Teacher Recommeneded Reading For Grades 3 - 5
Teacher Recommended Reading For Grade 3 - 5
It was Leslie's idea to create Terabithia, their secret kingdom in the woods where Leslie and Jess reigned as King and Queen. There no enemy could defeat them.
Copyright: 1977
Harold and Chester, the family dog and cat, are suspicious that the new pet rabbit is a vampire bunny. They must warn the family who see the rabbit as a harmless and adorable creature.
Copyright: 1979
Mrs. Jane Tabby could not explain why all four of her children had wings. But it meant that her dreams for her kittens would someday come true.
Copyright: 1988
by White, E. B.
E.B. White's classic story of the friendship between Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider.
Copyright: 1952
A young girl is sent to live with her grandmother in Chinatown and finds her Chinese heritage for the first time.
Copyright: 1977
Lucas Cott desires to be a good student while his classmates want him to be funny as the class clown!
Copyright: 1987
A fifth-grade class election is full of surprises when Julio nominates his best friend but ends up becoming much more involved!
Copyright: 1990
by Dahl, Roald
Here's Roald Dahl's famous story about a 9-year-old boy, his dad, and a daring and hilarious pheasant-snatching expedition.
Copyright: 1975
Leigh writes to an author, Mr. Henshaw as he struggles with being the new kid in town and as he deals with his parents going through a divorce.
Copyright: 1983
The story of an eight-year-old Chinese boy's experience of immigration to the United States in the early 1900s. A Newbery Honor Book.
Copyright: 1975
by Blume, Judy
Andrew would do anything to get himself covered in freckles--even buy a questionable freckle juice recipe from Sharon!
Copyright: 1971
Harriet M. Welsch is determined to be a spy. To practice, she keeps a log of her observations; but one day, her classmates find the log and read it aloud.
Copyright: 1964
This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared--and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure.
Copyright: 1987
by Fritz, Jean
A memoir of Jean Fritz's childhood in China where she felt homesick for America--a place she'd never been but longed for.
Copyright: 1982
A young Chinese girl in 1947 comes to Brooklyn and discovers her love for baseball while adjusting to new life in America.
Copyright: 1984
by Dahl, Roald
When James drops magic crystals by the peach tree, the lone peach starts growing, and before long, it's as big as a house, with a secret entranceway.
Copyright: 1961
It's tough for 11-year-old Ned to stop eating, even when he's sent to a summer diet camp.
Copyright: 1981
Yuki, a 12-year-old Japanese American girl, and her family were sent to a concentration camp in Utah. This is the story of their journey back to Berkeley, California after WWII is over.
Copyright: 1989
Junie B. is the bestest spier in the world. That's 'cause she has sneaky feet. Junie B. might be real sneaky. And real peeky. But when she spies on Mrs., she could get into real trouble!
Copyright: 1994
Book 1 of the Time Warp Trio
Copyright: 1991
by Archambault, John Martin Jr., Bill
Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses and his grandfather reminisce about the young blind boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race.
Copyright: 1987
by Young, Ed
A Red-Riding Hood story from China about three siblings that use their courage and wit to fight a bad wolf.
Copyright: 1989
M. C. Higgins and his family live in the dangerous mines of Sarah's Mountain. Then one day, he sees a chance to escape for a better life for himself and his family.
Copyright: 1974
by Fritz, Jean
The story of Sam Houston for children
Copyright: 1986
Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. Images and image descriptions available.
Copyright: 1982
Maggie, a feisty third-grader, refuses to learn how to read or write cursive writing.
Copyright: 1990
by Lowry, Lois
As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.
Copyright: 1989
Two owls from Saskatchewan come to a neighborhood and shake up the whole town.
Copyright: 1961
Adventurous stories of a free-spirited girl named Pippi Longstocking.
Copyright: 1950
Sadako, a child who has leukemia due to the atomic bomb, folds paper cranes in order to get well. With Picture Descriptions. Historical fiction.
Copyright: 1977
A self-centered, troubled, ten-year-old girl finds solutions to her problems when she finds employment at a shoeshine stand.
Copyright: 1975
by Yolen, Jane
A story about a beautiful but mean princess and a plain but good-hearted girl.
Copyright: 1981
Little Willy is determined to keep his sick grandfather's farm going and enters into a race with his loyal dog, Searchlight.
Copyright: 1980
Young Taran rescues his master's pig with a renowned hero, a girl sorcerer, a fibbing harper, and a half human craving munchings. They face unkillable warriors, and learn true bravery and loyalty.
Copyright: 1964
Classic novel about racism, love and survival.
Copyright: 1969
The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #11)
Secily wants to get married, but she wants to find her family fortune first. Also, there is a phantom boat on the lake and a sinister family whose behavior is very odd.
Copyright: 1965
by Fritz, Jean
Pocahontas is a young girl in an Indian tribe who is caught between the tensions of the Indian culture and the culture of the white settlers.
Copyright: 1983
When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard behind the A-Z Antiques and Curio shop, Melanie and April decide it's the perfect spot for the Egypt Game. (A Newbery Honor Book.)
Copyright: 1967
Tom is going away from home for the first time to the academy in Salt Lake city.
Copyright: 1967
J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold.
Copyright: 1995
Thirteen year old Thomas' family moves into a spooky old house that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. A thrilling adventure for readers 9-12.
Copyright: 1968
Michael's great-great-aunt Dew is a hundred years old. She keeps a box in her room filled with pennies, one for each year she has lived. Michael's mother wants to get rid of the old box. But Michael knows that if Aunt Dew loses that old box, it will be like losing a part of their life. He has to make his mother understand.
Copyright: 1975
A collection of personal reminiscences of the author's youth in a hamlet on the central highlands of Vietnam.
Copyright: 1982
by Martchenko, Michael Munsch, Robert N.
The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. Images and image descriptions available.
Copyright: 1980
by Byars, Betsy
"Three unwanted kids--Pinballs, as wisecracking Carly dubs them--collide in a warm and caring foster home and learn to pin their hopes on each other". --School Library Journal. ALA Notable Children's Book; School Library Journal Best Books of 1977.
Copyright: 1977
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Copyright: 1983
by Soto, Gary
Miata Ramirez is scared and upset. She left her folklorico skirt on her school bus, the skirt that belonged to her mother when she was a child in Mexico. Can Miata get the skirt back
Copyright: 1992
The Tuck family has a secret--that they drink from a magical spring which gives them eternal life. However, their secret is about to be known to others in the community.
Copyright: 1975
Twelve-year-old Will Scott is not happy to be riding the Orphan Train because he is not really an orphan. But his father says he will have a better life out west.