5th Grade Core Books
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
A Family Apart by Jean Lowery Nixon		Average
Big Men, Big Country		Average
Sign of the Beaver by Speare		Average
The Amazing Erie Canal		Average
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis		Challenging
Reading Group Recommendations
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar		Average
Books by Known Authors
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech		Easy Reading
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare		Challenging
The Witches by Roald Dahl		Average
Teacher Favorites
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
A Wrinkle in Time by Madaleine L'Engle		Challenging
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson		Average
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke		Challenging
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards		Average
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo		Challenging
History
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
In Their Own Words: Paul Revere by George Sullivan		Average
Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks		Easy Reading
The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence by Dennis Brindell Fradin		Average
Mysteries
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett		Average
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg		Challenging
Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson		Easy Reading
Fantasy
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Coraline by Neil Gaiman		Average
Ability Awareness & Challenges
Title - click for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Egg-Drop Blues by Jacqueline Turner Banks		Average
How Dyslexic Benny Became a Star by Joe Griffith and Jenny Schulz		Average
Pay attention, Slosh! by Mark Smith		Easy Reading
Sparky's Excellent Misadventures: My A.D.D. Journal by Phyllis Carpenter and Marti Ford		Average