• Fifth Grade Booklist
     
    These are books and authors we feel 
    most fifth graders would enjoy. 
    Most of these books are available 
    in the Cornwall Terrace library. 
    So check them out!
    We love great books!

     
    FICTION:
    Avi  Crispin, The Cross of Lead
    Bauer, Marion Dane   On My Honor
    Bridges, Ruby   Through My Eyes
    Burnett, Frances Hodgson   The Secret Garden
    Byars, Betsy   The 18th Emergency
    Curtis, Christopher Paul   Bud, Not Buddy
    DeFelice, Cynthia   Weasel
    Dahl, Roald  Danny, Champion of the World
    Dahl, Roald   Fantastic Mr. Fox
    Dahl, Roald    BFG
    Gipson, Fred  Old Yeller
    Jacques, Brian   Redwall
    Konigsburg, E.L.   From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
    Levine, Gail C.   Ella Enchanted
    Lewis, C.S.   The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Lord, Bette Bao   In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
    Lowry, Lois   Anastasia Krupnik
    MacLachlan, Patricia   Baby
    Mowat, Farley   Owls in the Family
    Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds   Shiloh
    O'Brien, Robert C.   Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
    Park, Barbara   Mick Harte Was Here
    Paterson, Katherine   Bridge to Terabithia
    Peck, Robert   Soup
    Spinelli, Jerry   Loser
    Spinelli, Jerry   Maniac Magee
    Tolkien, J.R.R.  The Hobbit

    HISTORICAL FICTION:
    Beattie, Patricia   Charley Skedaddle
    Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher my brother Sam is dead
    DeFelice, Cynthia   Weasel
    Fleischman, Paul   Bull Run
    Hesse, Karen   Out of the Dust
    Lowry, Lois   Number the Stars
    O'Dell, Scott   Sing Down the Moon
    Yates, Elizabeth   Amos Fortune, Free Man

    BIOGRAPHIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:
    Bridges, Ruby   Through My Eyes
    Freedman, Florence B.   Two Tickets to Freedom:  The True Story of Ellen
           and William Craft, Fugitive Slaves
    Freedman, Russell   Eleanor Roosevelt
    Freedman, Russell   Lincoln: A Photobiography
    Giff, Patricia Reilly   Mother Teresa, Sister to the Poor
    Goodall, Jane   My Life With the Chimpanzees
    Robinson, Sharon   Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By
    Sterling, Dorothy   Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Last Modified on June 9, 2009