Well, a new semester is right around the corner and that means I’ve been looking through the Scholastic catalogue picking the best books at the best prices for my students.  This is what we will be reading this semester:

I always start with fairy tales. They’ll read “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault and “Aschenputtel” by the Grimm brothers and pick two more fairy tales to read.

Next is Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. A great story!

Then we get to the part of the semester where they get some choices.  They must read one book in each genre:

Fantasy

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Historical Fiction

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

Contemporary Realistic Fiction

Rules by Cynthia Lord

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Poetry

Love that Dog by Sharon Creech

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Mixed Genre

Holes by Louis Sachar

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

My students will choose two other books to read as well, based on an author and a theme.

Do you recognize some of these books and authors from when you were a child?  They are worth a re-read or a read aloud to your child or grandchild.

See some titles you don’t know?  Check them out! 

These are wonderful books. It’s going to be a great semester!