Recommended Reading List - 5Th Grade

Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary School Summer Reading List - Rising 5th grade MAP TEST Lexile 400-600 TITLE AUTHOR The Monster’s Ring Bruce Coville The Courage of Sarah Noble Alice Dalgliesh Baseball Pals Matt Christopher See You Later, Gladiator Jon Scieszka Your Mother Was a Neanderthal Jon Scieszka The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko Danger on Midnight River Gary Paulsen It’s All Greek to Me Jon Scieszka Summer Reading is Killing Me Jon Scieszka Tonight on the Titanic Mary Pope Osborne The Tiger is Rising Kate DiCamillo The Upstairs Room Johanna Reiss Slam Dunk Sharon Robinson

MAP Test Lexile 601-850 TITLE AUTHOR Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliett Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan Lily’s Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Pictures of Hollis Woods Patricia Reilly Giff A Picture of Freedom Patricia McKassick Crispin: The Cross of Lead Avi The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Half Magic Edward Eager Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls A Week in the Woods Andrew Clements House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli The Kid Who Ran for President Dan Gutman The Maze of Bones Rick Riordan

MAP Test Lexile 851-1000+ TITLE AUTHOR The Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare Hatchet Gary Paulsen The Giver Lois Lowry The Door in the Wall Marguerite de Angeli The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Gathering Blue Lois Lowry Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor A Single Shard Linda Sue Park The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg The Black Pearl Scott O’Dell Sounder William H. Armstrong Call Me Francis Tucket Gary Paulsen Catherine, Called Birdy Karen Cushman Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curits