Grade 5

Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women

Alexander, Lloyd: Chronicles of Prydian series

Asimov, Janet: Norby series

Avi: Something Upstairs, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Midnight Magic

Barron, T.A.: The Lost Years of Merlin series

Bellairs, John: The Mansion in the Mist, The Revenge of the Wizards Ghost

Bradley, Kimberly: Ruthie’s Gift

Bunting, Eve: Sharing Susan, Blackwater

Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden

Byars, Betsy: Summer of the Swans, Herculeah Jones series, Disappearing Acts

Cormier, Robert: I am the Cheese

Coville, Bruce: Dragonslayers

Creech, Sharon: Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird

Curtis, Christopher Paul: Bud not Buddy

Cushman, Karen: Catherine Called Birdy

Dahl, Roald: The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Boy

DiCamillo, Kate: Because of Winn-Dixie, Tale of Despereaux

Dixon, Franklin: Hardy Boys series

Fitzgerald, John D: The great brain

Fleischman, Sid: The whipping boy

Fleischman, Paul: Bull Run

Fox, Paula: The Village by the Sea, Monkey Island

Funke, Cornelia: Thief Lord, Dragon Rider

George, Jean Craighead: My Side of the Mountain, On the Far Side of the Mountain

Giff, Patricia Reilly: Nory Ryan’s Song, Pictures of Hollis Woods

Griffin, Peni: Ghost Sitter

Gutman, Dan: Virtually Perfect, The Kid Who Ran for President

Haddix, Margaret Peterson: Among the Hidden, et.al.

Hahn, Mary Dowling: Jellyfish Season, Time for Andrew, Stepping on the Cracks, Daphne’s Book

Hamilton, Virginia: M.C. Higgins the Great

Hesse, Karen: Music of the Dolphins, Out of the Dust

Hobbs, Will: Jason’s Gold, Kokopelli’s Flute

Holt, Kimberly Willis: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, My Louisiana Sky

Hurwitz, Joanna: Birthday Surprises

Ibbotson, Eva: The Secret of Platform 13

Keene, Carolyn: Nancy Drew series

Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday, Silent to the bone

Korman, Gordon: Radio Fifth Grade, Chasing the Falcomers

Lasky, Kathryn: The Night Journey, Diary of Zipporah Feldman

L’Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time (trilogy)

Levine, Gail Carson: Dave at Night, Ella Enchanted

Levoy, Marvin: Alan and Naomi

Lewis, C.S.: Chronicles of Narnia

Lisle, Janet Taylor: Afternoon of the Elves

Lord, Bette Bao: In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Lowry, Lois: Autumn Street, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue, Silent Boy

MacLachlan, Patricia: Sarah, plain and tall

Martin, Ann M.: Belle Teal, Corner of the Universe

Montgomery, L.M.: Anne of Green Gables series

Napoli, Donna Jo: Stones in the water

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds: Shiloh series, Alice series, A Traitor Among the Boys

Nimmo, Jenny: Midnight for Charlie Bone

Paterson, Katherine: Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie, Preachers Boy

Paulsen, Gary: The Winter Room, Hatchet, Woodsong, My Life in Dog Years

Peck, Richard: A Year Down Under, Long Way from Chicago

Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game

Rylant, Cynthia: The Islander, Children of Christmas, Fine White Dust

Sacher, Louis: Holes

Slote, Alfred: Finding Buck McHenry

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley: The Egypt Game

Spinelli, Jerry: Loser, Maniac Magee, Crash, Stargirl

Taylor, Mildred: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Zindel, Paul: The square root of murder

Voight, Cynthia: Homecoming, The Vandemark Mummy