Recommended Summer Reading
for
Students Entering
GRADE FIVE
Milton Academy
Lower School Library
2017
FICTION
*More titles with these Characters
Colfer, Eoin
Classics
Realistic
Abdell-Fattah, R. The Friendship
Matchmaker
Ada, Alma Flor
Dancing Home
Banerjee, Anjali
Seaglass Summer
Bowen, Fred
Out of Bounds
Dairman, Tara
All Four Stars*
Draper, Sharon
Out of My Mind
Frazier, Sundee T. The Other Half of My
Heart
Graff, Lisa
Absolutely Almost
Grasso, Mike
I Am Drums
Hurwitz, Michelle The Summer I Saved
the World in 65
Days
Krishnaswami, Uma The Grand Plan to
Fix Everything*
Artemis Fowl*
Lorenzi, Natalie D. Flying the Dragon
Dahl, Roald
The BFG
Martin, Ann
Rain Reign
Eager, Edward
Half Magic*
Narsimhan, M.
Mission Mumbai
Erdrich, Louise
Birchbark House*
O’Connor, Barbara Wish
Fitzhugh, Louise
Harriet the Spy*
Schindler, Holly Fleischman, Paul
Seedfolks
The Junction of
Sunshine and
Lucky
Shang, Wendy
The Great Wall of
Lucy Wu
L’Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time*
Montgomery, L. M.Anne of Green Gables*
Norton, Mary
The Borrowers*
Sloan, Holly G.
Short
O’Brien, Robert
Mrs. Frisby and the
Rats of NIMH*
Torres, Jennifer
Stef Soto, Taco Queen
Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet*
Winston, Sherri
President of the
Sachar, Louis
Stewart, Trenton
Holes
Mysterious Benedict
Society*
Yee, Lisa
Whole Fifth Grade
Millicent Min, Girl
Genius*
Walden, Mark
H.I.V.E.*
Zia, Farhana
The Garden of My
Imaan
Fantasy
Anderson, Jodi
and
Adventure
My Diary from the Edge
of the World
Armstrong, K.L. Loki’s Wolves*
Bell, Jennifer
The Uncommoners
Bohls, Steven
Jed and the Junkyard War
Brown, Peter
Wild Robot
Chainani, Soman School for Good and Evil*
Colfer, Chris
The Land of Stories*
Flanagan, John
The Ranger’s Apprentice*
Forester, Victoria The Boy Who Knew
Everything*
George, Jessica DayDragon Slippers*
Grabenstein, Chris Escape from Mr.
Lemoncello’s Library*
Graff, Keir
Matchstick Castle
Hale, Shannon
Princess Academy*
Korman, Gordon Masterminds*
Laurie, Victoria
Oracles of Delphi Keep*
Littlewood, K.
Bliss*
Lockhaven, T.
The Quest Chasers
Mass, Wendy
Pi in the Sky
McMann, Lisa
The Unwanteds*
Milford, Kate
Greenglass House
Prineas, Sarah
The Magic Thief*
Randall, Alice
The Diary of BB Bright,
Possible Princess
Riley, James
Story Thieves*
Stewart, Trenton L. Secret Keepers
Sutherland, Tui T. Wings of Fire*
Walliams, David Grandpa’s Great Escape
Yardi, Robin
Midnight War of Mateo
Martinez
Balliett, Blue
Mystery
Chasing Vermeer*
Bertman, Jennifer Book Scavenger
Collard, Sneed
Hangman’s Gold*
Dowd, Siobhan
The London Eye
Mystery
Fairlie, Emily
The Lost Treasure of
Tuckernuck*
Garza, Xavier
Maximilian and the
Mystery of the
Guardian Angel*
Gibbs, Stuart
Belly Up*
graphic novels
Cammuto, Frank
Knights of the Lunch
Table*
Chantler, Scott
Three Thieves*
Domingo, José
Pablo & Jane and the
Hot Air Contraption
Hatke, Ben
Little Robot
Hicks, Faith Erin
Nameless City
Soo, Ken
Jellaby*
Varon, Sara
Bake Sale
Williams, Marcia Ancient Egypt: Tales of
Gods and Pharaohs
Malone, Marianne The Sixty-Eight
Rooms*
Winnick, Judd
Hilo: The Boy Who
Crashed to Earth*
Mass, Wendy
The Candymakers*
Yang, Gene Luen
Secret Coders
Messner, Kate
Capture the Flag*
Raskin, Ellen
The Westing Game
Historical Fiction
Sherry, Maureen
Walls Within Walls
Avi
Spencer, Octavia
The Case of the TimeCapsule Bandit*
Bolden, Tonya
Finding Family
Flake, Sharon
The Unstoppable
Octobia May
Hughes, Shirley
Hero on a Bicycle
Tarpley, Natasha
Harlem Charade
Turnage, Sheila
Three Times Lucky*
Animals
The Secret School
Nelson, Theresa
The Year We Sailed the
Sun
The Nine Lives of Jacob
Tibbs
Preus, Margi
Heart of a Samurai
Thor, Annika
Faraway Island*
The Incredible Journey
Whelan, Gloria
Listening for Lions
Gleitzman, Morris Toad Rage*
Willis, Kimberly
Dear Hank Williams
Howe, Peter
Waggit’s Tale*
Lasky, Kathryn
Capture*
Wong, Li Keng
Good Fortune: My
Journey to Gold
Mountain
Banks, Angela
Burnford, Sheila
Pennypacker, Sara Pax
Plourde, Lynn
Maxi’s Secret
NONFICTION
Brown, Daniel J.
Boys in the Boat (Young
Reader’s Edition)
Dahl, Roald
Wonderful, Wicked, and
Whizzpopping: the
Stories, Characters and
Inventions of Roald
Dahl
Denenberg, Barry Titanic Sinks!
Doeden, Matt
The World Series:
Baseball’s Biggest
Stage
Giovanni, Nikki
Hip Hop Speaks to
Children
Halling, Jonathan Weird But True: 300
Outrageous Facts
Horowitz, Alexandra Inside of a Dog: What
Dogs See, Smell, and
Know
Myron, Vicki
Dewey the Library Cat
Roop, Peter
Tales of Famous
Animals
Shaskan, Trisha S. Art Panels, BAM!
Speech Bubbles, POW!
Writing Your Own
Graphic Novel
Stone, Tanya Lee
Courage Has No Color:
The True Story of the
Triple Nickles
Sweet, Melissa
Some Writer! The Story
of E.B. White
Wicks, Maris
Human Body Theater
Yousafzai, Malala
I Am Malala
This list is available online at:
http://www.milton.edu/k8/lower-school/summer-reading/