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MATH:  Know your tables very well for addition, subtraction, 
       multiplication, and division. Your hard work will be worth 
       it!  See "Math Links" for websites.

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

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Summer Reading List