Winter Break Reading Suggestions
As students get ready for the holiday break, many of them will reach for a good book. Vancouver students are great readers, checking out library books more than 1.7 million times from our school libraries every year. Your children can establish a lifelong love of literature alongside the information literacy and research skills VSB teacher-librarians deliver at every school. Talk to your teacher-librarian any time to learn what sort of great reads suit your child. School libraries interact with every member of the school community for a student’s entire learning life with us. We encourage parents to visit our Webcat with the student for reading and research needs. Use our online tutorial to help students check for items to return to their library on library day by accessing their Accounts online.
We hope in the busy-ness of the holiday season every member of the family can slow down and enjoy a good read. If you wonder what might fill the bill, here’s a book selection list for you from the teacher-librarians of the VSB. Happy Holidays.
Kindergarten:
Pete the Cat – Litwin, Eric
It’s Christmas David – Shannon, David
Merry Christmas, Splat — Scotton, Rob
Grade 1s and 2s
Olivia’s Christmas – Falconer, Ian
Miss Brooks Loves Books ( and I don’t) – Bottner, Barbara
Bad Kitty book series — Bruel, Nick
World According to Humphrey books – Birney, Betty G.
How to Save Your Tail – Hanson, Mary
Ivy and Bean series – Barrows, Anne
Iggy and Me series – Valentine, Jenny
Sisters eight series – Baratz- Logsted, Lauren
Grade 3s and 4s
Thomas and the Dragon Queen – Crum, Shutta
Castle Corona – Creech, Sharon
Odd and the Frost Giants – Gaiman, Neil
3 Good Deeds – Vande Velde, Vivian
Ctrl-Z – Noriss, Andrew (plus Unluckiest Boy in the World and Touchstone)
Strange Case of Origami Yoda – Angleberger,Tom
Masterpiece – Broach, Elise
Amelia rules! Series from Gownley, Jimmy
Grade 5s and 6’s
Running Wild – Morpurgo, Michael
My Life as a Book – Tashjian, Janet
Ranger’s Apprentice series – Flanagan, John
Milo; Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze – Silberberg, Alan
Red Pyramid – Riordan, Rick
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen – Berlin, Eric
Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Lewis, C.S.
Neil Flamber and the Marco Polo Murders – Sylvester, Kevin
Grade 7
Hunger Games Trilogy – Collins, Suzanne
Ghost of Spirit Bear – Mikaelsen, Ben
Maze Runner – Dashner, James
Out of my Mind – Draper, Sharon
Every Soul a Star – Mass, Wendy
Secondary school reads:
Brothers : a novel – Chen, Da
Graceling – Cashore, Kristin
Paper towns – Green, John
Fishtailing – Phillips, Wendy
The Recruit (Cherub Series) – Muchamore, Robert
Beat the Band and Swim the Fly – Calame, Don
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