Summer 2016 5 th grade Reading List Dear Woods Families, Summer is a great time for reading and The Woods, as always, is encouraging students to read. The suggestions below are a list of books 5 th - 8 th graders might enjoy. Most of the listed books are available in the public library and/or local bookstores. In some cases, titles may be out of print, but are worth seeking in libraries and through used-book sources. The most important thing is to read anything and everything! Enjoy the summer and happy reading! -Katya Pilong- Media and Curriculum Specialist A Special Note to Parents to Help Establish a Love of Reading: -Create an inviting reading environment in your home. -Model reading! Let your children see you enjoy reading. -Read aloud! Read a book as a family, take turns reading, etc. - Establish a reading time and routine. -Visit your local library regularly.
~ Intermediate- Middle~ Handbook for Dragon Slayers. Merrie Haskell. HarperCollins, 2013. The Ghost in the Glass House. Carey Wallace. Clarion, 2013. Will in Scarlet. Matthew Cody. Ice Dogs. Terry Lynn Johnson. Houghton, 2014. The Children of the King. Sonya Hartnett. Candlewick, 2014. Under the Egg. Laura Marx Fitzgerald. Dial, 2014. Mystery; Historical. West of the Moon. Margi Preus. Amulet/Abrams. 2014. The Summer Experiment. Cathy Pelletier. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2014. The Crossover. Kwame Alexander. Houghton, 2014. The Night Gardener. Jonathan Auxier. Amulet/Abrams, 2014. ~ Middle~ (note a few titles are for 8 th grade and up) The War that Saved My Life. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 2015. Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare; adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds. Candlewick, 2013. Jane, the Fox & Me. Fanny Britt; trans. from the French Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou; ilus. Isabelle Arsenault. Groundwood, 2014. If I Ever Get Out of Here. Eric Gansworth. Levine/Scholastic, 2013. Twerp. Mark Goldblatt. Random, 2013. How to Catch a Bogle. Catherine Jinks. Harcourt, 2013. Echo. Pam Munoz Ryan, 2015.
Counting By 7 s. Holly Goldberg Sloan. Dial, 2013. The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co.) Jonathan Stroud. Hyperion, 2013. Caminar. Skila Brown. Candlewick, 2014. Novel in verse Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal. Margarita Engel. Houghton, 2o14. There Will Be Bears. Ryan Gebhart. Candlewick, 2014. The Cracks in the Kingdom. Jaclyn Moriarty. Levine/Scholastic, 2014. Sequel to the fantasy A Corner of White. Swim That Rock. John Rocco and Jay Primiano. Candlewick, 2014. Goodbye, Stranger. Rebecca Stead, 2015 Gone Crazy in Alabama. Rita Williams-Garcia, 2015 Brown Girl Dreaming. Jacqueline Woodson. A Penguin Random House Company, 2014.
Dear Future Fifth Grade Students and Parents, Over the summer we would like students to read at least four age appropriate, grade level novels (three of the student s choosing and one required). Students will need to keep track of the books they read by completing a log listing the titles and authors of the books they read in addition to answering the bulleted questions below. Please have students answer the questions for at least three of the novels read on a separate sheet (or sheets) of paper. Write the title of the book and the author s name at the top of the paper and answer all questions in complete sentences. In addition to reading three novels of the student s choice, every rising fifth grader is required to read Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Below is a list of some fifth grade student recommendations. These books range in difficulty and subject matter, but they are all appropriate. If the books on this are of no interest, consider consulting another source such as https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/5th-grade. Please remember the list below is merely a resource; students should read books that interest them. We will be reading The Cay (Taylor), The Watsons Go to Birmingham (Curtis), and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boynton) during the school year so please do not choose these books unless you ve made prior arrangements with me. Questions to be answered: What genre is the novel? Who are the main characters of the novel? What are the main conflicts? How are the conflicts resolved? Why I liked or disliked the book? Book Recommendations Whittington- Armstrong Tuck Everlasting- Babbit Molly Moon s Incredible Book of Hypnotism- Bang In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinsons- Bao Lord Outernet- Barlow Millions- Boyce The Secret Garden- Burnette The White Mountains- Christopher
Things Not Seen- Clements Artemis Fowl (series)- Colfer King of Shadows- Cooper The Monster s Ring- Coville Skull of Truth- Coville My Side of the Mountain- Craighead Bloomability- Creech Ruby Holler- Creech Walk Two Moons- Creech The Wanderer- Creech Boy- Dahl Going Solo- Dahl Because of Winn Dixie- DiCamillo Dovey Coe- Dowell The City of Ember- DuPrau Parvannah s Journey- Ellis The Ear, The Eye, and The Arm- Farmer A Girl Named Disaster- Farmer The Last Shot- Fientsein The Last King- Ford Inkheart- Funke The Thief Lord- Funke Princess Academy- Hale Skeleton Key- Horowitz Stormbreaker- Horowitz Everything on a Waffle- Horvath The Phantom Tollbooth- Juster Kira-Kira- Kadohata Shakespeare Bats Cleanup- Koertge From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler- Konigsburg Silent to the Bone- Konigsburg No More Dead Dogs- Korman The Tale of Troy- Lancelyn Green Beyond the Divide- Lasky Ella Enchanted- Levine Number the Stars- Lowry Three Rotten Eggs- Maguire The Meanest Doll in the World- Martin The China Year- Neville Midnight for Charlie Bone- Nimmo
The Borrowers- Norton A Single Shard- Park Bridge to Terabithia- Paterson Hatchet- Paulsen Harry Potter (series)- Rowling A Blue-Eyed Daisy- Rylant