Summer Reading 2023

 Fred W. Miller Elementary School

Please try and read for 20 minutes a day!! Have a wonderful, happy, healthy summer!

~ Mrs. Canal

Reading Recommendations by Grade

Entering 3rd or 4th

Chapter Books

• The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliot
• A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
• Ruby in the Sky by Jeanne zulick Ferruolo
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence & Richard Atwater
• Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
• The Mis-adventures of Maude March
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
• How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay by Julia Alvarez
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• Make Way For Daymonde Daniel by Nikki Grimes
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
• Other Words From Home by Jasmine Warga

Chapter Book Series

• Cam Jansen by David A. Adler
• Hamster Princess by Ursula Vernon
• Seekers by Erin Hunter
• Whatever After by Sarah Mylnowski
• Al Capone Does my Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
• The 13-Story Treehouse by Andy Griffiths
• Fantastic Frame by Lin Oliver (OUT OF PRINT)

Graphic Novels

• New Kid by Jerry Craft
• Zita the Space Girl by Ben Hatke
• New Shoes by Sara Varon
• Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez
• Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale
• When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson

Entering 5th

Chapter Books

• Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth
• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
• Blended by Sharon Draper
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Baseball in April and other stories by Gary Soto
• Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
• Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
• Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood
• Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
• Charlie Hernández and the League of Shadows by Ryan Calego
• Race To the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
• Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
• Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
• The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry
• Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
• Alone by Megan Freeman
• Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
• The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Favorite Series

• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
• Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling
• Who HQ? by Penguin Workshop
• The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Graphic Novels

• Smile by Raina Telgemeier
• HiLo by Judd Winick
• My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun
• Kerry and the Knight in the Forest by Andi Watson
• Cub by Cynthia Copeland
• Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Le