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Give me a wonderful, delightful, simple list of GOOD/GREAT BOOKS for an upcoming 5th grade girl in the summer to read!


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A couple of them, we will do a basic "end of story" essay questions, a few comprehension questions, or some fun project. Some that I had for her to read but didn't get to are:

 

Half Magic

Thimble Summer

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

 

I thought of:

 

Listening for Lions

Tuck Everlasting

The Penderwicks

 

I was going to do Island of the Blue Dolphins but decided to do more of a unit study involving our Apologia Science along with it during the next school year.

 

*I've seen the 1000 Great Books list...I'm looking for the HIVE answers, though. :)

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My dd's latest has been The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DicCamillo which would lend itself to tons of literary analysis. She also enjoyed The Invention of Hugo Cabret but that's a graphic novel ( albeit beautifully done) so I'm not sure you'd want that one. Dd also loves a Series of Unfortuanate Events and recommends those titles as well.

 

 

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Eleanor Estes

 

Ginger Pye

Pinky Pye

The Moffats

The Hundred Dresses

 

The Doll People by Ann M. Martin

Ordinary Princess by Mary Margaret Kaye

Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

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5th grade level

- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken)

- The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)

- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Lord)

- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (Field)

- Holes (Sacher)

- The School Story (Clement)

- My Side of the Mountain (George)

- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien)

- Daughter of the Mountains (Rankin)

- Baby Island (Brink)

- No Flying in the House (Brock)

- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Robinson)

- Two are Better Than One (Brink)

- Naya Nuki (Thomasa)

- Behind Rebel Lines (Reit)

- The Green Book (Walsh)

- The Ch'i-Lin Purse (Fang) -- collection on Chinese folktales

- Stories from the Silk Road (Mistry) -- collection of Chinese/Middle Eastern tales

- Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights -- collection of tales

 

 

5th/6th grade level

- Half Magic; Magic By the Lake; Knight's Castle; The Time Garden; Seven Day Magic (Eager)

- Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell)

- The Ordinary Princess (Kaye)

- A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)

- Demon in the Teahouse (or other Samurai mysteries) (Hoobler)

- The Black Stallion (Farley)

- The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis)

 

 

6th grade level

- The Secret Garden -- or -- A Little Princess (Burnett)

- The Golden Goblet -- or -- Mara, Daughter of the Nile (McGraw)

- Adam of the Road (Gray)

- Catherine Called Birdy -- or -- The Midwife's Apprentice (Cushman)

- The Master Puppeteer (Paterson)

- Case of the Baker Street Irregular (Newman)

- Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)

- The Hobbit (Tolkien)

- Enchantress from the Stars (Engdahl)

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Rebecca has recently enjoyed:

 

 

The Phantom Tollbooth

Letters From Rifka

Five Children and It

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Sylvia read this a few times)

 

Oh, and some gymnastics bios. ;)

 

She started My Side of the Mountain but paused to read some AG books she checked out of the library.

 

She's also read:

 

A Wrinke in Time

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

 

I was thinking of Island of the Blue Dolphins, Strawberry Hill, and From the Mixed Up Files... for this summer.

 

Good thread, I was thinking the same thing!

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How did you get that to pull up? I've never seen a reading list like that on CBD! Would love to find some my kids' ages!

 

 

Here's the CBD K-3 list.

 

To find the grade lists:

1. move your cursor over the subheading "homeschool" in that blue bar near the top of the CBD page

2. a menu should appear, with the subheadings "classic lit K-8" and "classic lit 9-12" at the top of the far right column of the hovering menu

3. click on your choice of either of those headings

4. a new page comes up with many different book list types: by grade levels; by authors; by Caldecott winners; and by literature guide types

5. click on the list desired

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Here's the CBD K-3 list.

 

To find the grade lists:

1. move your cursor over the subheading "homeschool" in that blue bar near the top of the CBD page

2. a menu should appear, with the subheadings "classic lit K-8" and "classic lit 9-12" at the top of the far right column of the hovering menu

3. click on your choice of either of those headings

4. a new page comes up with many different book list types: by grade levels; by authors; by Caldecott winners; and by literature guide types

5. click on the list desired

 

 

Well, I'll be. For as many hours I have been on that website and NEVER noticed that before! Thanks, Lori!!!!

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Personal favorites that were read in elementary and reread throughout my life:

 

1. Five Little Peppers

2. Johnny Tremain

3. Witch of Blackbird Pond

4. Jacob Have I Loved (One of those curious books that I disliked the ending but made a huge impression on me.)

5. Eight Cousins (Louisa May Alcott)

6. An Old Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott)

7. Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon

 

I looked up the Alcott books on the reading list and they are listed for high school. I was a little surprised by that. They are good age appropriate stories and a fun introduction to a great author.

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