Visit our media site on Destiny by clicking on this link and selecting Frangus Elementary School
We are excited to start the 2018-2019 school year in our
beautiful new Media Center!
Frangus is an Accelerated Reader school again this year.
OCPS and Orange County Library OCLS are working together to ensure your students have opportunities to read and achieve.
Be sure to check out the Orange County Public Library website for ebooks, resources, and great activities to do with your students.
www.ocls.info/srpkids
OCPS has a partnership with the Orange County Public Library. Tumblebook ebooks can be accessed via OCPS Launchpad. These books are all different levels, both fiction and non-fiction. Students can access them from any device that has Internet connection, using their OCPS login credentials. Click on the Library Research Tools folder, Virtual Library Card, then click on the link titled Enjoy a Selection of eBooks.
New Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books
2018-2019 (Grades 3-5)
The Ark Plan, by Laura Martin
The Doublecross & Other Skills I Learned as a Superspy, by Jackson Pearce
Dragons and Marshmallows, by Asia Citro
The Great Treehouse War, by Lisa Graff
Home Sweet Motel, by Chris Grabenstein
I Love You, Michael Collins, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Lemon, by Melissa Savage
Lights, Camera, Cook!, by Cherise Mericle Harper
Podkin One-Ear, by Kieran Larwood
Spirit Week Showdown, by Crustal Allen
Survivor Diaries: Overboard!, by Terry Johnson
The Sweetest Sound, by Sherri Winston
A True Home, by Kallie George
Ugly Cat & Pablo, by Isabel Quintero
Wish, by Barbara O’Connor
Incoming Kindergarteners
- Chester by Melanie West
- Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Hansel and Gretel by Rachel Isadora
- I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont
- I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry
- Too Many Toys by David Shannon
- Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter
Incoming First Graders
- Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
- Biscuit (other titles) by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
- City Dog by Karla Kuskin
- Freight Train by Donald Crews
- I Love Trucks! by Philemon Sturges
- If You Give a Moose a Muffin (other titles) by Laura Numeroff
- My Very First Mother Goose by Rosemary Wells and Iona Opie
- No David! (other titles) by David Shannon
- Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (other titles) by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
- Sheep in a Jeep (other titles) by Nancy Shaw and Margot Apple
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Incoming Second Graders
- Abuela - Dorros, Arthur
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Viorst, Judith
- Cuckoo – Ehlert, Lois
- Duck on a Bike – Shannon, David
- The Giving Tree – Silverstein, Shel
- Good Boy, Fergus – Shannon, David
- Goodnight Moon – Brown, Margaret Wise
- Kitten’s First Full Moon – Henkes, Kevin
- Lilly’s Big Day – Henkes, Kevin
- Library Lion – Knudsen, Michelle
- The Napping House – Wood, Audrey
- Olivia series – Falconer, Ian
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly – Taback, Simms
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf – Scieszka, John
Incoming Third Graders
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
- The Dragon in the Sock Drawer by Kate Klimo
- The Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman
- Gully’s Travels by Tor Seidler
Incoming Fourth & Fifth Graders
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
- 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet: What to Do If It Happens To You by Anna Claybourne
- Amulet, Book One: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
- Framed by James Ponte
- Sideway Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar