Fifth Grade Reading List
Books on the reading list are arranged alphabetically by category.
The requirements are 1 folk/fairy tale book, 1 free choice book and the following two required-reading titles:
- Tree (DK Eyewitness Books)
by David Burnie
J 582.16 BUR - Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Most books on the list are available through the Montgomery County Public Library system. You can search online and place books on hold at your local branch. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are recommended, but are not available through the county's library system.
Specific instructions on completing these requirements are available from the office.
Biography
African-American Inventors
Sullivan, Otha
African-American Scientists
McKissack, Patricia
Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin/George Washington
Giblin, James
Boy Called Slow: the True Story of Sitting Bull
Bruchac, Joseph
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (St. Francis)
Mayo, Margaret
Galileo
Fisher, Leonard
Great Minds of Science (series)
Various, Various
Her Piano Sang: a Story about Clara Schumann
Allman, Barbara
Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Eratosthenes)
Lasky, Kathryn
My Brother Martin: a Sister Remembers (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Farris, Christine
To Fly: the Story of the Wright Brothers
Old, Wendie
Trial by Ice: a Photobiography of Sir Ernest Shackleton
Kostyal, K. M.
When Marion Sang (Marion Anderson)
Ryan, Pam
Fiction
Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Aiken, Joan
Anne of Green Gables (series)
Montgomery, Lucy
Blue Willow
Gates, Doris
Book of Three
Alexander, Lloyd
Castle in the Attic/Battle for the Castle
Winthrop, Elizabeth
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Lewis, C. S.
Chu Ju's House
Whelan, Gloria
Cricket in Times Square (series)
Selden, George
Crispin: the Cross of Lead
Avi
Dragon of Lonely Island
Rupp, Rebecca
Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
MacLachlan, Patricia
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg, Elaine
Goin' Somplace Special
McKissack, Patricia
Great Brain (and others)
Fitzgerald, John
Henry Reed/Henry Reed's Babysitting Service
Robertson, Robert
Holes
Sachar, Louis
Incredible Journey
Burnford, Sheila
Island of the Blue Dolphins
O'Dell, Scott
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
O'Brien, Robert
Old Yeller
Gipson, Fred
Pollyanna
Porter, Eleanor
Real Thief
Steig, William
Redwall (series)
Jacques, Brian
Rescuers
Sharp, Marjerie
Shiloh (series)
Naylor, Phyllis
Sign of the Beaver
Speare, Elizabeth
Stuart Little
White, E. B.
Summer of the Monkeys
Rawls, Wilson
Swiss Family Robinson
Wyss, Johann
Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Sutcliff, Rosemary
Thank You, Jackie Robinson
Cohen, Barbara
Trumpet of the Swan
White, E. B.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Rawls, Wilson
Fiction--Historical
Bound for Oregon
Van Leeuwen, Jean
By the Great Horn Spoon (Gold Rush)
Fleischman, Sid
Early Thunder (American Revolution)
Fritz, Jean
Gold Cadillac (segregation, racism)
Taylor, Mildred
Hidden Treasure of Glaston* (medieval England)
Jewett, Eleanore
Ida Early Comes over the Mountain (Depression era)
Burch, Robert
If All the Swords in England (medieval England)
Willard, Barbara
Jar of Dreams (Depression era, Japanese-American experience)
Uchida, Yoshiko
Matchlock Gun (French and Indian War)
Edmonds, Walter
Number the Stars (WWII)
Lowry, Lois
Otto of the Silver Hand (medieval England)
Pyle, Howard
Red Keep (medieval England)
French, Allen
Shades of Gray (Civil War)
Reeder, Carolyn
Shakespeare Stealer (Renaisssance England)
Blackwood, Gary
Snow Treasure (WWII)
McSwigan, Marie
Spring Pearl: the Last Flower (China, 1857)
Yep, Laurence
Toliver's Secret (American Revolution)
Brady, Esther
Well: David's Story (Depression era, racism)
Taylor, Mildred
Winged Watchman (WWII)
Van Stockum, Hilda
Folklore/Mythology
Favorite Fairy Tales Told around the World
Haviland, Virginia
Favorite Medieval Tales
Osborne, Mary Pope
Golden Mare, Firebird and the Magic Ring
Sanderson, Ruth
Jade Stone: a Chinese Folktale
Vacowitz, Caryn
Folktale/Mythology
Arabian Nights
Philip, Neil
Arthur Rackman Fairy Book
Rackman, Arthur
Macmillan Book of Greek Gods and Heroes
Low, Alice
Boy Who Lived with Bears
Bruchac, Joseph
History
There's a Frog in My Throat! 440 Animal Sayings
Leedy, Loreen
History--American
Buffalo Hunt
Freedman, Russell
Charles Waters Goes to Gettysburg
Sinnott, Susan
Cherokee Summer
Hoyt-Goldsmitgh, Diane
Gettysburg Address
Michael McCurd, Abraham Lincoln
History of US, Book 4: the New Nation
Hakim, Joy
History of US, Book 5: Liberty for All?
Hakim, Joy
History of US, Book 6: War, Terrible War
Hakim, Joy
John Brown: One Man Against Slavery
Everett, Gwen
Ultimate Field Trip: a Week in the Late 1800s
Goodman, Susan
History--American/Art
Great Migration: an American Story
Lawrence, Jacob
History--World
Castle Diary: the Journal of Tobias Burgess
Platt, Richard
Great Wall of China
Fisher, Leonard Everett
Growing Up in Ancient China
Teague, Ken
Knights and Castles
Hindley, Judy
Leonardo and the Renaissance
Harris, Nathaniel
Vendela in Venice
Bjork, Christina
William Shakespeare and the Globe
Aliki
Science
Animals on the Inside
Ruiz, Andres
Bones
Simon, Seymour
Cod's Tale
Kurlansky, Mark
Dr. Beaumont and the Man with the Hole in His Stomach
Epstein, Sam and Beryl
Muscles
Simon, Seymour
Plant Cycle
Morgan, Nina
Plants Do Amazing Things
Nussbaum, Hedda