5th Grade Reading List

Here is a list of books for Tyler to choose from this year for his reading time (since reading is NOT his strongest subject, some of these are below level to encourage him):

 

Humor

• The Saturdays (5.4)
• Owls in the Family (4.9)
• Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (3-5)

 

Folk Tale

• In Grandma’s Attic (3.9)
• The Whipping Boy (3.9)

 

Non-Fiction

• One Small Square

 

Realistic Fiction

• All of a Kind Family
• Shiloh (9 yr +)

 

Biography

• “Who was …” series

 

Adventure

• Riding Freedom (4.5)
• A Lion To Guard Us (2.9)
• Stuart Little (5.3)
• Call it Courage (4-6)

 

Historical Fiction

• Signs of the Beavers (4.9)
• The Matchlock Gun (5.1)
• Sara Witcher’s Story (5.3)
• Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims (3.0)
• And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
• Shh! We’re writing the constitution
• Pocahontas & the Strangers (4.5)
• What’s the Big Idea Ben Franklin
• Farmer Boy (5.2)
• Almost Home (5.8)
• Guns For General Washington (6.1)
• Little House in the Big Woods (5.3)

 

Fantasy

• Charlotte’s Web (4.4)

 

Mystery

• Encyclopedia Brown (4.1)
• Footprints in the Barn (4.2)