GREAT SUMMER READING FOR
FIFTH GRADE
HAPPY READING

Avi, The Good Dog
Avi, Midnight Magic
Blume, Judy, Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret.
Brock, Betty, No Flying in the House
Coville, Bruce, Into the Land of Unicorns
Creech, Sharon, Bloomability
Creech, Sharon, Chasing Redbird
Curtis, Christopher, The Watsons go to Birmingham
De Felice, Cynthia, Lostman's River
DeCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
Garfield, James, Follow my Leader
Hill, Kirkpatrick, The Year of Miss Agnes
Holt, Kimberly, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Levine, Gail, Ella Enchanted
Rockwell. Thomas, How to Eat Fried Worms
Spinelli, Jerry, Maniac McGee
Stine, R.L., Goosebumps Series
Wright, Betty, The Dollhouse Murders
MORE CHALLENGING BOOKS
Alexander, Lloyd, The Book of Three
Avi, Beyond the Western Sea
Banks, Lynne Reid, One More River
Clements, Andrew, Things Not Seen
Dahl, Roald, Boy
Etchemendy, Nancy, The Power of Un
Funke, Cornelia, The Thief Lord
George, Jean, My Side of the Mountain
Gaiman, Neil, Coraline
Haddix, Margaret, Running out of Time
Horvath, Polly, Everything on a Waffle
Ibbotoson, Eva, Journey to the River Sea
Myers, Walter Dean, The Journal of Biddy Owens
O'Brien, Robert, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Paulsen, Gary, Hatchet
Park, Linda Sue, The Kight Fighters
Philbrick, Rodman, Freak the Mighty
Ryan, Pam Munoz, Esperanza Rising
Spinelli, Jerry, Stargirl

Rowling, J.K, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (counts for 2 books)

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