5th Grade – Suggested Summer Reading List

Read any Newberry book or Newberry Honor book. Here is a list that might help.

2014 Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, by Kate DiCamillo

2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

2011: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Schlitz

2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

2005: The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for

Equal Rights” by Russell Freedman

2004: A Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Other good books to consider are: The California Gold Rush

Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid

Fifth Grade Magic

Mummies Made in Egypt

Primates: A Higher Intelligence

The Summer of the Swans

Susan B. Anthony

The Best School Year Ever

Boys Against Girls

Buford the Little Bighorn

The Clue in the Crumbling Wall

The Enormous Egg

Escape From Slavery

Growing Up Around the World

Skinnybones

The American Revolution

Caddie Woodlawn

Giants in the Land

Journey From Peppermint Street

Amos Fortune, Free Man

The Black Cauldron

Bill Peet: An Autobiography

Chi-Hoon: A Korean Girl

My Side of the Mountain

Matilda

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Hoot

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Old Yeller Artemis Fowl (Series)

Bruce Coville's Alien Adventures (Series)

Help! I'm Trapped (Series)

Joey Pigsa (Series)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series)

The Time Warp Trio (Series)

Wayside School (Series)

The 39 Clues (Series)

Percy Jackson & The Olympians (Series)