Fifth Grade Reading List - Longwood Public Library

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)