5th Grade Recommended Reading List Matt Christopher (Sports) Having trouble finding a good book for your Stealing Home 5th grader? Try some of these teacher The Boy Who Only Hit Homers recommended books! Shadow Over the Back Court Nothing But Net Soccer Hero Gary Paulson The Comeback Challenge Hatchet Notes from the Dog Jerry Spinelli Dogsong Star Girl Brian’s Winter Love Star Girl The Winter Room Maniac Magee Knots in My Yo-Yo String Avi Eggs Don’t You Know There’s a War On? Crispin and the Cross of Lead Joseph Bruchac The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle The Arrow Over the Door The Fighting Ground Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Poppy Marines of World War Two Skeleton Man Tom Angleberger The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda Kate di Camillo Darth Paper Strikes Back Tale of Despereaux Because of Winn Dixie Sharon Creech The Miraculous Journey of Edward Ruby Holler Tulane Hate that Cat The Magician’s Elephant Chasing Redbird Mildred Taylor Christopher Paul Curtis Shiloh series Elijah of Buxton The Grand Escape Watsons go to Birmingham Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money Neil Gaiman Bud, Not Buddy Coraline The Graveyard Book Rick Riordan 39 Clues Series Jacqueline Woodson Percy Jackson Series After Tupac and D Foster The Lost Hero Feathers Locomotion Margaret Peterson Haddix Show Way 39 Clues Series Among the Hidden Series Mike Lupica (sports) Running Out of Time Heat Comeback Kids series Lois Lowry Travel Team The Giver Hero Gathering Blue Miracle on 49th Street Autumn Street Brian Selznick Meg Cabot The Invention of Hugo Cabret Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls series Wonderstruck Princess Diaries Andrew Clements Richard Peck Extra Credit A Year Down Yonder Benjamin Pratt series The Teacher’s Funeral The Report Card Fair Weather The Landry News A Long Way from Chicago No Talking .