Favorite Children's Chapter Books

Read any of these before you leave 5th grade:

• Firegirl* by Tony Abbott
• How Tia Lola came to visit (stay) by Julie Alvarez
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• Peter and the starcatchers(series) by Dave Barry
• The heart of a chief by Joseph Bruchac
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
• Everything written by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Everything written by Andrew Clements
• The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Clooney
• Love that dog/Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech
• The missing manatee by Cynthia Defelice
• The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau
• The breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
• Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff
• Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Baseball card adventures by Dan Gutman
• The Homework machine by Dan Gutman
• Among the Hidden series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Found and Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Escape from memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Ida B. by Katherine Harrigan
• Everything on a waffle by Polly Horvath
• Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
• Bird by Angela Johnson
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• Anything by E.L. Konigsburg
• Schooled by Gordon Korman
• Drita; my homegirl by Jenny Lombard
• The Giver, Messenger and Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
• A dog’s life by Ann M. Martin
• The Snows by Sharelle Byers Moranville
• Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo
• Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh* by Robert O’Brien
• Island of the blue dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
• Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen
• The Golden Compass series by Phillip Pullman
• Everything by Rick Riordan
• Singing hands by Delia Ray
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
• Esperanza Rising* by Pamela Munoz Ryan
• Becoming Naomi Leon by Pamela Munoz Ryan
• Holes* by Louis Sachar
• The invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• A Series of Unfortunate Events  (series) by Lemony Snicket
• Stargirl* by Jerry Spinelli
• Maniac Magee* by Jerry Spinelli
• That girl Lucy Moon by Amy Timberlake
• Sammy Keyes mysteries by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Elvis and Olive by Stephanie Watson
• So B. It; a novel by Sarah Weeks
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• What I call life by Jill Wolfson
• The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
•