Summer Reading Adventure

Upcoming Fifth Graders

· Enjoy biographies

· Appreciate funny books and have a well developed sense of humor

· Like adventure, spine tingling and fantasy stories

· Like historical fiction stories

· Like statistical collections (sports)

· Enjoy how-to books for parent-child projects

· Avi -- Poppy

· Bauer, Marion Dane – On My Honor

· Buckley, Michael --The Sisters Grimm

· Collins, Suzanne – Gregor the Overlander

· Cook, Peter – You Wouldn’t Want to be sail on the Titanic!

· Curtis, Christopher Paul – Bud, Not Buddy

· Giff, Patricia Reilly – Pictures of Hollis Woods

· Gutman, Dan – The Kid Who Became President

· Haddix, Margaret Peterson – Running out of Time

· Hunter, Erin – The Warriors Series

· Konigsburg, E.L. -- The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

· Konigsburg, E.L. -- The View from Saturday

· Krull, Kathleen – Houdini (and other biographies)

· L’Engle, Madeleine -- A Wrinkle in Time

· Levine, Gail Carson – The Wish

· Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia

· Marsh, Carole – The Mystery at Disney World (Series)

· McCaughrean, Geraldine -- Peter Pan in Scarlet

· Naylor, Phillis Reynolds – Shiloh

· Park, Barbara – Mick Harte was Here

· Paulsen, Gary -- Brian’s Winter

· Paulsen, Gary -- Hatchet

· Paulsen, Gary -- The River

· Reeder, Carolyn -- Shades of Gray

· Sachar, Louis – Small Steps

· Schanzer, Rosalyn – George vs. George

· Selznick, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret

· Simon, Seymour – Earthquakes

· Snickett, Lemony -- Series of Unfortunate Events

· Spinelli, Jerry – Maniac Magee

· Stone, Jeff – Tiger (Five Ancestors Series)

*also look for other titles by these authors