Fifth Grade Summer Reading Recommendations The following books are suggestions by the Fifth Grade Team to help your child prepare for the upcoming year. The incentive for summer reading in 5th grade is to instill the joy of reading in our students. The goal is for each child to read at least 4 books, 2 required and 2 additional. Each year, Parent Council provides a Spring Book Fair on campus with Logos Christian Book Store in Green Hills, which gives us a percentage of the sales. Thank you for your support and happy reading!

Spring Book Fair: May 26, 2021 Order Online: May 31, 2021 www.logosbooksonline.com/st-paul-christian-academy.html

See the summer work packet for reading assignments!

Call It Courage Island of the Blue Dolphins by Armstrong Sperry (Island of the Blue Dolphins #1) by Scott O'Dell

Chris Grabenstein Carolyn Keene Mr. Lemoncello's Library Series: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Series: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (#1) The Secret of the Old Clock (#1) Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics (#2) The Hidden Staircase (#2) Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race (#3) The Bungalow Mystery (#3) & 2 more! & 172 more!

Gitty Daneshvari John Grisham School of Fear Series: Theodore Boone Series: School of Fear (#1) Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (#1) Class is Not Dismissed! (#2) The Abduction (#2) The Final Exam (#3) The Accused (#3) & 4 more!

Summer 2021 • Rising 5th Grade Page 1/7 Robert C. O'Brien by S.D. Smith Rats of NIMH Series: The Green Ember Series: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (#1) The Black Star of Kingston (#0) Racso and the Rats of NIMH (#2) The Green Ember (#1) R-T, Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH (#3) Ember Falls (#2) & 2 more! Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard Series: Jonathan Rogers The Indian in the Cupboard (#1) The Wilderking Trilogy: The Return of the Indian (#2) The Bark of the Bog Owl (#1) The Secret of the Indian (#3) The Secret of the Swamp King (#2) & 2 more! The Way of the Wilderking (#3)

Janet Benge E. Nesbit Christian Heroes: Then & Now Series: Five Children Series: Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious The Psammead: or, the Gifts (#0) Gems (#4) Five Children and It (#1) Corrie Ten Boom: Keeper of the Angels' The Phoenix and the Carpet (#2) Den (#5) & 3 more! Jim Elliot: One Great Purpose (#9) C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller (#34) L. Frank Baum Oz Series: & 41 more! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (#1) The Marvelous Land of Oz (#2) Renée Watson Ryan Hart Series: Ozma of Oz (#3) Ways to Make Sunshine (#1) & 11 more! Ways to Grow Love (#2) Andrew Peterson The Wingfeather Saga: Robert Lawson Rabbit Hill Series: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness (#1) Rabbit Hill (#1) (#2) The Tough Winter (#2) North! or Be Eaten The Monster in the Hollows (#3) & 1 more! Katherine Applegate Series: The One and Only Ivan (#1) Rick Riordan The One and Only Bob (#2) Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series: The Lightning Thief (#1) The Sea of Monsters (#2) Marguerite Henry Misty Series: The Titan's Curse (#3) Misty of Chincoteague (#1) & 2 more! Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague (#2) Stormy, Misty's Foal (#3) & 1 more!

Summer 2021 • Rising 5th Grade Page 2/7 Anthony Horowitz Carol Ryrie Brink Alex Rider Series: Series: Stormbreaker (#1) Caddie Woodlawn (#1) Point Blank (#2) Caddie Woodlawn's Family (#2) Skeleton Key (#3) & 33 more! Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House Series: Little House in the Big Woods (#1) Brian Jacques Redwall Series: Farmer Boy (#2) Redwall (#1) Little House on the Prairie (#3) Mossflower (#2) & 6 more! Mattimeo (#3) & 23 more! Eleanor Estes The Moffats Series: The Moffats (#1) Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain Series: The Middle Moffat (#2) The Book of Three (#1) Rufus M. (#3) The Black Cauldron (#2) & 1 more! The Castle of Llyr (#3) The Pyes Series: (#1) & 2 more! Pinky Pye (#2) Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events: Astrid Lindgren The Bad Beginning (#1) Barnen i Bullerbyn Series: (#1) The Reptile Room (#2) The Children of Noisy Village (#2) The Wide Window (#3) Happy Times in Noisy Village (#3) & 10 more! Nothing But Fun in Noisy Village & 3 more! Pippi Långstrump Series: Dan Gutman (#1) Baseball Card Adventures Series: Pippi Longstocking (#2) Honus & Me (#1) Pippi Goes on Board (#3) Jackie & Me (#2) Pippi in the South Seas Babe & Me (#3) & 9 more! Sydney Taylor All-of-a-Kind Family Series: All-of-a-Kind Family (#1) Mike Lupica All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (#2) Summer Ball More All-of-a-Kind Family (#3) The Batboy & 2 more! Miracle on 49th Street Two-Minute Drill Safe at Home & 78 more!

Summer 2021 • Rising 5th Grade Page 3/7 Maud Hart Lovelace Heather Vogel Frederick Betsy-Tacy Series: The Mother-Daughter Book Club Series: Betsy-Tacy (#1) The Mother-Daughter Book Club (#1) Betsy-Tacy and Tib (#2) Much Ado About Anne (#2) Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (#3) Dear Pen Pal (#3) & 7 more! & 4 more!

John D. Fitzgerald Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Great Brain Series: Series: The Great Brain (#1) Shiloh (#1) More Adventures of the Great Brain (#2) Shiloh Season (#2) Me and My Little Brain (#3) Saving Shiloh (#3) & 5 more! & 1 more!

Beverly Cleary Fred Gipson Ramona Quimby Series: Old Yeller Series: Beezus and Ramona (#1) Old Yeller (#1) Ramona the Pest (#2) Savage Sam (#2) Ramona the Brave (#3) Little Arliss (#3) & 5 more! Ralph S. Mouse Series: James Patterson The Mouse and the Motorcycle (#1) Maximum Ride Series: Runaway Ralph (#2) The Angel Experiment (#1) Ralph S. Mouse (#3) School's Out—Forever (#2) Saving the World and Other Extreme Stuart Gibbs Sports (#3) Spy School Series: & 7 more! Spy School (#1) Spy Camp (#2) Evil Spy School (#3) Karina Yan Glaser The Vanderbeekers Series: & 6 more! The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (#1) The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Jeanne Birdsall Garden (#2) The Penderwicks Series: The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue (#3) The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four & 2 more! Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (#1) The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (#2) The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (#3) & 2 more!

Summer 2021 • Rising 5th Grade Page 4/7 Other Great Books The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey by Kate DiCamillo by Carol Ryrie Brink Baby Island Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of by Frances Hodgson The Secret Garden certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Burnett Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse by Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Robert Lawson Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Restart by Gordon Korman by Robert Lawson Amos Every Thing on It by Shel Silverstein by Walter D. Edmonds A Child's Anthology of Poetry by Elizabeth The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz Hauge Sword, Victoria Flournoy McCarthy A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla Phoebe the Spy by Judith Berry Griffin Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare by Virginia Sorensen Frindle by Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick The by Betsy Byars by Jerry Spinelli The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt by Lois Lenski Twig by Elizabeth Orton Jones Walking with Miss Millie by Tamara Bundy Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith by William H. Armstrong

Please note: These books are simply recommendations, listed in no particular order, for your convenience. We hope you will use these as a starting point to explore many new books together!

Summer 2021 • Rising 5th Grade Page 5/7 The Invention of Tuck Everlasting Hugo Cabret by Natalie Babbitt by Ellen Raskin by Brian Selznick

Esperanza Rising The Hobbit, or There by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Holes #1) and Back Again by Louis Sachar by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Borrowers The Trumpet of the Swan The Angel Experiment (The Borrowers #1) by E.B. White (Maximum Ride #1) by Mary Norton by James Patterson

Summer 2021 • Rising 5th Grade Page 6/7 These titles should be avoided for summer reading, as they will be delivered with textbooks and read during the school year. We look forward to reading these together this year!

D'Aulaires' Book of Prince Caspian Stella by Starlight Greek Myths (The Chronicles of Narnia #4) by Sharon M. Draper by Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar by C.S. Lewis Parin d'Aulaire

Where the Red Fern Grows Wonder The Voyage of the Dawn by Wilson Rawls (Wonder #1) Treader by R.J. Palacio (The Chronicles of Narnia #5) by C.S. Lewis

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