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Fifth Grade Reading Recommendations
Fiction
Among the Hidden
(series)
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Gregor the Overlander
& Underland Chronicles (series)
Suzanne Collins
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter
(series)
J.K. Rowling
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Holes
Louis Sachar
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lightning Thief
(series)
Rick Riordan
The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
& Chronicles of Narnia (series)
C.S. Lewis
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
Informational Text
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Candace Fleming
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Jim Murphy
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
Lafayette and the American Revolution
Russell Freedman
The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Jean Fritz
Magic Tree House: Fact Tracker
(series)
Mary Pope Osborne
The Omnivore's Dilemma
, Young Readers Edition
Michael Pollan
Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia
Sy Montgomery
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Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally M. Walker
Websites:
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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