Erdenheim Elementary Summer Reading List
4th to 5th Grade
Suggested Authors and Titles or Series
Author
Title or Series
Adoff, Arnold
Sports Pages
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Fever 1793
Avi
Midnight Magic; S.O.R. Losers
Babbitt, Natalie
The Search for Delicious
Bauer, Marion Dane
On My Honor
Birdsall, Jeanne
The Penderwicks
Brittain, Bill
The Wish Giver
Christopher, Matt
Clements, Andrew
Cobb, Vicki
Science Experiments You Can Eat
Creech, Sharon
Bloomability; Replay; Ruby Holler; Love That Dog; Hate That
Cat
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Dahl, Roald
DiCamillo, Kate
D’Lacy, Chris
Last Dragon Chronicles
Eyewitness Books
Ferris, Jeri
Walking the Road to Freedom
Fritz, Jean
The Double Life of Pocahontas; Shh! We’re Writing the
Constitution; Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
Dragon Rider
Funke, Cornelia
Gantos, Jack
Getz, David
Frozen Man
Green, Tim
Grogan, John
Marley: A Dog Like No Other
Gutman, Dan
Halls, Kelly Milner
The Million Dollar Kick; Jackie and Me; Qwerty Stevens Stuck
in Time with Benjamin Franklin
Wild Dogs: Past and Present
Hamilton, Virginia
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Hesse, Karen
Music of Dolphins; Letters from Rifka
Hiaasen, Carl
Horvath, Polly
Everything on a Waffle
Hunter, Erin
Warriors series; Seekers series
Ibbotson, Eva
The Secret of Platform 13
Jacques, Brian
Redwall series
Kelly, Jane
Nature Girl
Kerr, Judith
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
(over)
Kessler, Liz
Emily Windsnap
Kinney, Jeff
Diary of a Wimpy Kids series
Konigsburg, E.L.
Kramer, Stephen
The View from Saturday; From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist’s Microscope
LaFevers, R.L.
Theodosia series
Law, Ingrid
Savvy; Scumble
Lawson, Robert
Mr. Revere and I
Levine, Gail Carson
Ella Enchanted
Lewis, C.S.
Narnia series
Lowry, Lois
Lupica, Mike
Comeback Kids series
Macauley, David
MacHale, D.J.
Pendragon series
Mass, Wendy
Mull, Brandon
Beyonders series
Myracle, Lauren
Newman, Leslea
Hachiko Waits
O’Dell, Kathleen
The Aviary
Palacio, R.J.
Wonder
Pearson, Ridley
Kingdom Keepers series
Riordan, Rick
Rodda, Emily
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series; The Lost Heroes
series; The Kane Chronicles series
Rowan of Rin
Sandler, Martin
Inventors, Immigrants
Scholastic Publishing
Dear America/My Name Is America series
Scieszka, Jon
The Time Warp Trio series
Selznick, Brian
The Invention of Hugo Cabret; Wonderstruck
Spinelli, Jerry
Stead, Rebecca
When You Reach Me; Liar & Spy
Stewart, Trenton Lee
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Turner, Pamela S.
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Sammy Keyes series
Various Authors
You Wouldn’t Want to Be… series
Weeks, Sarah
Regular Guy
Woodruff, Elvira
Yee, Lisa
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