I'm a counselor again for MELSA's Camp Read-a-Lot, this year to be held at Como Zoo! The featured author is J. Patrick Lewis. Camp will be Thursday, August 6. Find more details here: http://www.campreadalot.org/
I'm going to be discussing the Camper's Choice books with teachers that work with 4th and 5th graders. The reading list is:
2015 Camp Read-A-Lot: Grades 4&5 Reading List
Fiction
Aviary Wonders, Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual: Renewing the World’s Bird Supply Since 2031 by Kate Samworth
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
Reign Rain by Ann M. Martin
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson
Kinda Like Brothers by Coe Booth (Scholastic, 2014). 9780545224963.
Camper’s Choice
Camper’s Choice by J. Patrick Lewis – choose any title by our keynote author to read and review.
Camper’s Choice – Any title of your choice (fiction or nonfiction) that meets the following criteria:
a. You have not read it before this summer
b. Original copyright is no older than 2012
c. Ideal for classroom use or free reading
d. Avoid highly popular titles, books recently made into movies, major award winners
Nonfiction
El Deafo by Cece Bell
If…:A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers by David J. Smith
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupery by Peter Sís
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses by Rebecca L. Johnson
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature by Sarah Campbell
Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo
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