November Book Report

Genre: Nonfiction (not a biography or autobiography)

Directions:

1. Choose a nonfiction book (not a biography or autobiography) that is at your reading level. A variety of average fifth grade reading level books are listed at the bottom of this page. If you are reading above the fifth grade reading level, try a book from the Challenge list. If you are reading below the fifth grade reading level, try a book from the Easy list.
2. Read the book on your own.
3. Create a Nonfiction Book Report Mobile and present it to someone else, or to a group of people.

Make a mobile using a hanger (any style, but must have a hook or loop at the top to hang from the ceiling) and note cards. Each notecard should have a picture or graphic on one side and a written explanation in full sentences on the other side.

What to include:

• 1 note card with the topic you read about.
• 1 note card with Title and Author
• 1 note card with your rating (1-5) and why.
• 1 note card with your classification (easy, just right, challenge) and why.
• 3 note cards, each with one fact that you learned about your topic. Use complete sentences!

Be creative! Make your mobile neat, easy to read, and unique!

Possible Book Selections:

Average Book List

• Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty, Joy Masoff
• More Science Experiments You Can Eat, Vicki Cobb
• Scientists from Archimedes to Einstein, Struan Reid and Patricia Fara
• Explorers from Columbus to Armstrong, Struan Reid and Patricia Fara
• Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, Clinton Cox
• Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids, Seymour Simon
• Protecting Trees and Forests, Felicity Brooks
• The History News Explorers, Michael Johnstone
• How to Do Homework without Throwing Up, Trevor Romain
• Seas and Oceans, Felicity Brooks
• Lightning! and Thunderstorms, Mike Graf
• Painters of the Caves, Patricia Lauber
• Weather & Climate, Fiona Watt and Francis Wilson
• Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
• The Book of Horses, Glenn Balch
• Horses, Jackie Budd
• Storms and Hurricanes, Kathy Gemmell
• Everything you want to know about Creepy Crawlies, Wendy Madgwick
• Insect Life, Dr. Jennifer Owen
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes, Juli Barbato
• Usborne Mysteries and Marvels of Plant Life, Barbara Cork
• Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr.
• Inventors from DaVinci to Biro, Struan Reid and Patricia Fara
• Max: The Dog That Refused to Die, Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne

• National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia, National Geographic Society
• Before The Sun Dies, Roy A. Gallant
• The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz
• Amistad Slave Revolt and American Abolition, Karen Zeinert
• The Toxic Waste Time Bomb, Judith Woodburn
• What You Can Do For the Environment, Mike Wald
• It's Our World, Too!, Phillip Hoose
• The Explorers of Alaska, John David Ragan
• Ocean Pollution, Maria Talen
• Populary Has Its Ups And Downs, Mag F. Schneider
• Calligraphy Projects, Fiona Watt and Anna Rowley
• Story of OshKosh B'Gosh, James C. Naleid

• Coin Collecting for Kids, Steve Otfinoski
• How a Book is Made, Aliki
• Oil Spill!, Melvin Berger
• What is the World Made Of? Solid, Liquid, Gas, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
• Does Cheese Grow on Trees? A Book about Food, Michael Teitelbaum
• People of the Breaking Day, Marcia Sewall
• The Peanut Cookbook, Natalie Donna
• What's for Dinner?, Virginia King
• How to Draw Horses, Lucy Smith
• How to Draw Cool Wheels, Jael
• Search for the Missing Bones, Eva Moore
• What a Plant!, Christine Latham