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Mrs. Sikes’ 5Mrs. Sikes’ 5thth Grade Grade Summer Reading ListSummer Reading List

HatchetHatchet

Three Stars

This book has a lackadaisical plot and storyline. It’s about a boy who gets stranded in the Canadian wilderness.

FirestarFirestar

Firestar is a really adventurous/exotic book about a tenant named David who talks to dragons.

Four Stars

Maniac MageeThis is a book about a kid who lives in a zoo with wild buffalo, plays baseball with frogs, and beats Mars Bars in a race.

Four and a Half Stars

Bud, Not BuddyBud, Not Buddy

Follow a young boy on a trip to find his father. Nothing can stop him, not even a blood-sucking vampire.

Three Stars

So B. ItThis is a suspenseful, and sad story about a girl named So B. It with a mentally retarded mom. (Girls prefer it)

Five Stars

Out of the DustOut of the Dust

This book is the diary of a courageous girl who fights the dust problems in her community. It is compelling and heart-warming.

Three Stars

EragonEragon

This book is exciting and This book is exciting and suspenseful. It is about suspenseful. It is about a boy named Eragon a boy named Eragon who finds a glowing who finds a glowing egg in the forest. egg in the forest. (preferred by boys)(preferred by boys)

Five Stars

Among The HiddenAmong The Hidden

This book has a very dark and mysterious plot. It takes place in a time when third children are illegal.

4 stars

Pendragon SeriesPendragon Series

This series is about a kid who travels through the universe to save 10 territories from falling into Chaos.

Five Stars

A Series of Unfortunate A Series of Unfortunate EventsEvents

These books have strange plots with many twists and unfortunate endings.

Five Stars

The Thief Lord

This book is filled with action, secret hideouts, and, of course, thefts.

Four Stars

Chasing RedbirdChasing RedbirdThis book is the edge-of-your-seat, yet relaxing tale about a girl who tries to uncover a secret trail that leads somewhere that is unknown. But at the same time, her uncle keeps dreaming about his dead wife and daughter. There is much more to this book to read but you will have to read it to find out.

Five Stars

Lord LossLord Loss

This book is full of adventure, gore, action, and simultaneous chess games. It is about a boy named Grubbs that is out to avenge his family from being killed by demons.

Four and one half stars

Where the Red Fern GrowsWhere the Red Fern Grows

This book is sad and gory. It’s This book is sad and gory. It’s so good, you never want to so good, you never want to put the book down. A boy put the book down. A boy named Billy travels named Billy travels through tough adventures through tough adventures with his two hunting with his two hunting hounds.hounds.

Four Stars

Cirque Du Freak

Four Stars

This book is full of action and adventure. The best part of all: gore and every person fights or dies.

Code Orange

Code Orange is about a mischievous boy who does a report on small pox, but when he procrastinates, something happens that change his life.

Three Stars

Silent BoySilent Boy

Five Stars

This is a sad and depressing book about a girl who knows a boy who is a mentally retarded mute that does something horrible, earning him a one-way ticket to the asylum.

Walk Two Moons

Five Stars

Walk Two Moons is about a girl whose friend is paranoid, she thinks that she is being stalked because mysterious letters keep ending up at her door.

The Dark Portal

This book is about a mouse that journeys into the sewers that are filled with blood-thirsty rats.

Five Stars

It’s about a boy named Percy Jackson who has to travel to the Western side of the United States to find a lightning bolt. BAM!

Four Stars

Girls BooksGirls Books So B. ItSo B. It Out of the DustOut of the Dust Chasing RedbirdChasing Redbird The Silent BoyThe Silent Boy Walk Two MoonsWalk Two Moons

HatchetHatchet Bud, Not BuddyBud, Not Buddy Among the HiddenAmong the Hidden Pendragon SeriesPendragon Series Thief LordThief Lord Lord LossLord Loss Cirque Du FreakCirque Du Freak Lightning ThiefLightning Thief The Dark PortalThe Dark Portal

Boys Books

Books for Both Firestar

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Maniac Magee

Where the Red Fern Grows

Eragon

Code Orange

CreditsCredits

Producer--------------------------Producer--------------------------Tylen C., Sophia T., Ariana G.

Director---------------------------Director--------------------------- Tylen C., Sophia T., Tylen C., Sophia T., Ariana G.Ariana G.

Books Recommended by--------Books Recommended by--------Tylen C., Jacob A., Merrit A., Miles V., Samuel C., Landry M., Damon R., Kaylee G., Brooke S., Kaman L., Nathan M., Katelyn B., Kendahl R., and Margaret S.