5th Grade Summer Reading Lists

Re: 5th Grade Summer Reading Lists

• KdgTeacher member

  June 2012

  These are from my district:

  Alvarez: How Tia Lola Learned to Teach

  Clements: We the Children

  Collins: Gregor the Overlander

  DiCamillo: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

  Giff: Storyteller

  Going: The Liberation of Gabriel King

  Hahn: All the Lovely Bad Ones

  Hawkins:  The Year the Money Grew on Trees

  Willoughbys

  Lupica: Two-Minute Drill

  Maya Angelou

  Dear America series

  Stewart: The Mysterious Benedict Society

  Thomas: The Kids Guide to Money Cent$

  Smith: Bone

  Peck: A Year Down Yonder

  Pearson: Kingdom Keepers

  Paulsen: Hatchet

   

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• neverblushed member

  June 2012

  My DD, who is 11, loves/has recently read:

  The Mysterious Benedict Society series

  the Eragon series

  the Warrior cats books

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn

  All Creatures Great and Small, etc.

  Meet the Austens + rest of series

  The Hobbit

  Wildwood

  the Fablehaven series

  The Hunger Games series

  Moon Over Manifest,

  Ender's Game

  Watership Down

  Ella Enchanted + others by Gail Carson Levine

  The Percy Jackson series

   

  Ender's Game and The Hunger Games have some violence and mature themes.  Know your kid before allowing these. 

  High School English teacher and mom of 2 kids:

  
  

  DD, born 9/06/00 -- 12th grade

  DS, born 8/25/04 -- 7th grade

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• AGmomof3 member

  June 2012

  What kind of books does your child enjoy?

  
  

  

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• MagicCityMomma member

  June 2012

  AGmomof3:

  What kind of books does your child enjoy?

  In all honesty, she's not that into books.  It's flabbergasting to me because I love to read and I'm always reading something.  She read a lot of Roald Dahl books this year as part of the school curriculum  and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books for fun and she really enjoyed those.  She's reading Holes right now and seems to like it. 

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• AGmomof3 member

  June 2012

  MagicCityMomma:

  AGmomof3:

  What kind of books does your child enjoy?

  In all honesty, she's not that into books.  It's flabbergasting to me because I love to read and I'm always reading something.  She read a lot of Roald Dahl books this year as part of the school curriculum  and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books for fun and she really enjoyed those.  She's reading Holes right now and seems to like it. 

  I run the book club at my school. . .

   I'll list a whole bunch of my favorites - they're different genre's as well as different reading levels - not just 5th grade.  I honestly wouldn't worry about how hard the books are as much as is she enjoying reading.

  Frindle

  Sarah Plain and Tall 

  Nim's Island

  How to Eat Fried Worms 

  A View from the Cherry Tree 

  The midwife's apprentice  

  Anne of Green Gables  

  A View from Saturday

  From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler 

  The Egypt Game

  The Westing Game - this was my favorite book when I was in 5th grade

  Stargirl - the audio book is narrated by John Ritter!! - but nearly anything from Jerry Spinelli might interest your daughter. . .

  Poppy by Avi (heck - anything by Avi - you get all kinds of books)

  Prince of the Pond by Donna Jo Napoli it's the story of the Frog Prince - his life as a frog - sequels are ehhh

  Ella Enchanted

  Gregor the Overlander - lots of action - written by the author of Hunger Games, but more appropriate for 5th graders - one of my absolute favorite series

  Trumpet of the Swan

   City of Ember

  Skulduggery Pleasant - it's a good mystery if you don't mind that the main character is a skeleton

  Harry Potter Books

  The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe series 

  Bunnicula 

  A Year Down Yonder 

  
  

  

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