Book Recommendations for Fifth Grade
We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.
● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman
● Albert Terhune: Lad: A Dog
● Alice Dalgliesh: American Travels
● Alice Dalgliesh: Courage of sarah Noble
● Astrid Lindgren: The Brothers Lionheart
● Beverly Cleary: Ellen Tebbits
● Beverly Cleary: Henry Huggins series
● Beverly Cleary: Ramona series
● C. Day Lewis: The Otterbury Incident
● C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
● Carol Hoff: Johnny Texas
● Catherine Sellew: Adventures with the Gods
● Charles Dickens: Christmas Carol
● Charles Kovacs: Greece: Mythology and History
● Clyde Robert Bulla: Down the Mississippi
● Clyde Robert Bulla: Riding the Pony Express
● Clyde Robert Bulla: Secret Valley
● Clyde Robert Bulla: The Sword in the Tree
● Dan Millman: Quest for Crystal Castle
● Dan Millman: Secret of the Peaceful Warrior (Peaceful Warrior Children's Series)
● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Gay Neck
● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Ghond, the Hunter
● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: The Story of a Pigeon
● E. B. White: Charlotte's Web (and other titles)
● Edith Hunter: Child of the Silent Night
● Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It
● Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle
● Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children
● Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet
● Edith Nesbit: The Treasure Seekers
● Eleanor H. Porter: Pollyanna (recommended for girls mainly)
● Eleanore M. Jewett: Cobbler's Knob
● Elizabeth Coatsworth: Golden Horseshoe
● Elizabeth Coatsworth: John, The Unlucky
● Elizabeth Coatsworth: Sod House
● Elizabeth Coatsworth: Sword of the Wilderness
● Elizabeth Kyle: The Seven Sapphires
● Enid Meadowcroft: By Secret Railway
● Evelyn Lampman: Navaho Sister
● Evelyn Lampman: Tree Wagon
● Florence Hightower: The Secret of the Crazy Quilt
● Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden
● Gertrude Warner: The Boxcar Children (series)
● Ginger Wadsworth: Rachel Carson,
● Ginger Wadsworth: Voice for the Earth
● Harold Courlander: Ride with the Sun
● Harold McCracken: Winning of the West
● Holling C. Holling: Paddle to the Sea
● Honore W. Morrow: On to Oregon
● Howard Pyle: Story of Sir Lancelot and His Champions of the Round Table
● Hugh Lofting: The Dr. Dolittle books (1988 edition preferred)
● Ian Serrailier: The Clashing Rock
● Ian Serrailier: The Gorgon's Head
● Ian Serrailier: The Way of Danger
● Ingre/Edgar D’Aulaire: The Greek Myths
● J. F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
● Jack London: Call of the Wild
● Jim Kjelgaard: Big Red (and others)
● John Ruskin: King of the Golden River
● Judy Blume: Freckles
● Karl May: Oil Prince
● Karl May: Winnetou
● Kate Douglas Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
● Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
● Key Alexander: Escape to Witch Mountain
● L. Ancharsvard: The Robber Ghost
● L.M. Boston: The Children of Green Knowe series
● Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House on the Prairie (series)
● Leon Wilson: Cody and His Friends
● Leon Wilson: This Boy Cody
● Lin Grace: When the Sea Turned to Silver
● Lois Lenski: Cotton in My Sack
● Lois Lenski: Indian Captive, The Story of Mary Jemison
● Lois Lenski: Prairie School
● Lois Lenski: Puritan Adventure
● Lois Lenski: Strawberry Girl
● Louis L'amour: The Californios
● Louise Neyart: Henry's Lincoln
● Lynn Hall: Danza
● Madeleine L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time
● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica
● Marguerite De Angeli: Copper Toes Boots
● Marguerite De Angeli: Elin’s Amerika
● Marguerite Henry King of the Wind
● Marguerite Henry: Black Gold
● Marguerite Henry: Black Pearl
● Marguerite Henry: Born to Trot
● Marguerite Henry: Brighty of the Grand Canyon
● Marguerite Henry: Misty of Chincoteague
● Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Secret River
● Mary Norton: Bedknobs and Broomstick
● Mary Norton: The Borrowers
● Mary Stewart: The Little Broomstick
● Mary and Conrad buff: Dancing Cloud
● Michael Ende: Momo
● Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story
● Michael Gibson: Gods, Men, and Monsters from the Greek Myths
● Olga Hall-Quest: Powhatan and Captain Smith
● Padriac Colum: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
● Padriac Colum: The Golden Fleece
● Padriac Colum: The King of the Ireland’s Son
● Random House: EYEWITNESS BOOKS (Extensive series include books on animals, minerals, plant life, weather, human beings, etc.)
● Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
● Roger Green: Tale of Troy
● Roger Green:Tales of Greek Heroes
● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women
● Scott O'dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
● Scott O'dell: Zia
● Shirley Graham: Story of Pocahontas
● Stephen Meader: Boy with a Pack
● Sydney Taylor: All-of-a-Kind Family (series)
● Thomas Mayne Reid: The White Chief
● Tove Jansson: Finn Family Moomintroll (series)
● W.R. Dubois: Twenty One Balloons
● Wallace Wadsworth: Paul Bunyan and His great Blue Ox
● Willaim O. Steele: The Far Frontier
● Wyatt & Rudel: The King and the Green Angelica
● Zelpha Snyder: Black and Blue Magic