Download Fifth grade literature/history reading list:

Fifth grade literature/history reading list:
For 5th, last year, we were still covering a lot of non-fiction, as well as a lot of
mythology, legends, folktales, etc.
This covers both history (save for "texts") and literature (also a little music/art
appreciation):
Oh, and I find it's not necessarily in order of the spreads in Kingfisher, although it's
close. It's in order by when he finished reading them.
The Stone Age News
Fiona Macdonald
The Flower of Sheba
Doris Orgel, et al
Queen Esther the Morning Star
Mordicai Gerstein
The Mysterious Visitor: Stories of the Prophet Elijah
Nina Jaffe
The Wailing Wall
Leonard E. Fisher
Ancient Egyptian Art
Susie Hodge
The Two Magicians
John Langstaff
The Mystery of Stonehenge
Harriette Abels
The Ganges, Sacred River of India
Violet Weingarten
The Art of India
Shirley Glubok (LOVE all her books!)
Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale
Margaret R. Macdonald
Skara Brae: The Story of a Prehistoric Village
Olivier Dunrea
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in India
Virginia Haviland
Crete: Land of Mystery
Leonard Cottrell
In Search of Ancient Crete
Piero Ventura, et al
The Iliad Retold
Nick McCarty
(revisited)
Gilgamesh the King
The Revenge of Ishtar
The Last Quest of Gilgamesh
all by Ludmila Zeman (LOVE them)
Ancient Egypt
Philip Steele
The Babylonians (Calliope)
Dybbuk: A Story Made in Heaven
Francine Prose
Behold the Trees
Sue Alexander (VERY cool!)
Young Heroes of the Bible
Kirk Douglas
Moses in Egypt
Brad Kessler
The Ancient Chinese
Hazel M. Martell
The Assyrians
Elaine Landau
The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion
Barbara Diamond Goldin (VERY good)
The Egyptian News
Scott Steedman
Cleopatra
Diane Stanley
The Ancient World: The Phoenicians
Pamela Odijk
King Solomon and His Magic Ring
Edie Wiesel
The Hanukkah Story
Marylin Hirsh
The Phoenicians (Calliope)
The Tortoise and the Tree (Bantu)
Janina Domanska
The Orphan Boy (Maasai)
Tololwa M. Mollel
The Name of the Tree (Bantu)
Celia Barker Lottridge
Growing up Maasai
Tom Shachtman
Escape from Egypt
Sonia Levitin
Tokoloshi
Diana Pitcher
The Art of Africa
Shirley Glubok
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
Tony Johnston
People of the Corn (Mayan)
Mary-Joan Gerson
Gods and Godesses of the Ancient Maya
Leonard Everett Fisher
Prehistoric North America: The People
Robert Pickering
Hands of the Maya
Rachel Crandell
Angela Weaves a Dream
Michele Sola'
The Art of the North American Indian
Shirley Glubok
The Golden Goblet
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
To Ride the God's Own Stallion
Diane Lee Wilson
The Mound Builders
William E. Scheele
Talking Bones
William O. Steele
The Night the Moon Fell
Pat Mora
The Prince Who Gave up a Throne
Nancy Serage
Buddha
Demi
Buddha
Susan L. Roth
Religions of the World: Hinduism
V.P. Kanit Kar
Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian Book of the Seasons
Christopher Moore
Life Long Ago: The Beginnings of Cities (Mesopotamia)
Leonard Weisgard
Nebchadnezzar: Scourge of Zion
(Heroes and Warriors series)
Mark Healy
The Seven Wise Princesses
Wafa' Tarnowska (VERY good Persian tale!)
The Persian Empire
Karen Zeinert
How Would You Survive as an Ancient Egyptian?
Jacqueline Morley
Secrets of the Mummies
Harriet Griffey
Hercules and Other Greek Myths
Mark Gave
Eyewitness Early Humans
The Nemean Lion
Bernard Evslin (most all of Evslin’s books incorporate some strong language and/or
modern art that might be a little scary for younger children, so review before you
use to decide if these are right for your family)
The Greek Hoplite
Martin Windrow
Confucius: The Golden Rule
Russell Freedman
The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff
The Greek Armies
Peter Connolly
The Dolphin Rider and Other Greek Myths
Bernard Evslin
The Ancient World: Greece
Robert Hull
Tales of a Chinese Grandmother
Francis Carpenter
Images Across the Ages: Chinese Portraits
Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (VERY good)
The Roman News
Andrew Langley and Philip De Souza
The Hydra
Bernard Evslin
The Parthenon: How it was Built and how it was Made
Peter Chrisp
Conquerer and Hero: The Search for Alexander
Stephen Krensky
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Spear
The Celts
Hazel Martell
The Colosseum
Peter Chrisp
The Librarian who Measured the Earth
Kathryn Lasky (simple, but we hadn't read it earlier)
Jesus of Nazareth: A Life of Christ Through Pictures
Simon and Schuster
Christian Church (Places of Worship)
Angela Wood
The Ides of April
Mary Ray
The Silver Branch
Rosemary Sutcliff
World Beliefs and Cultures: Christianity
Sue Penrey
Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff
The Calydonian Boar
Bernard Evslin
Eyewitness Bible Lands
The Cavalryman
Peter Connolly
The Life of Saint Paul
Hary E. Fosdick
The Enchanted Caribou
Elizabeth Cleaver (I believe ds really liked this one, too)
Building an Igloo
Ulli Steltzer
The Mediterranean
Philip Wilkinson, et al
Sunrise Island
Carella Aldan
Lives of Famous Romans
Olivia Coolidge
Science in Ancient Rome
Jacqueline L. Harris
A Roman Fort
Fiona Macdonald
The Japanese
Clare Doran
The Ancient World: Rome
Sean Sheehan, et al
The Warrior and the Wise Man
David Wisniewski
Cities in the Sand
Scott Warren
The Traveler's Guide to Ancient Rome
John Malam
The Dancing Fox: Arctic Folktales
John Bierhorst
Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid of the Moon
Leonard Fisher
City of the Gods:Mexico's Ancient City of Teotihuacan
Caroline Arnold
The Story of Comock the Eskimo
Robert Flaherty (VERY good)
The Woman in the Moon
Jama Kim Rattigan
Polynesians
Stephen Currie
Myths and Civilization of the Celts
Hazel Mary Martell
Easter Island
Caroline Arnold
Land of the Five Suns (Aztecs)
Kay McManus
Tristan and Iseult
Rosemary Sutcliff
The Other World: Myths of the Celts
Margaret Hodges (very good)
Clamshell Boy: A Makah Legend
Terri Cohlene
Inuit
Bryan and Cherry Alexander
The Makah
Jeanne O. Eder (very interesting)
Archimedes Takes a Bath (revisited)
Joan M. Lexau
The Legionary
Peter Connolly
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Jeanne Bendick
Art of the Far North
Carol Finley
Mummies and Their Mysteries
Charlotte Wilcox
The Mouth of the Night
Iris Macfarlane
Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea and Sky
Vivian L. Thompson
Year of the Dragon
Nigel Suckling (could fit with period in which it was supposedly written, early
modern, too, but discusses ancient beliefs about dragons)
Great Wonders of the World
Russel Ash
Read most of the stories in the following:
The Bronze Cauldron
The Silver Treasure
The Crystal Pool
all by Geraldine McCaughrean
Also read all or most of the Landscapes of Legend series books:
Beneath the Earth
Cities of Splendour
Sacred Skies
Mighty Mountains
The Waters of Life
Other legends series books read:
Scottish Myths and Legends
Chinese Myths and Legends (O.B. Duane and N. Hutchinson; I forget if all are by the
same authors)
Indian Myths and Legends
A Children's Treasury of Mythology
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Tree of Dreams: Ten Tales from the Garden of Night
God's People: Stories from the Old Testament
Geraldine McCaughrean
Troubadour's Storybag: Musical Folktales of the World
Norma J. Livo
Gianni and the Ogre
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Eyewitness Rome
Eyewitness Mythology
Ancient Greece Treasure Chest
Ancient Rome Treasure Chest
Gladiator Treasure Chest
Ancient China Treasure Chest (revisited)
Videos:
MacCauley - Pyramid
Megalithic Monuments of Great Britain (don't recall exact title)
Silk Road series video: Dark Castle
Legacy of Ancient Civilizations: Carthage and the Phoenicians
Crossing Rome
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Window into Ancient Times
Hail Caesar Constantine (A&E)
A.D. (three tapes) deals with rise of Christianity
And some other history related books that he just didn't have time to read that I
read aloud to him:
A Glorious Past: Ancient Egypt, Ethiopia and Nubia
Ernestine Jenkins
Greece vs. Persia - Cobblestone
The Furies, Bernard Evslin
Medusa, Bernard Evslin
MacCaulay's City
Ancient Celts - Calliope
Revisited Ancient China Jackdaw
Jesus of Nazareth: Teacher and Prophet
Ramsay M. Harik (a more secular look at Jesus)
I read excerpts from Plutarch's "Lives"
Famous Scientists of the Ancient World
Margaret J. Anderson (I like this book)
Some chapters read from the first volume of A History or US, Hakim
Augustus Caesar's World (good wrap-up)
Hadrian's Wall Jackdaw
Asoka the Great (very difficult going)
The Story of Masada: Retold for Young Readers
Gerald Gottlieb (VERY GOOD! about the excavation of Masada during the 1960's)
I have some great history books at home that I've found various places and utilize
weekly. Consider them in with my "texts". Glad to provide titles on these if you
need them.
Regena