4^th and 5^th Grade Reading List

     The fourth and fifth grade majors will be reading and discussing a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by many of the listed authors, most of whom write specifically for that age group.  Please note, the student may very well come into contact with these authors and books in other classes during their SCAPA career.  Not to worry.  Any writer will tell you that it never hurts to read a book more than once.

Andreya Renee Allen”  “Black is Beautiful”

Avi:  from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

                  The Barn

                  The Blue Heron

Natalie Babbitt:  from Tuck Everlasting

Frank Baum:  from The Wizard of Oz

Byrd Baylor:  “Desert Tortoise”

James Berry:  “Isn’t My Name Magical?”

Selby B. Beeler: from Throw Your Tooth on the Roof

Debbie and Tom Birdseye:  from Under Our Skin: Kids Talk Bout Race

Judy Blume:  from   Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

                                 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

                                 Fudgemania

Gwendolyn Brooks:  “A Little Girl’s Poem”

Joseph Bruchac:  “Little Hare and the Pine Tree”

Betsy Byers:  from The Pinballs

                                The Cybil War

                                The Summer of the Swans

                                Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover

Janell Cannon:  from Verdi

Lynn Cherry:  from A River Ran Wild

Andrew Clements:  from Frindle

Jean Craighead George:  from One Day in the Prairie

Roald Dahl:  from The BFG

                  The Twits

                  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

                  Matilda

Sid Fleischman:  from The Whipping Boy

Russell Freedman:  from Lincoln: A Photobiography

Jean Fritz:  from And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Nikki Giovanni”  “Winter Poem”

Jean Craighead George:  “The Birds’ Peace”

Eloise Greenfield:  “Things”

James Haskins:  There Was a Time

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent:  from Flashy, Fantastic Rain Forest Frogs

Linda Hirschmann:  from  In a Lick of a Flick of a Tongue

James Howe:  from Bunnicula

Langston Hughes:  “Dreams”

Steve Jenkins:  from Top of the World

Brandon N. Johnson: “Black Ancestors”

Charlotte Jones:  from Mistakes that Worked

Stephen Kramer:  from Avalanche

Gail LaBonte:  from The Tarantula

Julius Lester:  “What is Trouble?”

                        “The Knee-High Man”

                         from:  Long Journey Home

Elizabeth Levy:  from My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian

Jean Little:  from About Loving

Betty Bao Lord:  from In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Eve Merriam:  “Weather”

Ann McGovern:  Galapagos

Sy Montgomery:  from The Snake Scientist

Lillian Morrison:  “The Sidewalk Racer”

Song Myong-ho:  “The Friend I Met While Running from the War”

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor:  from Beetles, Lightly Toasted

                                                   Boys Against Girls

                                                   Shiloh

Bill Nye:  from Bill Nye the Science Guy

Naomi Shihab Nye:  “The Rider”

Kenneth Oppel:  from Silverwing

Mary Pope Osborne:  from Davy Crockett

Steve Otfinoski:  from The Kid’s Guide to Money

Gary Paulsen:  from Cookcamp

Richard Peck:  “The Three-Century Woman”

Ann Redpath:  from Why Do We Laugh

                                 Sarah Plain and Tall

Cynthia Rylant:  “A Pet”

                         from  Spaghetti

Louis Sachar:  from There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom

Josepha Sherman:  “Hare, Otter, Monkey, and Badger”

Shel Silverstein:  “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”

                             “Jimmy Jet and His TV Set”

Gary Soto:  from Baseball in April

Jane Resh Thomas:  from  Princess in the Pigpen

Patricia Thomas:  “Loch Ness”

Andrea Warren:  from Orphan Train Rider

E.B. White:  from Charlotte’s Web

Elizabeth Yates:  “At-mun” from Amos Fortune, Free Man

Lawrence Yep:  from Later, Gator

Jane Yolen:  “The Lad”

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