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Reading List for Students entering Fifth Grade

Students are required to read five books this summer. Students are required to read Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and four other books from the list.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling

Matilda by Roald  Dahl

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz

Little House On the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Sideways Stories from the Wayside School by Louis Sachar

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom by Louis Sachar

From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konisburg

The Missing Manatee by Cynthia DeFelice.

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Stuart Little by E.B. White

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline D’Engle

Crickets in Time Square by George Selden

Gentle Ben by Walt Morey

Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Challenge at Second Base by Matt Christopher

Who’s Stepping on Plymouth Rock by Jean Fritz

The Way Science Works by Sharon Anne Holgate

Space Exploration by Carole Scott