Fifth Grade Reading List - Longwood Public Library

Fifth Grade Reading ListThe following is a suggested list of books for fifth grade. You may also enjoy other booksby these authors.Balliet, Blue. Chasing VermeerWhen seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeerpainting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve aninternational art scandal. (J BAL)Banks, Lynne Reid. I, Houdini: The Autobiography of a Self-Educated HamsterA boastful hamster with exceptional talent as an escape artist recounts his experienceschewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for thegreat Outside. (J BAN)Burnford, Sheila. The Incredible JourneyA Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 milesthrough the Canadian wilderness to find their family. (J BUR)Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not BuddyTen-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression,escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. (J CUR)Funke, Cornelia. Dragon RiderLongwood Public Library800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon,is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known asthe Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, andstruggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy. (J FUN)Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the HiddenIn a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only twochildren, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, untilanother "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. (J HAD)Hannigan, Katherine. Ida B: - and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly)save the worldFourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family'sapple orchard, until circumstances force her parents to sell part of the orchard and sendher to public school. (J HAN)

Longwood Public Library800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953Hesse, Karen. The Music of DolphinsAfter rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised bydolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. (J HES)Oppel, Kenneth. SilverwingWhen a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separatedfrom his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greaterjourneys. (J OPP)Paulsen, Gary. HatchetAfter a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadianwilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother,and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. (J PAU)Peck, Richard. A Long Way From ChicagoA boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the GreatDepression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. (J PEC)Snyder, Zilpha. The Egypt GameA group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, arevisited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professorbefore they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies. (J SNY)Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Castle in the AtticA gift of a toy castle, complete with silver knight, introduces William to an adventureinvolving magic and a personal quest. (J WIN)Wright, Betty Wren. Crandall’s CastleCharli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possiblyhaunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyantorphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehowdangerous. (J WRI)

Longwood Public Library800 Middle Country Road, Middle Island, New York 11953SeriesDanko, Dan. SidekicksThirteen-year-old Guy Martin, also known as superhero Pumpkin Pete's sidekickSpeedy, helps the League of Big Justice save the human race from being turned intopuppets by Pinoh Keyoh and the Brotherhood of Rottenness. (JPB SIDEKICKS)Emerson, Kevin. The Vampire’s Photograph (Oliver Nocturne Series)Thirteen-year-old vampire Oliver Nocturne becomes involved with the human worlddespite himself when a human girl named Emalie takes a photograph of him andthreatens to expose the existence of vampires. (JPB OLIVER)Korman, Gordon. The Abduction (Kidnapped Series)When Aiden's sister, Meg, is kidnapped, he teams up with the FBI to try to find her bytracking down clues only a brother could recognize. (JPB KIDNAPPED)Korman, Gordon. Everest: Book One: The Contest by Gordon KormanFour kids travel across America to be the youngest to climb Mt. Everest. However,once they reach the final peaks, disaster strikes. (JPB EVEREST)Krulik, Nancy. Can You Get an F in Lunch (How I Survived Middle School Series)When best friends Jenny and Addie start sixth grade, Jenny quickly discovers thatAddie is interested in joining the Pops, the coolest seventh grade clique in school. (JPBHOW I SURVIVED MIDDLE SCHOOL)Papademetrious, Lisa. Accidentally Fabulous (Candy Apple Series)Amy Flowers is getting ready to go into the 7th grade at the super-exclusive AllingtonAcademy. Amy desperately wants to be in the "In-crowd", so she has to find a way toget Fiona, the leader of the League to like her. (JPB CANDY APPLE)SP 4/10