📚 Milo's Bookshelf (Grades 4-5) 📚
A Branch of August's Bookshelf

Selected children's titles from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card

Curated by Jim Cocola, Associate Head for the Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Titles from the Common Core
English Language Arts Standards: 4th and 5th Grade

2009: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin	2009: The Amazing Circulatory System by John Burstein	2006: The Respiratory System by Susan Gray

2006: Horses by Seymour Simon	2005: The Heart and Circulation by Carol Ballard	2005: A History of US by Joy Hakim

1996: Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms by Patricia Lauber	1992: Discovering Mars: The Amazing Story of the Red Planet by Melvin Berger	1984: Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer

1977 [1888]: Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and Jim Hull	1941: The Black Stallion by Walter Farley	1865, 1871: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

📚🖊️🥇 Newbery Medalists🥇🖊️📚

1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)	1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)	1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)

1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)	1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)	1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)

📚 Milo's Reading List 📚

2004: Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater (Harper Collins)	1990: Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen (Gallery)	1990: Time Out by Helen Cresswell (Macmillan)

1989: The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity by Ted Sennett	1980: The Borrowers by Mary Norton (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)	1980: Fat Men From Space by Daniel Pinkwater (Dell Yearling)

1977: The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater (Trumpet)	1972: Franklin Stein by Ellen Raskin (Atheneum)	1971: The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)	1967: Asterix and the Normans by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (Orion)

1967: Henry 3 by Joseph Krumgold (Atheneum)	1959: Destination Moon by Hergé (Methuen)	1929: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (Lippincott)

1923: The Story of Mrs. Tubbs by Hugh Lofting (Stokes)	1920: Ancient Man: The Beginning of Civilization by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Boni & Liverlight)	1917: History with a Match: Being an Account of the Earliest Navigators and the Discovery of America by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (David McKay)

📚 Milo's Favorites 📚

2013: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)	1989: The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide: Complete & Unabridged by Douglas Adams (Bonanza)	1986: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Macmillan)

1977: Ordinary Jack by Helen Creswell (Faber and Faber)	1976: Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater (Dodd, Mead)	1974: Soup by Robert Newton Peck (Knopf)

1970: Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl (Knopf)	1967: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Atheneum)	1963: Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol (Bantam Skylark)

1961: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster and Jules Feiffer (Random House)	1960: The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (Ariel)	1958: Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce (Oxford UP)

1957: The Wonderful O by James Thurber (Simon and Schuster)	1945: Stuart Little by E.B. White (Harper & Brothers)	1943: Homer Price by Robert McCloskey (Viking)

1943: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Reynal & Hitchcock)	1918: The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff by Norman Lindsay (Angus & Robertson)	1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (George M. Hill)