SUMMER READING LIST

Fourth and Fifth Grade

Alexander - Prydain Chronicles/Iron Ring Avi - True confessions of Charlotte Doyle/Poppy (and others) Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting/Search for Delicious Balliett – Chasing Vermeer (and others Banks – Indian in the Cupboard series Berlin – Puzzling World of Winston Breen Birdsall – The Penderwicks Blackwood - Shakespeare Stealer Blume – Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Brink – Caddie Woodlawn Byars - Summer of the Swans Byng – Molly Moon Chabon - Summerland Christopher – White Mountains series Clements – Frindle (and others) Colfer – Artemis Fowl Collins – Gregor the Overlander Cooper - Dark is Rising (series) Coville – Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (and others) Creech - Walk Two Moons (and others) Curtis - Watson's Go to Birmingham Cushman – Catherine, called Birdy (and others) DiCamillo – Because of Winn-Dixie Dowd – London Eye Mystery Fitzgerald - Great Brain series Fletcher - Shadow Spinner Funke – Thief Lord (and others) George - My Side of the Mountain (and others) Gutman – Honus and me (and others) Haddix - Among the Hidden (and others) Hesse - Out of the Dust/Stowaway (and others) Hobbs -Ghost Canoe (and others) Holm – Our Only May Amelia (and others) Horvath - Everything on a Waffle (and others) Hunter – Warriors series

Ibbotson – Secret of platform 13 (and others) Jacques - Redwall series Juster - Phantom Tollbooth Kehret – Cages (and others) Konigsburg - View From Saturday/From the mixed up files… Lawrence - The Wreckers L'Engle - Wrinkle in Time (and others) Levine - Ella Enchanted (and others) Lewis – Narnia series London – Call of the Wild Lord - Rules Lowry - The Giver/Number the Stars (and others) Merrill - Pushcart War Mikaelson – Sparrow Hawk Red (and others) Morris - Squire's Tale Nicholson – Wind on Fire trilogy O’Brien – Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH Paolini – Eragon series Paulson - Harris and Me/Hatchet (and others Peck - Long Way From Chicago (and others) Pullman - Golden Compass series Rawls – Where the Red Fern grows Sachar – Holes (and others) Smith - Jaquar/Thunder Cave/Sasquatch Snicket – Series of Unfortunate Events Spinelli - Crash/Wringer/Maniac Magee, etc. Stewart – Mysterious Benedict Society Taylor – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor – The Cay Tolkien - Hobbit series Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (and others) White - Belle Prater's Boy Wiles – Love, Ruby Lavender (and others) Wrede – Dealing with dragons series Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson