Entering Grade 5
| Book/Series Title | (Author) |
| Batboy: An Inside Look at Spring Training | Anderson |
| Don't You Know There's a War On? | Avi |
| Charley Skedaddle | Beatty |
| Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism | Byng |
| Sarah and the Naked Truth | Carbone |
| Amber Brown is Green with Envy | Cleary |
| Granny Torrelli Makes Soup | Creech |
| Autumn Journey | Cummings |
| Bud, Not Buddy | Curtis |
| Book of Greek Myths | D'Aulaire |
| Gandhi | Demi |
| Spiderwick Chronicles | Diterlizzi |
| Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? | Fritz |
| Dragon Rider | Funke |
| Everything on a Waffle | Horvath |
| Accidents May Happen: 50 Inventions Discovered by Mistake | Jones |
| Dive trilogy | Korman |
| Leon and the Spitting Image | Kurzweil |
| Theives of Ostia | Lawrence |
| Ella Enchanted | Levine |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Lewis |
| Cathedral | Macauly |
| The Meanest Doll in the World | Martin |
| Ten Kings and the Worlds They Ruled | Meltzer |
| The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips | Morpurgo |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson |
| Hatchet | Paulsen |
| A Year Down Yonder | Peck |
| Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness | Poe (Grimly, illus.) |
| Black Beauty | Sewell |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events (any titles) | Snicket |
| Call It Courage | Sperry |
| My Name is America series (any titles) | Various Authors |
| Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-Ins | Weatherford |
| Eyewitness: Impressionism | Welton |
| Little House series (any titles) | Wilder |
| Redcap | Wisler |