Level:

Beginning of 5th grade

Level:

On 5th Grade

Level:

Getting ready for 6th grade

FICTION:

Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary)

James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)

Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Richard Atwater)

Superfudge (Judy Blume)

Fudge-a-Mania (Judy Blume)

Double Fudge (Judy Blume)

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Judy Blume)

Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

Frindle (Andrew Clements)

Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)

The Witches (Roald Dahl)

The Indian in the Cupboard- series (Lynne Reid Banks)

NONFICTION:

Black Diamond: The Story of Negro Baseball Leagues (Patricia McKissack)

Finding the Titanic (Robert Ballard)

If You Lived at The Time of… (various authors)

Walking the Road to Freedom (Jeri Ferris)

Mummies Made In Egypt (Aliki)

Mummies! Secrets of the Dead (Harriet Griffey)

FICTION:

Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Betsy Byars)

Letters from Rifka (Karen Hesse)

The Pinballs (Betsy Byars)

Poppy (Avi)

An Angel for Solomon Singer (Cynthia Rylant)

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Jack Gantos)

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)

The Man Who Was Poe (Avi)

The Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth G. Speare)

NONFICTION:

My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulsen)

Where Do you Think You’re Going, Christopher (Louis Sachar)

Freedom Train (Dorothy Sterling)

Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution (Jean Fritz)

Love that Dog (Sharon Creech)

What Was...Who Was...Who Is... series (various authors)

FICTION:

My Side of the Mountain (Jean C. George)

A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)

Tangerine (Edward Bloor)

Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)

Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick)

Hoot (Carl Hiaasen)

The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)

Maniac Magee (Jerry Spinelli)

Nightjohn (Gary Paulsen)

Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)

Chasing the Milkyway (Erin E. Moulton)

Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)

Elijah of Buxton (Christopher Paul Curtis)

NONFICTION:

Rosa Park (Rosa Parks)

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St Helens (Patricia Lauber)

The American Revolution (Alden R. Carter)

The Boston Tea Party (Conrad R. Stein)

Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line (Andrew Santella)

Lincoln: A Photobiography (Russell Freedman)

Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson (Barry Denenberg)

Anne Frank: Life in Hiding (Johanna Hurwitz)

I Am A Star: Child of the Holocaust (Inge Auerbacher)

Maya Angelou (Jayne Pettit)