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This book list is to give parents more suggestions for books to share with Fourth and Fifth Grade children. This list was created with help from The Children's Literature Lover's Book of Lists written by Joanna Sullivan, Ed.D. You may find that these books are too challenging for your child to read on his or her own. If so, read the book aloud to your child one chapter a night and share the love of a good book! |
Classics:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Anne of Green Gables (series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Black Stallion (series) by Walter Farley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (series) by C.S. Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Misty of Chincoteaugue (series) by Marguerite Henry
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Peter Pan by James Barrie
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
White Fang by Jack London
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Recent Favorites:
Anastasia (series) by Lois Lowry
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Konisburg
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle