Summer Reading List 2016
Belleville Public Library & Belleville Public Schools
Genre Key:
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Biography
5th GRADE
Read! Read! Read!
Check out the books listed below!
They are some of the most popular books in the library.
Read a book by your favorite author. Be curious!
Pick up a book you’ve never read before!
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Cretch
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
An American Plague: the True and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemicby Jim Murphy
All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriot
Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
Carver, a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Movie Diary by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voight
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Everything on a Waffleby Polly Horvath
The Facts and Fictions of Minna Prattby Patricia MacLachlan
Frindle by Andrew Clements
George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela Turner
Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
I Am Reginaby Sally Keehn
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
A Jar of Dreams by Yomiko Uchido
Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead George
Lentilby Robert McClouskey
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Locomotive by Brian Floca
Matilda by Ronald Dahl
Merlin and the Dragon by Jane Yolan
Middle School Blues by Lou Kassem
Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Foltz Jones
My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about brain science by John Fleischman
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Pride of Puerto Rico by Paul Robert Walker
Ragweed by Avi
Saving Ghost Mountain by Sy Montgomery
Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill Youby Barthe DeClementis
So You Want to be an Inventor by Judith St. George
Snowflake Bently by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
S.O.R. Losersby Avi
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
The Voice that challenged a nation: Martin Anderson and the struggle for equal rights by Russell Freedman
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Wandererby Sharon Creech
The War with Grandpaby Robert Kimmel Smith
A Wrinkle in Timeby Madeline L’Engle
May 2016
Belleville Public Library & Information Center
and
Belleville Public Schools