Entering Grade 5 Summer Reading List 2017

Belleville Public Library & Belleville Public Schools

Favorite Authors JOIN THE SUPERINTENDENT’S Lois Lowry CHALLENGE! Judy Blume Dr. Tomko challenges you to read as Ronald Dahl many books as you can this summer! Jeff Kinney (Every time you read a book, log it in!) Andrew Clements Katherine Patterson Read! Read! Read! Check out the books listed below. Be curious. They are some of the most popular books in the library.

Genre Key: Fiction Non-Fiction Biography Poetry Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Cretch A Jar of Dreams by Yomiko Uchido Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Lentil by Robert McClouskey Choldenko The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. An American Plague: the true and terrifying Lewis story of the yellow fever epidemic by Jim Locomotive by Brian Floca Murphy Matilda by Ronald Dahl All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriot Merlin and the Dragon by Jane Yolan Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Middle School Blues by Lou Kassem Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Foltz Jones Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville Carver, a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa brain science by John Fleischman Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff Kinney Pride of Puerto Rico by Paul Robert Walker Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voight Ragweed by Avi Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan Saving Ghost Mountain by Sy Montgomery Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe Patricia MacLachlan DeClementis Frindle by Andrew Clements So You Want to be an Inventor by Judith St. George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz George The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson Snowflake Bently by Jacqueline Briggs Martin Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech S.O.R. Losers by Avi Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Sounder by William H. Armstrong Apes by Pamela Turner The Voice that challenged a nation: Martin Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone by J.K. Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by Rowling Russell Freedman I Am Regina by Sally Keehn The Wanderer by Sharon Creech In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel by Bette Bao Lord Smith Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle