School Reading List 2009

Grade 5

FICTION

Applegate, Katherine

Home of the Brave

Balliett, Blue

The Calder Game

Bruchac, Joseph

Code Talker

Broach, Elise

Masterpiece

Chabon, Michael

Summerland

Clements, Andrew

Lost and Found

Creech, Sharon

Hate that Cat

Curtis, Christopher P.

Elijah of Buxton

Dowd, Siobhan

The London Eye Mystery

DuPrau, Jeanne

Books of Ember series

Flanagan, John

The Ranger’s Apprentice series

Frederick, Heather Vogel

Much Ado About Anne

Gardner, Lyn

Into the Woods

Gutman, Dan

The Homework Machine

Haddix, Margaret

Found

Hannigan, Katherine

Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize
Fun

Hiaasen, Carl

Scat

Horvath, Polly

My One Hundred Adventures

Hunter, Erin

Warriors series

Kadohata, Cynthia

Weedflower

Kerr, Philip

Children of the Lamp series

Korman, Gordon

Swindle

Law, Ingrid

Savvy

Lisle, Janet Taylor

Highway Cats

Lupica, Mike

Heat

Marsden, Carolyn

The Quail Club

Mass, Wendy

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

McKay, Hilary

Casson Family series

O’Connor, Barbara

How to Steal a Dog

Park, Linda Sue

Archer’s Quest

Paulsen, Gary

Lawn Boy

Pattou, Edith

East

Prineas, Sarah

The Magic Thief

Riordan, Rick

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Ryan, Pam Munoz

Becoming Naomi Leon

Selznick, Brian

Invention of Hugo Cabret

Springer, Nancy

Rowan Hood series

Stewart, Trenton Lee

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

Turner, Ann Warren

Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson

Wiles, Deborah

The Aurora County All-Stars

Wood, Don

Into the Volcano


FOLKTALES

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

Kajikawa

Tsunami

McCaughrean, G.

Myths and Legends of the World (series)

Myers, Christopher

Lies and Other Tall Tales

Storace, Patricia

Sugar Cane: a Caribbean Rapunzel

Wisniewski, David

Golem

Yolen, Jane

Not One Damsel in Distress


CLASSICS

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

Bridge to Terabithia

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


NONFICTION

Arnold, Nick

Horrible Science: Blood, Bones and the Body Bits

Baker, Christopher

Robots Among Us

Berger, Melvin

The Real Vikings

Brown, Don

All Stations! Distress! (Titanic)

David, Laurie

The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming

Davies, Nicola

What’s Eating You?

Grogan, John

Marley: a Dog Like no Other

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

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)

McLimans, Davis

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

Nelson, Kadir

We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball

O’Neill, Michael P.

Ocean Magic

Rappaport, Doreen

Lady Liberty: a Biography

Sewall, Marcia

James Towne: Struggle for Survival

Slavin, Bill

Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made

St. George, Judith

So You Want to Be an Inventor?

Thomson, Sarah

Three Cups of Tea

Truss, Lynne

The Girl’s Like Spaghetti

Winters, Kay

Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak

Yolen, Jane

The Salem Witch Trials


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

Prelutsky, Jack

Pizza, Pigs and Poetry

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

Crowe, Ellie

Surfer of the Century

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

Scieszka, Jon

Knucklehead

Stanley, Diane

Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam

Sis, Peter

The Wall

Walker, Alice

Langston Hughes

Zalben, Jane B.

Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World