Fifth Grade

The Evelyn Smith Wray Village School
Rising Fifth Grade Summer Reading List 2010

Rising fifth grade students are required to read at least one of the following books.  At the beginning of the school year, students will be asked to complete a project in the classroom pertaining to the book, which was read during the summer.  Students who read more than one of the books on the list will receive special recognition.

Adventure Fiction
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin
The Good Dog by Avi
Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Christian Fiction
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S Lewis
Fantasy Fiction
Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Historical Fiction
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
Dear America series (various authors)
A Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
Esperanza Rising by Pam M. Ryan
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
A House of Tailors by Patricia R. Giff
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
Literature Classics
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Little Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan) simplified edition by Helen L. Taylor
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois
Nonfiction
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo Astronaut Michael Collins
by Bea Uusma Schyffert
Nonfiction-Biography
Sacagawea by Judith St. George
Realistic Fiction
Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Firegirl by Tony Abbott
First Boy by Gary Schmidt
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Traitor’s Gate by Avi

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