Booklist Categories:
Search our Reading Lists!
• Newnew!
• Animal Stories
• Award Winners
• Beginning Readers
• Especially for Parents
• Fantasy
• General Themes
• Historical Fiction
• Middle School
• Non-Fiction
• Picture Books
• Rebecca Caudill, Monarch & Bluestem Awards
• Scary Stories
• Science Fiction
• Read-Alikes for:
    • 2nd-3rd Graders
    • 4th-5th Graders
    • 6th-8th Graders

Home page  HOME
Contact us!  ASK US
Print this page!  PRINT
Print this page!  WIFI PRINT

  
Regarding the Fountain

Read-Alikes for
Regarding the Fountain
by Kate Klise

Scene Stealers, our book discussion group for students in grades 4 & 5, read and discussed Regarding the Fountain. If you enjoyed this book, you may also like reading some of her other books:

Letters From Camp by Kate Klise  
Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle how they come to suspect the dubious intentions of the family running the camp in letters home.
 
Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise  
When Principal Russ asks fountain designer Florence Waters to replace Dry Creek Middle School's broken water fountain, he never imagined that chaos would result. In a tale in letters of liars and leaks, the fifth grade class uncovers the dirty secret that dwells underneath the school.
 

MORE BOOKS TO ENJOY: Stories in Segments: Letters, Journals, Diary Entries, Etc.  

Nothing but the Truth by Avi JH AVI
Memos, diary entries, and conversations tell how Phillip's attempt to get out of Miss Narwin's class by humming during the playing of the National Anthem is blown out of proportion as the administration, family members, and the media get involved.
 
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary J CLE
In letters to his favorite author, Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
 
Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman JH CUS
Catherine, the daughter of an English country knight, keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures and her efforts to avoid being married off.
 
Love from Your Friend, Hannah by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky J SKO
From her home in back of the Grand View Restaurant in rural New York, Hannah writes letters to her best friend, a pen pal, and even to President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
 
Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail by Elvira Woodruff J WOO
Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.

This list was prepared by Youth Services at St. Charles Public Library, May 2000.
630-584-9390

logo©2012, One South 6th Ave, St Charles, IL 60174 • www.stcharleslibrary.org

 
Youth Services
Ask Us!630-584-9390
Ask Youth Services!

Related Links

• Collections
• Let's Talk Books!
• Story Times

 
 
HAPLR - a Top Ten American Library Library Journal STAR Library

Home
| Catalog | My Account | Ask Us | Mobile Site
St. Charles Public Library, 1 South 6th Avenue, St. Charles, IL 60174 (map)
630-584-0076  •  630-584-9390 Youth Services
©2013 St. Charles Public Library
Family Circle