The books listed in this letter are available through your local neighborhood library so that they will be available to you and your child all summer long. Be sure to ask your librarian for additional titles.

I count on your efforts to communicate the higher standards called for in our state and city.  Your example, encouragement, and support of your child's reading will go a long way toward helping us meet the high student learning goals that we all share.

Summer gives you more time to help your child develop a love for books and reading. The staff of the Boston Public Schools and the Boston Public Library are ready and willing to assist you in planning a summer reading program for your child.

Happy Reading!

Sincerely,

DR. THOMAS PAYZANT
Superintendent
Boston Public Schools

Grades 4-5 SUMMER READING LIST

CONTEMPORARY FICTION:

Disappearing Acts Byars
The Landry News Clements
Love That Dog Creech
Salsa Stories Delacre
Seedfolks Fleischman
Radiance Descending Fox
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Gantos
Sun and Spoon Henkes
Just Juice Hesse
Ola Shakes It Up Hyppolite
When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street Johnson
The Lost Flower Children Lisle
Zooman Sam Lowry
Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs Namioka
Saving Shiloh Naylor
The Best School Year Ever Robinson
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger Sachar
Tea with Milk Say
Daring To Be Abigail Vail
The Bad Girls Voight

HISTORICAL FICTION:

The Gawgon and the Boy Alexander
Bud, Not Buddy Curtis
The Watson's Go To Birmingham - 1963 Curtis
Matilda Bone Cushman
Guests Dorris
Bandit's Moon Fleishman
Nory Ryan's Song Giff
The Captive Hansen
When Jessie Came Across the Sea Hest
The Year of Miss Agnes Hill
Our Only May Amelia Holm
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubliee Singers Hopkinson
Nim and the War Effort Lee
Number the Stars Lowry
Run Away Home McKissack
See Saw Girl Park
Park's Quest Paterson
Cat Running Synder
The Well: David's Story Taylor

FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION:

Skellig Almond
Well Wished Billingsley
The Boggart Cooper
Half Magic Eager
My Father's Dragon Gannett
Witch Week Jones
Ella Enchanted Levine
The Doll Parade Martin
Prince of the Pond Napoli
Firework Maker's Daughter Pullman
I Was a Rat! Pullman
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling
Summer Reading Is Killing Me Sciesczka
The Castle in the Attic Winthrop
Wizard's Hall Yolen

BIOGRAPHY:

Shipwrecked Blumberg
Through My Eyes Bridges
Out of Darkness Freedman
Malcolm X Myers
A Braid of Lives Phillip
Duke Ellington Pinkney
Jump at de Sun Porter
Satchel Page Ransome
Sacagawea St. George
Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid Spinelli
Joan of Arc Stanley
Shaka: King of the Zulus Stanley

FOLKTALES, FAIRY TALES AND LEGENDS:

Ouch!: a Tale from Grimm Babbitt
The Emerald Lizard DeSpain
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Goble
The People Could Fly Hamilton
The Troll With No Heart in His Body Lunge-Larsen
Women Warriors Mayer
The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural McKissack
Ask the Bones Olson
Fairytales of Oscar Wilde Wilde & Philip
Golem Wisniewski
Rapunzel Zelinsky

SELECTED CORE LITERATURE: 

GRADE 4:

My Name is Maria Isabel Ada
Poppy Avi
Circle of Gold Boyd
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes Coerr
The Courage of Sarah Noble Dalgliesh
The Hundred Dresses Estes
Stone Fox Gardiner
Koya Delaney and the Good Girl Blues Greenfield
Onion Tears Kidd
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg
Sarah, Plain and Tall McLachlan
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear Namioka
Riding Freedom Ryan
The Cricket in Times Square Selden
Abel's Island Steig
Sign of the Beaver Speare
Song of the Trees Taylor
Charlotte's Web White
The Castle in the Attic Winthrop

GRADE 5:

The Fighting Ground Avi
Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary
War Comes to Willy Freedom Collier
Don't Read This Book, Whatever You Do! Dakos
The Whipping Boy Fleishman
Snow Treasure McSwigan
Crossing the Starlight Bridge Mead
Felita Mohr
Journey to 'JoBurg Naidoo
Shiloh Naylor
Sing Down the Moon O'Dell
Kid in the Red Jacket Park
The Great Gilly Hopkins Paterson
Canyons Paulsen
Missing May Rylant
The Real Thief Steig
Mississippi Bridge Taylor
Journey to Topaz Uchida
The Star Fisher Yep
The Devil's Arithmetic Yolen

INFORMATIONAL BOOKS:

Growing Up in Coal Country Bartolli
The Kids' Summer Handbook Drake
The Great Wall of China Fisher
Around the World in 100 Years Fritz
The Top of the World: Climbing Mt. Everest Jenkins
Prehistoric Life Explained Johnson
Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers McKissack
The Great Fire Murphy
At Her Majesty's Request Myers, Walter Dean
Skyscrapers Severence
Destination Mars Simon
The Kids' Multicultural Art Book Terzian
Orphan Train Rider Warren
Gladiator Watkins
A Drop of Water Wick
The Wigwam and the Longhouse Yue

LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL 4-5:

Cuéntame un cuento Adams
El Duende y el robot Alonso
Querido Senor Henshaw Cleary
Sadako y las mil grullas de papel Coerr
Molly y los peregrinos Cohen
James y el melocoton gigante Dahl
Tainos  Dorris
Beisbol en los barrios  Horenstein
Anastasia tiene problemas Lowry
Sarah, sencilla y alto MacLachlan
Mares y oceanos Maestro
Le gran Gilly Hopkins Paterson
La isla de Abel Steig
La Abuela tejodora Orlev
Hay algo mas grande que una ballena azul Wells
Encuentro  Yolen

Los libros en Español están disponibles en la Biblioteca Central como también en las siguientes Bibliotecas de: Dudley, Connolly, Egleston Square, Parker Hill y las sucursales del South End. Los títulos que no se encuentrar en estas agencias, pueden ser ordenados Viá Préstamos, entre las Bibliotecas que integran el Sistema.

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
SUMMER READING PROGRAM, 2003

The Arts! "Read Think Create"

The Boston Public Library's Summer Reading program invites all readers to focus on the magical world of books. Special programs and activities are planned to encourage families to get involved in reading together.

For more information, call the nearest branch library.

Adams Street 617-436-6900
Brighton 617-782-6032
Charlestown 617-242-1248
Codman Square 617-436-8214
Connolly 617-522-1960
Dudley 617-442-6186
East Boston 617-569-0271
Egleston Square 617-445-4340
Faneuil 617-782-6705
Fields Corner 617-436-2155
Grove Hall 617-427-3337
Honan-Allston 617-787-6313
Hyde Park 617-361-2524
Jamaica Plain 617-524-2053
Lower Mills 617-298-7841
Mattapan 617-298-9218
North End 617-227-8135
Orient Heights 617-567-2516
Parker Hill 617-427-3820
Roslindale 617-323-2343
South Boston 617-268-0180
South End 617-536-8241
Uphams Corner 617-265-0139
Washington Village 617-269-7239
West End 617-523-3957
West Roxbury 617-325-3147

Central Library 617-536-5400
Children's Room ext. 2328
Copley Square