLE

Spinelli, Eileen
Bryan, Ashley
Janeczko, Paul B.
Cohn, Jessica
VanHecke, Susan
Sidman, Joyce

Another Day as Emily

Ashley Bryan's Puppets
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems
Poems About Choices
Under the Freedom Tree
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold

Informational Texts
AUTHOR TITLE

Szumski, Bonnie
Slade, Suzanne
Smith, David
Burgan, Michael
Hruby Powell, Patricia
Cohen-Janca, Irene
Woelfle, Gretchen
Roy, Katherine
Herrera, Juan Felipe
Tonatiuh, Duncan
Weatherford, Carole Boston
Haugen, Hayley Mitchell
Prevot, Franck

Cheating (Matters of Opinion)

Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass
If...: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers
Illinois
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak & the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood
Video Games (Matters of Opinion)
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees

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