Grade 5 Recommended Reading List

• Realistic Fiction • Adventure and Mystery • Animal Stories • Fantasy •
Historical Fiction • Non-fiction and Biography • Humor •

Realistic Fiction

• Behar, R. Lucky Broken Girl
• Birdsall, J. The Penderwicks (series)
• Buyea, R. Because of Mr. Terupt (series)
• Byars, B. The Summer of the Swans, The Pinballs, The Not Just Anybody Family (series)
• Carmi, D. Samir and Yonatan (Middle East today)
• Cleary, B. Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Cohen, B. Thank You, Jackie Robinson
• Conford, E. The Luck of Pokey Bloom
• Creech, S. Walk Two Moons, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Love That Dog, Moo
• Dorris, M. See Behind Trees
• Ellis, D. The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey
• Ellis, S. The Family Project
• Fenner, C. Yolonda's Genius, The King of Dragons
• Fleischman, P. The Borning Room
• Fine, A. Step by Wicked Step
• Freeman, S. The Cuckoo's Child
• Giff, P. Willow Run
• Gino, A. George
• Hamilton, V. Cousins, The House of Dies Drear (series)
• Hesse, K. The Music of Dolphins, Out of the Dust, Stowaway
• Holt, K. My Louisiana Sky 
• Holub, J. The Robber and Me
• Hunt, L.M. Fish in a Tree
• Konigsberg, E. L. The View From Saturday
• Law, I. Savvy (series)
• L'Engle, M. Meet the Austins
• Lisle, J. T. The Art of Keeping Cool
• Lowry, L. Rabble Starkey (family); The Silent Boy;
• Mack, T. Drawing Lessons
• Macy, S. Girl's Got Game
• Martin, A. Rain Reign
• Mass, W. 11 Birthdays (series)
• McKay, H. The Exiles in Love, Saffy's Angel, Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose
• Montgomery Anne of Green Gables (series)
• Morpurgo, M. Why the Whales Came; Waiting for Anya
• Naylor, P. R. Shiloh; Shiloh Season (dogs); The Girls Take Over
• Nesbit, E. The Railway Children
• Palacio, R. J. Wonder
• Paterson, K. Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins
• Parks, B. The Graduation of Jake Moon, Mick Harte was Here
• Philbrick, R. Freak the Mighty, Zane and the Hurricane
• Preller, J. Six Innings
• Rhodes, J. P. Ninth Ward, Towers Falling, Ghost Boys
• Roos, S. The Gypsies Never Came
• Ryan, P. Esperanza Rising
• Rylant, C. Missing May
• Stead, R. When You Reach Me
• Stolz, M. A Wonderful, Terrible Time (and others)
• Streatfeild, N. Ballet Shoes (and others)
• Turnage, S. Three Times Lucky
• Westfall, R Stormsearch
• White, R. Belle Prater's Boy; Memories of Summer
• Williams-Garcia, R. One Crazy Summer (series)
• Williams, V Scooter (friendship)
• Woodson, J Maizon at Blue Hill; Last Summer with Maizon, Peace, Locomotion
• Yen Mah, A. The Chinese Cinderella
• Yolen, J. The Devil's Arithmetic; Boots and the Seven Leaguers: a Rock and Troll Novel
• Yumoto, K. The Friends ; The Letters; The Spring Tone

Fantasy

• Alcock, V. The Monster Garden
• Alexander, L. The Book of Three (Chronicles of Prydain series); Gawgon and the Boy
• Almond, D. Skellig; Kit's Wilderness
• Applegate, K. Wishtree
• Avi Perloo, the Bold
• Barnhill, K. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
• Barron, T.A. The Lost Years of Merlin (series); Tree Girl ; Great Tree of Avalon
• Brown, P. The Wild Robot, The Wild Robot Escapes
• Cheetham, A. The Pit
• Christopher, J. The White Mountains ( science fiction trilogy)
• Colfer, E. Artemis Fowl (series)
• Collins, S. Gregor and the Overlander (series)
• Cooper, S. The Dark is Rising (series); The Boggart
• Coville, B. The Unicorn Chronicles (series); Alien Visitors
• DiCamillo, K. The Magician's Elephant
• Divakaruni, C.B. The Conch Bearer (series)
• Eager, E. Knight's Castle (others)
• Farmer, N. The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm; The House of the Scorpion
• Flanagan, J. The Ranger's Apprentice (series)
• Funke, C. Inkspell (series)
• Gaiman, N. The Graveyard Book
• Hahn, M. D. Wait till Helen Comes, Time for Andrew; As Ever, Gordy (others)
• Hiaasen, C. Hoot, Flush, Scat
• Hunter, M. The Wicked One; A Stranger Came Ashore
• Ibbotson, E. The Secret of Platform 13; Which Witch; Island of the Aunts(others)
• L'Engle, M. A Wrinkle in Time (series)
• Langton, J. The Fledgling (and others)
• Levine, G Ella Enchanted; Dave at Night; The Wish
• Lin G. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
• Lin G. Starry River of the Sky
• Lindbergh, A. Baily's Window; Travel Far, Pay No Fare (others)
• Lisle, J.T. The Lampfish of Twill; The Lost Flower Children
• MacDonald, G The Lost Princess
• McGraw, E. J. The Moorchild; The Golden Goblet
• MacHale, D.J. Merchant of Death (Pendragon series)
• Nesbit, E. The Enchanted Castle
• Nimmo, J. Charlie Bone (series)
• Nix, G Mister Monday (Keys to the Kingdom series)
• Oppel, K. Airborn, Skybreaker
• Paolini, C. Eragon (series)
• Pearce, P. Tom's Midnight Garden
• Pierce, T. Alanna (series); First Test; Briar's Boy
• Pullman, P. The Golden Compass (series); The Scarecrow and His Servant
• Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (series)
• Rylant, C. The Van Gogh Cafe
• Shan, D. Cirque Du Freak (series)
• Stewart, P. The Edge Chronicles (series)
• Stroud, J. The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus series)
• Wrede, P Dealing with Dragons; Enchanted Forest Chronicles (series)
• Yolen, J. Merlin Trilogy
• Zindel, P. Rats (horror); The Doom Stone

Historical Fiction

• Avi Crispin: Cross of Lead
• Bawden, N. Carrie's War
• Beatty, P. Charlie Skedaddle (others)
• Blackwood, G. Shakespeare Stealer; Shakespeare's Scribe
• Blos, J. A Gathering of Days
• Choi, S.N. Year of Impossible Goodbyes
• Choldenko, J. Al Capone Does My Shirts (series)
• Conrad, P. My Daniel
• Cushman, K. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
• Curtis Bud, Not Buddy, The Watson's Go to Birmingham
• Draper, S. Stella by Starlight
• English, K. Francie
• Flores-Galbis, E. 90 Miles to Havana
• Fox, P. The Slave Dancer
• Giff, P. Lily's Crossing, Nory Ryan's Song
• Going, K.L. The Liberation of Gabriel King
• Hesse, K. Out of the Dust, Witness
• Hiranandani, V. The Night Diary
• Holm, J. Full of Beans, Turtle in Paradise
• Hopkinson, D. The Great Trouble
• Kelly, J. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
• Kerr, J. When Hilter Stole Pink Rabbit
• Lawrence, I. The Wreckers; The Smugglers; The Buccaneers (historical adventure)
• Lowry, L. Number the Stars
• O'Dell, S. Sing Down the Moon
• Orlev, U. Island on Bird Street (WWII survival); Run, Boy, Run
• Paterson, K. Preacher's Boy
• Park, L. A Single Shard; The Kite Fighters
• Philbrick, R. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
• Pearson, K. The Sky is Falling (series)
• Peck, R. A Long Way from Chicago, The Teacher's Funeral, A Season of Gifts
• Reeder, C. Shades of Gray
• Rhodes, J. Sugar
• Ryan, P.M. Echo, Esperanza Rising
• Schlitz, L.A., Splendors and Glooms
• Spinelli, J. Milkweed
• Taylor, M The Friendship; Song of the Trees
• Turner, M.W. The Thief (historical adventure); The Queen of Attolia
• Vanderpool, C. Moon over Manifest
• Watkins, Y. So Far From the Bamboo Grove; My Brother, My Sister and I
• Wiles, D. Countdown, Revolution
• Williams-Garcia, R. One Crazy Summer (series)
• Wold, L. Beyond the Bright Sea
• Wolff, V.E. Bat 6
• Yelchin, E. Breaking Stalin's Nose, Arkady's Goal
• Yolen, J. The Devil's Arithmetic

Mystery and Adventure

• Aiken, J. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Dangerous Games
• Avi The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle, Wolf Rider
• Babbitt, N. The Eyes of the Amaryllis, The Search for Delicious
• Balliett, B. Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3
• Barry, D. Peter and the Starcatchers (series)
• Bawden, Nina Kept in the Dark; Off the Road (others)
• Bellairs. J. The Curse of the Blue Figurine, The Ghost in the Mirror (mystery series)
• Bond, V. Zora and Me
• Bredsdorff, Bodil The Crow Girl: The Children of Crow Cove
• Cottonwood, J. Quake!
• Feinstein, J. Last Shot (series)
• Fleischman, S. The Whipping Boy; Bandit's Moon; Bo & Mizz Mad, Jim Ugly
• Flanagan, J. The Ranger's Apprentice (series)
• George, J. My Side of the Mountain; Julie of the Wolves
• Gibbs, S.  Spy School (series), Belly Up (Fun Jungle series)
• Gratz, A. Refugee, Grenade
• Grisham, J. Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
• Haddix, M. P. Running out of Time
• Hiassen, C Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp
• Hobbs, W. Far North, Ghost Canoe
• Horowitz, A. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider series); Raven's Gate, The Diamond Brothers (series)
• Jacques, B. Redwall (series)
• Lupica, M Heat
• Meyers, W. The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner (others)
• Milford, K. Green Glass House (series)
• O'Brien, R. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• O'Dell, S Island of the Blue Dolphin (others)
• Paulsen, G. Hatchet (series); White Fox Chronicles; Mr Tucket (series); Transvall Saga
• Peck, R The Ghost Belonged to Me (series)
• Price, W. Safari Adventure (others)
• Ransome, A. Swallows and Amazons (others)
• Rawls, W. Where the Red Fern Grows
• Riordan, R. The Lightning Thief (series)
• Sachar, L. Holes
• Salisbury, G. Jungle Dogs; Under the Blood Red Sun
• Sands, K. The Blackthorn Key
• Selznick, B. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Skurzynski, G. Cliff-Hanger
• Snyder, Z. The Egypt Game; Fool's Gold; The Runaways
• Speare, E. G. The Sign of the Beaver
• Sperry, A. Call it Courage
• Stevenson, J. Bones in the Cliff; The Unprotected Witness
• Stewart, T. The Mysterious Benedict Society (series)
• Stead, R. Liar and Spy, When You Reach Me
• Stevens, R. Murder is Bad Manners (series)
• Stroud, J.  The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. series)
• Taylor, T. The Cay  
• Turnage, S. Three Times Lucky
• Van Draanen, W. Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man (others)
• Wynne-Jones, T. The Book of Changes; The Boy in the Burning House
• Yep, L. Case of the Goblin Pearls
• Zindel, P. Raptor

Animal Stories

• Applegate, K.  The One and Only Ivan 
• Appelt, K.  The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp 
• Avi Poppy; Poppy and Rye; Perloo the Bold
• Brophy, A Flash and the Swan
• Burnford, S. The Incredible Journey
• DiCamillo, K.  Because of Winn Dixie, Flora and Ulysses, The Magician's Elephant
• Eckert, A Incident at Hawk's Hill; Return to Hawk's Hill
• Farley, W. The Black Stallion (series)
• George, J.C. Frightful's Mountain
• Gibbs, S. Belly Up (Fun Jungle series)
• Gipson, F. Old Yeller; Savage Sam
• Graham, K. The Wind in the Willows
• Haas, J. Shaper; Unbroken
• Henry, M King of the Wind
• Hiaasen, C. Hoot (series)
• Hoeye, M. Time Stops For No Mouse (series)
• Jacques, B. Redwall (series)
• Jarrell, R. The Bat-Poet; The Animal Family
• Kjelgaard, J. A. Big Red (and others)
• King-Smith, D. Babe, the Gallant Pig; Pigs Might Fly (others)
• Larson, K. Duke, Dash, Code Word Courage 
• Lasky, K. Guardians of Ga'Hoole (series)
• Martin, A. Rain Reign
• Milne, A. A. The World of Pooh
• Morpurgo, M. War Horse
• Naylor, P. R. Shiloh
• O'Brien, R.  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
• Pennybacker, S. Pax
• Rawls, W. Where the Red Fern Grows
• Seidler, T The Wainscott Weasel; Mean Margaret (and others)
• Sewell, A. Black Beauty
• Snyder, Z.K. Gib and the Grey Ghost (others)
• Steig, W. Dominic; Abel's Island
• Taylor, W. Agnes the Sheep
• Terhune, A. The Heart of a Dog (and others)
• White, E. B. Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte's Web (and others)

Humor

• Aiken, J. Mortimer's Cross (others)
• Angelberger, T.  The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (series)
• Avi The History of Helpless Harry; Romeo and Juliet Together...
• Barnett, M. The Terrible Two (series)
• Blume, J. Are you there God? It's me, Margaret, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
• Byars, B. Bingo Brown and the Language of Love (series)
• Byng, G. Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
• Clements, A.  Frindle
• Coville, B. My Teacher Fried My Brains
• Cresswell, H. Ordinary Jack (The Bagthorpe Saga) (series)
• Dahl, R. The Witches, The BFG, Matilda, George's Marvelous Medicine(others)
• Enzensberger, H.M. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
• Feiffer, J. Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears
• Fleischman, Sid Bandit's Moon
• Gantos, J. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (series), Dead End in Norvelt 
• Grabenstein, C. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (series), Home Sweet Motel 
• Greene, C. Double Dare O'Toole
• Greenwald, S. Rose Cole's Great American Guilt Club
• Hearne, B. Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs
• Horvath, P. The Trolls, Everything on a Waffle, My One Hundred Adventures
• Howe, J. Bunnicula (series)
• Jansson, T. Finn Family Moomimtroll
• Jones, D.W. Stopping for a Spell
• Juster, N. The Phantom Tollbooth
• Kinney, J. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
• King-Smith, D. The Queen's Nose
• Konigsburg, E. L. Journey to an 800 Number
• Korman, G. Ungifted, Slacker
• Levine, G. The Princess Test, Cinderellis and the Glass Hill (others)
• Levy, D. The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
• Lowry, L. The Willoughbys, Anastasia, Ask your Analyst (series)
• Maguire, G. Six Haunted Hairdos (others)
• Merrill, J. The Pushcart War
• Morgenstern, S. Secret Letters for 0 to 10; A Book of Coupons
• Naylor, P. The Boys Start the War (series)
• Nesbit, E. The Book of Dragons
• Patterson, J. I Funny (others)
• Peck, R. N. Soup (series)
• Peck, R. The Best Man 
• Pichon, L.  Tom Gates(series)
• Pinkwater, D. The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror (others)
• Raskin, E. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon...
• Rodgers, M. Freaky Friday, Summer Switch (others)
• Sachar, L. Wayside School is Falling Down (others)
• Scieszka, J. The Time Warp Trio (series)
• Shreve, S. Blister
• Snicket, L. Series of Unfortunate Events
• Spinelli, J. Maniac Magee (others) Knots in My Yo-Yo String (autobiography)
• Stewart, P. Stormchaser; Beyond the Deepwoods(The EDGE Chronicles)
• Thurber, J The Thirteen Clocks

Non-Fiction and Biography

• Armstrong, J. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
• Ballard, R. Exploring the Titanic (Underwater Archaeology)
• Blumberg, R. Shipwrecked: the True Story of a Japanese Boy
• Brewster, H Anastasia's Album
• Byars, B. The Moon and I (Memoir)
• Carpenter, A. L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz (Biography)
• Close, C..Chuck Close: Face Book (Biography)
• Cobb, V. Truth on Trial (Galileo - Biography)
• Cox, C. Forgotten Heroes: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers (Afro-Americans)
• Cummings, P. Talking with Adventurers (others)
• Dahl, R. Boy; (autobiography)
• Earle, S. Dive:Adventures in the Deep Frontier (underwater exploration)
• Evslin, B. Jason and the Argonauts; Hercules; ( and others - Myths)
• Ferris, J. Arctic Explorer (Matthew Henson - Biography)
• Freedman, R. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
• Freedman, R. Buffalo Hunt (North American Indians)
• Geringer, Laura The Pomegranate Seeds (mythology)
• Golenbock, P. Teammates (Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese)
• Greenbert, Jan Chuck Close, Up Close
• Grimes, N. Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman
• Hamilton, V. The People Could Fly (Folktales); Her Stories
• Hoose, P. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
• Hopkinson, K.. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
• Hughes. L. Dream Keeper (Poetry)
• Jones, C. Mistakes That Worked (Inventions); Accidents May Happen
• Kramer, S. Eye of the Storm: Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley
• Krull, K. Lives of the Writers; Lives of the Musicians; They Saw the Future
• Lurie, A. Clever Gretchen (Folklore)
• Macaulay, D. Mill; Ship; Castle; Pyramid (Construction and Function)
• Mann, E. The Brooklyn Bridge; The Great Wall
• Marrin, A. The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Time
• Matthews, T.L. Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell
• McCaughrean, G. The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World
• McKissack, P. Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman (Biography)
• McPherson, S. TV's Forgotten Hero: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
• Montgomery, S. Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
• Morpurgo, M. Arthur: High King of Britian (398.2)
• Murphy, J. Blizzard!
• Myers, W.D. At Her Majesty's Request (African Princess-Victorian England)
• Nelson, K. We are the Ship: The Story of the Negro Leagues
• Newman, P. Plastic Ahoy: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• North, S. Rascal (Natural Science)
• Osborne, M. Favorite Norse Myths
• Osofsky, A. Free to Dream: The Making of a Poet (Langston Hughes)
• Pasachoff, N. Alexander Graham Bell: Making Connections
• Paulsen, G. Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers
• Prelutsky, J. For Laughing Out Loud; The Beauty of the Beast ( and others- Poetry)
• Pringle, L. An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly
• Rusch, E. The Mighty Mars Rovers
• Ryden, H. Wild Horses I Have Known
• San Souci, R. Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale
• Sattler, H. The Book of Eagles (Birds)
• Saxby, M. The Great Deeds of Super Heroes (398.2)
• Schwartz, A Tales of Trickery; And the Green Grass Grew All Around (Folklore)
• Sevarance, J.B. Gandhi: Great Soul (Biography)
• Silverstein, S. A Light in the Attic (and others - Poetry)
• Silvey, Anita Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall
• Stanley, J. Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
• St. George, J. Sacagawea
• Stanley, D. Leonardo Da Vinci (Biography)
• Steger, W. Over the Top of the World: Explorer Will Steger's Trek Across the Arctic
• Stewart, M. Basketball: A History of Hoops
• Telgemeier, R. Smile
• Waldherr, K Persephone and the Pomegranate (Myth)
• Watkins, R. Gladiator
• Wick, W. A Drop of Water: A Book of Science Water
• Wueffson, D. The Kid Who Invented Popsicles (Inventions)

Updated 5/2019