Reading Unites Nominees 2009-2010   

 

 

Author

Title

Genre

Rdg. Lvl.

Lexile

# of Pages

Amato

*The Naked Mole Rat Letters

Realistic fiction

4.6

 

266

Barber

Go Long

Sports

3.9

 

153

Beaty

Cicada Summer

Realistic fiction

4.3

 

167

Colfer

Artemis Fowl: the graphic novel

Graphic novel

5.9

 

 

Conley

Impetuous R

Fantasy

4.6

 

226

Dowd

The London Eye Mystery

Mystery

6.1

 

322

Feldman

The Gollywhopper Games

Realistic fiction

4.0

 

308

Fleischman

The Whipping Boy

Realistic fiction

4.5

 

99

Giff

Eleven

Mystery

4.1

 

164

Gifford

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little

Humorous

5.1

 

159

Hahn

Deep, Dark, & Dangerous

Mystery

4.0

 

187

Mills

Being Teddy Roosevelt

Realistic  fiction

3.8

 

90

Dowell

*Shooting the Moon

Historical fiction

5.5

 

163

Perkins

Rickshaw Girl

Realistic fiction

4.6

 

91

Rappaport

Abe’s Honest Words

Biography

3.2

 

44

St. John

*The White Giraffe

Animal fantasy

6.2

 

180

Tarshis

*Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

Realistic fiction

5.5

 

199

Urban

*A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Realistic fiction

6.3

 

213

Wilson

Leepike Ridge

Adventure

4.8

 

224

Winters

Colonial Voices—Hear Them Speak

History

4.4

 

40

* Denotes Rebecca Caudill Nominee 2010

 

Reading Unites is a joint recreational reading program for 4th and 5th grade students in District 87, Unit 5, Heyworth and Metcalf  Schools.