READING LIST (Grades 5 & 6)
Author: Title:
Alcott Little Women
Applegate The One and Only Ivan
Avi Crispin
Baker The Frog Princess (series)
Balliett Chasing Vermeer
Barry Peter and the Starcatchers (series)
Science Fair
Bearn Tumtum and Nutmeg
Birdsall The Penderwicks
Birney The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Blume Blubber
Here’s to you Rachel
It’s Not the End of the World
Starring Sally J. Freeman as Herself
Broach Masterpiece
Missing on Superstition Mountain
Buckley The Sister’s Grimm (series)
Byng Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of
Hypnotism (series)
Cabot Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls
Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Cole A Nest for Celeste
Colfer Artemis Fowl (series)
Creech Walk Two Moons
Ruby Holler
Curtis Bud Not Buddy
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham – 1963
Danzinger Snail Mail No More
P.S. Longer Letter Later
Di Camilo Because of Winn-Dixie
Farmer The House of the Scorpion
Fitzgerald Under the Egg
Fitzgerald Under the Egg
Flanagan The Ranger’s Apprentice
Funke Inkheart
Gibbs Poached **
Gibbs Poached **
Giff Eleven
Gleitzman Toad Rage
Haddix Among the Hidden
Hale Princess Academy
A Book of a Thousand Days
Goose Girl
Hiaasen Hoot
Flush
Scat
Chomp
Hunter The Warriors
Ibbotson One Dog and his Boy
Ibbotson One Dog and his Boy
Jackson Eggs Over Evie
Jonell Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Kadohata Kira-Kira
Cracker
Kelly The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Klages The Green Glass Sea
White Sands, Red Menace
Korman Zoobreak
Swindle
Framed
Showoff
Konigsburg The View from Saturday
Law Saavy
Scumble
L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time
Levine Ella Enchanted
Fairest
Princes Academy
Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Lord Rules
Half a Chance **
Half a Chance **
Lowry The Giver
Lupica Heat
Summer Ball
Miracle on 49th Street
Martin Belle Teal
A Corner of the Universe
A Dog’s Life
Mass The Candymakers
McKay Saffy’s Angel
Myracle Eleven
Love Ya Bunches
Twelve
Thirteen
Naylor Lovingly Alice (series)
Nimmo Charlie Bone (series)
O’Connor How to Steal a Dog
O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins
Oliver Leisl & Po
Oliver Leisl & Po
Paolini Eragon
Patron Lucky
Paulsen Hatchett
Brian’s Hunt
Peck A Long Way from Chicago
A Season of Gifts
A Year Down Yonder
Secrets at Sea
Pullman I was a Rat!
Riordan The Lightning Thief
Rodgers Freaky Friday
Rowlings Harry Potter
Sachar Holes
Sage Magyk
Scott The Alchemyst (series)
Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Wonderstruck
Snyder Bigger than a Bread Box
Penny Dreadful
Spinelli Loser
Maniac Magee
Spratt The Adventures of Nanny Piggins
Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society
Tashijian My Life as a Book
Tolkien Hobbit
Townley The Blue Shoe
Van Draanen Flipped
Sammy Keyes (series)
Vawter Paperboy **
Vawter Paperboy **
Voigt Angus and Sadie
Young Fredle
Weeks So B It
Wiles Countdown
Love, Ruby Lavender
Wilson Bad Girls
Wood The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
