Rising 5th Grade Summer Reading Selections
Each student must choose one book from the following list and one book
from The Great Illustrated Classic Series. Students will be required to take AR
(Accelerated Reader) tests over both books during the first week of school.
*Choose
one book from this list*
True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle Avi
The Borrowers Mary
Norton
The Great Brain John
D. Fitzgerald
Inkheart Cornelia
Funke
My Side of the Mountain Jean
C. George
King of the Wind: The Story of
the Godolphon Arabian Marguerite Henry
Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly
Cleary
Phantom Tollbooth Norton
Juster
Hatchet Gary
Paulsen
Toothpaste Millionaire Jean
Merrill
Summer of the Monkeys Wilson
Rawls
The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth
Speare
The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton
Lee Stewart
Gentle Ben Walt
Morey
Ginger Pye Eleanor
Estes
Space Case Stuart
Gibbs
A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony
Snicket
*Choose
one book from this list*
The
Great Illustrated Classics (not the original novel)
20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Malvina G. Vogel
The Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Malvina G. Vogel Black Beauty [adapted
- Great Illustrated Classics] by Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Jack London
Captains Courageous
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Rudyard Kipling
The Count of Monte
Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula [adapted -
Great Illustrated Classics] by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein [Great
Illustrated Classics] (Adapted by Malvina G. Vogel) by Malvina G. Vogel
Heidi [adapted - Great
Illustrated Classics] by Johanna Spyri
The Invisible Man
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by H. G. Wells
A Journey to the
Center of the Earth [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Jules Verne
Kidnapped [Great
Illustrated Classics] (Adapted by Deborah Kestel) by Deborah Kestel
King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Joshua E.
Hanft
A Little Princess
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Merry Adventures
of Robin Hood [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Howard Pyle
The Prince and the
Pauper [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Mark Twain
The Secret Garden
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Swiss Family
Robinson [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Johann Wyss
The Time Machine
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by H. G. Wells
Treasure Island
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Robert Louis Stevenson
The War of the Worlds
[adapted - Great Illustrated Classics] by Malvina G. Vogel
White Fang [adapted -
Great Illustrated Classics] by Malvina G. Vogel
