New York City Summer Reading Club 2008:
Catch the Reading Bug

Books Available in Braille (BR) and on Cassette (RC). Titles marked *Large Print and *CD may be requested at any branch of The New York Public Library.

Pre-K – K

Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat.
A fussy goat turns down tin cans in favor of veggies and juice.
BR 5604
RC 58217

In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming.
Crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch.
BR 8945

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon.
A traditional tale from West Africa explains mosquitoes’ annoying sounds.
BR 5916
RC 22905

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman and illustrated by Michael Emberley.
Stories for two friends to read aloud.
BR 13875

Grades 1 –2

Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day by Jean Van Leeuwen and illustrated by Ann Schweninger.
Amanda and her family and friends try to beat the heat.
RC 62588

Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott.
Which of his six sons will Anansi reward?
BR 15041

Breakout at the Bug Lab by Ruth Horowitz.
A giant cockroach is on the loose.
RC 54623

Bugs Are Insects by Anne Rockwell.
Which ones live in your backyard?
BR 14007

Circle Unbroken by Margot Theis Raven.
A grandmother tells the tale of the Gullah people and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets.
BR 16014

Inspector Hopper by Doug Cushman.
A clever grasshopper solves three mysteries.
BR 15279

Grades 3 –4

The Bookstore Mouse by Peggy Christian.
Mouse falls into a story and battles a dragon.
RC 46638

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White.
“Terrific!”
BR 9405
RC 46839 !SPANISH: RC 61062
*LARGE PRINT

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker. A third grader invents bologna eyeglasses and solves the Great Pigeon War.
RC 65325

Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion by Suzy Kline.
Harry falls for Song Lee while he is up to his usual pranks in classroom 2B.
RC 39113

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell.
Can Billy eat 15 worms 15 different ways in 15 days?
BR 8593
RC 33534

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford.
Fourth grader Moxy puts off her summer reading assignment with funny and unpredictable results.
RC 65011

Phineas L. Macguire…Erupts! by Frances O’Roark Dowell.
Can fourth grader Phineas win the science fair in spite of having to partner with the nasty new kid?
*LARGE PRINT

Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller.
A 17-year-old African American borrows a white man’s library card and finds inspiration in the many books he reads. Based on a true story.
BR 11662

Science Verse by Jon Scieszka.
There are lots of things that are worse than science in verse.
BR 16032

Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull.
“How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman.”
RC 43739

Grades 5 – 6

Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman.
Will the Count break his deal with the Demon Huntsman by All Soul’s Eve?
RC 48180

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede.
A runaway princess teams up with dragons to defend their kingdom from scheming wizards.
RC 33457

Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell.
In 1928, a 12-year-old girl faces murder charges.
BR 13204
*LARGE PRINT

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins.
Gregor and his baby sister find themselves in the Underworld populated by giant talking cockroaches.
*LARGE PRINT

Heat by Mike Lupica.
M.A. is on the run after being banned from playing Little League baseball.
BR 17941
RC 62264

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
Worlds collide when Meggie and her father “read” dangerous storybook characters to life.
BR 14997
RC 57116

Into the Wild by Erin Hunter.
Mysterious events threaten the precarious balance of power among four clans of warrior cats.
RC 41823
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Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen.
Twelve-year-old Sarny faces great danger when another slave teaches her how to read.
RC 38431

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall.
“A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy.”
BR 16482
RC 61553
*LARGE PRINT

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm.
During the summer of 1953, 11-year-old Penny roots for the Brooklyn Dodgers and learns wrenching family secrets.
BR 17369
RC 64582

Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park.
Pickled cabbages and silkworms are the stuff of friendship for a Korean American girl and her best friend, Patrick.
BR 17940
RC 60596

The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes.
A phone call forces Paris to choose between the love of a nurturing foster family and an uncertain future with her birth family.
RC 66168

Seven Spiders Spinning by Gregory Maguire.
Seven Siberian spiders, frozen since the Ice Age, thaw out in a Vermont elementary school.
RC 43314

Spider Boy by Ralph Fletcher.
Taking care of his tarantula and keeping a journal help seventh grader Bobby deal with a new school and a bully.
BR 11755
RC 46915

The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery.
Scientists in the field study the largest spider on earth, the Goliath birdeating tarantula.
RC 59029

These titles are available to registered patrons of the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, or other libraries in the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Network only.