Summer Reading for Students Entering Fifth Grade

This summer we want you to focus on enjoying reading.  One of the best ways to grow as a reader is to read various     genres of books and to read often.  Students are being asked to read at least 3 books, but we hope you will read many more!  Please write the title and author for each book you read on the enclosed leaf.  Please save the leaves and return them to school in the fall.  Feel free to make more leaves for every book you read this summer.  On the following pages is a list of recommended books, but your choice is not limited to these books. Have fun reading!

Fantasy

Artemis Fowl  by Eoin Colfer

Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Castle Corona by Sharon Creech

City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau

Emma and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell

Leon and the Spitting Image by Allen Kurzweil

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The True Meaning of Smekday by Rex Adam

Adventure

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn

Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle

Beowulf: A Hero’s Tale Retold by James Rumford

Door to Time by Pierdomenico Baccalario

Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman

First Light by Rebecca Stead

Hero Revealed by William Boniface

Inside the Shadow City: Kiki Strike by Kristen Miller

Nick of Time by Ted Bell

Silverfin by Charlie Higson

The 13th Floor: a Ghost Story by Sid Fleischman

Voyage of Plunder by Michele Torrey

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

The Warriors by Joseph Bruchac

Friendship and School Stories

Agnes Parker...Girl in Progress by Kathleen O'Dell

Bloomability by Sharon Creech

Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T. Frazier

Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff

by Jennifer L. Holm

Nevermind! : a Twin Novel by Avi

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Runt by Marion Dane Bauer

Savvy by Ingrid Law

Summerhouse Time by Eileen Spinelli

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel

A View from Saturday  by E. L. Konigsburg

A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements

Historical Fiction and Fact

Abner and Me by Dan Gutman

Blizzard! by Jim Murphy

 D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire

George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides

by Rosalyn Schanzer

Joshua’s Song by Joan Hiatt Harlow

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 by Deborah Hopkinson

Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Team Moon: How 40,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

by Catherine Thimmesh

Mystery

Assassin by Patricia Finney

The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer

Danger in the Dark: A Houdini and Nate Mystery by Tom Lalicki

Dial-a-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson

The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch

Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence

The Unusual Suspects by Michael Buckley

The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett

Poetry

Comets, Star, Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian

Heartbeat by Sharon Creech

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

My Dog May Be a Genius  by Jack Prelutsky

Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) by Linda Sue Park