5th grade Book Hooks

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Last Kids on Earth series

Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average 13 year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew.

Check out this popular series today!

Meet Big Nate author Lincoln Peirce

Lincoln Peirce is a cartoonist, best known as the creator of the successful Big Nate comic strip, and the Big Nate novels. Peirce was the storywriter for animated shorts that appeared on the Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon. Here he shows us how he draws Big Nate.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Mo and his daughter, Meggie, have the ability to bring storybook characters to life just by reading aloud. That gift backfires when Mo accidentally summons Capricorn, the evil villain of the novel "Inkheart." Mo and Meggie must find a way to send him back into the book, but the task will not be easy....

Monday, April 16, 2018

Eragon

When the orphan farm boy Eragon finds a blue stone sent by a princess, he realizes that it is a dragon egg. When the dragon Saphira is born, Eragon meets his mentor Brom, and becomes the dragon rider foreseen in an ancient prophecy that would set his people free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2N7DygmQvc

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows is the heart warming tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs. Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series about the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into the Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of mythical creatures that they never knew existed.