5th Grade Recommended Reading
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brian
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Danger in the Desert by Terri Fields
- Inkheart by Cornelia Caroline Funke
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein **
- Sammy Keyes and the Search for the Snake Eyes by Wendelin van Draanen
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konisburg
- Spy X: the Code by Peter Lerangis
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
- The Midnight Fox by Betsy C. Byars
- My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian by Elizabeth Levy
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Shiloh by Phillis Naylor
** denotes non-fiction books.
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