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    Reading is one of the great joys of life.  Here are some great authors and titles to help fifth graders get started in a great book.  The important thing is to read, read, read!

     

    AUTHOR

    TITLE

    Angelou, Maya

    My Painted House

    Armstrong, William

    Sounder

    Avi

    Blue Heron

    Crispin, the Cross of Lead

    Night Journeys

    The Fighting Ground

    Ragweed

    Bailey, Carolyn

    Miss Hickory

    Banks, Lynn Reid

    The Fairy Rebel

    Blume, Judy

    Blubber

    Freckle Juice

    Superfudge and any of the Fudge series

    Bond, Michael

    A Bear Called Paddington

    Bridges, Ruby

    Through My Eyes

    Brink, Carol R.

    Caddie Woodlawn

    Butterworth, Olive

    The Enormous Egg

    Byars, Betsy

    Bingo Brown series

    Blossoms series

    Coast to Coast

    The Summer of the Swans

    The Computer Nut

    The Cybil War

    The Dark Stairs

    The Night Swimmers

    Tornado

    Caudill, Rebecca

    Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley?

    Caudill, Rebecca

    Tree of Freedom

    Christopher, Matt

    Dirt Bike Racer

    The Fox Steals Home

    Ice Magic

    Long Stretch at First Base

    No Arm in the Left Field

    Skateboard Tough

    Cleary, Beverly

    Beezus and Ramona  (any of the series )

    Dear Mr. Henshaw

    Ellen Tebbits

    Henry Huggins (any of the series)

    Muggie Maggie

    Socks

    Strider

    Clements, Andrew

    Janitor's Boy

    Coerr, Eleanor

    Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

    Colfer, Eoin

    Artemis Fowl   (series)

    Colville, Ann

    My Teacher Fried My Brains

    Colville, Bruce

    I Was a Sixth Grade Alien

    Creech, Sharon

    Bloomability

    Love That Dog

    Walk Two Moons

    Curtis, Christopher

    Bud, Not Buddy

    Curtis, Christopher

    The Watsons Go to Birmingham

    Cutler, Jane

    No Dogs Allowed

    Dahl, Roald  

    The B.F.G.

    Esio Trot

    Witches (and any other book by Roald Dahl)

    Davidson, Margaret

    The Story of Jackie Robinson, the Bravest Man In Baseball

    DeCamillo, Kate

    Because of Winn Dixie

    The Tale of Despereaux

    Denenberg, Barry

    Stealing Home: A Story of Jackie Robinson

    Edmonds, Walter

    The Matchlock Gun

    Estes, Eleanor

    The Moffats   (series)

    Fitzhugh, Louise

    Harriet the Spy

    Fleischman, Paul

    Bull Run

    Fritz, Jean

    And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

    Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?

    George Washington's Breakfast

    Shh! We're Writing the Constitution

    The Double Life of Pocahontas

    What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

    Where Do You Think You're Going, Columbus?

    Gardiner, John

    Stone Fox

    Giff, Patricia

    Lily's Crossing Nory Ryan's Song

     

    Gipson, Fred

    Old Yeller

    Gutman, Dan

    Honus and Me

    Haywood, Carolyn

    Betsy    (series, any books)

    The Eddie   (series)

    Henry, Marguerite

    Black Gold

    King of the Wind (series)

    Hiaasen, Carl

    Hoot

    Holling, Holling

    Paddle-to-the Sea

    Howe, Deborah

    Bunnicula

    Howe, James

    Howliday Inn

    Hughes, Langston

    The Dreamkeeper and other Poems

    Hunter, Mollie

    The Mermaid Summer

    Hurwitz, Johanna

    Aldo  (any in the series)

    Jacques, Brian

    Redwall   (series)

    Jerry Spinelli,

    Wringer

    Joseph, Lynn

    The Color of My Words

    Juster, Norton

    The Phantom Tollbooth

    King-Smith, Dick

    Pigs Might Fly

    Konigsburg, E. L.

    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

    Krumgold, Joseph

    Onion John

    Lawson, Robert

    Ben and Me

    L'Engle, Madeleine

    A Wind in the Door

    A Wrinkle in Time (series)

    Levers, Gail Carson

    Ella Enchanted

    Lewis, C. S.

    Chronicles of Narnia  (series)

    Lindgren, Astrid

    Pippi Longstocking   (series)

    Lovelace, Maud Hart

    Betsy-Tacy   (series)

    Lowry, Lois

    All About Sam

    Anastasia   (series)

    Attaboy, Sam

     

    MacLachlan, Patricia

    Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Martin, Rafe

    Rough Face Girl

    McDonald, Betty

    Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle  (series)

    Mochizuki, Ken

    Baseball Saved Us

    Naylor, Phyllis

    Beetles Lightly Toasted

    Saving Shiloh

    Norton, Mary

    The Borrowers    (series)

    O'Dell, Scott

    Sing Down the Moon

    Park, Linda Sue

    A Single Shard

    Peck, Richard

    A Long Way From Chicago

    A Year Down Under

    Voices After Midnight

    Peck, Robert Newton

    Soup  (series)

    Porter, Eleanor

    Pollyanna

    Reid Banks, Lynn

    The Indian in the Cupboard

    Reilly Giff, Patricia

    Fourth Grade Celebrity

    Pictures of Hollis Woods

    Robinson, Barbara

    The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

    Rockwell, Thomas

    How to Eat Fried Worms

    Rowling, J. K.

    Harry Potter (series)

    Ryan, Pam

    Esperanza Rising

    Rylant, Cynthia

    A Blue-Eyed Daisy

    Sachar, Louis

    Holes

    Sixth Grade Secrets

    There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom

    Wayside School is Falling Down

     

    Various authors

    Dear America (series) 

    Scieska, Jon

    Summer Reading Is Killing Me The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

     

    Silverstein, Shel

    Falling Up

    The Giving Tree

    Simon, Seymour

    Big Cats

    Snicket, Lemony

    Bad Beginning (series)

    Sobol, Donald J.

    Encyclopedia Brown  (series)

    Sperry, Armstrong

    Call It Courage

    Spinelli, Jerry

    Fourth Grade Rats

    Stargirl

    Knots in My Yo-Yo String

    Steig, William

    The Real Thief

    Stein, R. Conrad

    Ellis Island

    The Underground Railroad

    Taylor, Mildred

    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

    Taylor, Syndey

    All-of-a-Kind Family series

    Voight, Cynthia

    Bad, Badder, Baddest

    Warner, Gertrude Chandler

    The Boxcar Children  (series)

    White, E. B.

    Charlotte's Web

    Stuart Little

    The Trumpet of the Swan

    Wilder, Laura Ingalls

    The Little House  (series)

    Yolen, Jane

    Devil's Arithmetic

    The Dragon's Boy

    Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast


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Last Modified on August 25, 2018