GRADE 5 NOVELS LIST
Please note the following:
Reading Level is a Number. Example: “4.5”
Interest Level is an Abbreviation. Example: “LG” – Lower Grade, “MG” –
Middle Grade – “UG” – Upper Grade
Some novels have abridged and classic versions. Please choose the
correct novel.
NOVELS
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (Illustrated Classics-5.2-MG / Pacemaker-4.3-UG /
Unabriged 10.0-MG)
 A Lion to Guard Us, Clyde Robert Bulla (2.9-LG)
 A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle (4.7-MG)
 Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery (with Dussling-2.9-LG / with Helldorfer-3.5-LG /
Bloomsbury-7.7-MG / Illustrated Classics-5.5-MG / Unabriged-7.3-MG)
 Ben and Me, Robert Lawson (6.9-MG)
 Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (5.0-MG)
 Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink (6.1-MG)
 Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry (6.2-MG)
 Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White (4.4-MG)
 Dragonwings, Lawrence Yep (5.3-MG)
 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L.Konigsburg (4.7-MG)
 Henry Huggins, Beverley Cleary (4.7-MG)
 In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bette Bao Lord (4.6-MG)
 Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (5.4-MG)
 Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (5.9-MG)
 Li Lun, Lad of Courage, Carolyn Treffinger (4.8-UG)
 Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder (4.9-MG)
 My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George (5.2-MG)
 Old Yeller (5.0-MG)
 Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren (5.2-MG)
 Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Beverley Cleary (5.6-MG)
 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor (5.7-MG)
NOVELS (cont’d)
 Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (3.4-MG)
 Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (4.4-MG)
 Stone Fox, John Reynolds Gardiner (4.0-MG)
 The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander (5.3-MG)
 The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare (5.0-MG)
 The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden (4.9-MG)
 The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper (6.2-MG)
 The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli (6.2-MG)
 The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Saddleback Classics-4.4-UG /
Unabridged-8.3-UG / Usborne Classics-5.9-MG)
 The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes (5.4-MG)
 The Incredible Journey, Shelia Burnford (7.6-MG)
 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis (5.7-MG / Abridged-4.9-MG)
 The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare (4.9-MG)
 The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss (Bloomsbury-10.0-UG / Great Illustrated Classics-5.5MG / Saddleback Classics-4.6-UG / Unabridged-9.7-MG)
 Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt (5.0-MG)
 Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech (4.9-MG)
 War Comes to Willy Freeman, James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (4.9-MG)
 White Fang, Jack London (Great Illustrated Classics-6.1-MG / Saddleback-4.4-UG /
Unabridged-7.4-MG)