1. Fifth Grade Summer
Reading
Required title: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Read The Wild Robot carefully and at a point in the summer
when you are able to remember it well. You will be
completing activities based on this book at the beginning of
the school year.
In addition to reading The Wild Robot, you will choose three
books to read from the Fifth Grade Summer Reading Choice
List. Each book must be from a different genre. Visit the
5th
Grade Blog at http://bpsfifth.berkeleyprep.net to find the
Shelvable link. Click on the link in the post about summer
reading. This virtual bookshelf will allow you to explore
each book further and also provides a link to the book on
Amazon.
For each of these books, you will select one of the
activities listed on the Project Choices sheet (see second
page). These projects must be completed at home before the
start of school and will be turned in to your child’s
homeroom teacher.
2. Title Author GRL Genre
Required:TheWild Robot Peter Brown R SF
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse David A. Kelly O NF
Sideways Stories from Wayside School Louis Sachar P F
Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary Q RF
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom Louis Sachar Q RF
Beetles Lightly Toasted PhyllisReynolds Naylor Q RF
Pie Sarah Weeks Q HF
No Talking Andrew Clemens R RF
The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks R F
Shiloh PhyllisReynolds Naylor R RF
Because of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo R RF
Out of My Mind Sharon Draper S RF
11 Birthdays Wendy Mass S F
Swindle Gordon Korman S RF
Kizzy Ann Stamps Jeri Watts T HF
Black Beauty Anna Sewell T F
The Lion, the Witch,and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis T F
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat Lynne Jonell T F
Jackie’s Wild Seattle Will Hobbs T RF
The Secret School Avi T HF
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of
Amelia Earhart
Candace Fleming U NF
Bud Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis U HF
The Secret Garden Fraches Hodgson Burnett U RF
My Side of the Mountain Jane Craighead George U RF
Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine U F
Number the Stars Lois Lowry U HF
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Wendy Mass U RF
Baseball in April and Other Stories Gary Soto U RF
Wonder Raquel J. Palacio U RF
Becoming Naomi Leon Pam Muñoz Ryan V RF
Holes Louis Sachar V RF
A Long Way from Chicago Richard Peck V HF
Island of Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell V HF
Heat Rob Lupica V HF
Turtle in Paradise Jennifer L. Holm V HF
Princess Academy Shannon Hale V HF
Ruby Holler Sharon Creech V RF
City of Orphans Avi V HF
Walk TwoMoons Sharon Creech W RF
Flush Carl Hiaasen W RF
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle W SF
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan W F
Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli W RF
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder X RF
Hana’s Suitcase Karen Levine Y NF
Because of Mr. Terupt Rob Buyea Y RF
3. The Evolutionof Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly Y HF
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Z F
GollywhopperGames Jody Feldman N/A RF
Go Big or Go Home Will Hobbs N/A SF
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook Joanne Rocklin N/A RF
Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson N/A Memoir
Why’d They Wear That? Fashion as the
Mirror of History
Sarah Albee N/A NF
Big TopBurning: The True Story of an
Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and The Greatest
Show On Earth
Laura A. Woolett N/A NF
If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at
Big Ideas and Numbers
David J.Smith N/A NF
Daisy to the Rescue: True Stories of Daring
Dogs, Paramedic Parrots, and Other Animal
Heroes
Jeff Campbell N/A NF
Who Was Walt Disney? Whitney Stewart and Nancy Harrison N/A NF
Who Was Anne Frank? Ann Abramson and Nancy Harrison N/A NF
Who Is Malala Yousafzai? Dinah Brown and Andrew Thomson N/A NF
Who Is Stan Lee? Geoff Edgers and John Hinderliter N/A NF
Who Was Ben Franklin? Dennis Brindell Fradin & John O’Brien N/A NF
