Rambunctious Readers: March 2013

The Friendship Doll

by Kirby Larson

We really enjoyed this historical fiction story that took us from New York to Oregon during the Great Depression.

Welcome to Our Book Club Blog

We are the Bookworm Buddies of the Rambunctious Readers Blog. We read all different genres of books and we love to chat about them at our monthly meetings we call Chatty Chapters. Books take you wherever you want to go and they don't take us all to the same place. Books are like a treasure and a treasure is only worth something if you share it with friends. This is what our Chatty Chapter meetings are about, discussing the books we read and learning from our friends different points of view. It's fun, it's exciting, it's informative and it's magical.

About Us

Although we are all passionate about books and reading we have many other interests. Some of us are soccer players, some are basketball players, we have tennis players and a lacrosse player, softball players, a karate girl, rock climbers, field hockey players, an actress and girl scouts. We can just about make our own band as well. Some of the instruments we play: clarinet, flute, guitar, piano, drums, trombone and trumpet. Some of us like to write songs in our free time and we are also big fans of Garage Band. Did we mention we are also professional cookie bakers?

Chatty Chapters Meetings

We have each kept a journal since we started our book club. We write about anything we would like to about the book and share our entries at our Chatty Chapters meetings. This has been a really fun way to start our meetings and to hear about what our Buddies thought about the book. We spend a lot of time laughing and discussing our different points of views and feelings towards various issues and people we read about.

For many of the books we have read, we have discussion questions. If you are interested in receiving any of the discussion questions, please email us at: rambunctiousreaders@gmail.com

Books We Read in 5th Grade

Lucky Me - Cindy Callaghan

My Name is Sally Little Song - Brenda Woods

Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis

Maniac Magee - Jerry Spenille

Chasing Redbird - Sharon Creech

Side Effects - Amy Goldman Koss

My Basmati Bat Mitzvah - Paula Freedman

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Stargirl - Jerry Spenille

Fire Girl - Tony Abbot

Out of My Mind - Sharon M. Draper

Dash of Magic: A Bliss Novel - Kathryn Littlewood

Lost in London - Cindy Callaghan

Bliss - Katheryn Littlewood

The Short Seller - Elissa Brent Weissman

Crash - Jerry Spinelli

Seaglass Summer - Anjali Banerjee

Books We Read in 3rd Grade

The Lemonade War - by Jacqueline Davis

Just Add Magic - by Cindy Callaghan

Ghost Buddy - by Henry Winkle & Lin Oliver

Just Add Magic - by Cindy Callaghan

The Great Wall of China - by Carole Marsh

Who Was Harry Houdini

Harriet The Spy - by Louise Fitzbagh

The Christmas Genie - by Dan Gutman

Fourth Grade Rats - by Jerry Spinelli

Who Was King Tut - by Roberta Edwards

The Mystery at Mount Fuji - by Carole Marsh

The Jolly Postman - by Janet & Allan Ahlberg

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - by Betty MacDonald

Jake and Lily - by Jerry Spinelli

Books We Read in 2nd Grade

Mr Popper's Penguins - Richard & Florence Atwater

The Mystery in Chocolate Town Hershey Pa - Carole Marsh

Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo

Jenny Goes to Sea - Esther Averill

The Mystery at Space Center Houston - Carole Marsh

The Chocolate Touch - Patrick Catling

Chocolate Fever - Robert Kimmel Smith

A Mouse Called Wolf - Dick King-Smith

Reindeer do Wear Striped Underwear - Debbie Dadey

The Princess and the Frog - Barbar Bazalduel

Jake Drake - Bully Buster - Andrew Clements

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda - Tom Angleberger

Dewey the Library Cat - Vicki Myron

Hamk Zipser - Niagra Falls, or Does It? - Henry Winkler

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The Friendship Doll

by Kirby Larson