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