Reading List: Grade 5-6 

Students in grades 5-6 aren’t expert readers yet, but they’re getting close. This is a crucial grade for students as they begin applying reasoning techniques to what they read and write. Here students begin learning how to understand and communicate the meaning of what they’ve read.

 

You can help your child continue to develop his or her reading skills by incorporating reading into every day activities. Pack books when you go on trips with your child. Have your child keep a journal on family vacations. Select words from a story your child has read and have him/her write a paragraph using those words. Read poems together and ask your child to identify the words that rhyme.

 

Summer is a great time to begin developing reading rituals for your child. Instead of watching TV, have your child take 30 minutes out of every day to sit down and read one of our recommended books.  Most of these books are available at your local public library for free. To check out any of these all you need to have is a library card . Click on the links below to learn more about each book or download the  2009 summer reading list.

 

Grades 5-6 summer reading list 

 

11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System , David A. Aguilar

 

200 Years with Abraham Lincoln: One Man's Life and Legacy , Helen Koutras Bozonelis

 

Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington, 1837-1865 , Cheryl Harnes

 

Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry , Scott Reynolds Nelson

 

The Calder Game , Blue Balliet

 

Can You Feel the Force? , Richard Hammond

 

Chess Rumble , Greg Neri

 

Chicken Feathers , Joy Cowley

 

Cinderella: (As If You Didn't Already Know the Story) , Barbara Ensor

 

The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities , Janis Herbert

 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series , Jeff Kinney

 

The Dirt on Dirt , Paulette Bourgeois

 

Elijah of Buxton , Christopher Paul Curtis

 

Evangeline Mudd and the Great Mink Escapade , David Elliott

 

The Fashion Disaster that Changed My Life , Lauren Myracle

 

Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights , Mary C. Turck

 

The Ghost, the White House, and Me , Judith St. George

 

Grow: A Novel in Verse , Juanita Havill

 

Home of the Brave , Katherine Applegate

 

Hornets: Incredible Insect Architects , Sandra Markle

 

How We Are Smart , W. Nikola-Lisa

 

The Human Machine: An Owner's Guide to the Body , Richard Walker

 

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told , Walter Dean Myers

 

Illinois Plants and Animals , Andrew Santella

 

Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady , David Bergen Brophy

 

The Mother-Daughter Book Club , Heather Vogel Frederick

 

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley & Mary Todd Lincoln , Lynda Jones

 

My Brother Abe: Sally Lincoln's Story , Harry Mazer

 

My One Hundred Adventures , Polly Horvath

 

Peace, Locomotion , Jacqueline Woodson

 

Pink and Say , Patricia Polacco

 

Savvy , Ingrid Law

 

Science Fair: A Story of Mystery, Danger, International Suspense, and a Very Nervous Frog , Dave Barry

 

Seer of Shadows, Avi

 

The Story of the Chicago Cubs , Tyler Omoth

 

The Story of the Chicago White Sox , Michael O'Hearn

 

Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, Every Punctuation Mark Counts! , Lynne Truss

 

Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War , Steve Sheinkin

 

Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities , Mary Kay Carson

 

Vive la Paris , Esme Raji Codell

 

Washington at Valley Forge , Russell Freedman

 

The Water Planet , Judy Kentor Schmauss

 

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Kadir Nelson

 

Where Lincoln Walked , Raymond Bial

 

Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray?: The Civil War Adventures of Sam Shaw , Kate Connell

 

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