Rising Fifth Grade Suggested Summer Reading List

Covenant Academy

Anne of Green Gables (Series) – L. M. Montgomery

Bach: Music Giant - Claire Bishop

Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Brink

Cheaper by the Dozen – Frank Gilbreth

Exploring Music Series (listed by instrument) – Alyn Shipton

Hank the Cowdog (Series) – John Erickson

Haydn – Reba Paeff Mirsky

Introducing Mozart – Roland Vernon

James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl

John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy - Ann Weil

Music and Song (African American Life Series) – Sharon Woodyard

My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George

Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor

The Sign of the Beaver – Elizabeth Speare

Sounder - William Armstrong

The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky - Opal Wheeler

Toliver’s Secret – Esther Wood Brady

Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

Treasure Island – Robert Lewis Stevenson

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham

Where the Red Fern Grows – William Rawls

Zia – Scott O’Dell