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Grade 5 Summer Reading |
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Suggested Summer Reading List – Grade 5
Adventure & Mystery Bellairs, J. -- House With a Clock in its Walls Orphaned Lewis goes to live with his uncle, a wizard, and becomes involved in a magician's evil plot.
Fitzhugh, L. -- Harriet The Spy Harriet travels around her Manhattan neighborhood recording the best and the worst of everyone. Sequel: The Long Secret.
Konigsburg, E. L. -- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Twelve-year-old Claudia and her humorous younger brother avoid security guards as they hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for a week. While there, they solve a mystery and uncover a surprising secret.
Animals Armstrong, W.H. – Sounder The heartfelt story of a boy and his beloved dog: a dog who has risked everything for his family.
Gipson, F. -- Old Yeller This story tells of the adventures of a 14-year-old boy and an ugly, stray dog that he befriends.
Henry, M. -- Misty of Chincoteague For horse lovers: this is the tale of Paul, his sister Maureen and a freedom-loving wild pony.
Naylor, P. -- Shiloh After finding Shiloh, an abused beagle, lost in the hills behind his home, Marty will do anything to save the life of the dog rather than return Shiloh to its rightful owner.
Classics Burnett, F. -- The Secret Garden A young cousin rescues Colin from the life of a spoiled and incurable invalid. Together they discover a garden behind the wall that holds many secrets.
Spyri, J. -- Heidi Heidi is heartbroken when she is forced to leave her grandfather's home in the Alps to care for a sick child in the city.
Wiggin, K. D. -- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm As one of seven fatherless children, Rebecca is sent to live with her strict, elderly aunts. She enlivens her new guardians' spirits and brings her strength to a tragic situation.
Historical Fiction Brink, C. -- Caddie Woodlawn This novel, set on the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's, tells the story of a fun-loving tomboy who saves her family from an Indian massacre.
Lawson, R. -- Ben and Me Amos, a mouse who befriends Benjamin Franklin, tells the "true" story of how Franklin got many of the ideas for his inventions in this lighthearted story.
Uchida, Y. -- A Jar of Dreams Rinko and her family learn to overcome the prejudices of American society with the help of her Aunt, who is visiting from Japan.
Wilder, L. -- Little House on the Prairie While traveling by covered wagon into Indian territory, the Ingalls experience both triumphs and tragedies.
Humor Dahl, R. -- The BFG The Big Friendly Giant (BFG) and Sophie try to put an end to the cruel activities of other giants.
Dahl, R. -- Matilda Matilda has special mental powers which she uses to try to rid the school of the evil headmistress.
Paulsen, G. – Harris and Me A young city boy is to spend the summer on his aunt and uncle’s farm. He has never experienced anything like farm life before, and he has surely never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.
Peck, R. -- Soup This is the story of the hilarious adventures of two mischievous boys in rural Vermont.
Imaginative & Science Fiction Babbit, N. -- Tuck Everlasting The Tucks try to live inconspicuously after drinking from a magic spring that is a fountain of youth. Complications occur when Winnie discovers their secret and is followed by a stranger.
Banks, L. -- The Indian in the Cupboard A birthday present Omri didn't want turns out to be wonderful and dangerous as the magic cupboard brings plastic figures to life. Sequel: Return of the Indian
Juster, N. -- Phantom Tollbooth Milo receives a tollbooth as a gift and finds that it takes him to a land where many adventures take place.
Stewart, M. -- Walk in Wolf Wood A brother and sister travel back in time to the Middle Ages to help a man reverse a curse that has changed him into a wolf.
Realistic Fiction Avi -- Blue Heron While trying to rescue a blue heron from a would-be killer, Maggie also helps her parents resolve difficult problems.
George, J. -- My Side of the Mountain A city boy decides to run away and live on his grandfather's land in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.
Jacobs, S. -- Song of the Giraffe Kisana is the object of jokes and ridicule until she saves her village from disaster.
Paterson, K. -- Bridge to Terabithia Rivals at first, Jess and Leslie become close friends until a tragic accident changes their lives forever.
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