Suggested
Titles for Grades 5-6:
Lawn Boy by Gary
Paulsen
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
Guardians of Ga’Hoole series by Kathryn Lsky
I am not Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos (and other
Joey Pigza stories)
Rick Riordan’s
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Rules by Cynthia
Lord
Yellow Star by
Jennifer Roy
Black Duck by
Janet Taylor Lisle
Mike Lupica books such as: Heat, Two Minute Drill, Summer Ball
City of
A Crooked Kind of
Perfect by Linda Urban
Diary of a Wimpy
Kid: Roderick Rules (sequel) by Jeff Kinney
Emma Jean Lazarus
Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis
Elijah of Buxton
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Feathers by
Jacqueline Woodson
Home of the Brave
by Katherine Applegate, Feiwel & Friends
How to Steal a Dog
by Barbara O’Connor
The Invention of
Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Puzzling World
of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin
The True Meaning
of Smekday by Adam Rex
The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
Nonfiction
Delicious: The
Life and Art of Wayne Thiebaud by Susan Goldman Rubin
Edward Hopper:
Painter of Light and Shadow by Susan Goldman Rubin
The Long Gone
Lonesome History of Country Music by Bret Bertholf
The Many Rides of
Paul Revere by James Cross Giblin
The Wall: Growing
Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis also
Beowulf: A Hero’s
Tale Retold by James Rumford
Blue Lipstick:
Concrete Poems by John Grandits
Good Masters!
Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura
Amy Schlitz. Read along with other great
Medieval Fiction like: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
or Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Tap Dancing on the
Roof (Sijo poems) by Linda Sue Park
This is Just to
Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman