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Sam came tumbling out of my closet, fighting my shirts, pants, and hangers
wrapped around him.
Fred and I took one look and fell back laughing. Sam finally pulled my
basketball shorts off his head. He stood there still covered in clothes and
hangers. We started laughing all over again.
Ahem.
We froze.
Ahem.
It was my little sister Anna, standing in the doorway.
I don t really want to know what you are doing, said Anna. I just wanted to
ask you, Joe, if you have any ribbon I can use for my
Anna held out her stuffed toy. And before the words teddy bear were even out
of her mouth, the three of us dove into my closet screaming, Nooooooo!
Anna backed slowly out of my room. She held her teddy bear behind her. We
peeked out of the closet.
You guys are so weird, said Anna. So weird.
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Summer Reading List
Each student must read four books during the summer and fill out the attached
study guide for two of them.
EARLY READERS
Amelia Bedelia
(series), by Peggy Parish
The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss
The Cat in the Hat, by Dr. Seuss
Curious George
(series), by H. A. Rey
Frog and Toad
(series), by Arnold Lobel
George and Martha
(series), by James Marshall
Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss
Grimms Fairy Tales
Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson
The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne
Madeline
(series), by Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey
Mother Goose
Nate the Great
(series), by Marjorie W. Sharmat
The Snowman, by Raymond Briggs
The Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, folk tale
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
MIDDLE READERS
Blue Moose, Fat Men from Space, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, and pretty much
anything written by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Bunnicula, by James Howe
Charlotte s Web, by E. B. White
The Devil s Storybook, by Natalie Babbitt
Encyclopedia Brown
(series), by Donald
J.
Sobol
Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown
Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
Homer Price, by Robert McCloskey
I Was a Teenage Gangster, by A Badguy
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis
Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Poppins, by P. L. Travers
Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
Ramona
(series), by Beverly Cleary
Robin Hood, retold by Rosemary Sutcliff
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
Treehorn Times Three, by Florence Parry Heide
The Twits, Matilda, The BFG, and a lot of things by Roald Dahl
Wayside School Is Falling Down, by Louis Sachar
The White Mountains, by John Christopher
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
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OLDER READERS
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Aesop s Fables, by Aesop
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
The Book of Three, and everything written by Lloyd Alexander
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Dracula, by Brain Stoker
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece, by W. H. D. Rouse
The Hobbit, by
J.
R. R. Tolkien
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
BE-EXTREMELY-CAREFUL-WHEN-YOU-READERS
Anything with Teddy Bears in It, by Anyone
PERFECT-F0R-KNOCKING-OUT-PARROTS-AND-SAVING
THE-DAY READERS
Junior Classics, Volume Two: Once upon a Time
STUDY GUIDE
*Write the title and author of the book.
*Identify two major characters of the book.
*Imagine who you would have play the major characters in the movie version of
the book.
*Tap your pencil on the paper.
*Stare out the window and daydream.
*Put the study guide away and don t look at it again until the night before
the first day of school.
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