Hello incoming 5th graders! I hope you are enjoying your summer. I also hope that you have been reading! 🙂 Don’t forget, your first summer reading club projects are due July 1st. I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with. You can download a list of project ideas here.
A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning:
The Baudelaire Children can’t seem to catch a break. First their parents are killed and their house is burned down. Then they are sent to live with their evil Uncle Olaf who turns them into his personal slaves. Can they get out of his grasp using their wits and ingenuity? Probably, but will their be a happy ending? Definitely not!!
City of Orphans:
The streets of 1893 New York are filthy and dangerous. Newsboy thirteen-year- old Maks Geless needs to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang who is always trying to steal his newspaper earnings. Maks discovers Willa, a strange girl who lives alone in an alley. It is she, stick in hand, who fights off the Plug Uglies—but further dangers await. Maks must find a way to free his sister Emma from The Tombs, the city jail where she has been imprisoned for stealing a watch at the glamorous new Waldorf Hotel. Maks, believing her innocent, has only four days to prove it.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing:
The story is about a nine-year-old boy named Peter Hatcher and his two-year-old brother Farley Drexel Hatcher. Farley hates the sound of his legal name, and prefers to be called Fudge. Peter is sick of his bratty little brother Fudge, because he’s so bad and his parents never punish him! This is a must-read book for anyone with an annoying little sibling (or maybe for anyone who IS the annoying little sibling!)
You can read a review of Flipped here.
And here is a review of The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963 here.
