happypamama Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 What book(s) do you feel a girl absolutely should have read/listened to by the end of fifth grade? Just looking to see where there might be holes in DD's reading/listening to of the classics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 My fifth grader loved the Narnia books, a Little Princess, Heidi, Pippi Longstocking, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and the entire Nancy Drew series - the old ones. Oh, and Little House. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 My fifth grader loved the Narnia books, a Little Princess, Heidi, Pippi Longstocking, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and the entire Nancy Drew series - the old ones. Oh, and Little House. :iagree: The Secret Garden Caddie Woodlawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 My fifth grader loved the Narnia books, a Little Princess, Heidi, Pippi Longstocking, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and the entire Nancy Drew series - the old ones. Oh, and Little House. Okay, except for Nancy Drew, she's read all of those (well, she's read at least the first Pippi book and some of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books), plus The Secret Garden. I know her brothers listened to the first Nancy Drew book on CD and liked it; I'm not sure if DD did or not. She doesn't seem inclined to read mysteries (the horror! I love mysteries!), but I figure she probably ought to at least know who Nancy Drew is. I'm looking for the "you should know these from a cultural literacy standpoint" books. Caddie Woodlawn is going on the to-read list. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diviya Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Mine is currently reading and loving Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 Mine is currently reading and loving Eight Cousins, by Louisa May Alcott. Oh, good, that one she would probably like. She started Little Women but hit some boring parts and didn't finish it. I didn't push that one, because I had thought she was a little young to appreciate it anyway -- she could read it and understand it, but I think she's a little young to appreciate the themes of young adulthood. I haven't read Eight Cousins (or if I have, it's been decades), but maybe that would appeal to her. Oh, and I want to read Five Little Peppers too, to see if maybe that would be good for her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 There are too many books to list every book to that point, I think. But a few that would be good fifth grade books if you haven't yet done them yet might be... Island of the Blue Dolphins The Midwife's Apprentice A Wrinkle in Time Walk Two Moons Harriet the Spy Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Little Women Tom Saywer A Christmas Carol I also think 5th and 6th grade can be a nice time to come back to books you probably read as read alouds and do them as independent reads, like The Secret Garden or Charlotte's Web or Alice in Wonderland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 There are too many books to list every book to that point, I think. But a few that would be good fifth grade books if you haven't yet done them yet might be... Island of the Blue Dolphins The Midwife's Apprentice A Wrinkle in Time Walk Two Moons Harriet the Spy Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Little Women Tom Saywer A Christmas Carol I also think 5th and 6th grade can be a nice time to come back to books you probably read as read alouds and do them as independent reads, like The Secret Garden or Charlotte's Web or Alice in Wonderland. Yes, good point; she has reread some of the read alouds and has enjoyed that. Thanks for that list -- she's not read all of them, so I'm adding them to the list to check out. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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