{"id":38,"date":"2008-05-29T17:08:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/summer-reading-letter-for-rising-5th-graders\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:24:46","slug":"summer-reading-letter-for-rising-5th-graders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/summer-reading-letter-for-rising-5th-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Letter for Rising 5th Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Fourth-into-Fifth Graders,<\/p>\n<p>Many new academic experiences await you in Dalton\u2019s fifth grade, and the Fifth Grade House Advisors are looking forward to meeting each and every one of you. Because we feel that reading is such an important part of your educational and personal development, your summer assignment is to read at least three books from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/2011-summer-reading-list-for-rising-5th-and-6th-grade-students\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Reading List for Rising 5th and 6th Graders<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/recommended-book-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recommended Book Series<\/a> list, prepared by Mrs. Feldman.<\/p>\n<p>We request that you record the titles and authors of all the books you devour. In September, Mrs. Feldman and Mr. Quain will have you share some of your favorite titles.<\/p>\n<p>However, since many of you will have the pleasure of reading the following books with your classmates next year, we ask you to <strong>NOT <\/strong>choose the following books as your summer reading books:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eyes of the Amaryllis, Tuck Everlasting<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Search for Delicious <\/strong><\/em>by Natalie Babbitt<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>The Hunger Games <\/strong><\/em>by Suzanne Collins<br \/>\n<em><strong> Ruby Holler<\/strong><\/em> by Sharon Creech (and other Creech titles)<strong><em><br \/>\nThe City of Ember<\/em><\/strong> by Joanne DuPrau<em><strong><br \/>\nSeedfolks<\/strong><\/em> by Paul Fleischman<em><strong><br \/>\nOut of the Dust<\/strong><\/em> by Karen Hesse<em><strong><br \/>\nFrom The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/strong><\/em> by E.L. Konigsburg<em><strong><br \/>\nThe Giver<\/strong><\/em> by Lois Lowry<em><strong><br \/>\nThe Westing Game<\/strong><\/em> by Ellen Raskin<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Chew On This<\/strong><\/em> by Eric Schlosser<em><strong><br \/>\nEmma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree<\/strong><\/em> by Lauren Tarshis<em><strong><br \/>\nThe Cay <\/strong><\/em>by Theodore Taylor<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful summer,<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nHouse Advisors, Fifth Grade<br \/>\nLibrarians, Middle School Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Fourth-into-Fifth Graders, Many new academic experiences await you in Dalton\u2019s fifth grade, and the Fifth Grade House Advisors are looking forward to meeting each and every one of you. Because we feel that reading is such an important part of your educational and personal development, your summer assignment is to read at least three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}