REQUIRED SUMMER READING APPROVED LIST FOR
FIFTH GRADE
2017-2018
(*) Indicates books found in FCA Library
If “series” is noted by a title, any book in that series may be read.
Themes are indicated at the end of the list.
Please do not read more than two per series/theme until the minimum 5-book requirement is met. Then read extra!!!
Please specify title AND series/theme on summer reading log (when applicable).
Alcott, L.M.
Alder, C.
Anderson, William
Atwater, Richard
Avi
Bader, Bonnie
Barton, B. (& others)
Bibee, J.
Blue, R.
Booth, Edwin
Borden, Louise
Bowen, Andy Russell
Brink, Carol
Brink, Carol R.
Broida, Marian
Broida, Marian
Brouwer, Sigmund
Brouwer, Sigmund
Bruce, Linda (and others)
Bruchac, Joseph
Buck, Pearl
Bunting, Eve
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Byars, Betsy
Byars, Betsy
Calhoun
Cameron, Eleanor
Christopher, Matt
Clark
Cleary, Beverly
Cleary, Beverly
Cleary, Beverly
Cleary, Beverly
Cleary, Brian
Collins, Mary
Collodi, N.
Creech, Sharon
Crofford, Emily
Curtis, Christopher P.
DeAngeli, Marguerite
DeJong, M.
DeJong, M.
DiCamillo, Kate
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (abridged) [C,P]
The Cat that was Left Behind [C]
Laura’s Album: A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder [C]
*Mr. Popper’s Penguins [C,P]
Night Journeys [C]
*Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? [C, P]
*Bible Animals (Bible Discovery Collection)
*Magic Bicycle (Spirit Flyer series)
Colin Powell - Straight to the Top [C]
*Martin Luther: The Great Reformer
The Journey That Saved Curious George: True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey [C]
A Head Full of Notions: A Story About Robert Fulton (steamboat builder) [C]
*Caddie Woodlawn [C,P]
Magical Melons [C,P]
Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors [C]
Ancient Israelites and their Neighbors [C]
*Cyber Quest series [C]
Robot Wars series (formerly Mars Diaries – *1 title) [C]
Sports Technology (How Does It Work series) [C]
*The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy [C,P]
*The Big Wave [C]
SOS Titanic [C,P]
*The Secret Garden [C,P]
Cracker Jackson [C]
*Midnight Fox [C]
Katie John [C]
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet [C,P]
*Supercharged Infield (and other sports titles by this author) [C,P]
*Secret of the Andes [C,P]
*Dear Mr. Henshaw [C,P]
*Emily’s Runaway Imagination [C,P]
*Mitch and Amy [C,P]
*Strider [C,P]
“Mrs. Riley Bought Five Itchy Aardvarks” [C]
*Mount Vernon (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C]
*Pinocchio [C,P]
*Walk Two Moons [C,P]
*Frontier Surgeons:..the Mayo Brothers (Creative Mind Biographies series) [C]
*Bud, Not Buddy [C,P]
*The Door in the Wall [C,P]
House of Sixty Fathers [C]
*The Wheel on the School [C,P]
*The Tale of Despereaux [C,P]
DiCianni, Ron
Elmer, Robert
Elmer, Robert
Elmer, Robert
Erdrich, Louise
Farley, W.
Field, Rachel
Finley, Martha
Fleischman, Paul
Fleischman, Paul
Flipper, Henry O.
Fritz, J.
Fritz, Jean
Frost, Robert
Gates, Doris
George, J.
Gipson
Grabenstein, Christ
Gutman, Dan
Haddix, M.
Hardy, Tad
Hargrove, Jim
Hargrove, Jim
Harvey, Miles
Hawthorne, N.
Hawthorne, N.
Henry, M.
Henry, M.
Herriot, James
Holling, H.
Holling, H.
Hutchins, P.
Hyman, Frieda Clark
Jackson, Dave
Johnson, Kevin & Jim White
Johnson, L.
Karr, Kathleen
Katz, William Loren
Kent, Deborah
Kipling, Rudyard
Kjelgaard, Jim
Konigsburg, E.
Koscielniak, Bruce
Kramer, Sydelle
Krumgold
Krumgold
L’Engle, Madeleine
LaHaye, Tim / J. Jenkins
Latham
Lawton, Wendy
Lawson, R.
Leppard, L.
Praying With the Presidents
*Peace Rebel (series)
The Wall Trilogy [C]
*A Way Through the Sea (The Young Underground series) [C,P]
The Birchbark House [C,P]
*The Black Stallion [C,P]
*Hitty, Her First Hundred Years [C,P]
*Elsie Dinsmore series [C,P]
*Bull Run [C,P]
*By the Great Horn Spoon [C,P]
Black Frontiersman: Memoirs…First Black Graduate of West Point (ebook)
*Homesick, My Own Story [C,P]
*Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? (and other historical titles by this author)
You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers [C,P]
*Blue Willow [C,P]
*Julie of the Wolves
*Old Yeller [C,P]
*Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library [C,P]
Baseball Card Adventure series [C]
*The Missing series [C,P]
*The Truth Quest series
The Story of the FBI (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C]
The Story of Presidential Elections (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C,P]
The Fall of the Soviet Union (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C]
Tanglewood Tales (included in Tales and Sketches, by Hawthorne) [C]
A Wonder Book (included in Tales and Sketches, by Hawthorne) [C]
*Brighty of the Grand Canyon [C,P]
*Justin Morgan Had a Horse [C,P]
*King of the Wind [C,P]
*James Herriot’s Animal Stories [C,P]
Minn of the Mississippi [C,P]
Seabird [C]
*Sugar Creek Gang (series) [C,P]
*Victory on the walls: A Story of Nehemiah
*Trailblazer Book (series) [C,P]
*What’s with the Mutant in the Microscope?
*Adventures of the Northwoods (series) [C]
The Great Turkey Walk [C,P]
Black People Who Made the Old West [P]
The Titanic (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C]
*Jungle Book [C,P]
*Big Red [C,P]
*From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler [C,P]
Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press [C]
Who was Ferdinand Magellan? [P]
*…And Now Miguel [C]
*Onion John [C,P]
Meet the Austins [C,P]
*Left Behind Kids series [C,P]
*Carry On, Mr. Bowditch [C,P]
*Daughters of the Faith series [P – Ransom’s Mark]
*Ben and Me [C,P]
*Mandie series [C,P]
Levitin, S.
Lewis, Beverly
Lewis, Beverly
Lewis, C. S.
Limbaugh, Rush
Lovelace, M.
Lowry, L.
Macaulay, D.
Macaulay, D.
Macaulay, D.
MacBride, R.
Maselli, Christopher
McCloskey, R.
McCusker, Paul
McDonald, George
McGrath, Susan
McSwigan, M.
Merrill, J.
Moody, Ralph
Morey, W.
Myers, B.
Naylor, Phyllis R.
Nelson, Marilyn
Nichols, Stephen
Norton, M.
O’Dell, S.
O’Dell, S.
O’Brien
Osborne, Wooding & Strauss
Paterson, Katherine
Paulsen, G.
Peck, Richard
Peck, Richard
Peck, Richard
Peretti. Frank
Porter
Rawls, W.
Redmond, Shirley Raye
Reece, Colleen L.
Reece, Colleen L.
Richardson, Arleta
Roddy, L.
Roddy, L.
Ross, Stewart
Rue, N
Ruurs, Margriet
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Salkeld, Audrey
Seredy, Kate
Simon, Seymour
Simon, Seymour
Simon, Seymour
Smithyman & Kalman
*Journey to America [C]
*Go Girls Only series [C,P]
*Whispers Down the Lane (Summerhill Secrets series) [C,P]
*Chronicles of Narnia series [C,P]
*Rush Revere series: Time Travel with Exceptional Americans (*FCA has 1 bk. in this series)
*Betsy and Tacy series [C]
*Number the Stars [C,P]
Cathedral [C,P]
Mill [C,P]
Underground [C,P]
In the Land of the Big Red Apple (& other Little House chapter books) [C,P]
2:52 Soul Gear - Laptop series
*Centerburg Tales [C,P]
*Adventures in Odyssey series [C,P]
At the Back of the North Wind [C]
*Fun With Physics
*Snow Treasure [C,P]
*The Pushcart War [C]
Little Britches series [C]
*Gentle Ben [C,P]
McGee and Me Mystery series [C,P]
*Shiloh [C,P]
Carver: A Life in Poems [C,P]
*The Church History ABCs
*The Borrowers series [C,P]
*Black Star, Bright Dawn [C,P]
*Sarah Bishop [C,P]
*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH [C,P]
*Bible Heroes and Bad Guys [P] (2:52 Soul Gear nonfiction series)
*Bridge to Terabithia [C,P]
*Hatchet [C,P]
A Long Way From Chicago [C,P]
A Season of Gifts [C,P]
*A Year Down Yonder [C,P]
*Cooper Kids Adventures series [C,P]
*Pollyanna [C]
*Where the Red Fern Grows [C,P]
Patriots in Petticoats: Heroines of the American Revolution [C,P]
*American Adventure series [C]
Rebekah in Danger (Sisters in Time series) [P]
*Grandma’s Attic series [C]
*Robert E. Lee
*Secret of the Sunken Sub (Ladd Family Adventure series)
Into the Unknown [C]
*The Rescue (Christian Heritage Series)
My Librarian is a Camel [P]
*The Little Prince [C,P]
Mystery on Everest [C]
*The Good Master [C]
Guts [C]
*The Heart [C,P]
Muscles [C]
Active Kids [C]
Snelling, L.
Speare, Elizabeth
Stanley, Jerry
St. John, Patricia
St. John, Patricia
Stanley,D.
Stanley,D.
Steele, W.
Stein, Conrad
Unknown Author
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Waldron, William
Waller, Lynn
Warren, Andrea
White, E.B.
White, J.E.
White, J.E.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Williamson, Joanne
Wills, Chuck
Winkelman, Barbara
Wise, Bill
Wulffson, Don & L.Keller
*Golden Filly series [C]
*The Sign of the Beaver [C,P]
Children of the Dust Bowl [C,P]
The Tanglewood’s Secret
*Treasures of the Snow (and others by this author)
Good Queen Bess [C,P]
Leonardo da Vinci [C,P]
*The Perilous Road [C,P]
*The Story of Ellis Island (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C]
Princess in Calico (Rod & Staff Publishers)
Sammy Keyes series [C,P]
Flags of America [C,P]
*How Do We Know the Bible is True?
Orphan Train Rider [C,P]
*Stuart Little [C,P]
The King’s Daughter and other stories for girls
Tiger Tom and other stories for boys
*Little House on the Prairie series [C,P]
*Hittite Warrior [C]
*Annie Oakley [C]
The Panama Canal (*Cornerstones of Freedom series) [C]
Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy [C]
*Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions
*Dear America series – various authors [C,P]
*DK Biographies (“A Photographic Story of a Life”) – Albert Einstein, Princess Diana, Anne Frank, etc.
– various authors [C,P]
Girls of Many Lands (an American Girl series) – various authors [C,P]
*Themes: Any nonfiction, age-appropriate title about world history/geography/cultures/leaders/explorers/missionaries/
reformers [C,P] Nonfiction = true/factual/informational)
Check out the FCA online library: http://fcavirginia.follettdestiny.com.
Students may create an online account for placing book reservations online. Request your RenWeb ID number at the
office to get started. This is a wonderful tool for summer reading that I hope you will take advantage of!
 bplsonline.org – Campbell County Public Library website
 pcplib.org – Pittsylvania County Public Library website
 To request books through the public online library systems, first visit your local library branch to obtain a library card (if you don’t
already have one) and a pin number. Then log onto the website and set up an account.
Summer Reading Log Examples:
Example 1:
Title:
Twenty and Ten
Author: C. Bishop Series or Theme: N/A (not part of a series or theme)
Example 2:
Title: Amy Carmichael
Author: Fern Neal Stocker Series or Theme: Missionaries
REQUIRED SUMMER READING RECORD FOR
FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADES
I read completely the following books from the approved list during this summer.
Five books required. Special recognition for more than five.
Student Signature_____________________________________ Parent Endorsement______________________________________
Please complete as much information as possible for each book, whether fiction or nonfiction.
Some questions may not apply to nonfiction.
Please do not read more than two per series/theme until the minimum 5-book requirement is met. Then read extra!!!
Please specify title AND series/theme.
Themes are grade-appropriate topics listed at the bottom of the list. Students may read any nonfiction book related to these
topics. If “series” is listed beside a title, any book from that series may be read.
When selecting titles from a series or theme, please pay special attention to content and appropriate grade level.
1. Title _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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My favorite part of the book was________________________________________________________________________________
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Extra: Title ________________________________________________________________________________________________
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