MATH: Know your tables very well for addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division. Your hard work will be worth
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FIFTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST (AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR)
There are not any required book reports. Just have fun reading!!
Please read at least two or three books.
HUMOR
Blume - Fudge-a-mania, Superfudge
Carey - The Big Bazoohley
Fitzgerald - The Great Brain (any in series)
Hurwitz - Ali Baba Bernstein: Lost and Found
Manes - Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
McCloskey - Homer Price
Rodgers - Freaky Friday, A Billion For Boris
Sachar - Wayside School Gets a Little Better
SAD
Brooks - Everywhere
Byars - Good-bye Chicken Little
Coer - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Orgel - The Mulberry Music
Osborne - Run, Run As Fast As You Can
Park - Mick Harte Was Here
ANIMALS
Avi - Poppy
Armstrong - Sounder
Bawden - The Pepperment Pig
Burnford - The Incredible Journey
King-Smith - Martin's Mice
Knight - Lassie Come Home
Naylor - Shiloh
Neville - It's Like This, Cat
Uchida - The Promised Year
HISTORICAL FICTION
Brink - Caddie Woodlawn
Curtis - The Watson's Go To Birmingham
Fleischman - Bull Run
Gruberson - The Turtle People
Lawson - Ben and Me; Mr. Revere and I
O'Dell - Carlotta; The 290; My Name Is Not Angelica
Paulsen - Call Me Francis Tuckett
Sachs - A Pocket Full of Seeds
Speare - Calico Captive
Taylor - The Cay; Theodore of the Cay
Yates - Amos Fortune, Free Man
FANTASY
Alexander - The Book of Three
Brittain - The Wish Giver; Dr. Dredd's Wagon of Wonder
Christopher - The White Mountains (any in series)
Cooper - The Grey King (any of the series)
Eager - Knight's Castle
Gurney - Dinotopia
Lewis - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (any in series)
Norton - The Borrowers
Reid-Banks - The Return of the Indian; The Secret of the Indian; The Mystery
of the Cupboard
Selden - The Genie of Sutton Place
Winthrop - The Castle in the Attic
MYSTERY/SCIENCE FICTION
Babbit - Knee-Knock Rise
Byars - The Dark Stairs
Fleischman - The 13th Floor
Lowry - The Giver
Hamilton - The House of Dies Drear
Raskin - The Westing Game
BIOGRAPHY/NON-FICTION
Brenner - If You Were There in 1776
Blumberg - The Incredible Journey of Lewis & Clark
Dahl - Boy
Filipovic - Zlata's Diary
Hasking - Get On Board: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Levin - John Hawk: A Seminole Indian
Quinlan - The Case of the Mummified Pegs & Other Mysteries of Nature
FRIENDSHIP
Danziger - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Krumgold - Onion John
Lisle - Afternoon of the Elves
GROWING-UP
Auch - A Sudden Change of Family
Avi - The Barn
Blume - It's Not the End of the World; Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
Boyd - Circle of Gold
Byars - Trouble River
Conford - Dear Lovely Heart, I'm Desperate; Felicia the Critic
Creech - Walk Two Moons
Fitzhugh - Sport; Nobody's Family Is Going To Change
Greene,B. - Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Greene, C. - A Girl Called Al
Hamilton - M.C. Higgins the Great
Lord - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lowry - Anastasia (any in the series)
McKenzie - Under the Bridge
MacLachlan - Baby
Paulsen - The Night the White Deer Died
Rylant - Missing May
Sachar - The Boy Who Lost His Face
Slote - The Trading Game
Snyder - The Egypt Game
Yep - The Star Fisher
ADVENTURE
Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Dubois - The Twenty-One Balloons
Fleischman - Jim Ugly
George - Water Sky
Ullman - Banner in the Sky
CLASSICS
The Adventures of Robin Hood (any suitable edition)
Barrie - Peter Pan
Collodi - Pinocchio
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (any suitable edition)
MacDonald - The Light Princess