SURFIN’ THE NET

v Create a power point that highlights the novel you have read. Show it off to friends and family. How many slides will you do?

v Research the author of the book you reason the web. Try Kidsreads.com and go to “authors”.

Read a book from the suggested list below or one you have been wanting to dig in to. Then do the projects to go along with the book. Some of the exercises can be completed while you are reading the book. Good luck and have fun!

Suggested books to read:

· The Voyage of the Frog…Gary Paulsen

· The Winter Room…Gary Paulsen

· Woodsong…Gary Paulsen

· The Phantom Tollboth…Norton Juster

· The Hobbit…J.R. Tolkein

· The Giver…Lois Lowery

· Tom’s Midnight Garden… Phillippa Pearce

· Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea…Jules Verne

· Number the Stars…Loio Lowery

· The Journal of Buddy Owens…Dear America

· The Secret Garden…Frances Burnett

· The Westing Game…Ellen Raskin

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