READING SELECTIONS  FOR FIFTH GRADE

Books Recommended by Librarians

Aiken, Joan.... Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Avi.... True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Babbitt, Natalie.... Tuck Everlasting

Brink, Carol.... Caddie Woodlawn

Burnett, Frances.... The Secret Garden

Collier, James/Christopher.... Jump Ship  To Freedom

Cooper, Susan....  Over Sea, Under Stone (series)

Creech, Sharon....  Walk Two Moons

Denenberg, Barry.... When Will This Cruel War Be Over?  The Civil War

Dygard, Thomas J.... Halfback Tough

Eager, Edward.... The Time Garden

Enright, Elizabeth.... Thimble Summer

Estes, Eleanor.... Ginger Pye

Farley, Walter.... The Black Stallion

Fox, Paula.... Monkey Island

Fritz, Jean....  And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Funke, Cornelia.... Inkheart

George, Jean Craighead.... Julie of the Wolves

Gibson, Fred.... Old Yeller

Harness, Cheryl.... Young Abe Lincoln

Henry, Marguerite.... King of the Wind (series)

Hesse, Karen.... Out of the Dust

Hunt, Irene.... Across Five Aprils

Hunter, Erin...Warriors: Into the Wild (series)

Jacques, Brian....  Redwall (series)

Jordan, Robert.... The Shadow Rising

King-Smith, Dick.... Babe, The Gallant Pig

Kjelgaard, Jim.... Big Red

Knight, Eric....  Lassie Come Home

Knoigsburg, E.L..... The View from Saturday

L'Engle, Madeleine.... The Arm of the Starfish

Lasky, Kathryn.... The Journey

Lewis, C.S. .... Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Lindgren, Astrid.... Pippi Longstocking

Lowry, Lois....  The Silent Boy

McCaughrean, Geraldine....Gilgamesh the Hero

Melling, O.R..... The Hunter's Moon

Meyer, L.A..... (series) Bloody Jack

Miller, Debbie S.....The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail

Myers, Walter Dean.... The Glory Field

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.... Night Cry

Norton, Mary.... The Borrowers

O'Dell, Scott.... Island of the Blue Dolphins

Oppel, Kenneth....Airborn

Paolini, Christopher.... Eragon

Paterson, Katherine.... Lyddie

Paulson, Gary.... Brian's Winter

Pearce, Philippa....Tom's Midnight Garden

Perkins, Lynne Rae.... Criss Cross (Newbery Winner 2006)

Petry, Ann.... Tituba Salem Village

Raskin, Ellen....Westing Game

Rawlings, Marjorie.... The Yearling

Rowling, J.K. .... Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rupp, Rebecca.... The Waterstone

Selznick, Brian...The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Smith, Patrick....A Land Remembered

Snicket, Lemony.... The Bad Beginning (series)

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley.... The Headless Cupid

Speare, Elizabeth George.... The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Springer, Nancy.... Lionclaw: A Tale of Rowan Hood

Stewart, Mary.... The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga)

Stewart, Paul.... Stormchaser (series)

Taylor, Mildred.... Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Taylor, Theodore.... The Cay

Waugh, Sylvia.... Earthborn

Webster, Jean.... Daddy-Long-Legs

White, E.B..... Stuart Little