What "Required" Books Were/are Your 4Th & 5Th Grader Assigned to Read in School?

Now we get to pick off this list and he only has to do like 4 books a year, but these are the choices we were given.

Grade 4
-Li Lun, Lad of Courage, by Carolyn Treffinger
-In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord
-Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
-The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander
-Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
-The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare
-The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C.O’Brien
-My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George
-Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry
grade 5
-Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary
-Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
-The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
-Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
-Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

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My daughter teaches fifth grade, and she has a long list of books for her students to choose from. It includes some of the ones listed below. If you're interested, please e-mail me and I'll get you the list.

Don't forget that reading at home can make up for some deficiencies of school reading lists.

I love the Little House books (all of them!) and the Narnia books, and hope to start reading them to my grandchildren this year. Eleanor Estes' "The Hundred Dresses" was a favorite of mine when I was a child and has a very relevant message about snobbishness, prejudice, and what leader one follows. And it's short.

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So far I have required my son to read

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Crispin by Avi
Greek Myths
Aesop's Fables
Beowulf
Narnia
Ramona
Little House books, we won't do all of them

He is in 4th grade and I homeschool. I have not decided what next year's reading list will be.

My daughter was in public school in 4th and read
Maniac Magee
Number the Stars
Holes
Tuck Everlasting
Her list was any Newberry award winner, she had to pick one every three weeks.

Thank you Kari, I plan on using that list for my son next year.

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once upon a marigold was in 5th grade if your talking about actual required eveyone in the class read it. not sure what the 4th grade book was. in 6th grade they read the giver

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