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Have you heard?  Chilhowee Intermediate students will be working hard to earn AR points!  Each child will be given a goal of a certain number of points to earn for this grading period.  Students who meet or exceed their goal will be invited to a special celebration held at the end of the grading period.  We will begin working on our goals once we get back into the swing of the school year.

The Accelerated Reader theme this year is "Score with AR!".  We'll be scoring points and meeting our goals.  I can't wait to see all of our winners!


You can get involved at home by encouraging your child to bring home library books.  Set aside a reading time, then have a conversation with your child about the book.  You may even have books at home for which we have the AR test.  To find out, scroll down this page until you see the link for "List of Accelerated Reader Tests".  Click there, and you can search to find out if your book is an AR book.  

Good luck everyone!

During most library visits, I will read a book aloud or promote a high-quality book.  Often, students want to check those books out.  Unfortunately, our library does not always have enough copies to go around.  I will post the names of those books here so that you may look for them at the public library, online, or at your favorite bookstore. 

3rd grade:

Goldisocks and the Three Libearians, Jackie Hopkins
Earrings!, Judith Viorst
The Empty Pot, Demi
Flotsam, David Wiesner
Peeping Beauty, Mary Jane Auch
Wolf!, Becky Bloom
Other Goose, Otto Seibold
Books by Mo Willems
Dr. Seuss, Mae Woods
People from the Past, Robert Coupe
Robert Cade:  Gatorade Inventor, Joanne Mattern
A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Philip C. Stead


4th grade:

Look Out Jack!  The Giant is Back!, Tom Birdseye
Shel Silverstein poetry
Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
One Grain of Rice, Demi
Here Today, Ann Martin
Encounter, Jane Yolen
Saving Sweetness, Diane Stanley
Morning Girl, Michael Doris
The Landry News, Andrew Clements
The Great Fire, Jim Murphy
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, D. Manus Pinkwater
Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen


5th grade:

Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer
Shiloh, Phylis Reynolds Naylor
The Maldonado Miracle, Theodore Taylor
The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle, Hugh Lofting
Hard Gold, Avi
One Crazy Summer, Rita Willams-Garcia
If The Walls Could Talk, Jane O'Connor
Bravo, Amelia Bedelia, Herman Parish
Growing Up In World War II, Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt
Dork on the Run, Carol Gorman
The Wings of Merlin, T. A. Barron


List of other great children's literature