Power Lunch volunteers: what book are you buying as an end of year gift for your student?!?
If this question has been plaguing you during Power Lunch pizza party season – have no fear! Here are some wonderful age-appropriate selections compiled by the staff of the Blackstone School in the South End:
Grade K2
Addition
Berenstain Bears: Dollars & Sense
All Around Us
Caps for Sale
Click, Clack, Moo
Curious George Goes to a Movie
Handy Manny: Bunny Trouble
Fire Station
I Wish I Had Duck Feet
The King Who Rained
Grade 1
Charlie & Lola: I Completely Know About Guinea Pigs
Chrysanthemum
Fractions
Maya & Miguel: Rain or Shine
Money
Mouse Tales
Pickles to Pittsburgh
White House
Tar Beach
Here Comes the Strike Out
Grade 2
A Chair for my Mother
Dinosaurs Before Dark
Duke Ellington
Long Shot
Mouse Tales
Winnie the Pooh’s Bedtime Stories
Skeleton Hiccups
The True Story of Pocahontas
We’ll Race You, Henry: A Story about Henry Ford
Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor
Grade 3
The Brothers Kennedy
Gargoyle on the Roof
The Long Way to a New Land
Max & Maddy and Bursting Balloons
Real Hoops
Michelle
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Matilda
The Perfect Hamburger
Reptiles and Amphibians
This list of suggestions from the Blackstone School was produced to help guide the purchase of books for Power Lunch students at the school through a generous donation made by Power Lunch partner company, KPMG.
Cat in the Hat visits the Blackstone Elementary School
Clifford the Big Red Dog visits the Blackstone Elementary School
In December, KPMG signed up the Blackstone School as one of their KPMG Family for Literacy/First Book charitable beneficiaries. As a follow up to a donation made earlier in the school year, KPMG contributed funds to purchase 10 books (one for every week of summer vacation) for each of the 28 Power Lunch students at the Blackstone. Blackstone staff collaborated to choose appropriate books from the First Book website based on the students’ grade levels.
Thank you to the Blackstone School and KPMG for their wonderful support of Power Lunch!
Happy Summer Reading!