HEY KIDS! Remind Your parents: Read by the River is happening on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at Tufts Cousens Gym in Medford from Noon to 3:30pm.

Here are some great links we found
for Kids to make reading fun!

Mrs. Alphabet - (For pre-reading ages)
Read With Me (a good resource for parents)
Reading is Fundamental
Reading Rainbow
Reading Rockets
Children's Literature
Between the Lions
American Library Association

Kindergarten
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Farmer Brown has a problem. His cows like to type. All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.
But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....

Olivia by Ian Falconer
Have fun with Olivia...

• dressing up
• singing songs
• building sand castles
• napping (maybe)
• dancing
• painting on walls and -- whew! --
• going to sleep at last.

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Grace can do anything she wants to do and be anything she wants to be—even an African American Peter Pan!

1st Grade
The American Wei by Marion Hess Pomeranc
Wei Fong loses his tooth on the day his family is supposed to become American citizens. Will he find it?
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
Will Clover and Annie, African American girl and white girl, let a fence come between their friendship?
Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
Poor Rodney Rat can't pronounce his R's and the other rodents tease him endlessly. But when the school bully comes along will Rodney be able to help the whole class?

2nd Grade
Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz
Remember... "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"? Well, forget them and learn these funny new songs!

Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith
Read this book to find out how a pig named Lollipop can help a princess named Penelope.

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams
A book about two sisters, Amber and Essie with help each through some hard times.

3rd Grade
Tornado by Betsy Byars
A family listens to stories in their storm cellar during tornado. They even hear one about a dog named Tornado!

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to a new town with her father, and a preacher. India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Frindle by Andrew Clements
Nick Allen creates a new word just to annoy his teacher! Will his plan work?

4th Grade
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Frederika and her classmates are always disappointed when their teachers leave after a year, until Miss Agnes arrives!

Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Donald Zinkoff may be considered a loser by his classmates, but that is not the way Donald sees himself.

The Jacket by Andrew Clements
Phil learns about racial discrimination after accusing an African American boy of stealing a jacket.

5th Grade
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Weird Watsons go to Birmingham, Alabama to take their oldest son Byron for some "straightening out" by their grandmother, but everything changes while they are there.

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent to the arty and eccentric homeschooling Applewhites, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had!

Holes by Louis Sachar
Stanley Yelnats' goes to a juvenile detention camp and solves a mystery of why all of the boys have to dig holes out in the desert.

Find these books at
www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com