5th grade summer reading choices

Incoming 5th graders, please choose one of the 6 books listed below to read over the summer.
Be prepared to discuss and complete an assignment related to the book you choose when you return to school in August. We encourage all students to read at least 2 additional books.

Books are available to check out from the Pleasantdale Middle School library. You may also purchase, borrow, or check out the book from another library.

Happy reading!

While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.

In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.

A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.

In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Summer library hours 2016

Pleasantdale Middle School

Summer Library Hours 2016

Mrs. Steinmetz will have the Middle School Library open for all students to visit, read, or participate in activities on Tuesdays from 6pm - 8pm and Wednesdays from 11am - 1pm.

June 14 & 15 - we will be using iPads to take and edit photos using different apps.
June 21 & 22 - Sign up to read The Lightning Thief, Ender's Game, or The Witches. We will discuss the book then watch the movie on July 26 & 27.
June 28 & 29 - Learn how to post to the library blog and YouTube channel.
July 5 & 6 - Create a book club with a group of friends then come to the library on these dates to discuss the book! If book choices are given to Mrs. Steinmetz before the end of the school year, she will do her best to schedule a chat with the author of the selected books!
July 12 & 13 - Come to the library to listen to an audiobook and do some extreme coloring!
July 19 & 20 - Use old books, washi tape, and other supplies to create art and bookmarks.
July 26 & 27 - Meet to discuss and watch the movies The Lightning Thief, Ender's Game or The Witches.
August 2 & 3 - Create a book club with a group of friends then come to the library on these dates to discuss the book! If book choices are given to Mrs. Steinmetz before the end of the school year, she will do her best to schedule a chat with the author of the selected books!
August 9 & 10 - Learn how to make Origami cranes and more! Mrs. Steinmetz will be reading The Secret Hum of a Daisy.
August 16 & 17 - Come to the library to play all types of games! Families welcome to make this a "family game night."