Entering Grade Five
Hampden Meadows Summer Reading List
Fiction
Fantasy
Floors series by Patrick Carman
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Spirit Animals series: Wild Born by Brandon Mull
The Golden Door trilogy by Emily Rodda
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series by Brandon Sanderson
Odessa Again by Dana Reinhardt
West of the Moon by Margi Preus
Goblins by Philip Reeve
Alchemyst series by Michael Scott
Warriors series by Erin Hunter
Realistic Fiction
The Year of the Baby by Andrea Cheng
Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes
Elvis and the Underdogs by Jenny Lee
The 14 Fibs of Gregory K by Gregory Pincus
The Second Life of Abigail Walker by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Historical Fiction
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
My Name is Sally Little Song by Brenda Woods
Sports Fiction
Unstoppable by Tim Green
The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
On the Line by Jake Maddox
Action/Adventure
The Genius Files series by Dan Gutman
What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World by Henry Clark
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
Mystery
Smells Like Dog series by Suzanne Selfors
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
Who Could It Be at This Hour? By Lemony Snicket
Tower of the Five Orders by Devon Hicks
Graphic Novels
Olympians series by George O’Connor
Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi
Explorer by Kazu Kibuishi
Big Nate graphic novel series by Lincoln Peirce
Sidekicks by Dan Santat
Percy Jackson and the Olympians graphic novel series by Robert Venditti
Poetry
Poems to Learn by Heart by Caroline Kennedy
The Tree that Time Built by Mary Ann Hoberman
Outside the Box by Karma Wilson
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Dinosaurs in Your Backyard by Hugh Brewster
Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison
Make it Wild! 101 Things to Make and Do Outdoors by Jo Schofield
Island: A Story of the Galapagos by Jason Chin
DK Kids’ Fun and Healthy Cookbook by Nicola Graimes
The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest– and Most Surprising– Animals on Earth by Steve Jenkins
So You Want to Catch a Bigfoot? By Jamie Michalak
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies
Plastic, Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman
Inkblot: Drip, Splat, and Squish Your Way to Creativity by Margaret Peot
Shapes in Math, Science and Nature: Squares, Triangles and Circles by Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Biography
Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
Lives of the Scientists by Kathleen Krull
Benjamin Franklin by Kathleen Krull