September Book Report

Genre: Historical Fiction (1950's or longer ago)

Directions:

1. Choose a book 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. Give a Book Talk to someone else, or a group of people.

Possible Book Selections:

Average Book List

• When the Soldiers Were Gone, Vera W. Propp
• Dear America: My Heart is on the Ground; The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Souix Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880, Ann Rinaldi
• Under the Blood Red Sun, Graham Salisbury *
• The Journey of Natty Gann, Ann Matthews
• Foster's War, Carolyn Reeder
• Number the Stars, Lois Lowery *
• American Diaries: Summer MacCleary: Virginia 1749, Kathleen Duey
• American Diaries: Anisett Lundberg: California 1851, Kathleen Duey
• American Diaries: Elizabeth Hawkins: Mobeetie, Texas 1886, Kathleen Duey
• Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Orphan Train Adventures series, Joan Lowery Nixon *

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
• The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
• Kim, Rudyard Kipling
• Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
• If Ever I Return Again, Corinne Demas
• Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (Newbery Award book) *
• The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain *
• The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Bracelet, Yoshiko Uchida *
• Meet Josefina, Valerie Tripp (and other books in the American Girl series) *
• History's Children (1628): Two Chimneys, Mary Z. Holmes
• The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Elizabeth Coatsworth

* symbol means this book is highly recommended!