Entering Fifth Graders 2010 Summer Reading Lists - Holmdel

Entering Fifth Graders2010 Summer Reading ListsTitle: Joey Pigza Loses ControlAuthor: Jack GantosSummary: Sequel to: Joey Pigza swallowed the key. Joey, who is still taking medicationto keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinkingfather he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win thechampionship.Title: My Side of the Mountain TrilogyAuthor: Jean Craighead GeorgeSummary: My side of the mountain -- On the far side of the mountain -- Frightful'smountain presents the three-volume story of Sam Gribley, a nature-loving boy who runsaway 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 talesAuthor: Virginia HamiltonSummary: A collection of tales about the supernatural and animals, fairy tales, folk talesand legends, by and about African American women.Title: The Music of DolphinsAuthor: Karen HesseSummary: Using sophisticated computer technology, a fifteen-year-old girl who hasbeen raised by dolphins, records her thoughts about her reintroduction to the humanworld.Title: My One Hundred AdventuresAuthor: Polly HorvathSummary: Twelve-year-old Jane, who lives at the beach in a run-down old house withher mother, two brothers, and sister, has an eventful summer accompanying her pastor onbible deliveries, meeting former boyfriends of her mother's, and being coerced intobabysitting for a family of ill-mannered children.Title: Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of MysteryAuthor: Deborah and James HoweSummary: Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his humannature-loving boy who runs away from home and spendsa year living in a tree with a family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.