Fifth grade

Favorite Authors and Poets Alexander, Lloyd Cleary, Beverly Cooper, Susan Fritz, Jean. (Biography Series) Hamilton, Virginia L’Engle, Madeleine Lewis, C. S. Lowry, Lois Martin, Ann McKissack, Patricia Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Nixon, Joan Lowery Paterson, Katherine Paulsen, Gary Prelutsky, Jack Rowling, J.K. Silverstein, Shel Simon, Seymour Spinelli, Jerry Taylor, Mildred Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Favorite Titles Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt Smoky Night, Eve Bunting Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr Bud Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George Miss Alaineous: A Vocabulary Disaster, Debra Frasier Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, Virginia Hamilton Boston Jane, Jennifer L. Holm Freedom's Fruit, William Hooks Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle Number the Stars, Lois Lowry Anne of Green Gables, Maud Montgomery Hatchet, Gary Paulsen Pink and Say, Patricia Polacco A Pizza the Size of the Sun, Jack Prelutsky Holes, Louis Sachar Faithful Friend, Robert San Souci Squids will be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith Benno's Bear, N. F. Zueker Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddis The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis The River, Gary Paulsen Wanted…Mud Blossom, Betsy Byars King of Shadows, Susan Cooper A Family Apart, Joan Lowery Nixon Caddie Woodlawn, Carol R. Brink Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Beverly Cleary My Side of the Mountain, Jean Graighead George Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck Bound for Oregon, Jean Van Leeuwen Reaching Dustin, Vivki Grove Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate Dicamillo Wringer, Jerry Spinelli

Favorite Titles for Art Connections

Pinata Maker, George Ancona Talking with Artists, Vols. I, II, III, Patricia Cummings Alphabet Art: Thirteen ABCs from Around the World, Leonard Everett Fisher Go In and Out the Window: An Illustrated Songbook for Young People Flicker Flash: Poems, Joan Bransfield Graham Jacob Lawrence: American Scenes, American Struggles, Nancy S. Howard A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and Through the World of Art, Philip M. Isaacson Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections, Richard Platt Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art, Belinda Rochelle, selector Michelangelo, Diane Stanley

Favorite Titles for Health and Physical Education Connections Native American Games and Stories, James and Joseph Bruchac Peanut Butter Party Including the History, Uses and Future of Peanut Butter, Remy Charlip Thank You, Jackie Robinson, Barbara Cohen Pioneer Farm Cooking, Mary Gunderson Eat your Words: A Fascinating Look at the Language of Food, Charlotte Foltz Jones Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose, Sharon Bell Mathis While You’re Waiting for the Food to Come: Experiments and Tricks that Can Be Done at a Restaurant, The Dining Room Table, or Wherever Food Is Served, Eric Muller Dirt on their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship, Doreen Rappaport and Lyndall Callan How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, David Shannon Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms, Charles R. Smith, Jr. Casey at the Bat, Ernest Thayer

Favorite Titles for Math Connections Calculator Riddles, David Adler Anno’s Math Games, I, II, III, Mitsumasa Anno The Quiltmaker’s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau A Big Cheese for the White House: The True Tale of a Tremendous Cheddar, Candace Fleming Midnight Math: Twelve Terrific Math Games, Peter Ledwon and Marilyn Mets Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, Cindy Neuschwander Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School, Louis Sachar Math Curse, Jon Sciezka G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, David M. Schwartz The Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles, Greg Tang Can You Count to a Googol? Robert E. Wells The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count, Valerie Wyatt

Favorite Titles for Music Connections Arroz Con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes from Latin America America the Beautiful, Katherine Lee Bates From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs, Amy L. Cohen, ed. Go In and Out the Window: An Illustrated Songbook for Young People, Dan Fox, ed. This Land is Your Land: An All-American Children’s Folk Classic, Woody Guthrie Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and what the neighbors thought), Kathleen Krull The Blues Singers, Julius Lester Ray Charles, Sharon Bell Mathis Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso, Susanna Reich Music, Medearis, Angela Shelf Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Jack Norworth The Erie Canal, Peter Spier

Favorite Titles for Science Connections Marshes and Swamps, Gail Gibbons Climate Crisis, Nigel Hawkes The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, Steve Jenkins An Old Shell: Poems of the Galapagos, Tony Johnston River Friendly, River Wild, Jane Kurtz

Favorite Titles for Science Connections, Continued Cloud Dance, Thomas Locker The Weather Sky, Bruce McMillan The Snake Scientist, Sy Montgomery Wildflowers Around the Year, Hope Ryden Heat and Energy, Bobbi Searle Animals Nobody Loves, Seymour Simon Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf, Stephen Swinburne June 29, 1999, David Weisner A Drop of Water, Walter Wick A North American Rain Forest Scrapbook, Virginia Wright-Frierson

Favorite Titles for Social Studies Connections Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa, Shonto Begay The Great Kapok Tree, Lynne Cherry A is for the Americas, Cynthia Chin-Lee and Terri de la Pena Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People, Bonnie Christiansen Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America, James Haskins and Kathleen Benson My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States, Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed. Gold Fever, Verla Kay The Scrambled States of America, Laurie Keller I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame, (and what the Neighbors Thought, Kathleen Krull The Cod's Tale, Mark Kurlansky Journey's in Time; Places in Time, Elspeth Leacock Celebrate the 50 States!, Loreen Leedy Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, Osceola Mays Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, Andrea Davis Pinkney Mississippi, Diane Siebert So You Want to Be President, Judith St. George With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South, Nancy Van Laan Uncle Sam and Old Glory: Symbols of America, Delno C. West and Jean M. West Coolies, Yin