Suggested Summer Reading List
It's Summer Time again and the best thing to do when you are hiding from the heat is read a good book. I have a number of recommendations from all of you and I will do my best to get through as many of them as I can. Luckily I will be spending 5 weeks in a seaside village that has a beautiful little library and three second hand book shops.
Please do what you can to make your way through some of these. Now that you are about to become Grade Six students, you should be able to make your way through between 4 to 6 chapter novels by the time the summer holiday ends. I know you like a challenge, so see how many you can get through.
Here are a few recommendations:
Please do what you can to make your way through some of these. Now that you are about to become Grade Six students, you should be able to make your way through between 4 to 6 chapter novels by the time the summer holiday ends. I know you like a challenge, so see how many you can get through.
Here are a few recommendations:
I. Books Worth Reading
General:
Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements
Stuart Little by E.B. White
No Talking by Andrew Clements
The View From Saturday E.L. Konigsburg
Little White Duck: A Childhood in China by Na Liu
Play Makers by Mike Lupica
Big Nate Flips Out by Lincoln Pierce
Drama – Raina Telgemeier
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Science Fiction/Fantasy:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Inheritance Series)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (series)
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (series)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan (series)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (series)
Poetry:
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
II. Authors Worth Reading
Kate Dicamillo (Remember The Tiger Rising)
Kate Dicamillo (Remember The Tiger Rising)
Roald Dahl
Pam Munoz Ryan
Judy Blume
Mike Lupica
Lincoln Pierce
Neil Gaiman
Rick Riordan
J.K. Rowling
Cynthia Rylant
Cornelia Funke
Jean Craighead George
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Additional book suggestions:
The Hunger Games (Series)
Stargirl (Series)
Wonder
Number the Stars
Bridge to Terabithia
Tuck Everlasting
Esperanza Rising
House on Mango Street
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Red Pony
Ender’s Game (Series)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Savvy (Series)
Smile
Sisters
The Secret Garden
James and the Giant Peach
Coraline
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Series)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Series)
Artemis Fowl
Holes
The Little Prince
Matilda
In the mood for a challenge? If you feel you are ready, you may take on the classic authors and their works. Romeo and Juliet, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, Little Women, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, to name a few. But you can’t go wrong with anything by George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, the Bronte sisters, William Shakespeare, or Jane Austen!
TOP RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
2. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
3. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Suggested Summer Reading List
for ESL Students
for ESL Students
Below are 10 books ranked in order from easiest to most difficult. These are all fantastic reads for 5th grade ESL students. Enjoy!
1. David Gets in Trouble by David Shannon
2. Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
3. Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel
4. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
5. Stuart Little by E.B. White
6. Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne*
7. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
8. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary*
9. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
10. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
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