| Favorite Fifth Grade Books |
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| The Constitution: Nothing But the Truth Avi The Great Little Madison Jean Fritz The Trouble with Mothers Margery Facklam Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes Wolf By the Ears Ann Rinaldi The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi Carry On Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Thomas Jefferson: Man with a Vision Ruth Crisman Shh! We're Writing the Constitution Jean Fritz In Defense of Liberty Russell Freedman Stargirl Jerry Spinelli Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Patterson The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E. L. Konigsburg Hatchet Gary Paulsen The River Gary Paulsen Banner in the Sky James Ransey Ullman |
| Manifest Destiny: Canyons Gary Paulsen Sing Down the Moon Scott O'Dell The Light in the Forest Conrad Richter Thunder Rolling in the Mountains Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Carolyn Meyer The Navajo Long Walk Nancy M. Armstrong Dawn Rider Jan Hudson Moccasin Trail Eloise Jarvis McGraw The Journal of Jesse Smoke Joseph Bruchac The Captain's Dog Roland Smith Bandit's Moon Sid Fleischman By the Great Horn Spoon Sid Fleischman |
| The Civil War: To Be a Slave Julius Lester The Slave Dancer Paula Fox Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Virginia Hamilton Brady Jean Fritz The Slopes of War: A Novel of Gettysburg N.A. Perez The 290 Scott O'Dell Lincoln: A Photography Russell Freedman Charley Skedaddle Patricia Beatty Rifles of Watie Harold Keith Undying Glory Clinton Cox Shades of Gray Carolyn Reeder Bull Run Paul Fleischman A Light in the Storm Karen Hesse The Journal of Rufus Rowe Sid Hite With Every Drop of Blood James and Christopher Collier |
| Immigration and Industrialization A Boat to Nowhere Maureen Crane Wartski Dragonwings Laurence Yep Over the Waves Marianne Olson Dragon's Gate Laurence Yep Homesick: My Own Story Jean Fritz Letters from Rifka Karen Hesse Across America on an Emigrant Train Jim Murphy Lyddie Katherine Paterson The Great Wheel Robert Lawson Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor Russsell Freedman Hear My Sorrow Deborah Hopkinson |
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