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Sunday, October 25, 2015

My Fifth Graders Want to Read and Discuss

Forty-five of the seventy-two fifth grade students are interested in participating in the lunch bunch book groups!

Along with gauging their interest, I also wanted to get a sense of the books they were interested in reading and discussing. Given their responses, here is a list of some of the books, series, authors, and genres we will include this year:

Books:
Fish in a Tree
All the Answers
How to Steal a Dog
Heartbeat
Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Rules
Roller Girl
Jack
Circus Mirandus
A Dog Called Homeless
Fourteenth Goldfish
Center of Everything
Wonder
One and Only Ivan
Magnus Chase

Series/Authors:
The Warriors- Erin Hunter
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
Lunch Lady - Jarrett Krosczka
Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall
Birthdays - Wendy Mass
Rick Riordan

Genres:
Fantasy
Sport Fiction
Adventure

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Take a look at all the books they mentioned!

(This is an unedited list. I copy pasted their responses straight from the Google Form.)

Out of my mind
anything by wendy mass
Echo
Rain Reign
Jack
Circus Mirandus
Fish in A Tree
Roller Girl
Vanishing Coin
Out Of My Mind
Fish in a Tree
The Normal Kid
The Candy Makers
The Center of Everything
Odd, Weird and Little
Frindle
Fish in a Tree
The whole series of Boys Against Girls
Liar and spy
The Dragon Sanctuary
The Lost Hero
All the Answers
Magnus Chase
Out of My Mind
Fish in a Tree
Fever 1793
Books by Meg Cabot, Wendy Mass, and Rick Riordan
Wonder
Wake Up Missing
The One and Only Ivan
I would like to read fantasy and adventure books, for example, The Real Boy.
I would like to read fantasy books for example, The Real Boy.
Wonder
The Magic Half
All the Answers 

Discuss                                         Read
Wonder                                         One For the Murphy's
Out of my mind                             how to steal a dog
                                                      All the Answers 
                                                     The Magic Half


Discuss                                         Read
Wonder                                         One For the Murphy's
Out of my mind                             how to steal a dog
                                                      All the Answers 
                                                     The Magic Half

All the Answers, Fish in a Tree, A Dog Called Homeless, Heartbeat
The Hunger Games
13 Gifts
11 Birthdays
Wonder, Magnus Chase Gods of Asgard Summer Sword, Percy Jackson series, Kane Chronicles series
Fantasy, Fiction, Dragons of Darkness, Erin hunter books
Fish in a Tree, All the Answers, A Dog Called Homeless, Heartbeat
The Cronus Chronicles:The Sirens Song
Wonder
Rick Riordan
Artemis Fowl
11 Birthdays       
Princess Academy
The Hero's Guide to Saving your Kingdom
The Mother Daughter Book Club
The Fault in our Stars
The Penderwicks
11 Birthdays
The Mother Daughter Book Club
The Hero's Guide to Saving your Kingdom
All the Answers
Beauty and the Beast
Fantasy, fiction, Science fiction.
Tom Sawyer, Eragon, Anything by Eoin Colfer (except Airman), Wonder, Huckleberry Finn, Rick Riordan books, treasure Island, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Beauty and the Beast
Rules
The Fault in our Stars
All The Answers
11 birthdays
A Mango-Shaped Space
Walk two moons 
Heartbeat
The Boy on the porch
Beauty and the Beast
The Fault In Our Stars 
11 Birthdays
Rules
Beauty And The Beast
The Heroes guide to Saving your Kingdom
The Power Of six
Fish in a Tree
Touch Blue
Rules
Danny the champion of the world, Rover Adventures 
Meanwhile Adventures
The Power of Six
The Power of Six
Wonder
Matt Christopher sports books
I would like to read many books like:
Hunger Games
Dark Life
The Red Pyramid
Eragon (maybe, it's long)
The Power of Six
Wonder
A fish in a tree
All the Answers
Tim Green sport books
Smile
Sisters
Drama
I Am Number Four
The Power of Six
Arcady's Goal
Artemis fowl the atlantis complex
the power of six
I am number four 
Out of my mind
Little Women
Lunch Lady
The City Of Ember
Anne Of Green Gables
The Real Boy
Rules
Eye of the storm
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
NERDS
Lots of other books I don't know about
Any books by Rick Riordan
14th Goldfish, All the Answers, Wonder, Capture the Flag, Snicker of Magic, Half a Chance, A Fish in a Tree, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, Murder is Bad Manners,
Fish in a Tree, Wonder, Walk Two Moons, Counting by Sevens, and The Real Boy. 
I would like to discuss A  Mango-Shaped space  etc. 

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