SUMMER READING LIST

Students entering GRADE FIVE

*You may search the SAILS website from the Taunton Public Library’s link. 
Go to www.tauntonlibrary.org and then click on SAILS to locate a book(s) by author or title.

√ YOUR CHOICE

TITLE OF BOOK

AUTHOR

 

Addie Across the Prairie

Laurie Lawlor

 

All About Sam

Lois Lowry

 

A Year Down Yonder

Richard Peck

 

Babe, The Gallant Pig

Dick King-Smith

 

Blubber

Judy Blume

 

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

 

Bud, Not Buddy

*Christopher Paul Curtis      

 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

 

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Beverly Cleary

 

The Dollhouse Murders

Betty Ren Wright

 

Fudge-A-Mania

Judy Blume

 

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup

*Sharon Creech

 

The Hardy Boys:  Secret of Skull Mountain

Franklin W. Dixon

 

Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh

 

Homesick:  My Own Story

Jean Fritz

 

The Iron Ring

Lloyd Alexander

 

Lassie, Come Home

Eric Knight

 

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

 

Megan’s Island

Willo Davis Roberts

 

Mr. Revere and I

Robert Lawton

 

Number the Stars

*Lois Lowry

 

Owls in the Family

Farley Mowat

 

Old Yeller

Fred Gibson

 

Scooter

Vera Williams

 

Soup

Robert Peck

 

Song of the Trees

*Mildred Taylor

 

S.O.R. Losers

*Avi

 

The Healing of Texas Jake

*Phyllis Reynolds Taylor

 

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate Dicamillo

 

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis

 

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

 

Whittington

Alan Armstrong

 

World’s Apart

*Gary Soto

*You may choose another book by the highlighted author.
Updated, April 2008