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4th - 6th Grade Reading List

Writing Workshop Groups

** indicates books on the MD Accelerated Reader List

**The BFG, by Roald Dahl
**Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli
**The Cricket in Times Square, by George Seldon
**From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg
**Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
The Tyme Garden, by Edward Eager
**The Midwife's Apprentice, by Karen Cushman
**The Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell
**The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron
Goodbye, My Island, by Jean Rogers
**any of The Indian in the Cupboard series, by Lynn Reid Banks
**The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
**The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman
The Sword in the Stone, by T.H.White
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
**The Green Book, by Jill Paton Walsh
**The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
**The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
**In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord
I'm Deborah Sampson: A Soldier in the War of the Revolution, by Patricia Clapp
**Any of the Anne of Green Gables series, by L.M. Montgomery
**The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
**Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
Time of the Bison, by Ann Turner
**The Little House on the Prairie, series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Pinballs, by Betsy Byars
**The Haymeadow, by Gary Paulson

Read aloud (parent to student):

The Wind In The Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth
**Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around the World, Virginia Hamilton, editor
**Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

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