Fifth Grade Summer Reading List 2015
Fiction
Chocolate Fever by Robert K. Smith
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Series)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead More
Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (series)
The Tale of Despereaux
Dear America by various authors (series)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (series)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Nonfiction/Biographies
Who was... by various authors (series by Grosset & Dunlarp)
My Life with Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
Chocolate by Hershey: A Story About Milton S. Hershey by Betty Burford
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
Everyone Wears His Name: A Biography of Levi Strauss by Sondra Henry
Model T: How Henry Ford Built a Legend by David Weitzman
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kambwamba and Bryan Mealer
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America by Jim Murphy
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin
Antarctica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers
The Day-glo Brothers by Chris Barton
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler
If you are interested in a particular person, feel free to read his or her biography!
**I have not read every book on the list, please consult your parents before selecting a book**