summerreading

Summer Reading Suggestions
By Upper El. Junior Great Books Students

MCS Upper El students listed these stories and books as their favorites. Your elementary aged child might like to read some of them, or have you read them aloud, this summer. Many elementary aged children enjoy adventure tales from traditional fairy tales to epic battles between contemporary heroes and villains. You are the best judge of when your child is ready for some of the darker scenes found in children’s literature old and new. Enjoy! __ Trumpeter of Krakow__ by Eric P. Kelly

__The Opal Deception__ by Eoin Colfer

“The Enchanted Sticks” by Steven J. Myers

__Bridge to Terabithia__ by Katherine Paterson

“The Wizard and the Hopping Pot” by JK Rowling, from __The Tales of Beedle the Bard__

__Annabel Lee__ by Edgar Allen Poe, Illustrated by Gilles Tibo

“Straw and Matches” by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, from __Squids will be Squids__

“Cedric” by Tove Jansson from __Tales from Moominvalley__

“From the Shore” by Carl Sandburg, from __A Treasury of Poetry for Young People__

__Inkheart__, by Cornelia Funke

__Tales of Mystery and Madness__, by Edgar Allen Poe, illustrated by Gris Grimly

__Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone__, by J.K. Rowling

__The Second Mrs. Giaconda__, by E.L. Konisburg

__The Bone Series__, by Jeff Smith