A New Model for Urban Learning

Return this sheet to any Hartford Public Library branch by August 23rd to get a free book and a ticket to the

August 24th Yard Goats game! Write down what you READ, where you GO, and what you DO.

READ: Write down the titles of books you read.

GO: Write down the names of museums, parks, or other fun places you visit.

DO: Write down whatever you create this summer—art, a science experiment, etc.

Name ___________________________________

School __________________________________

Student ID __________________

Grade entering _________________

A New Model for Urban Learning

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Hartford Public Schools

Suggested Summer Reading Grades 3-5

Read all summer and participate in the Hartford Public Library Summer

Learning Program.

Use this list as a guide for book selection and featured author explorations.

Fourth Grade: FEATURED AUTHOR: Kathleen Krull

Violet Mackerel’s Pocket Protest, Branford Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed

Buffalo Music, Fern the Wind and Changed Their World, Drummond

The Wild Ones, London A Boy Named FDR: How Franklin D. Roosevelt

Brick by Brick, Smith Grew Up to Change America, Krull

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea, McKay The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of

Annie Glover is Not a Tree Lover, Bailey Beard Korea, Sibley O'Brien

Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs, Muntean

Fifth Grade: FEATURED AUTHOR: Sarah Mlynowski

Because of Mr. Terupt, Buyea Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of

Gaby, Lost and Found, Cervantes the Civil Rights Movement, Boston Weatherford

Seedfolks, Fleischman Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman's Courage

Hoot, Hiaasen in the Struggle for American Labor Union

Operation Redwood, Terrell French Rights, Cronk Farrell

Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall, Silvey Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her

Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Family's Flight for Desegregation, Tonatiuh

Who Fight Them, Magnuson Beil

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Third Grade: FEATURED AUTHOR: Jeff Kinney

Dream Something Big, Aston Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra

Marvelous Cornelius, Bildner of Paraguay, Hood

Manatee Rescue, Davies Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett

Book Uncle and Me, Krishnaswami and the Invention of the Modern Zoo, Maxwell

Waiting for the Magic, MacLachlan Sydney & Simon Go Green!, Reynolds

Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: The Camping Trip That Changed America:

How Anne Carroll Moore Created Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and

Libraries for Children, Pinborough Our National Parks, Rosenstock

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