5th Grade going into 6th Grade Book Suggestions
Rosanne Perry – Heart of a Shepherd
Avi – The Book Without Words (and anything else by Avi)
Lloyd Alexander – The High King (and anything else by Lloyd Alexander
Jacqueline Kelly – The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me
Gary Paulsen – Notes from the Dog
Carl Hiaasen – Hoot/ Scat/ Flush
Rodman Philbrick – The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Blue Balliett – Chasing Vermeer (and others)
Crash - Jerry Spinelli (and many more)
Cornelia Funke – Dragon Rider
Christopher Paolini – Eragon ( and sequels)
Shannon Hale –The Goose Girl (and many more)
Scott O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphin (and many more)
Jean Craighead George – Julie of the Wolves (and sequels)
Gary Blackwood – The Shakespeare Stealer
Lewis Buzbee – Steinbeck’s Ghost
Ben Mikaelsen – Touching Spirit Bear
Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker (and sequels)
Jennifer L. Holm – Turtle in Paradise
Cynthia Lord – Rules
Clare Vanderpool – Moon Over Manifest
Margi Preus – Heart of a Samurai
Kathi Appelt – The Underneath
Gary D. Schmidt – Okay for Now / The Wednesday Wars
Joan Bauer – Hope Was Here (and many more)
Sharon Creech – The Wanderer (and many more)
Nancy Farmer – A Girl Named Disaster (and many more)
Katherine Paterson –The Great Gilly Hopkins (and many more
Ellen Raskin – The Westing Game
Susan Cooper – The Grey King ( and many more)
Priscilla Cummings – The Red Kayak
Wendy Mass – Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Cynthia Kadohata – Weedflower
Christopher Paul Curtis – The Watsons Go to Birmingham ( and many more)
Karen Cushman – Rodzina (and many more)
Susan Patron – The Higher Power of Lucky