Maddysmom26 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Just curious, which required books your child read at the 5th grade level?? Which ones did they really like? I have a list of books, but would love to know what others required at this level. Thanks :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariannNOVA Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 (edited) I know I will leave some titles out, b/c she read SO much, but here it goes: EVERYTHING by Caroline Lawrence (these are highly recommended in LCC) ALL FIFTH GRADE LEVEL BOOKS IN LATIN CENTERED CURRIC MIXED UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY ANIMAL FARM Something Else by E.L. Konigsburg but I cannot remember the name TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR and the sequel All of the Percy Jackson books A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT One Thousand and One Arabian Nights retold by Geraldine McCaughrean The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb Beowulf , A New Telling by Robert Nye The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green Castle by David Macaulay Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, retold by Geraldine McCaughrean Tales from Japan retold by Helen & William McAlpine The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly SIGN OF THE SUGAR PLUM PETALS IN THE ASHES THE GIVER Julietta (from RFWP Press) RIDING FREEDOM And a bunch more titles that escape me at the moment. ETA: She liked all of them - except one by E.L. Konigsburg which I didn't list and I don't remember the title. She LOVED: the Caroline Lawrence books, THE GIVER, THE TRUMPETER OF KRAKOW, ROBIN HOOD, SHAKESPEARE (in fact, the titles listed here referencing Robin Hood and Shakespeare prompted her to find other titles on her own and read those as well - she loved reading about Robin Hood), THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER, Edited June 29, 2010 by MariannNOVA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradandmeplus2 Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 I taught 5th grade once upon a time and these are the books they enjoyed: Ginger Pye 21 Balloons Hatchet Narnia set of books A wrinkle in time I also remember loving Indian In the Cupboard as a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngieW in Texas Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 My oldest dd's booklist from 5th grade got lost in a computer crash. I didn't keep track of the free reading my middle dd did for 5th grade. She easily read 3-5 novels/week for fun. I did keep track of the free reading my youngest did. She only read when she was required to read, so I required her to read anything she wanted for 30 minutes/day and also an assigned book for another 30 minutes/day. books read by my middle dd for school in 5th grade: Tales of King Arthur (Usborne) Black Horses for the King (McCaffrey) Beduin's Gazelle Favorite Medieval Tales (Osborne) Trolley to Yesterday (Bellairs) Princess of the Moon and Stars - Royal Diaries series, set in 6th century Korea The Saga of Erik the Viking (Jones) Favorite Norse Tales (Osborne) Gods and Goddesses of Vikings and Northlands (Ashworth) Lost Diary of Erik the Red, Viking Warrior (Barlow and Skidmore) How to Train Your Dragon (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) Viking It and Liking It (Scieza) Knights and Castles (Osborne) - Magic Treehouse research guide The Apple and the Arrow - SLK Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine (Royal Diary) Ballad of Sir Dinadan (Morris) The Squire's Tale (Morris) - King Arthur tale Girl in a Cage (Yolen) - daughter of Robert the Bruce is put in a cage by King Edward Adam of the Road - SL6 Goose Girl (Hale) - adaptation of goose girl story for book club Dragon: Hound of Honor (Edwards) - set in medieval France King Herla's Quest (Map) - collection of medieval folktales Catherine, Called Birdy The Second Mrs. Giaconda Daughter of Venice (Napoli) The Warhorse (Bolognese) - Renaissance Italy Whittington (Armstrong) - medieval Westing Game - SL6 Galileo and the Universe (Parker) Mary, Bloody Mary Assassin, Betrayal, Conspiracy, Deception (Finney) - Lady Grace Mysteries King of Shadows (Cooper) Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (Hodges) Queen's Own Fool (Yolen&Harris) - Mary, Queen of Scots Pocahontas and the Strangers (Bulla) Nzinga - Royal Diaries Persian Folk and Fairy Tales (Mehdevi) Antoni Leeuwenhoek: First to see microscopic life (Yount) Ghost in Tokaido Inn - samurai Japan In Darkness, Death (Hoobler) - samurai Japan free-reading books read by my youngest dd in 5th grade: Warriors New Prophecy #2 Warriors New Prophecy #3 Warriors New Prophecy #4 Warriors New Prophecy #5 Warriors New Prophecy #6 Firestar's Quest Warriors Power of Three #1 Warriors Power of Three #2 Warriors Power of Three #3 Warriors Power of Three #4 Warriors Power of Three #5 Warriors Power of Three #5 Warriors Power of Three #6 Bluestar's Prophecy The Last Olympian (Riordan) Mysterious Benedict Society #2 books read for school by my youngest in 5th grade: Eagle (Stone) - Five Ancestors The Corn Grows Ripe - SL3 A Lion to Guard Us - SL3 Pocahontas and the Strangers - SL3 Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims - SL3 Stink Alley - SL100 Printer's Apprentice (Krensky) Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? (Fritz) Back to Paul Revere (Gormley) - time travel Phoebe the Spy - SL3 Sherwood Ring - SL7 Mouse (Stone) - Five Ancestors Omkastoe - SL3 Naya Nuki - SL3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 My daughter is going into 5th grade in the fall. We use Oak Meadow for our curriculum. It "assigns" a specific book every few weeks. I have an older/used version of the curriculum, and the assigned reading books are going to be: Where Do You Think You Are Going, Christopher Columbus? If You Sailed On The Mayflower Sarah Morton's Day, A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl The Witch Of Blackbird Pond Johnny Tremain "A book about George Washington (Your Choice)" Ben and Me Children Of The Wild West Little House On The Prairie (which we've already read, so we'll read whatever book we're up to in the series at the time instead; we're in the middle of the series now) Harriet Tubman: Call To Freedom They also, for each subject, provide "optional reading" lists, suggesting more books that you can read to go further into a given subject/person. Maybe we'll check some of those out, too, if we're interested. But for the most part, other than what's laid out in the curriculum, I don't assign/require books. I pick up ones I think will interest her when I go to used book sales, and I take her to the library regularly and let her pick out whatever she wants to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 (edited) . Edited July 12, 2022 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddysmom26 Posted July 1, 2010 Author Share Posted July 1, 2010 Thank you all! I appreciate the lists. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeandrea Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 This past year, my 5th grade dd read the readers from SL Core 5 Eastern Hemisphere for school reading. Books she chose on her own that come to mind are the Lemony Snicket books, Little House books and Seekers. There were more, but I can't recall them at the moment. She also read "It couldn't Just Happen" for school. Lee, hs'ing dd-13, dd-11, ds-9, ds-6, dd-4 and have 22 month dd waiting in the wings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Absolute favorites of our DSs in 5th grade: - My Side of the Mountain (George) - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken) - The Horse and His Boy (Lewis) - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg) - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Lord) - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Robinson) - Half Magic; Magic by the Lake; Knight's Castle; Time Garden; Seven Day Magic (Eager) - The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) - The Never Ending Story (Ende) - The Great Wheel (Lawson) - Land I Lost; Water Buffalo Days (Nhuong) - By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman) -- really a 4th grade level, but if you haven't ever read it, don't miss it Other classic 5th grade books: - The Black Stallion, The Black Stallion Returns, Island Stallion (Farley) - Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell) - The Ordinary Princess (Kaye) - Holes (Sacher) - Rikki Tikki Tavi (Kipling) - Just So Stories (Kipling) - Sounder (Armstrong) Favorite Read Alouds when they were in 5th grade: - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien) - The Master Puppeteer (Paterson) - Little Britches (Moody) - Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls) - The Reluctant Dragon (Grahame) - The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Five Children and It; The Phoenix and the Carpet; The Book of Dragons (Nesbit) - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass (Carroll) - Treasure Island (Stevenson) - Black Ships Before Troy; The Wanderings of Odysseus (Sutcliffe) - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (and others by Howard Pyle) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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