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