Friday, July 17, 2009

Kids Picks for Summer Reading

Titles recommended by Tolland kids as "the best book I've read so far
this summer:

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Amazing Arctic Animals, by
Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish
Annie’s Dancing Day, by Herman Moers
Arthur Accused, by Marc Brown
Babe and Me, by Dan Gutman
Berenstain Bears Sleep Over
Best Friends, by Jane Hissey
Black: Seeing Black All Around Us
Blame it on Chelsea
Brian’s Big Break, by Tisha Hamilton
Brisinger, by Christopher Paolini
Bunny Day, by Walton
Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Waterson
Can You See What I see?, by Walter Wick
Captain Underpants, by Dav Pilkey
Clifford’s Kittens, by Norman Bridwell
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
Crazy Creatures, by Joanne Mattern
Crickle-Crack, Stephen Cosgrove
Curious George Goes to School, by H.A. Rey
Curious George Makes Pancakes, by H.A. Rey
D.W.’s Library Card, by Marc Brown
Dark Day at Deep Sea, by Mary Pope Osborne
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
Dinosaurs
Electric Storm, by Anne Capeci (Magic School Bus)
Elizabite
Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
Escaping the Giant Wave, Peg Kehret
Fancy Nancy series, by Jane O’Connor
Fancy Nancy, Poison Ivy Expert, by Jane O’Connor
Frindle, by Andrew Clements
Garfield and 30 Years of Laughs and Lasagna
Golden Retrievers, by Lynn Stone
Goosebumps, by R.L. Stine
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
Hardy Boys #9: The Airport Mystery, by Franklin M. Dixon
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling
Horrible Harry Goes to Sea, Suzy Kline
How I got my Shrunken Head, by R.L.Stine
The Hulk
I’m Dirty, by Kate McMullan
Invisible Stanley, by Jeff Brown
It’s Not the Stork, by Robie Harris
June B. Jones, First Grader, by Barbara Park
Junie B. Jones, by Barbara Park
LBD: it’s a Girl Thing, by Grace Dent
Look Out
Look to the North: a Wolf Pup Diary, by Jean Craighead George
Marley, a Dog Like No Other, by John Grogan
Max the Minnow
Maximum Ride, by James Patterson
Maximum Ride, by James Patterson
McDuff Moves In, by Rosemary Wells
Meet the Kreeps
Mister Seahorse, by Eric Carle
Monsterblood (Goosebumps), by R.L. Stine
Montmorency, Eleanor Updale
Morris’s Christmas, by Rosemary Wells
Ms. Hannah is Bananas,by Dan Gutman
My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
Night is Right for Me
Night of the Living Dummy, by R.L. Stine
No David, by David Shannon
Penguins and Antarctica, by Mary Pope Osborne
Pony Pals #1: I Want a Pony, by Jeanne Betancourt
Read It, Don’t Eat It
Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things, by Wendelin Van Draanen
Sixth Grade Secrets, by Louis Sachar
Skateboarding, by Matt Doeden
Skippy Jon Jones and Mummy Trouble, by Judy Schachner
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Ugly, by Jane Yolen
So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane
Socks, by Beverly Cleary
Someone Stole the Cookies From the Cookie Jar
Star Wars
Summer Stinks
Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
The Barking Ghost, by R.L. Stine
The Blizzard of the Blue Moon, by Mary Pope Osborne
The Eye of the Warlock, P. W. Catanese
The Fabulous Story of Fashion
The Frog Prince, by Susanna Davidson
The Frog Princess, by Rosalind Allchin
The Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket
The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan
The Little Engine That Could, by Watty Piper
The Mystery Envelope
The Penguin That Hated the Cold
The Perfect Nest
The Rusty Trusty Tractor, by Joy Crowley
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon, by Mike Thaler
The Thief and the Beanstalk, by P. W. Catanese
The Time Warp Trio: Summer Reading Is Killing Me, by Jon Scieszka
The Very Grouchy Ladybug, by Eric Carle
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Tigers at Twilight, by Mary Pope Osborne
Tough to Tackle, by Matt Christopher
U.S. Aircraft Bombers
Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots, by Debbie Dadey
Wacky Jacks, by David Adler
Warriors: Eclipse, by Erin Hunter
X-Men