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	5th Grade Favorite Books
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Are you looking for a good book to read this summer?  Try one of these favorites recommended  by the Fifth Grade students. 

• Watership Down   Richard Adams
• Animorphs #1              Katherine Applegate
• Journey to Nowhere            M.J. Auch
• No More Magic  Avi
• Ramona’s World  Beverly Cleary
• Aliens Ate My Homework            Bruce Coville
• The Ghost in the Third Row            Bruce Coville
• Bloomability                Sharon Creech
• Jurassic Park              Michael Crichton
• Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade            Barthe Declements
• Man-O-War            Walter Farley
• Stone Fox            John R. Gardiner
• Dinotopia                    James Gurney
• The Phantom Tollbooth            Norton Juster
• Carrie              Stephen King
• A Wrinkle in Time                Madeleine L’Engle
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe    C.S. Lewis
• The Giver            Lois Lowry
• Anne of Green Gables             Lucy M. Montgomery
• Shiloh            Phyllis R. Naylor
• 'N Sync:  The Official Book            'N Sync
• Bridge to Terabithia            Katherine Paterson
• The Girl with the Deadly Hair     Ted Pedersen
• True Fright            Ted Pedersen
• A Child Called It          Dave Pelzer
• Going Live!            Sally-Ann Roberts
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban                      J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets             J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone   J.K. Rowling
• Holes            Louis Sachar
• Britney Spears' Heart to Heart            Britney Spears             
• Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps #7)       R.L. Stine

Here are a few suggestions for students from the Fifth Grade teachers:

•  The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party              Marian Calbro

• Bud, Not Buddy              Christopher Curtis

• The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker            Cynthia DeFelice

• Weasel             Cynthia DeFelice

• The Little Prince  A. DeSaint-Exupery

• I Know What You Did Last Summer            Lois Duncan

• Bull Run            Paul Fleishman

• That Sweet Diamond:  Baseball Poems Paul Janeczko

• Gorilla Walk               Ted Lewin

• The Great Turkey Walk             Kathleen Kerr

• Ice Story:  Shackleton’s Lost Expedition            Elizabeth Kimmel

• A Long Way From Chicago             Robert Peck

• A Pizza the Size of the Sun                         Jack Prelutsky

• The Golden Compass                     Philip Pullman

Adults, try these books recommended by the Fifth Grade teachers:

• Tuesdays With Morrie             Mitch Albom 
• Memoirs of a Geisha             Arthur Golden

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