5th Grade
Whales on Stilts!
M.T. Anderson
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer
Portraits of African-American Heroes
Tonya Bolden
When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange,
and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth
Hannah Bonner
Through My Eyes
Ruby Bridges
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary
Rushmore
Lynn Curlee
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Paul Fleischman
Squarehead
Harriet Ziefert
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson
39 Clues series
Various authors
Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Series
Rick Riordan
Esperanze Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck
Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Lily's Crossing
Patricia Reilly Giff
The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
The Kid in the Red Jacket
Barbara Park
A Dog's Life: an Autobiography of a Stray
Ann M. Martin
The Birthday Room
Kevin Henkes
The Summer of the Swans
Betsy Byars
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Mildred Taylor
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Gary D. Schmidt
You may also access the Pizza Hut Book It! Summer Reading program Parent suggestions site at the address below:
http://www.bookitprogram.com/parents/summer.asp
