ADVENTURE STORIES

Avi. Windcatcher.

Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer.

Korman, Gordon. Island.

Korman, Gordon. Everest.

Ruckman, Ivy. Night of the Twisters.

CAT STORIES

Cleary, Beverly. Socks.

Coatsworth, Elizabeth. The Cat Who went to Heaven.

LeGuin, Ursula. Catwings.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The Grand Escape.

DOG STORIES

Bunting, Eve. The Summer of Riley.

Byars, Betsy. Tornado.

Cleary, Beverly. Strider.

Cleary, Beverly. Risby.

Dover, Roddy. The Giggler Treatment.

Gardiner, John Reynolds. Stone Fox.

Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller

Hesse, Karen. Sable.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh Season

Graeber, Charlotte Towner. Fudge.

ESPECIALLY FOR GIRLS

Blume, Judy. Are you there God? It’s me Margaret.

Blume, Judy. Just as long as we’re together.

Cleary, Beverly Fifteen.

Cabot, Meg.The Princess Diaries.

Lowry, Lois. Anastasia Krupnik.

Yee, Lisa. Millicient Min: Girl Genius

FAMILY STORIES

Fitzgerald, John Dennis. The Great Brain.

Horvath, Polly. Everything on a waffle.

HORSE STORIES

Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion.

Henry, Margaurite. Misty of Chincoteaque.

FANTASTIC ANIMAL STORIES

Avi. Poppy.

Avi. Poppy and Rye.

Avi. Perloo the Bold.

Howe,Deborah. Bunnicula.

O’Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Risby and the rats of NIMH.

Jacques, Brian. Redwall.

Wallace, Bill. Upchuck and the Rotten Willy.

Wise, William. Christopher Mouse: A tale of a small traveler.

SPORTS STORIES

Avi. S.O.R. Losers

Bowen, Fred. Off the Rim.

Carter, Anne Laurel. In the Clear.

Christopher, Matt. Wingman on Ice.

Gutman, Dan. The Million Dollar Shot.

SUPERNATURAL STORIES

Nimmo, Jenny. Midnight for Charlie Bone.

WOLF STORIES

Avi. The Good Dog.

Casanova, Mary. Wolf Shadows.

London, Jack. The Call of the Wild.

Morey, Walt. Kavik the Wolf Dog.

**HISTORICAL FICTION STORIES

Avi. Who Was That Masked Man Anyway.

Drucker, Malka. Jacob’s Rescue.

Ho, Minfong. Rice without rain.

Ho, Minfong. The Clay Marble.

Leviton, Sonia. Journey to America.

Park. Linda Sue. The Kite Fighters.

Paterson, Katherine. The Sign of the Chrysanthemum.

**See also The Royal Diaries by various authors

**OTHER LIBRARIAN FAVORITES

Avi. Who Stole the Wizard of Oz.

Babbitt, Natalie. The Search for Delicious.

Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted

North, Sterling. Rascal.

White, E.B. The Trumpet of the Swans

Winters, Kay. Voices of Ancient Egypt.

NEWBERY AWARD WINNERS

Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira, Kira (2005).

DiCamillo, Kate. The Tale of Despereaux(2004).

Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard (2002).

Sachar, Louis. Holes (1999).

Lowry, Lois. The Giver (1994).

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars 1990).

Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved (1981).

Paterson, Katherine. The Bridge to Terabithia (1978).

Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. E. Basil Frankweiler (1967).

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinke in Time (1963).

O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins (1961).

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond

(1959).

OTHER BOOKS ON ALL THE READING LISTS

Doris, Michael. Morning Girl.

Giff, Patricia Rielly. Nory Ryan’s Song.

Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows.

BIOGRAPHY

Cox, Clinton. Houdini.

Dyer, Daniel. Jack London : A Biography.

Freeman, Russell Lincoln Photobiography

Freeman, Russell Eleanor Roosevelt.

Sis, Peter. Tree of Life.

**See also many Nonfiction Science books by Seymour Simon

GRADE 5

Recommended Reading

By Ann Marie Grumm

School Library Media Specialist

AOBA JAPAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

2005

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