*Updated 9/17/18
Favorite Fifth Grade Books:
www.greatschools.org/gk/book-lists/favorite-books-for-fifth-graders/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=no_campaign&utm_content=reading
Warriors
by Erin Hunter
(Recommendation by Sophia)
The Healing Spell
by Kimberley Griffiths Little
Locked in Time
by Lois Duncan
Once
by Morris Gleitzman
Rush for the Gold
by John Feinstein
Paperboy
by Vince Vawter
Forge
by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Last Shot
by John Feinstein
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
How to Eat Fried Worms
by Thomas Rockwell
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton JusterAverage
The Emerald Atlas
by John Stephens
Things Not Seen
by Andrew ClementsEasy Reading
Something Upstairs
by Avi
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia
Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki
Why Don't You Get A Horse, Sam Adams?
by Jean FritzEasy Reading
Worth
by A. LaFaye
The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
By: Judd Winick
Circus Mirandus
By: Cassie Beasley
Echo
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
By: Chris Grabenstein
The False Prince
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Firefly
By: Alison McGhee
A Handful of Stars
By: Cynthia Lord
Listen, Slowly
By: Thanhha Lai
The One and Only Ivan
By: Katherine Applegate
The War that Saved My Life
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Chasing Redbird
by Sharon Creech
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (illus.) -
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Holes
by Louis Sachar
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord, Marc Simont (illus.)
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
Matilda
by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (illus.)
Mick Harte Was Here
by Barbara Park
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
My Daniel
by Pam Conrad
The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Wait Till Helen Comes, A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
The Warm Place
by Nancy Farmer
Moon Over Manifest
Claire Vanderpool
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron
Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Midieval Village
Laura Amy Schlitz
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
The View from Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg
Sources:
Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/summer_reading/5th_grade.shtml
Favorite Fifth Grade Books:
www.greatschools.org/gk/book-lists/favorite-books-for-fifth-graders/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=no_campaign&utm_content=reading
Warriors
by Erin Hunter
(Recommendation by Sophia)
The Healing Spell
by Kimberley Griffiths Little
Locked in Time
by Lois Duncan
Once
by Morris Gleitzman
Rush for the Gold
by John Feinstein
Paperboy
by Vince Vawter
Forge
by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Last Shot
by John Feinstein
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
How to Eat Fried Worms
by Thomas Rockwell
Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton JusterAverage
The Emerald Atlas
by John Stephens
Things Not Seen
by Andrew ClementsEasy Reading
Something Upstairs
by Avi
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia
Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki
Why Don't You Get A Horse, Sam Adams?
by Jean FritzEasy Reading
Worth
by A. LaFaye
The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
By: Judd Winick
Circus Mirandus
By: Cassie Beasley
Echo
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
By: Chris Grabenstein
The False Prince
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Firefly
By: Alison McGhee
A Handful of Stars
By: Cynthia Lord
Listen, Slowly
By: Thanhha Lai
The One and Only Ivan
By: Katherine Applegate
The War that Saved My Life
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Chasing Redbird
by Sharon Creech
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (illus.) -
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Holes
by Louis Sachar
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord, Marc Simont (illus.)
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
Matilda
by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (illus.)
Mick Harte Was Here
by Barbara Park
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
My Daniel
by Pam Conrad
The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Wait Till Helen Comes, A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
The Warm Place
by Nancy Farmer
Moon Over Manifest
Claire Vanderpool
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron
Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Midieval Village
Laura Amy Schlitz
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
The View from Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg
Sources:
Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/summer_reading/5th_grade.shtml