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Entering Fifth Graders
2012 Summer Reading Lists
Attachment #7b
Title: Joey Pigza Loses Control
Author: Jack Gantos
Summary: Sequel to: Joey Pigza swallowed the key. Joey, who is still taking medication
to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking
father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the
championship.
Title: My Side of the Mountain Trilogy
Author: Jean Craighead George
Summary: My side of the mountain -- On the far side of the mountain -- Frightful's
mountain presents the three-volume story of Sam Gribley, a nature-loving boy who runs
away from home and spends a year living in a tree with a young peregrine falcon,
Frightful.
Title: Her Stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
Author: Virginia Hamilton
Summary: A collection of tales about the supernatural and animals, fairy tales, folk tales
and legends, by and about African American women.
Title: The Music of Dolphins
Author: Karen Hesse
Summary: Using sophisticated computer technology, a fifteen-year-old girl who has
been raised by dolphins, records her thoughts about her reintroduction to the human
world.
Title: My One Hundred Adventures
Author: Polly Horvath
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jane, who lives at the beach in a run-down old house with
her mother, two brothers, and sister, has an eventful summer accompanying her pastor on
bible deliveries, meeting former boyfriends of her mother's, and being coerced into
babysitting for a family of ill-mannered children.
Title: Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
Author: Deborah and James Howe
Summary: Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human
nature-loving boy who runs away from home and spends
a year living in a tree with a family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.