Summer Reading Lists!

Hey all!!
AACPS Summer Reading Lists are out! You know a groovy thing to do this summer? Take a visit to Edgewater Books and grab a book from a reading list. Write your name inside the front cover next to the word owner.

Example:
This book belongs to John Smith
__________________________________

Read the book and when you are done give it a number of stars from 1-5 and little bit about why you liked it or didn't like it and then pass the book on to a friend asking them to do the same thing. When the book is filled up then it should come back to you. Let us know your favorite in the comment section of the Summer Reading Lists page at the top!  There is nothing better than a beach, the sun and a good book! Happy reading!

PS - The high school lists isn't out yet.

SUMMER READING LISTS FOR 2015

Pre-Kindergarten

• A Big Guy Took My Ball by Mo Willems
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin
• A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead
• Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin
• Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
• Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
• Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
• Flashlight by Lizi Boyd
• Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
• I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont
• I Must Have Bobo by Eileen Rosenthal
• Nowhere Box by Sam Zappardi
• One Hot Summer Day by Nina Crews
• One Tractor: A Counting Book by Alexandra Siy
• The Red Hen by Rebecca Eberly
• Swirl by Swirl: Spirals by Nature by Joyce Sidman
• Things That Float and Things That Don't by David A. Adler
• Underground by Denise Fleming
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang

Kindergarten

• A Dog is A Dog by Stephen Shaken
• The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks
• Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
• Chick and Chickie Play All Day by Claude Ponti
• Don't Slam the Door by Dori Chaconas
• Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberqson
• Henry and the Bully by Nancy Carlson
• It's a Firefly Night by Dianne Ochiltree
• Just Ducks! by Nicola Davies
• The Man From the Land of Fandango by Margaret Mahy
• Millie and the Big Rescue by Alexander Steffensmeier
• My People by Langston Huges
• Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
• Penguin on Vacation by Salina Yoon
• Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin
• Planes Fly! by George Ella Lyon
• Rufus Goes to School by Kim T. Griswell
• Shoe Dog by Megan McDonald
• Step Gently Out by Helen Frost
• Stripes of All Types by Susan Stockdale
• Watermelon Seeds by Greg Pizzoli

First Grade

• Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan Shea
• Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
• First Day Jitters by Julie Danneburg
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Is Everyone Ready for Fun? by Jan Thomas
• Knock, Knock by Saxton Freemann
• The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
• My First Day by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page
• Never Smile at a Monkey: and 17 Other Important Things to Remember by Steve Jenkins
• Penny and Her Song by Kevin Henkes
• Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover by Cece Bell
• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
• The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
• Train Trip by Carl Meister
• Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems by Kate Coombs
• What To Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley

Second Grade

• A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts
• Benny and Penny in the Big No, No by Geoffrey Hayes
• Chicken Big by Keith Graves
• Chloe and the Lion by Marc Barnett and Adam rex
• 8 Class Pets + One Squirrel ÷ One Dog = Chaos by Vivan Vande Velde
• Fly Guy Presents Series by Tedd Arnold
• Heroes of the Surf by Elise Carbone
• Looking at Lincoln by Maria Kalman
• Margritte's Marvelous Hat by D. B. Johnson
• Minnie & Moo Series by Denys Cazet
• My Weird School Series by Dan Gutman
• Nursery Rhyme Comics: 50 Timeless Rhymes from 50 Celebrated Cartoonists by Chris Duffy
• Tyrannosaurus Dad by Liz Rosenberg

Third Grade

• Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by melissa Sweet
• Celbritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World by Margi Preus
• Eight Dolphins of Katrina:  A True Tale of Survival by Janet Wyman Coleman
• Fifty Cents and A Dream: Young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim
• Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
• John, Paul, George and Ben by Lane Smith
• Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst
• Martin Bridge Blazing Ahead by Jessica Scott Kerrin
• Maybelle and the Soup by Katie Speck
• Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca
• Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox 1: The Meeting by Brigitte Luciani
• Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fourth Grade

• Bill the Boy Wonder by Marc T. Nobelman
• The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull
• Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsu Story by S. D. Nelson
• Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
• Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brain Selznick
• Long Shot: Never Too Small To Dream by Chris Paul
• Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
• Seeds of Change by Jen Fullerton Johnson
• Star in the Forest by Laura Resau
• The Strongest Man in the World by Nicolas Debon
• Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
• The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney
• The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng

Fifth Grade

• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• Benjamin Franklin by Kathleen Krull
• Bessie Coleman: Daring Stunt Pilot by Trina Robbins
• Brother Band Chronicles: The Outcasts by John Flanagan
• Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael Tunnell
• City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
• The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
• Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
• How do You Burp in Space? by Susan Goldman
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Robotics: Discover the Science + Technology of the Future with 20 Projects by Kathy Ceceri
• Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angelberger
• We are the ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
• Wild Wings by Gill Lewis

Sixth Grade

• Archer's Quest by Linda Sue Park
• Around the World by Matt Phelan
• Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
• The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
• The Case of the Missing Marquess by nancy Sringer
• Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratrooper by Tanya Stone
• Counting by 7's by Holly Goldberg Sloan
• Eruption! The Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch
• Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
• Free Baseball by Sue Corbett
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• Magic by Angie Sage
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
• No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
• A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Seventh Grade

• Bone: Out of Boneville by Jeff Smith
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Closed for the Season by Mary Dowling Hahn
• Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
• Do You Know the Monkey Man? by Dori Hillestad Butler
• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
• The Impossible Rescue by Martin Sandler
• The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
• Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
• Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, and Birute Galdikas by Jim Ottaviano and Maris Wicks
• Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ronald Koertge
• Snow Falling in Spring: coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution by Moying Li
• Stickman Odyssey by Christopher Ford
• Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
• Will in Scarlet by Matthew Cody
• Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick

Eighth Grade

• Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
• Chasing Lincoln's Killers by James L. Swanson
• Discovering Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin
• Hidden by Helen Frost
• Holes by Louis Sacher
• If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
• Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings
• Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
• Loser by Jerry Spinelli
• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• Payback Time by Carl Deuker
• The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney
• Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey by Nick Bertozzi
• Scorpio by Anthony Horowitz
• Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Ungifted by Gordon Korman
• The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf
• Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Poetizer and Jack Galvin
• Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
• A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson
• Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally Walker
• You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes by Chris Hadfield