PJPII Grade Five  -  Summer Reading List

Incoming fifth grade students are required to read one of the books from the required reading list.  The students are encouraged to read at least two more books from the suggested reading list.  The students will have an opportunity to complete a report on one of the required readings.

Required Readings

Dear Mr. Henshaw                                                  Beverly Clearly

Year Down Yonder                                                 Richard Peck

Maniac Magee                                                        Jerry Spinelli

Shiloh                                                                     Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

 

Suggested Readings

The Midnight Fox                                                   Betsy Byar

Harriet the Spy                                                       Louise Fitzhugh

The Fact and Fictions of Minna Pratt                       Patricia MacLachlan

A Taste of Blackberries                                          Doris Buchanan Smith

The Black Stallion                                                  Walter Farley

The Trumpet of the Swan                                        E.B. White

Don’t Make Me Smile                                            Barbara Park

Baseball in the Barrios                                            Henry Horenstein

The Night I Flunked my Field Trip                           Henry Winkler

Heat                                                                          Mike Lupica

The Secret School                                                     Avi

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes                    Eleanor Coerr

Bridge to Terabithia                                                  Katherine Paterson