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5th Grade Reading List

  • A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
  • A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
  • All About Sam - Lois Lowry
  • Anastasia Krupnik - Lois Lowry
  • Any title from the Anastasia series - Lois Lowry
  • Any title from the Dear America Series - various authors
  • Any title from the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series - Betty Bard MacDonald
  • Any title from the Ramona series - Beverly Cleary
  • Around the World in a Hundred Years - Jean Fritz
  • Because of Winn Dixie - Kate Dicamillo
  • Behold the Dragons - Gail Gibbons
  • Belle Teal - Ann M. Martin
  • Bill Peet: An Autobiography - Bill Peet
  • Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
  • Bull’s Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley - Sue Macy
  • By the Great Horn Spoon - Sid Fleischman
  • Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Rye Brink
  • Call it Courage - Armstrong Sperry
  • Call of the Wild - Jack London
  • Celebrating Ramadan - Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
  • Chocolate Touch - Patrick Catling
  • Dancing in Cadillac Light - Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail - Elvira Woodruff
  • Dogs Have the Strangest Friends and Other True Stories of Animal Feelings - Jeffrey M. Masson
  • Everything on a Waffle - Polly Horvath
  • Fair Weather - Richard Peck
  • Five Brave Explorers - Wade Hudson
  • Follow the Drinking Gourd - Jeanette Winter
  • Followers of the North Star - Susan Lechner & Susan Alman
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J. K. Rowling
  • Heartland - Diane Seibert
  • Helen Keller: The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
  • Holes - Louis Sachar
  • In the Eyes of the Cat: Japanese Poetry for All Seasons - Demi
  • In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Betty Bao Lord
  • Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
  • Letters from Rifka - Karen Hesse
  • Lincoln: A Photobiography - Russell Freedman
  • Looking for Pa: A Civil War Journal - Geraldine Lee Susi
  • Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
  • My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George
  • My Teacher is an Alien - Bruce Coville
  • Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
  • Poppy - Avi
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
  • Rosa Parks, My Story - Rosa Parks
  • Shelter Dogs - Peg Kehret
  • The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
  • The Ballad of Lucy Whipple - Karen Cushman
  • The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours - Jane Goodall
  • The Fighting Ground - Avi
  • The Friendship - Mildred D. Taylor
  • The Light in the Attic - Shel Silverstein
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
  • The Return of the Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
  • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Secret of the Indian - Lynne Reid Banks
  • The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
  • The Time-Warp Trio: 2095 - Jon Scieszka
  • The Time-Warp Trio: Knights of the Kitchen Table - Jon Scieszka
  • The Time-Warp Trio: Summer Reading is Killing Me - Jon Scieszka
  • The Time-Warp Trio: The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy - Jon Scieszka
  • The Time-Warp Trio: Tut, Tut - Jon Scieszka
  • The Time-Warp Trio: Your Mother Was a Neanderthal - Jon Scieszka
  • The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane - Russell Freedman
  • This Time, Tempe Wick? - Patricia Lee Gauch
  • To Walk the Sky Path - Phyllis R. Naylor
  • Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
  • Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings - Shel Siverstein
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