5th Grade

5th Grade Requirements

Students will read 1 book from each genre (for a total of 5 books):

• Abridged or unabridged children's classic (CHAPTER BOOK)

• Realistic fiction (CHAPTER BOOK)

• Newberry Award Winner (CHAPTER BOOK)

• Biography/autobiography

• Nature/science book

Record-Keeping: Fill out with your child a summer reading log for each book. Please return the Reading Logs to your English teacher the first week of school. (View) (Download)

Incentive: If ALL 5 summer reading logs are turned into the English teacher the first or second week of school the English teacher will award you 4 stickers to wear that earn the privilege of 4 free casual days to be used for the month of September.

Reading List (download)

Mistakes That Worked ....by Charlotte Jones

Worlds I Know and Other Poems ....by Lois Livingstone

Caddie Woodlawn ....by Carole Ryrie Brink

The Whipping Boy ....by Sid Fleischman

Johnny Tremain ....by Esther Forbes

Number the Stars ....by Lois Lowry

Sarah, Plain and Tall ....by Patricia MacLachlan

Shiloh .....by Phyllis Naylor

Bridge to Terabithia ....by Katherine Paterson

Witch of Blackbird Pond ....by Elizabelth George Speare

Maniac Magee ....by Jerry Spinelli

Indian in the Cupboard (series) ....by Lynne Reid Banks

The Ancient One .....by T. A. Barron

Heartligzt .....by T. A. Barron

On My Honor ....by Maron Bauer

The Secret Garden ....by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cybil War ....by Betsy Byars

Sugar Blue ....by Vera Cleaver

Stonewords ....by Pam Conrad

Zoe Rising ....by Pam Conrad

BFG ....by Roald Dahl

Matilda ....by Roald Dahl

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade ....by Barthe DeClements

The Last of the Really Great

Whangdoodles ....by Julie Edwards

The Black Stallion (series) ....by Walter Farley

Something Suspicious ....by Kathryn Galbraith

My Side of the Mountain ....by Jean Graighead George

Fifth Grade Magic .....by Beatrice Gormley

This Island Isn't Big Enough For

The Four of Us ....by Gery Greer

The Doll in the Garden ....by Mary Downing Hahn

The Jellyfish Season ....by Mary Downing Hahn

A Time for Andrew ....by Mary Downing Hahn

Wait Till Helen Comes ....by Mary Downing Hahn

Invisibla Lissa ....by Natalie Honeycutt

Nutty Can't Miss ....by Dean Hughes

Nutty Knows All ....by Dean Hughes

Mermaid Summer .....by Mollie Hunter

Redwall (series) ...by Brian Jacques

Babe: The Gallant Pig .....by Dick King-Smith

The Toby man ....by Dick King-Smith

Anatasia on Her Own ....by Lois Lowry

In the Year of the Boar and

Jackie Robinson .....by Bette Lord

Good Night Mr. Tom ....by Michelle Magorian

Kavik the Wolf Dog ....by Walt Morey

Streams to the River, River to the Sea....by Scott O'Dell

Hatchet .....by Gary Paulsen

The Westing Game …by Raskin

Summer of the Monkeys ....by Wilson Rawls

Where the Red Fern Grows ....by Wilson Rawls

Best Christmas Pageant Ever ....by Barbara Robinson

Blue-eyed Daisy ....by Cynthia Rylant

The Cay ....by Theodore Taylor

Timothy of the Cay ....by Theodore Taylor

Naya Nuki ...by Kenneth Thomasma

Banner in the Sky .....by James Ramsey Ullman

Peppermints in the Parlor ....by Bill Wallace

Totally Disgusting! .....by Bill Wallace

Trapped in Death Cave .....by Bill Wallace

The Trumpet of the Swans ....by E. B. White

The Dollhouse Murders ....by Betty Ren Wright

The Ghosts of Mercy Manor ....by Betty Ren Wright

Swiss Family Robinson ....by Johann David Wyss

For readers who like suspenseful sci-fi:

Double Identity …. By M Haddix

Among the Hidden (series) …By M Haddix

Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins