Reading Lists
Fourth and Fifth Grades


Fiction (including series)
Non Fiction
Family


Suggested quality books to help
students and their families
select interesting books to fullfill
literacy standards required reading.


Fiction
Alcock, Vivien. The Haunting of Cassie Palmer.
Alexander, Lloyd. Gypsy Rizka.
Avi. Something Upstairs.
Beaverson, Aiden. The Hidden Arrow of Maether.
Brittain, Bill. The Wish Giver.
Brooke, Peggy. Jake's Orphan.
Cleary, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw.
DeFelice, Cynthia. The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker.
DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie.
Giff, Patricia. Nory Ryan's Song.
Gray, Dianne. Holding Up the Earth.
Hamilton, Virginia. Bluish.
Heneghan, James. The Grave.
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.*
Horvath, Polly. Everything on a Waffle.
Jennings, Richard. Orwell's Luck.
Kehret, Peg. I'm Not Who You Think I Am.
Korman, Gordon. No More Dead Dogs.
Koss, Amy. Stranger in Dadland.
Levine, Gail Carson. The Wish.
Lisle, Janet. The Art of Keeping Cool.
Lowry, Lois. Anastasia Krupnik.*
Martin, Ann. The Doll People.
McKay, Hilary. The Exiles.*
Mead, Alice. Girl of Kosovo.
Mills, Claudia. You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman.
Montes, Marisa. Something Wicked's in Those Woods.
O'Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Petersen, P.J. I Hate Weddings.
Rodowsky, Colby. Clay.
Ryan, Pam Muņoz. Esperanza Rising.
Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May.
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. Cat Running.
Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee
Stevenson, James. The Unprotected Witness.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief.*
Vande Velde, Vivian. Smart Dog.
Wallace, Bill. Journey into Terror.
Whelan, Gloria. Homeless Bird.

* Books with the * are part of a series.

Non-Fiction
Besson, Jean-Louis. October 45: Childhood Memories of the War. (D 802 F8 B463 1995)
Blumberg, Rhoda. Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy. (DS 881.5 N3 B58 2001)
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. (F 379 N59 N435 - Biography)
Cole, Michael. Space Emergency: Astronauts in Danger. (TL 867 C6523 2000)
Deem, James. Bodies from the Bog. (GN 803 D45 1998)
Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: a Photobiography. (E 457.9 O5 F73 1987 - Biography)
Jones, Charlotte Foltz. Accidents May Happen: Fifty Inventions Discovered by Mistake. (T 173.8 J65)
Kuhn, Betsy. Angels of Mercy: the Army Nurses of World War II. (D 807 U6 K84)
Lyne, Sandford (compiler). Ten-Second Rainshowers: Poems by Young People. (PS 591 S3 T38 1996)
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Snowflake Bentley. (QC 858 B46 M37 1998 - Biography)
McKissack, Patricia and Frederick. A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter.
(HD 8039 R36 M35 1989)
Montgomery, Sy. The Snake Scientist. (QL 666 O636 M65)
Norris, Richard. Meteorite! The Last Days of the Dinosaurs. (QE 506 N67 2000)
Osborne, Mary Pope. Favorite Norse Myths. (BL 860 O82 1996)
Robbins, Ken. Thunder on the Plains: the Story of the American Buffalo. (QL 737 U53 R58 2001)
Simon, Seymour. Strange Mysteries from Around the World. (AG 243 S57 1997)
Webb, Sophie. My Season With the Penguins: An Antarctic Journal. (QL 696 S473 W42 2000)





Family Reading
Avi. The Fighting Ground.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963.
Furlong, Monica. Juniper.
Jacques, Brian. Redwall.*
O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet.*
Sachar, Louis. Holes.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island.
Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry.


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