Summer vacation means finally having time to enjoy reading as a pleasant and relaxed activity. We encourage your family to visit the library frequently. The following list contains favorite books and authors from which to choose. Extra copies are available at the Smith and Atwater Libraries.

General Summer Reading Guidelines

1. Read at least 10 books or other books by the same author from this booklist. Write the title and author of the book on the reading log on the back cover of this pamphlet. A parent's signature is required when the 10 books are read.

2. Books written on the TVES Summer Reading Log may also count for the summer reading program at the Smith and Atwater Libraries, and for the Governor's Summer Reading Challenge. To participate in the public library summer reading program, you should sign up at the Smith or Atwater Library, beginning June 19.

3. In September, present your completed reading log to your classroom teacher. A reading certificate will be awarded to students who have completed the requirements.

FICTION BOOKS

Aardema, Verna -- Misoso
American Girl Series
Applegate, K. A. -- Animorphs (series)
Atwater, Richard & Florence -- Mr. Popper's Penguins
Avi -- Poppy
Babbitt, Natalie -- Tuck Everlasting
Banks, Lynn Reid -- The Indian in the Cupboard (series)
Betancourt, Jeanne -- My Name is Brain Brian
Boyd, Candy Dawson -- Chevrolet Saturdays
Britain, Bill -- Shape Changer
Bryant, Bonnie -- The Saddle Club (series)
Bunting, Eve -- In Between Days
Bunting, Eve -- Nasty Stinky Sneakers
Butterworth, Oliver -- Enormous Egg
Byars, Betsy -- Trouble River
Christopher, Matt -- The Hit-Away Kid (and others)
Cleary, Beverly -- Henry Huggins (and others)
Clements, Andrew -- Frindle
Coatsworth, Elizabeth -- The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Conrad, Pam -- Stonewords: A Ghost Story
Coville, Bruce -- The World's Worst Fairy Godmother
Curtis, Christopher Paul -- Bud, Not Buddy
Cushman, Katherine -- The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Cutler, Jane -- Spaceman
Dahl, Roald -- James and the Giant Peach
Dear America Series
DeFelice, Cynthia -- Lostman's River
Drucker, Malka -- Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story
Fleischman, Sid -- Jim Ugly
Gaeddert, Louann -- Breaking Free
George, Jean C. -- Julie of the Wolves
Gutman, Dan -- Million Dollar Shot
Haddix, Margaret Peterson -- Running Out of Time
Hesse, Karen -- Music of Dolphins
Hest, Amy -- Private Notebook of Katie Roberts
Kehret, Peg -- Nightmare Mountain
King-Smith, Dick -- Three Terrible Trins
Konigsburg, E. L. -- View from Saturday about the B'nai Bagels
Lawson, Robert -- Rabbit Hill
Lenski, Lois -- Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
Levine, Gail Carson -- Ella Enchanted
Lindgren, Astrid -- Pippi Longstocking
Lowry, Lois -- Anastasia Krupnik
MacLachlan, Patricia -- Skylark
Mathis, Sharon Bell -- The Hundred Penny Box
McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy -- Live from the Fifth Grade
Mead, Alice -- Junebug
Mikaelsen, Ben -- Rescue Josh McGuire
Mills, Claudia -- Dina for President
My Name is America Series
Namioka, Lensey -- Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
Napoli, Donna Jo -- Prince of the Pond, Otherwise Known as DeFawng Pin
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds -- Shiloh (series)
Nelson, Vaunda -- Mayfield Crossing
Nixon, Joan Lowry -- Search for the Shadowman
O'Dell, Scott -- Sarah Bishop
Parks, Barbara -- Skinnybones
Paulsen, Gary -- Mr. Tucket
Rockwell, Thomas -- How to Eat Fried Worms
Rylant, Cynthia -- Gooseberry Park
Sachar, Louis -- Holes
Shreve, Susan -- Joshua T. Bates in Trouble Again
Sobol, Donald -- Encyclopedia Brown (series)
Spinelli, Jerry -- Wringer
Stolz, Mary -- The Noonday Friends
Taylor, Mildred -- Friendship
Wallace, Bill -- The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade
White, E. B. -- Charlotte's Web
Wilder, Laura Ingalls -- By the Shores of Silver Lakes (and others)
Woodruff, Elvira -- Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
Wright, Betty Wren -- Too Many Secrets
Yep, Lawrence -- Dragon Wings
Yolen, Jane -- The Dragon's Boy

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POETRY

Driver, Raymond -- Animalimericks
Fleischman, Paul -- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Florian, Douglas -- Laugh-eteria
Harrison, Michael -- One Hundred Years of Poetry
Hopkins, Lee Bennett -- Munching: Poems about Eating
Lowe, Mifflin A. -- Beasts by the Bunches
Merriam, Eve -- Many Books
Moss, Jeff -- The Butterfly Jar
Native American Poetry
Prelutsky, Jack -- The New Kid on the Block
Schnenk de Regniers, Beatrice and others -- Sing a Song of Popcorn
Silverstein, Shel -- Where the Sidewalk Ends
Viorst, Judith -- If I Were In Charge of the World

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BIOGRAPHIES / NON-FICTION

Ballard, Robert -- The Lost Wreck of the Isis
Christopher, Matt -- Sports biographies
Eyewitness Series
George, Jean C. -- One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest
Gibbons, Gail -- Knights in Shining Armor
Kudlinski, Kathleen -- Juliette Gordon Low, America's First Girl Scout
Lauber, Patricia -- Volcano
Mochizuki, Ken -- Passage to Freedom
Native American Series
Overcoming the Odds (Biography series)
Pringle, Lawrence -- Elephant Woman
Simon, Seymour -- Wolves
Sports Great Series
The Life and Times (Biography series)
They Died Too Young (Biography series)
Tillage, Leon Walter -- Leon's Story

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THESE ARE JUST A FEW SUGGESTIONS. PLEASE REFER TO THE ABOVE SECTIONS AT YOUR PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR MORE TITLES

2001 Connecticut Nutmeg Children's Award

DeFeline, Cynthia -- Ghost of Fossil Glen
Delaney, M. -- Deep Doo-Doo
Holt, K. W. -- My Louisiana Sky
Klass, S. -- Shooting Star: A Novel about Annie Oakley
MacDonald, A. -- No More Nice
Ryan, P. M. -- Riding Freedom
Snyder, Z. -- Gib Rides Home
VanDraanen, W. -- Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wardlaw, L. -- 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
White, R. -- Belle Prater's Boy

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