Suggested 5th
Grade Reading List
Books by Title:
I am the Worm
Kit’s Wilderness
Peak!
The White Darkness
Baseball in April –
by: Soto
The Light Princess
Phantom Tollboth
The Cay
Island of Blue
Dolphins
The Mystery of Rascal
Pratt
On the Wings of Heros
The Shakespeare
Stealer
The Slave Dancer
The Wall: Growing Up
Behind the Iron Curtain
What Would Joey Do?
Top 10 Ways to Ruin
the First Day of 5th Grade – by : Kenneth Derby
Alabama Moon
Becoming Naomi Leon
The Homeless Bird
The Liberation of Gabriel
King
No Talking
The View from
Saturday
Kaffir Boy
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
(movie coming out this summer)
Books by Author:
by Gary Paulson:
Hatchet
Notes from the Dog
Dogsong
Brian's Winter
The Winter Room
by Avi:
Don't You Know There's a War On?
Crispin and the Cross of Lead
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Fighting Ground
by Ben Mikelson:
Touching Spirit Bear
Ghost of Spirit Bear
Red Midnight
Petey
by Sharon Creech:
Ruby Holler
Love That Dog
Hate That Cat
Chasing Redbird
by Christopher Paul Curtis:
Elijah of Buxton
Watsons Go To Birmingham
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
by Rick Riordan:
39 Clues Series
Percy Jackson Series
by Margaret Peterson Haddix:
39 Clues Series
Among the Hidden Series
Running Out of Time
by Richard Peck:
Here Lies the Librarian
The Teacher's Funeral
Fair Weather
A Long Way From Chicago
by Matt Christopher: (Sports)
Stealing Home
The Boy Who Only Hit Homers
Shadow Over the Back Court
Nothing But Net
Soccer Hero
The Comeback Challenge
by Jerry Spinelli:
Star Girl
Love Star Girl
Maniac Magee
by Joseph Bruchac:
The Arrow Over the Door
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Skeleton Man
by Kate di Camillo:
Tales of Despereaux
Because of Winn Dixie
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Magician's Elephant
by Mildred Taylor:
Shiloh
The Grand Escape
by Lois Lowry:
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Autumn Street
Number the Stars