Topic: Children's Choices, 2010, Grades 5 - 6

About Children’s Choices: “Each ear 12,500 school children from different regions of the United States read newly published children’s and young adults’ trade books and vote for the ones they like best. These Children’s Choices, selected from more than 500 titles, can be counted on as books children really enjoy reading. This list, a project of a joint committee supported by IRA (International Reading Association) and The Children’s Book Council (CBC), is designed for use not only by teachers, librarians, administrators, and booksellers but also by parents, grandparents, caregivers, and everyone who wishes to encourage young people to read for pleasure.”

Title: “Children’s Choices, 2010.” Reading Teacher (October 2010), C1-C10.

Advanced Readers (Grades 5 – 6)

Note: I am listing only the titles, authors, and publishers. The list comes with annotations, which will be found in this section of Reading Teacher. You can also find annotations on the Internet listed under the publisher.

10 Inventors Who Changed the World. C Gifford. New York: Kingfisher.

The Adventures of Benny. S Shreve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish.

Animals. M Smith. New York: Kingfisher.

Ask Me anything: Every Fact You Ever Wanted to Know. C Scott, D Dixon, C Watts, J Pipe, R Walker and S Kennedy. New York: DK.

Astronomy: Out of This World. S Basher and D Green. New York: Kingfisher.

Autism and Me: Sibling Stories. O Shapiro. Photographs by S Vote. Park Ridge, IL: Albert Whitman.

The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes. M Kennedy. New York: Greenwillow.

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life. RR Russell. New York: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children’s.

Dragonbreath. U Vernon. New York: Dial.

Extra Credit. A Clements. Ill. M. Elliott. New York: Atheneum, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children’s.

Football Champ. T Green. New York: HarperCollins Children’s.

Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind. M Kaye. New York: Kingfisher.

Hero.com: Rise of the Heroes. A Briggs. New York: Walker Books for Young Readers.

Knights of the Lunch Table #2: The Dragon Players. F Cammuso. New York: Graphix.

Max Disaster #1: Alien Eraser to the Rescue. M Moss. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11. B Floca. New York: Atheneum/Richard Jackson, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children’s.

Mudshark. G Paulsen. New York: Wendy Lam, an imprint of Random House Children’s.

Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood. T Lee. Ills. S Hart and A Fujita. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

Persephone. SP Clayton. Ill. V Lee. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers.

Runaway Twin. P Kehret. New York: Dutton.

Scat. C Hiaasen. New York: Knopf.

The Seven Keys of Balabad. P Haven. Ill. M Zug. New York: Random House.

Show Off: How to Do Absolutely Everything, One Step at a Time. SH Stephens. Ill. B Mann. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

Skeleton Creek #1. P Carman. New York: Scholastic.

Skeleton Creek #2: Ghost in the Machine. P Carman. New York: Scholastic.

Slob. E Potter. New York: Philomel.

Tales from the Crypt #8: Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid. S Petrucha, MK Petrucha, JL Lansdale, and J Salicrup. Ills. R Parker, M Kim, J Romberger and M Van Cook. New York: Papercutz.

Umbrella Summer. L Graff. New York: HarperCollins Children’s.

Wild Girl. PR Giff. New York: Wendy Lamb, an imprint of Random House Children’s.

Zoobreak. G Korman. New York: Scholastic.