This document provides a list of book recommendations for 5th grade summer reading. It is divided into several genres including exciting adventure and fantasy stories, fascinating nonfiction, funny stories, stories that touch your heart, and graphic novels. Some of the recommended titles include Artemis Fowl, The False Prince, Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, The 26-Story Treehouse, Wonder, and the Amulet series. The document encourages visiting the local library this summer to check out these titles.

1. Reading is Fun!!
5t h grade Summer Reading Suggestion
Berkeley School Libraries, 2015
Exciting Adventure and Fantasy
Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire #1), by Tui
Sutherland
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen
Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus
Jinx, by Sage Blackwood
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1), by Rick
Riordan
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier
Peak, by Roland Smith
Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi
Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd
The Swap, by Megan Shull
Wild Born (Spirit Animals #1), by Brandon Mull
Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Fascinating Nonfiction
The Animal Book: A collection of the fastest, fiercest,
toughest, cleverest, shyest--and most surprising--
animals, by Steve Jenkins
Almost Astronauts: 13 women who dared to dream, by
Tanya Lee Stone
Bomb: The race to build and steal the world’s most
dangerous weapon, by Steve Sheinkin
Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
Can We Save the Tiger?, by Martin Jenkins
Courage Has No Color, by Tanya Lee Stone
The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner
Josephine: The dazzling life of Josephine Baker, by
Patricia Hruby Powell
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2015
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods, by Rick Riordan
Treasury of Greek Mythology, by Donna Jo Napoli
Visit your local library this summer!
berkeleypubliclibrary.org

2. Funny Stories
The 26-Story Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths
Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading, by
Tommy Greenwald
Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos
Life of Zarf, by Rob Harrell
I Funny, by James Patterson
Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf, by Jennifer
Holm
My Life as a Book, by Janet Tashjian
The Odd Squad: Bully bait, by Michael Fry
Public School Superhero, by James Patterson
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, by Stephan
Pastis
Zorgamazoo, by Robert Paul Weston
Stories that Touch Your Heart
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond, by
Brenda Woods
The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Gaby, Lost and Found, by Angela Cervantes
Fish in a Tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Serafina’s Promise, by Ann E. Burg
Tiger Boy, by Mitali Perkins
Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
Graphic Novels We Love!
Amulet series, by Kazu Kibuishi
Bad Island, by Doug TenNapel
Dogs of War, by Sheila Keenan
El Deafo, by Cece Bell
Olympians series, by George O’Connor
One Dead Spy, by Nathan Hale
Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon Hale
Roller Girl, by Victoria Jamieson
Sidekicks, by Dan Santat
Sisters, by Raina Telgemeier
Zita the Spacegirl, by Ben Hatke
Find more recommendations at
Mary Ann Scheuer’s website
greatkidbooks.blogspot.com
BUSD Library Services
library.berkeleyschools.net