Grade
5 Book List |
TITLE OF BOOK |
AUTHOR |
GENRE |
| Across Five Aprils |
Irene Hunt |
HF |
| Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Gennifer Choldenko |
HF |
| Aldo Applesauce |
Johanna Hurwitz |
RF |
| Amos Fortune Free Man |
Elizabeth Yates |
HF |
| Becoming Naomi Leon Read Aloud |
Pam Munoz Ryan |
RF |
| Big Wave (The) |
Pearl S. Buck |
RF |
| Black Eyed Susan |
Jennifer Armstrong |
HF |
| Blue Sword (The) |
Robin McKinley |
F |
| Boy Who Saved Basesball (The) |
Ritter |
RF |
| Bridge to Terabithia |
Katherine Paterson |
RF |
| Bud, Not Buddy |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
HF |
| Caddie Woodlawn |
Carol Ryrie Brink |
HF |
| Cay (The) |
Theodore Taylor |
HF |
| Corner of the Universe (A) |
Ann Martin |
RF |
| Crash |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Crazy Lady |
Jane Leslie Conly |
RF |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
Avi |
HF |
| Criss Cross |
Lynn Rae Perkins |
F |
| Dark is Rising (The) |
Susan Cooper |
F |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Beverly Cleary |
RF |
| Dicey's Song |
Cynthia Voight |
RF |
| Dogsong |
Gary Paulsen |
RF |
| Dragon's Gate |
Laurence Yep |
HF |
| Dragonwings |
Laurence Yep |
HF |
| Egypt Game |
Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
F |
| Esperanza Rising 5 |
Pam Munoz Ryan |
HF |
| Everything on a Waffle |
Polly Horvath |
RF |
| Face on the Milk Carton (The) |
Caroline Cooney |
RF |
| Fever 1793 5 |
Laurie Anderson |
HF |
| Flush |
Carl Hiassen |
RF |
| From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 48 |
E.L. Konigsberg |
M |
| Gathering of Days (A) |
Joan W. Blos |
HF |
| Getting Near to Baby |
Audrey Cailoumbis |
RF |
| Girl Named Disaster (A) |
Nancy Farmer |
RF |
| Giver (The) |
Lois Lowry |
SF |
| Golden Goblet (The) |
Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
M |
| Great Fire (The) |
Jim Murphy |
HF |
| Great Gilly Hopkins (The) |
Katherine Paterson |
RF |
| Half Moon Investigations |
Eoin Colfer |
M |
| Hatchet |
Gary Paulsen |
RF |
| Heat |
Mike Lupica |
RF |
| Holes |
Louis Sachar |
RF |
| Hoot |
Carl Hiassen |
RF |
| Hope was Here |
Joan Bauer |
RF |
| House of Dies Drear |
Virginia Hamilton |
M |
| House of the Scorpion (The) |
Nancy Farmer |
SF |
| Hundered Dresses (The) 29 |
Eleanor Estes |
RF |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
Batte Bao Lord |
HF |
| Incident at Hawk's Hill |
Allan Eckert |
RF |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins 58 |
Scott O'Dell |
RF |
| Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me |
E.L. Konigsberg |
F |
| Johnny Tremain |
Ester Forbes |
HF |
| Kira Kira |
Cynthia Kadohata |
RF |
| Letters from Rifka |
Karen Hesse |
HF |
| Library Card (The) |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Lily's Crossing |
Patricia Reilly Giff |
HF |
| Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The) 30 |
C.S. Lewis |
F |
| Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy |
Gary Schmidt |
RF |
| Long Way from Chicago |
Richard Peck |
HF |
| Loser |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Milkweed |
Jerry Spinelli |
HF |
| Monkey Island |
Paula Fox |
RF |
| Moonchild |
Eloise McGraw |
F |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
Robert C. O'Brien |
F |
| Music of the Dolphins (The) |
Karen Hesse |
F |
| My Father's Dragon |
Ruth Stiles Gannett |
F |
| My Side of the Mountain 6 |
Jean Craighead George |
RF |
| Nory Ryan's Song |
Patricia Reilly Giff |
HF |
| Nothing but the Truth |
Avi |
RF |
| Number the Stars 60 |
Lois Lowry |
HF |
| Olive's Ocean |
Kevin Henkes |
RF |
| One Eyed Cat |
Paula Fox |
RF |
| Onion John |
Joseph Krumgold |
RF |
| Our Only May Amelia |
Jennifer Holm |
HF |
| Out of the Dust |
Karen Hesse |
HF |
| Park's Quest |
Katherine Paterson |
RF |
| Peter and the Star Catchers |
Dave Barry |
F |
| Phantom Tollbooth |
Norton Juster |
F |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Pataricia Reilly Giff |
RF |
| Poppy |
Avi |
F |
| Princess Academy |
Shannon Hali |
RF |
| Red Cap |
G. Clifton Wisler |
RF |
| Red Rose Box (The) |
Brenda Woods |
HF |
| Report to the Principal's Office |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Ribbons |
Laurence Yep |
RF |
| Runaway Home |
Patricia McKissack |
HF |
| Scorpions |
Walter Dean Meyers |
RF |
| Secret School (The) |
Avi |
HF |
| Seed Folks |
Paul Fleischman |
RF |
| Sign of the Beaver (The) 22 |
Elizabeth George Speare |
HF |
| Sing Down the Moon |
Scott O'Dell |
HF |
| Single Shard (A) |
Linda Sue Park |
RF |
| Slave Dancer |
Paula Fox |
HF |
| Small Steps |
Louis Sachar |
RF |
| Somewhere in the Darkness |
Walter Dean Meyers |
RF |
| Stargirl |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Summer of the Swans 44 |
Betsy Byars |
RF |
| Tale of Despereaux (The) |
Kate DiCamillo |
F |
| There's A Girl in My Hammerlock |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Thief (The) |
Megan Whallen Turner |
F |
| True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (The) |
Avi |
HF |
| Twenty-One Balloons (The) |
William Pene du Bois |
RF |
| Uncle Daddy |
Ralph Fletcher |
RF |
| Under the Blood-Red Sun |
Graham Salisbury |
HF |
| Upstairs Room (The) |
Johanne Reiss |
HF |
| View From Saturday |
E.L. Konigsberg |
RF |
| Walk Two Moons |
Sharon Creech |
RF |
| Wanderer (The) |
Sharon Creech |
RF |
| Watson's Go to Burmingham (The) |
Christopher Paul Curtis |
HF |
| Wayside School is Falling Down |
Louis Sachar |
RF |
| Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
M |
| What Hearts |
Bruce Brooks |
RF |
| What Jamie Saw |
Carolyn Coman |
RF |
| When the Soldiers Were Gone |
Vera Propp |
HF |
| Where the Red Fern Grows |
Wilson Rawls |
RF |
| Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole? |
Jerry Spinelli |
RF |
| Who Stole the Wizard of Oz |
Avi |
RF |
| Wind in the Willows (The) 26 |
Kenneth Grahame |
F |
| Witness |
Karen Hesse |
HF |
| Woodsong 19 |
Gary Paulsen |
RF |
| Worth |
A. LaFave |
HF |
| Wrinkle in Time 54 |
Madeleine L'Engle |
SF |
| Year Down Under (A) |
Richard Peck |
HF |
| Year of Miss Agnes (The) |
Kirkpatrick Hill |
RF |
| Yolanda's Genius |
Carol Fenner |
RF |
| Zia |
Scott O'Dell |
RF |