Concord Public Schools
Summer Reading List
Grade 5
June 2008

Brought to you by your Public School Librarians

 

  

FICTION

Balliett, Blue

The Calder Game

Bruchac, Joseph

Code Talker

Chabon, Michael

Summerland

Clements, Andrew

A Week in the Woods

Collins, Suzanne

Gregor the Overlander series

Creech, Sharon

Replay

Curtis, Christopher P.

Elijah of Buxton

Dowd, Siobhan

The London Eye Mystery

Dunmore, Helen

Ingo series

The Tide Knot

DuPrau, Jeanne

Books of Ember series

City of Ember

City of Ember (pb)

People of Sparks

People of Sparks (pb)

Farmer, Nancy

Sea of Trolls

Flanagan, John

The Ranger’s Apprentice series

Ruins of Gorlan

Gardner, Lyn

Into the Woods

Gutman, Dan

The Homework Machine

Hannigan, Katherine

Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize
Fun

Hiaasen, Carl

Flush

Hunter, Erin

Warriors series (more titles)

Jonell, Lynne

Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat

Kadohata, Cynthia

Weedflower

Kerr, Philip

Children of the Lamp series

Levine, Gail Carson

Fairest

Lupica, Mike

Heat

Heat (pb)

Marsden, Carolyn

The Quail Club

Mass, Wendy

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Matthews, L.S.

A Dog for Life

McKay, Hilary

Casson Family series

Caddy Ever After

Forever Rose

Park, Linda Sue

Archer’s Quest

Paulsen, Gary

Lawn Boy

Peck, Richard

Fair Weather (pb)

Philbrick, Rodman

The Young Man and the Sea

Riordan, Rick

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

(more titles)

Ryan, Pam Munoz

Becoming Naomi Leon

Selznick, Brian

Invention of Hugo Cabret

Springer, Nancy

Rowan Hood series (more titles)

Stewart, Trenton Lee

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Turner, Ann Warren

Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson

Wiles, Deborah

The Aurora County All-Stars

 

NONFICTION

Agee, Jon

Palindromania

Arnold, Nick

Horrible Science: Blood, Bones
and the Body Bits

Baker, Christopher

Robots Among Us

Berger, Melvin

The Real Vikings

Coville, Bruce

Romeo and Juliet

Curlee, Lynn

Ballpark

David, Laurie

The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming

Davies, Nicola

What’s Eating You?

DiSpezio, Michael

How Bright Is Your Brain?

Fleming, Thomas

Everybody’s Revolution

Jackson, Donna

E. R. Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room

Janeczko, Paul

Top Secret: Codes, Ciphers,
and Secret Writing

Kurlansky, Mark

The Story of Salt

Lasky, Kathryn

The Man Who Made Time Travel

Lauber, Patricia

Who Came First: New Clues to Prehistoric Americans

Macaulay, David

Mosque

Mason, Paul

How to Improve at Swimming

McCaughrean, G.

Heroes series (Greek mythology) (more titles)

McLimans, Davis

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

Schlitz, Laura Amy

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Sewall, Marcia

James Towne: Struggle for Survival

Simon, Seymour

Lungs: Your Respiratory System System

Slavin, Bill

Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made

St. George, Judith

So You Want to Be an Inventor?

Tanaka, Shelley

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Truss, Lynne

The Girl’s Like Spaghetti

Yolen, Jane

The Salem Witch Trials

 

FOLKTALES

Andersen, Hans C.

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales (more titles)

Clayton, Sally Pomme

Tales Told in Tents

Curry, Jane L.

Hold Up the Sky

Geras, Adele

My Grandmother’s Stories

Hodges, Margaret

Merlin and the Making of the King

Kimmel, Eric

The Tale of Ali Baba and
the Forty Thieves

McCaughrean, G.

Myths and Legends of the World

Myers, Christopher

Lies and Other Tall Tales

Storace, Patricia

Sugar Cane: a Caribbean Rapunzel

Wisniewski, David

Golem

Yolen, Jane

Not One Damsel in Distress

 

POETRY

 

Bing, Christopher

 

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Carlson, Lori M.

Cool Salsa

Cleary, Brian P.

Rainbow Soup

Cooling, Wendy

Come to the Great World: Poems from Around the World

Dickinson, Emily

I’m Nobody, Who Are You?

Fletcher, Ralph

A Writing Kind of Day: Poems for Young Poets

Frost, Robert

A Swinger of Birches

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Lives: Poems About Famous Americans

Hughes, Langston

The Block

Lewis, J. Patrick

A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme

Morrison, L.

More Spice Than Sugar: Poems About Feisty Females

Motion, Andrew

Poetry by Heart

Silverstein, Shel

Don’t Bump the Glump!

Sidman, Joyce

This is Just to Say: Poems of Apologies

Perry, Andrea

Here’s What You Do When You Can’t Find Your Shoe

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Adler, David

 

B. Franklin, Printer

Bruchac, Joseph

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American

Byrd, Robert

Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer

Delano, Marfe

Genius: A Photobiography of
Albert Einstein

Ehrlich, Amy

Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson

Fleischman, Sid

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini

Freedman, Russell

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Giblin, James

The Many Rides of Paul Revere

Kerley, Barbara

Walt Whitman: Words For America

Krull, Kathleen

Isaac Newton

McCully, Emily

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

Poole, Josephine

Anne Frank

Rumford, James

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing

Stanley, Diane

Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam

Sis, Peter

Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei

Walker, Alice

Langston Hughes

Zalben, Jane B.

Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World

 

CLASSICS for the WELL-READ CHILD

 

Aiken, Joan

 

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women

Avi

The True Confessions
of Charlotte Doyle

Babbitt, Natalie

Tuck Everlasting

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Bud, Not Buddy

Dorris, Michael

Sees Behind Trees

Forbes, Esther

Johnny Tremain

George, Jean C.

Julie of the Wolves

L’Engle, Madeleine

A Wrinkle in Time

London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois

The Giver

O’Dell, Scott

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Paterson, Katherine

Jip: His Story

Park, Linda Sue

A Single Shard

Paulsen, Gary

Hatchet

Raskin, Ellen

The Westing Game

Speare, Elizabeth George

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Hobbit