Fifth Grade Summer Reading List

Summer is a great time to get lost in a book. As you enter fifth grade, you are required to have read at least one fiction and one ​ ​ ​ nonfiction book from the selection below. You will be working ​ on activities based on your reading in September. Happy Reading!

Fiction- Favorite Series: Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls (others with Emmy) - Bean The Penderwicks - Birdsall Down the rabbit hole : the diary of Pringle Rose - Bartoletti Shakespeare Scribe other (Shakespeare books) - Blackwood The Anybodies - Bode Artemis Fowl - Colfer Baseball Card Adventures - Gutman Among the Hidden - Haddix The Missing - Haddix Regarding the Fountain - Klise Zoobreak (Griffin stories) - Korman A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (others with this character) - Mazer Charlie Bone - Nimmo I funny (Middle School Novels) - Patterson The Kane Chronicles - Riordan The Royal Diaries - Lasky

Realistic Fiction: Nothing But the Truth - Avi On My Honor – Marion Dane Bauer The Midnight Fox – Betsy Byars * any book in series – Matt Christopher Dear Mr. Henshaw – Beverly Cleary Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech Felicia the Critic – Ellen Conford The Winter Worm Business – Patricia Reilly Giff Words of Stone – Kevin Henkes * Anastasia Krupnik – Lois Lowry Harris and Me – Gary Paulsen Maggie Marmelstein for President – Marjorie Weinman Sharmat The Explorer of Barkham Street – Mary Stolz Ribbons – Laurence Yep

Mystery: Death’s Door – Betsy Byars Run for the Money – Scott Corbett Mr. Mysterious & Company – Sid Fleischman * Bunnicula – James Howe The Nightwalker – Belinda Hurmence Nancy Drew books – Carolyn Keane Cold as Ice – Elizabeth Levy The Case of … (any in series) – M. Masters The Ghosts of Mercy Manor – Betty Ren Wright Once Upon a Dark November – Carol Beach York

Fantasy: Perloo - Avi Kilroy and the Gull – Nathaniel Benchley The Cat Who Went to Heaven – Elizabeth Coatsworth Over Sea, Under Stone – Susan Cooper Matilda – Roald Dahl A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle The Hobbit – J.R. Tolkien

Historical Fiction: *American Girls Collection – Adler, Porter, Shaw, Tripp S.O.S. Titanic – Eve Bunting The Watsons Go to Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis The Cabin Faced West – Jean Fritz Lyddie – Katherine Patterson The Cay – Theodore Taylor Little House series – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Humor: * Ramona – Beverly Cleary Heads or Tails – Jack Gantos * The Plant That Ate the Dirty Socks - Nancy McArthur Skinnybones – Barbara Park * Sideways Stories from Wayside School – Louis Sacher Knight of the Kitchen Table – Jon Scieszka

Sports: S.O.R. Losers – Avi Olympic Dream – Matt Christopher Make Believe Ball Player – Alfred Slote There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock – Jerry Spinelli Baseball and Butterflies – Karen Lynn Williams

Non Fiction: Growing Up in Colonial America – Tracy Barrett Eleanor Roosevelt: a Life of Discovery – Russell Freedman Immigrant Kids – Russell Freedman The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane – Freedman Knights in Shining Armor – Gail Gibbons Way Things Work – David Macaulay Lewis and Clark, Exploring North America – Clint Twist Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary – Ruud van der Rol & Rian Verhoeven A Boy Called Dickens – Hopkinson George Bellows: Painter With a Punch! – Burleigh Through My Eyes – Bridges The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours – Goodall Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini – Fleischman The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey – Borden Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s Amazing Life – Fleming Any biography by this author – Christopher Lives of the Scientists…experiments, explosions (and what the neighbors thought) – Krull Nelson Mandela - Nelson

Science Fiction: Norby and Yobo’s Great Adventure – Janet and Isaac Asimov Star Hatchling – Margaret Bechard Away is a Strange Place to Be – H. M. Hoover Time Ghosts – Welwyn Wilton Katz Alien Secrets – Annette Curtis Klause Calling B for Butterfly – Louise Lawrence * Time Warp Trio – Jon Scieszka C.L.U.T.Z. – Marilyn Z. Wilkes

Adventure: * The Great Brain – John D. FitzGerald * The Orphan Train – Joan Lowery Nixon

“Challenge” Books: Fever, 1793 – Anderson True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi The Graveyard Book – Gaiman Dean End in Norvelt – Gantos The Chronicles of Chrestomanci – Jones