Grade+5+Recommended+Reading

Our Librarian recommends the following books for readers in grade 5:

Recommended Authors:
 * **Title** || **Author** ||
 * Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul || Jack Canfield et al, compilers ||
 * The Ear, the Eye and the Arm || Nancy Farmer ||
 * The Thief Lord || Cornelia Funke ||
 * Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key || Jack Gantos ||
 * Under the Mountain || Maurice Gee ||
 * Among the Hidden || Margaret Peterson Haddix ||
 * Redwall series || Brian Jacques ||
 * The Pagan series || Catherine Jinks ||
 * A Wrinkle in Time || Madeleine L’Engle ||
 * A World of Fairy Tales || retold by Andrew Lang ||
 * Ella Enchanted || Gail Carson Levine ||
 * The Underrunners || Margaret Mahy ||
 * The Other Side of Truth || Beverly Naidoo ||
 * Silverwing || Kenneth Oppel ||
 * Island on Bird Street || Uri Orlev ||
 * Eragon || Christopher Paolini ||
 * Playing Beatie Bow || Ruth Park ||
 * Aida || Leontyne Price ||
 * The Westing Game || Ellen Raskin ||
 * Falling Up || Shel Silverstein ||
 * The Hobbit; or, there and Back Again || J.R.R. Tolkien ||
 * Homecoming || Cynthia Voigt ||
 * The Devil’s Arithmetic || Jane Yolen ||
 * The Black Cauldron series || Lloyd Alexander ||
 * The White Mountains || John Christopher ||
 * Walk Two Moons || Sharon Creech ||
 * The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker || Cynthia De Felice ||
 * Poetry for Young People - series || various editors ||
 * Homesick || Jean Fritz ||
 * When Zachary Beaver Came to Town || Kimberly Willis Holt ||
 * Kira-Kira || Cynthia Kodohata ||
 * The View from Saturday || E.L. Konigsburg ||
 * Earth Sea trilogy || Ursula Le Guin ||
 * Afternoon of the Elves || Janet Lisle ||
 * Z for Zachariah || Robert C. O’Brien ||
 * My Life in Dog Years || Gary Paulsen ||
 * Freak the Mighty || Rodman Philbrick ||
 * Where the Red Fern Grows || Wilson Rawls ||

Avi Natalie Babbitt Judy Blume Betsy Byars Andrew Clements Pam Conrad Roald Dahl Nancy Farmer Russell Freedman Jean Fritz Jack Gantos Morris Gee Jean Craighead George Morris Gleitzmann Bette Greene Mary Downing Hahn Paul Jennings Diana Wynne Jones Madeleine L’Engle Gail Carson Levine Lois Lowry Margaret Mahy Anne McCaffrey Robin McKinley Walter Dean Myers Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Scott O’Dell Katherine Paterson Gary Paulsen Daniel Pinkwater Jack Prelutsky J.K. Rowling Louis Sachar Jerry Spinelli Mildred Taylor Cynthia Voigt Patricia Wrede Jane Yolen