Barnstable United Elementary School ~ Summer Reading List for Incoming 5th Graders
Contemporary, Realistic, & Historical Fiction
Biography
Trouble-Maker
Big Nate on a Roll
Clements
Peirce
Make Your Mark, Franklin Roosevelt
St. George
Anne Frank
Poole
I survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
The Penderwicks
Tarshis
Birdsall
Krull
Superfudge
Blume
A Woman for President: The Story of
Victoria Woodhull
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man
The Summer of the Swans
Love that Dog
Byars
Creech
Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges)
Bridges
Curtis
DiCamillo
I’m Still Scared: A 26 Fairmont Avenue
Book
Always Inventing (Alexander G. Bell)
dePaola
Bud, Not Buddy
Because of Winn Dixie
Bandit’s Moon
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Fleischman
Gantos
They Called Her Molly Pitcher
Rockwell
A Drop of Water
Wick
The Remarkable Ben Franklin
Harness
Nory Ryan’s Song
Giff
Math-terpieces
Tang
Horvath
Curlee
Hot Hand
Lupica
Ballpark: The Story of America’s
Baseball Fields
Liberty
Saving Shiloh
Naylor
John Muir: America’s First
Environmentalist
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret
Knight Became an Inventor
Lasky
My One Hundred Adventures
The Best School Year Ever
Robinson
Hatkoff
The Year of Miss Agnes
Hill
Knut: How One Little Polar Bear
Captivated the World
My Senator and Me
Our Only May Amelia
Holm
Outside and Inside Mummies
Markle
Wizard’s Hall
Yolen
Year of the Dog
Lin
Slippery, Slimy Baby Frogs
Markle
Wrede
Number the Stars
Lowry
Barretta
Julia Gillian ( & the Art of Knowing)
McGhee
Sarah Plain and Tall
MacLachlan
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lewis
Seesaw Girl
Park
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of
Benjamin Franklin
Big Alaska: Journey Across America’s
Most Amazing State
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs!
Calling All Dragons: The Enchanted
Forest…
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
I Was a Rat!
Pullman
Dear America or Royal Diaries
Various
authors
Spiders
Simon
The Lightning Thief
Riordan
Horses
Simon
Summer Reading is Killing Me
Scieszka
The Journey of the One and Only
Declaration of Independence
How Sweet It Is (and Was): The History
of Candy
St. George
Whales on Stilts
Anderson
Artemis Fowl
Colfer
The Boggart
Cooper
The Tale of Despereaux
DiCamillo
City of Ember
DuPrau
Ella Enchanted
Levine
Choose a book that is just
right for you!
Nonfiction Information
Curlee
Kennedy
Miller
Kudlinski
Swain
Adler
Matthews
McCully
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Rowling
Barnstable United Elementary School ~ Summer Reading List for Incoming 5th Graders
Adventure and Mystery
New and Notable
The Spindlers
Oliver
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
Grisham
Splendors and Glooms
Schlitz
Storm Runners
Smith
Jake and Lily
Spinelli
Who Could That Be At This Hour?
Snicket
Liar and Spy
Stead
The Seer of Shadows
Avi
The Mighty Miss Malone
Curtis
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt
Bellairs
The One and Only Ivan
Applegate
Tarot Says Beware: A Herculeah Jones
Mystery
Stone Fox
Byars
My Side of the Mountain
George
Mickey and Me: A Baseball Card
Adventure
Flush
Gutman
Down the Yukon
Hobbs
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
Howe
Hatchet
Paulsen
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Snicket
Sammy Keyes Series
VanDraanen
1. Choose THREE “just right” books to read. Need ideas? Select a title from
the list, a different title written by any authors listed, a medal winner, or a
book recommended by a teacher or librarian.
2. Write the three titles and authors in the box below or on another piece of
paper.
3. Have your parent/guardian sign.
Bring your list to school so that you can share your super, sensational,
summer reading with other readers!
Name:
2.
3.
Hiaasen
Grade:
TITLE
1.
Gardiner
AUTHOR
Parent’s/Guardian’s Signature