Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Reading Road Trip 2014-2015 Themes and Destinations

Abracadabra: Fantastic Reading Magic
Dorko the Magnificent by Andrea Beaty
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
Who Was Harry Houdini? by Tui Sutherland
The Real Boy by Anne Ursu

Extreme Reading: Adventure and Survival Stories
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret
Dive, Everest, Island, and Titanic series by Gordon Korman
Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen
I Survived… series by Lauren Tarshis

Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Fables
The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff

Poetry on Parade: Novels in Verse
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Little Dog, Lost by Marion Duane Bauer
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
Hidden by Helen Frost

Sharing Your Story: Memorable Memoirs
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories about Growing Up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

Do We Dewey?  Adventures in the Library
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? by Avi
The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Punished by David Lubar
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

Solid Gold: Newbery and Caldecott Winners
The One and Only Ivan by Kate Applegate
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead