Literature Circle Books for Grade 5

Language Arts Program

 

            Adventures of Marco Polo, The by Russell Freedman

            All Pigs Are Beautiful by Dick King-Smith

            All the Small Poems by Valerie Worth

            Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco

            Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

            City of Ember, The by Jeanne DuPray

            Dandelions by Eve Bunting

            Day of Ahmed's Secret, The by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Gilliland

            Day's Work, A by Ronald Himler

            Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

            Everglades by Jean Craighead George

            Every Minute on Earth by Steve & Matthew Murrie

            Fables by Arnold Lobel

            Fireflies by Julie Brinckloe

            Flight by Robert Burleigh

            Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting

            Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein by Maree Ferguson Delano

            Good Master! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Shlitz

            Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

            Hear the Train Whistle Blow: How the Railroad Changed the World by Milton Meltzer

            Home Run:  The Story of Babe Ruth by Robert Burleigh

            Homework Machine, The by Dan Gutman

            Hopscotch Around the World by Mary D. Lankford

            Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest by Steve Jenkins

            How Come? by Kathy Wollard

            Hurricane Force by Joseph Treaster

            Kids' Invention Book, The by Arlene Erlbach

            Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems

            Lives of the Musicians by Kathleen Krull

            Look What I Did With a Leaf by Morteza E. Sohi

            Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons

            Monarchs by Kathryn Lasky

            Most Beautiful Roof in the World, The by Kathryn Lasky

            No Talking by Andrew Clements

            On Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

            Outside and Inside Mummies by  Sandra Markle

            Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco

            Seashore Book, The by Charlotte Zolotow

            Secrets of the Sphinx by James Cross Giblin

            Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young

            Snowy Day, The by Ezra Jack Keats

            Switched On, Flushed Down, Tossed Out: Investigating the Working of

              Your Home by Trudee Romanek

            Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Jack Norworth

            Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon

              by Catherine Trummesh

            Tracking Trash and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Burns

            Van Gogh Cafe, The by Cynthia Rylant

            We Were All Americans: Understanding Diversity by Joy Masoff

            Wednesday Surprise, The by Eve Bunting

            Wednesday Wars, The by Gary Schmidt

            When is a Planet Not a Planet? The Story of Pluto by Elaine Scott

            1608: A New Look at Jamestown  by Karen Lange