This year our big focus will be to develop a love of reading! Students should be reading nightly in order to develop vocabulary, comprehension, inferencing skills and creativity!

The following books are suggested reading for 5th grade.

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katharine Paterson
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
• The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine