Grade 5 Junior Great Books
Reading List
Written by renowned and award-winning authors, the literature in Junior Great Books® Series 3-5 captures students' imagination and engages the best of their thinking.
Series 5, Book OneThe No-Guitar Blues Gary Soto
Kaddo's Wall West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
Turquoise Horse Gerald Hausman
A Game of Catch Richard Wilbur
Oliver Hyde's Dischcloth Concert Richard Kennedy
The Hundred-Dollar Bill Rose Wilder Lane
The Invisible Child Tove Jansson
In the Time of the Drums Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson
Learning the Game Francisco Jiménez
The Bat-Poet Randall Jarrell
Charles Shirley Jackson
A Bad Road for Cats Cynthia Rylant
Podhu and Aruwa African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman
Lenny's Red-Letter Day Bernard Ashley
Barbie Gary Soto
Ghost Cat Donna Hill
Lucky Boy Philippa Pearce
Maurice's Room Paula Fox
The Prince and the Goose Girl Elinor Mordaunt
The Bermuda Triangle Tim Wynne-Jones