2014 Summer Reading
Suggestions for Students Entering 5th Grade
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Catherine loves her autistic brother, David, and is
also frustrated by him. But a nonverbal boy in a
wheelchair helps her see she doesn't need so many
rules to order their lives
Holes by Louis Sachar
Through no fault of his own, Stanley Yelnatshas
landed at detention camp, Green Lake, where
the boys all have to dig a hole a day in the hot sun.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Everyone speaks of running away, but Claudia and her brother Jamie actually do - to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they try to solve the mystery of a beautiful statue of an angel.