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Summer Reading for Students Entering Grade 5

Dear Parents,

The children will be required to read 2 books over the summer. A list has been provided to help you choose a book. This is a suggested list of books to choose from. Your child also has the option of reading a Newberry Award book or another suitable, age-appropriate book. For each book, they need to write a 2-page book report with the following information.

• Hand drawn cover
• Title
• Author
• Setting
• Number of pages
• Main character(s)
• Summary of book
• An opinion of the book with a reason to support the opinion

These reports are due back by Friday, September 5th.

This will be your child's first reading grade for the first quarter. Happy summer and Happy Reading! I'll see you in September.

- Mrs. Grillo

Fifth Grade Reading List

• A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos
• A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
• Beetles Lightly Toasted by Phyliss Reynolds Naylor
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Dinotopia by Gurney
• Don't You Turn Back by Langston Hughes
• Good-Bye My Wishing Star by Vicki Grove
• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
• The House of Dies Dear by Virginia Hamilton
• The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Just my Luck by Emily Moore
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
• Mariah Keeps Cool by Mildred Pitts Walter
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Sounder by William Armstrong
• The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• To Space and Back by Sally Ride
• Castle in the Attic by Winthrop
• Holes by Sachar
• A Year Down Yonder by Peck
• A Long Way from Chicago by Peck
• Ella Enchanted by Levine
• A Corner of the Universe by Martin
• Little House on the Prairie series by Wilder
• From the Mixed - Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by Konigsburg
• Cheaper by the Dozen by Gilbreth