Concord Public Schools
Summer Reading List
Grade 5
June 2010
Brought to You by Your Public School Librarians
FICTION
Applegate, Katherine
Home of the Brave
Baggott, Julianna
The Prince of Fenway Park
Balliett, Blue
The Calder Game
Bruchac, Joseph
Code Talker
Broach, Elise
Masterpiece
Creech, Sharon
Unfinished Angel
Dowd, Siobhan
The London Eye Mystery
DuPrau, Jeanne
Books of Ember series
Flanagan, John
The Ranger's Apprentice series
Frederick, Heather Vogel
Mother Daughter Book Group series
Gutman, Dan
The Homework Machine
Haddix, Margaret
The Missing series
Hale, Shannon
Rapunzel's Revenge
Hannigan, Katherine
Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun
Hiaasen, Carl
Scat
Horvath, Polly
My One Hundred Adventures
Korman, Gordon
Swindle
Zoobreak
Lupica, Mike
Heat
Marsden, Carolyn
The Quail Club
Mass, Wendy
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
McKay, Hilary
Casson Family series
Messner, Kate
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
Park, Linda Sue
Archer's Quest
Paulsen, Gary
Lawn Boy
Petersen, P.J.
Wild River
Phelan, Matt
The Storm in the Barn
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Becoming Naomi Leon
Sage, Angie
Septimus Heap series
Selznick, Brian
Invention of Hugo Cabret
Springer, Nancy
Rowan Hood series
Stead, Rebecca
When You Reach Me
Stewart, Trenton Lee
The Mysterious Benedict Society series
Turner, Ann Warren
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson
Van Draamen, Wendelyn
Gecko and Sticky series
Wiles, Deborah
The Aurora County All-Stars
Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Bat 6
Wood, Don
Into the Volcano
NONFICTION
Adler, David
B. Franklin, Printer
Arnold, Nick
Horrible Science: Blood, Bones, and Body Bits
Berger, Melvin
The Real Vikings
Bing, Christopher
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Brown, Don
All Stations Distress (Titanic)
Bruchac, Joseph
The Girl Who Helped Thunders and Other Native American Folktales
Bruchac, Joseph
Jim Thorpe, Original All-American
Byrd, Robert
Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer
Carlson, Lori M.
Cool Salsa
Clayton, Sally Pomme
Tales Told in Tents
Cleary, Brian P.
Rainbow Soup
Cooling, Wendy
Come to the Great World: Poems from Around the World
Crowe, Ellie
Surfer of the Century
Curry, Jane L.
Hold Up the Sky
David, Laurie
The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
Dickinson, Emily
I'm Nobody, Who Are You?
Grogan, John
Marley: a Dog Like no Other
Ehrlich, Amy
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
Fleischman, Sid
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
Fleming, Thomas
Everybody's Revolution
Fradin, Dennis
Let it begin Here!: Lexington & Concord
Freedman, Russell
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Frost, Robert
A Swinger of Birches
Geras, Adele
My Grandmother's Stories
Giblin, James
The Many Rides of Paul Revere
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Lives: Poems About Famous Americans
Hughes, Langston
The Block
Jackson, Donna
E. R. Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room
Janeczko, Paul
Top Secret: Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing
Jenkins, Steve
Down, Down, Down
Kajikawa, Kimiko
Tsunami
Kerley, Barbara
Walt Whitman: Words For America
Kimmel, Eric
The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Krull, Kathleen
Isaac Newton
Laroche, Giles
What's Inside: Fascinating Structures Around the World
Lauber, Patricia
Who Came First: New Clues to Prehistoric Americans
Lewis, J. Patrick
A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme
Macaulay, David
Mosque
Mason, Paul
How to Improve at Swimming
McCaughrean, G.
Heroes series (Greek mythology)
McCaughrean, G.
Myths and Legends of the World
McCully, Emily
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
Morrison, L.
More Spice Than Sugar: Poems About Feisty Females
Motion, Andrew
Poetry by Heart
Myers, Christopher
Lies and Other Tall Tales
Nelson, Kadir
We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball
O'Neill, Michael P.
Ocean Magic
Perry, Andrea
Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Your Shoe
Poole, Josephine
Anne Frank
Prelutsky, Jack
Pizza, Pigs and Poetry
Rappaport, Doreen
Lady Liberty: a Biography
Rumford, James
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
Scieszka, Jon
Knucklehead
Sewall, Marcia
James Towne: Struggle for Survival
Shapiro, Karen Jo
I Must Go Down to the Beach Again
Silverstein, Shel
Donít Bump the Glump!
Sidman, Joyce
This is Just to Say: Poems of Apologies
Sis, Peter
The Wall
Slavin, Bill
Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made
St. George, Judith
So You Want to Be an Inventor?
Stanley, Diane
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
Storace, Patricia
Sugar Cane: a Caribbean Rapunzel
Thomson, Sarah
Three Cups of Tea
Truss, Lynne
The Girl's Like Spaghetti
Walker, Alice
Langston Hughes
Winters, Kay
Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak
Wisniewski, David
Golem
Yolen, Jane
Not One Damsel in Distress
Yolen, Jane
The Salem Witch Trials
Zalben, Jane B.
Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World
