Sequoya Library Fifth Grade Reading List 2007

ALL TITLES CAN BE FOUND IN THE CHILDREN’S FICTION, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. The book of three / Lloyd Alexander Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil. (First in a series) Chasing Vermeer / by Blue Balliett When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. Dillon Dillon / Kate Banks During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons, living on the lake near his family's New Hampshire cabin, that help him make sense of his ife. Artemis Fowl / Eoin Colfer When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. (First in a series) Heartbeat / Sharon Creech Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant. Because of Winn-Dixie / Kate DiCamillo Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. The tale of Despereaux / Kate DiCamillo The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. Coraline / Neil Gaiman Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly

different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. Nory Ryan's song / Patricia Reilly Giff When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. The Gorillas of Gill Park / by Amy Gordon While spending the summer before seventh grade with his aunt, Willy Wilson finds his first friends ever in the colorful characters who all love the neighborhood park owned by an eccentric old man. Ida B : --and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world / Katherine Hannigan In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parent must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school. Olive's ocean / Kevin Henkes On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer. Journey to the river sea / Eva Ibbotson Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River. Spider Sparrow / Dick King-Smith Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals as he comes of age during World War II. How I became a writer and Oggie learned to drive / Janet Taylor Lisle As sixth-grader Archie and his six-year-old brother Oggie shuttle back and forth between their separated parents' two homes, Archie tries desperately to take care of Oggie and to pretend that everything is normal. Stop the train! : a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner

railroad in 1893, the new settlers of Florence, Oklahoma, are determined to build a real town. Snap : a novel / Alison McGhee Eleven-year-old Edwina confronts old and new challenges when her longtime best friend Sally faces the inevitable death of the grandmother who raised her. Bernie Magruder & the bats in the belfry / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor [Children’s Mystery Shelves] Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous Indiana Aztec bat has finally arrived. A single shard / Linda Sue Park Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. The young man and the sea / Rodman Philbrick After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a hugh bluefin tuna. The Wee Free Men / Terry Pratchett A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. The mysterious matter of I.M. Fine / Diane Stanley [Children’s Mystery Shelves] Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author. The great good thing : a novel / by Roderick Townley Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really is a storybook, where nothing ever changes, even the character's mad scramble to reach their places whenever the book is opened, until Sylvie discovers she can enter new worlds with the Reader, and find new adventures. The tiger's apprentice / Laurence Yep A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese

American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world. Other Fifth Grade Favorites Tuck Everlasting/ Natalie Babbitt Pinballs / Betsy Byars Summer of the Swans/ Betsy Byars Enormous Egg / Oliver Butterworth Black Stallion/ Walter Farley Whipping Boy/ Sid Fleischman Talking Earth / Jean Craighead George Stone Fox / John Reynolds Gardiner Bunnicula / James Howe From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg Number the Stars / Lois Lowry Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins / Katherine Paterson Cricket in Times Square / George Seldon