This is my list for 4th and 5th graders who are reading on a higher level. Some won't be right for her but they may give you other ideas!
A View from Saturday
(and all other E.L. Konigsburg books)
By E.L. Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeline L'Engle
Backwater
By Joan Bauer
Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
The Cure
By Sonia Levitin
Jacob Have I Loved
By Katherine Paterson
Keeper of the Isis Light
By Monica Hughes
My Louisiana Sky
By Kinberly Willis Holt
Pale Phoenix
By Kathryn Reiss
Redwall
(series)
By Brian Jacques
Rules of the Road
By Joan Bauer
Shadow Spinner
By Susan Fletcher
So You Want to be a Wizard
(series)
By Diane Duane
The Great Gilly Hopkins
By Katherine Paterson
The Hobbit or There and Back
Again
(part of a series)
By J.R. Tolkein
The Magician's Nephew
(Book #1 in the Chronicles of Narnia)
By C.S. Lewis
The Railway Children
By Edith Nesbit
The Secret Garden
By Francis Hodgson Burnett
Year of the Griffin
By Dianna Wynne Jones
A Gathering of Days: A New
England Girl's Journal 1830-
32
By Joan W. Blos
The Adventures of Pinocchio
By Carlo Collodi
Amos Fortune, Free Man
By Elizabeth Yates
Anne of Green Gables
(part of a series)
By L.M. Montgomery
Arabian Nights
Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and
Nora A. Smith
Around the World in 80 Days
By Jules Verne
Book of Virtues
By William J. Bennett
Bronze Bow
By Elizabeth George Speare
Cheaper by the Dozen
By Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
Early Thunder
By Jean Fritz
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
By Mary Mapes Dodge
The Incredible Journey
By Sheila Burnford
Island of the Blue Dolphins
By Scott O'Dell
The Jungle Book
By Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women
(also Little Men: Life at Plumfield with
Jo's Boys)
By Louisa May Alcott
Peter Pan
By J.M> Barrie
The Prince and the Pauper
By Mark Twain
The Swiss Family Robinson
By J.D. Wyss
Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
By Jules Verne
Old Yeller
By Fred Gipson
Red Badge of Courage
By Stephen Crane
Sounder
By William H. Armstrong
The Wind in the Willows
By Kenneth Grahame
The Yearling
By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
