Middle School
2008 Summer Reading List for Entering Fifth Graders Fifth graders are encouraged to participate in the Nutmeg Children’s Book Award. The nominees for the 2008 award are:
A Bear Named Trouble by Marion Dane Bauer The 7 Professors of the Far North by John Fardell Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park Ravenmaster’s Secret by Elvira Woodruff Hatching Magic by Ann Downer The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan White Star: A Dog on the Titanic by Marty Crisp Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret
Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen Jackie’s Wild Seattle by Will Hobbs
The 2007 Nutmeg Award winner is Thunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow The 2007 Newbery Medal winner is The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron Suggested Authors
Avi Natalie Babbitt Lynne Reid Banks Judy Blume Joseph Bruchac BetsyByars Marcia Byalick Beverly Cleary Andrew Clements Roald Dahl Cynthia DeFelice Kate DiCamillo Patricia Finney Sid Fleischman Jean Fritz Patricia Reilly Giff Dan Gutman Margaret Peterson Haddix Amy Hest Joan Hiatt Harlow Polly Horvath Will Hobbs Anthony Horowitz Brian Jacques Judith Kerr Dick King-Smith C. S. Lewis Amy MacDonald Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Joan Lowery Nixon Barbara Park Katherine Paterson Gary Paulsen Richard Peck Jack Prelutsky Emily Rodda J. K. Rowling Cynthia Rylant Louis Sachar Paul Stewart Theodore Taylor Wendelin Van Draanen Jean Van Leeuwen Lea Wait Bill Wallace
Fifth Grade Subject Areas
Sound and Light Sun Moon Composers Biographies Revolutionary War Industrial Revolution Ears and Eyes Earth Cultures American Government Weather