BHMCS Summer Reading List for Incoming 5
th
Graders
Contemporary, Realistic, and Historical Fiction
The Penderwicks Birdsall
Superfudge Blume
The Summer of Swans Byars
Love That Dog Creech
Bud, Not Buddy Curtis
Because of Winn-Dixie DiCamillo
Bandit’s Moon Fleischman
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Gantos
Nory Ryan’s Song Giff
My One Hundred Adventures Horvath
Hot Hand Lupica
Yang the Eldest and His Odd
Jobs
Namioka
Saving Shiloh Naylor
The Best School Year Ever Robinson
The Year of Miss Agnes Hill
Our Only May Amelia Holm
Year of the Dog Lin
Number the Stars Lowry
Julia Gillian (and the Art of
Knowing)
McGhee
Run Away Home McKissack
Sarah Plain and Tall MacLachlan
Seesaw Girl Park
Dear America or Royal Diaries various authors
**Featured Author: Andrew Clements**
Frindle The Report Card
The Landry News Jake Drake Series
The Janitor’s Boy No Talking
The School Story Lunch Money
A Week in the Woods Room One: A Mystery
or Two
The Jacket Lost and Found
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Whales on Stilts Anderson
Artemis Fowl Colfer
The Boggart Cooper
The Tale of Despereaux Dicamillo
City of Ember DuPrau
Ella Enchanted Levine
The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe
Lewis
I Was a Rat! Pullman
The Lightning Thief Riordan
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Stone
Rowling
Summer Reading is Killing Me Scieszka
Calling All Dragon: The
Enchanted Forest…
Wrede
Wizard’s Hall Yolen
Biography
Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man Adler
Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges) Bridges
I’m Still Scared: A 26 Fairmont
Avenue Book
dePaola
Always Inventing (Alexander G.
Bell)
Matthews
They Called Her Molly Pitcher Rockwell
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin Harness
John Muir: America’s First
Environmentalist
Lasky
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E.
Knight Became an Inventor
McCully
Make Your Mark, Franklin
Roosevelt
St. George
John Smith Escapes Again Schanzer
Anne Frank Poole
A Woman for President: The Story of
Victoria Woodhull
Krull
Nonfiction Information
Ballpark: The Story of
America’s Baseball Fields
Curlee
Liberty Curlee
Knut: How One Little Polar Bear
Captivated the World
Hatkoff
My Senator and Me Kennedy
Outside and Inside Mummies Markle
Slippery, Slimy Baby Frogs Markle
Now & Ben: the Modern
Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
Barretta
Big Alaska: Journey Across
America’s Most Amazing State
Miller
Boy, Were We Wrong About
Dinosaurs!
Kudlinski
Spiders Simon
Horses Simon
The Journey of the One and
Only Declaration of
Independence
St. George
How Sweet It Is (and Was): The
History of Candy
Swain
Math-terpieces Tang.
A Drop of Water Wick
Adventure and Mystery
The Seer of Shadows Avi
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt Bellairs
Tarot Says Beware: A Herculeah
Jones Mystery
Byars
Stone Fox Gardiner
My Side of the Mountain George
Mickey and Me: A Baseball Card
Adventure
Gutman
Flush Hiaasen
Down the Yukon Hobbs
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery Howe
Hatchet Paulsen
A Series of Unfortunate Events Snicket
Sammy Keyes Series VanDraanen
Choose a book or author that is just right for you!
BHMCS Summer Reading is as easy as 1- 2 – 3!
1. Choose THREE “just right” books to read. For ideas, select a title from the list, a different title
written by any of the authors on the list, a Newbery Medal winner, or a book recommended by a
teacher or a librarian. We encourage all incoming 4
th
and 5
th
graders to read a book written by
Andrew Clements, the featured author, as one of the three books.
2. Write the three titles and authors in the box below or on another piece of paper. Also, have your
parent/guardian sign his or her name.
3. Bring your list to school so that you can share your super, sensational, summer reading with other
readers.
Name: Grade:
Title
Author Parent’s/Guardian’s Signature
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