Grades 3-5 Summer Reading List
Purpose: ● to increase general knowledge ● to promote family togetherness as you choose books and read as a family ● to encourage reading as fun!
Suggested guidelines: ● Read 5 books or more
Accountability: ● students keep a list of books, authors, and pages when they are completed ● students who turn in a completed list at the beginning of the school year will be rewarded
Title Author # of pages Parent Initials
Third - Fifth Grade Summer Reading
Book List
These books are suggestions, but please make sure your child is reading books that are appropriate for his/her age.
Fiction
Charlotte’s Web White, E. B. Stuart Little White, E. B. Little House Series Wilder, Laura Ingalls Little House in the Big Wood On the Banks of Plum Creek By the Shores of Silver Lake The Long Winter These Happy Golden Years The Moffats Estes, Eleanor Henry Huggins Cleary, Beverly The Mouse and the Motorcycle Cleary, Beverly Runaway Ralph Cricket in Times Square Seldon, George Mr. Popper’s Penguins Atwater, Richard and Florence Swiss Family Robinson Wyss, Johann D. Black Beauty Sewell, Anna Heidi Spyri, Johanns H. Pippi Longstocking Lindgren, Astrid Pippi Goes on Board Pippi in the South Seas Call It Courage Armstrong, Sperry North to Freedom Holm, Anne The Narnia Chronicles (Series) Lewis, C. S. Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates Dodge, Mary Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol R. The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson Freedom Train Sterling, Dorothy Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred D. Rascal North, Sterling The Trumpeter of Krakow Kelly, Eric P. The Trumpet of the Swan White, E. B. Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic MacGregor, Ellen Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain, Mark Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis All-of-a-Kind Family Taylor, Sydney Dangerous Ground Skurzynski, Gloria Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary, Beverly Double Life of Pocahontas Fritz, Jean Five Children and It Nesbit, Edith From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg, E. L. The Hiding Place Ten Boom, Corrie House of Dies Drear Hamilton, Virginia The Hundred Dresses Estes, Eleanor Indian in the Cupboard Reid Banks, Lynne Island of the Blue Dolphins O’Dell, Scott Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther Julie of the Wolves George, Jean Craighood Lassie Come Home Knight, Eric A Lantern in her Hand Aldrich, Bess Streeter Magic Tree House series (fiction and non-fiction Fact Tracker ) My Side of the Mountain George Jean Old Yeller Gipson, Fred Red Cap Wisler, G. Clifton Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen Alexander, Lloyd The Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth George Silver Chief: Dog of the North O’Brien, John Sounder Armstrong, William H. Starshine and Sunglow Levin, Betty Stitch In Time Rinaldi, Ann The Summer of the Swans Byars, Betsy Trouble River Byars, Betsy Tuck Everlasting Babbitt, Natalie Tombs of Anak Peretti, Frank Up a Road Slowly Hunt, Irene When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Kerr, Judith Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls, Wilson The Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare, Elizabeth George Wrinkle in Time L’Engle, Madeleine The Yearling Wyeth, N.C. Marguerite Henry’s books James A. Kjelgaard’s books
Biography Childhood of Famous Americans Series Stevenson, Augusta Abraham Lincoln (the great emancipator) Ben Franklin (boy printer) Booker T. Washington (ambitious boy) Clara Barton (founder of Red Cross) Daniel Boone (young hunter and tracker) George Washington (boy leader) Molly Pitcher (girl patriot) Nancy Hanks (Kentucky girl) U. S. Grant (young horseman) Billy Sunday Home Run to Heaven Allen, Robert A. Trailblazer Books Series Jackson, Dave and Neta Abandoned on the Wild Frontier (Peter Cartwright) Attack in the Rye Grass (Marcus and Narcissa Whitman) The Queen’s Smuggler (William Tyndale) Spy for the Night Riders (Martin Luther) Trail by Poison (Mary Slessor) The Bandit of Ashley Downs (George Muller) The Chimney Sweep’s Ransom (John Wesley) This is a biographical fiction series. Creative Minds Set Carolrhoda Fine Print (Johann Gutenberg) Mark T-W-A-I-N (Samuel Clemens) We’ll Race You (Henry Ford)
Scientific The Magic School Bus Series Scholastic Animal Habitats Series Oxford Scientific Films Ants on the Ground Butterfly in the Garden Deer in the Forest Honeybee in the Meadow Lizard in the Jungle Mouse in the Barn Polar Bear in the Ice Real Kids, Real Science Thames & Hudson Entomology (butterflies, ants, crickets) Invertebrate Zoology (animals without backbones) Marine Biology (oceans, shores) Ornithology (birds) Woods, Ponds, and Fields