BES Summer Reading Grade 5

Welcome to fifth grade! We know how hard you worked all year to make great progress in reading and it’s important to keep that effort going over the summer. Rising fifth graders are required to read one book from this list. You may choose either a fiction or nonfiction title. While you are reading you need to write down your thoughts and any questions that you have.

Please plan to write a letter (Dear fifth grade teacher…this summer I read ____________ and this is what I was thinking about as I read it,) and bring it to Meet Your Teacher Day in August. Your teacher will be anxious to read your letter and find out what you’ve read and how you’ve interacted with the book.

Fiction Titles:

·        Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix

·        Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

·        Seaman: the Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark by Gail Karwoski

·        Time For Andrew by Mary D. Hahn

·        Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

·        The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

·        Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements

·        Lily’s Crossing  by Patricia R. Giff

·        Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

·        Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor

·        Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

·        The Incredible Journey  by Sheila Burnford

·        The Hardy Boys  (any book in the series) by Franklin Dixon

·        Nancy Drew (any book in the series) by Carolyn Keene

·        Dear America (any book in the series) Kathryn Lasky

Nonfiction Titles:

·        Who Was Neil Armstrong? By Roberta Edwards

·        Who Was Abraham Lincoln? By Janet B. Pascal

·        Who Was Anne Frank? By Ann Abramson

·        Who Was John F. Kennedy? By Yona McDonough

·        Who Was Louis Armstrong? By Yona McDonough

·        Who was Martin Luther King Jr. By Bonnie Bader

·        Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? By Margaret Frith

·        Who Were the Beatles By Geoff Edgers

All of these biographies are AKS related

Don’t forget to visit your public library this summer!

Read for the World Record! Summer Reading Activity

Visit:  www.scholastic.com/summer  and you can be part of a world record effort!  The website keeps track of the number of minutes you have read and lets you compete against other readers in other schools just like we did for World Math!