Good Books For Fifth Grade
These books were taken from lists compiled by the Dover Public Library and the New Castle County Library System
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)
Summer of the Swans (Byars)
The Accident (Carrick)
The Black Stallion (Farley)
Call It Courage (Sperry)
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques
The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Dicey's Song (Voigt)
Dollhouse Murders (Wright)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien)
The Search for Delicious (Babbitt)
The Westing Game (Raskin)
Missing May (Rylant)
Maniac Magee (Spinelli)
Holes (Sachar)
Cricket in Times Square (Selden)
Earthquake Terror (Kehret)
Fudge-a-Mania (Blume)
The Indian in the Cupboard series (Banks)
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (Richler)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
My Teacher is an Alien (Coville)
Hank the Cowdog series (Erickson)
Owls in the Family (Mowat)
Search for the Shadowman (Nixon)
A Share of Freedom (Wood)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Sachar)
Stuart Little (White)