Teacher-Selected Books for This Month's Reading Clubs

Last updated Thursday, July 2, 2009

July: "Independence and Growing Up"

Click on each book title for synopsis, discussion topics, and activity ideas.
Please note: We will provide you with hardcover copies of these titles to read to the children.
After the reading clubs, these books will be donated immediately to each school's library.

	Kindergarten The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Everyone loves The Little Engine That Could, that classic tale of the determined little engine that, despite its size, triumphantly pulls a train ...   (read more)
	1st Grade There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, by Pam Adams and Simms Taback Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 3. From cover to moral (never swallow a horse), this cleverly illustrated version of an old folk ...   (read more)
	2nd Grade Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Amazon.com Review Poor Stanley. He's a perfectly normal boy until one morning he wakes up flat. After his parents peel the incriminating bulletin ...   (read more)
	3rd Grade Mrs. Katz and Tush, by Patricia Polacco Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  A warm, lovingly told story about an intergenerational relationship. It is the beginning of a long friendship between Mrs. Katz, widowed, childless, ...   (read more)
	4th Grade The BFG, by Roald Dahl Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Amazon.com Review Evidently not even Roald Dahl could resist the acronym craze of the early eighties. BFG? Bellowing ferret-faced golfer? ...   (read more)
	5th Grade Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar Click here for craft ideas, discussion topics, and activities. Summary:  Amazon.com Review The Wayside School was supposed to be one story high, with 30 classrooms side by side; instead, it was built sideways, with 30 ...   (read more)