Garden State 2010 Nonfiction List/Ballot 

GRADES 3, 4 & 5 

 

Please note the titles indicated with *** are recommended for 5th graders due to content and reading level.                                     Parent discretion advised

 

 

Title

Author

 

***Anne Frank: The Young Writer Who told the World Her Story                  

Kramer,Ann

 

Ape

Jenkins, Martin

 

Caring for Cheetahs: My African Adventure

Hansen, Rosanna

 

Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings

Florian, Douglas

 

Flush!: The Scoop on Poop Through the Ages

Harper, Charise Mericle

 

Groundhog Day

Gibbons, Gail

 

Hey Batta Batta Swing!: the Wild Old Days of Baseball

Cook, Sally and James Charlton

 

Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World

Hatkoff, Juliana, Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Gerald R. Uhlich

 

Living Color

Jenkins, Steve

 

Nic Bishop Spiders

Bishop, Nic

 

Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship

Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff & Paula Kahumbu

 

Parrotfish and Sunken Ships: Exploring a Tropical Reef

Arnosky, Jim

 

A Seed is Sleepy

Aston, Dianna Hutts

 

Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds

Burleigh, Robert

 

Strong Man: The Story of Charles Atlas

McCarthy, Meghan

 

Tap Dancing on the Roof

Park, Linda Sue

 

Twist: Yoga Poems

Wong, Janet S.

 

***The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain                                                

Sis, Peter

 

What's Eating You?: Parasites - The Inside Story

Davies, Nicola

 

When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs

Bonner, Hannah

           

 

 

 

Garden State 2010 Fiction List/Ballot

GRADES 3, 4 & 5 

 

 

 

 

Title

Author

 

The Aurora County All-Stars

Wiles. Deborah

 

Being Teddy Roosevelt

Mills, Claudia

 

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Urban, Linda

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal

Kinney, Jeff

 

Elijah of Buxton

Curtis, Christopher Paul

 

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

Tarshis, Lauren

 

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

Jonell, Lynne

 

First Light

Stead, Rebecca

 

A Friendship for Today

McKissack, Patricia C.

 

The Great Cape Rescue

Shalant, Phyllis

 

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Selznick, Brian

 

Jack Plank Tells Tales

Babbitt, Natalie

 

Lawn Boy

Paulsen, Gary

 

The Mischief Monster

Coville, Bruce

 

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little

Gifford, Peggy

 

No Talking

Clements, Andrew

 

On The Wings of Heroes

Peck, Richard

 

Summerhouse Time

Spinelli, Eileen

 

The Talented Clementine

Pennypacker, Sara

 

Vampire Island

Griffin, Adele