Recommended Reading:
Iowa Children's Choice Award
To participate in this annual statewide activity, students in grades 3-5 must read (or have read to) at least 2 books from a select list of books.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please visit the Iowa Children's Choice Web site at: http://awards.iasl.iowapages.org/id1.html
Reading Relays
Iowa Children's Choice Award
To participate in this annual statewide activity, students in grades 3-5 must read (or have read to) at least 2 books from a select list of books.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please visit the Iowa Children's Choice Web site at: http://awards.iasl.iowapages.org/id1.html
Reading Relays
Our 5th graders will have the opportunity to compete in Ankeny School's Reading Relays Competition in April. Students interested in participating should begin reading from this book list and be ready to answer questions about each book. There are extra points also given if the students know the book author--so start studying!!
Reading Relays Information:
Reading Relays Information:
The List
- All the Way Home – Giff
- Among the Hidden – Haddix
- Bud, Not Buddy – Curtis
- Ella Enchanted – Levine
- Esperanza Rising – Ryan
- Everything on a Waffle – Horvath
- Family Apart, A – Nixon
- Fever 1793 – Anderson
- Giver, The – Lowry
- Great Brain, The – Fitzgerald
- Horse and His Boy, The – C.S. Lewis
- Hostage – Roberts
- Island of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell
- Lily’s Crossing – Giff
- Music of Dolphins, The – Hesse
- Number the Stars – Lowry
- Orphan of Ellis Island – Woodruff
- Root Cellar, The – Lunn
- Running Out of Time – Haddix
- Sign of the Beaver, The – Speare
- Steal Away Home - Ruby
- Summer of the Swans, The – Byars
- Tuck Everlasting – Babbitt
- Under the Blood Red Sun – Salisbury
