Fw: HIT - 5th Grade interests

[Lonnie & Leticia <letlon@PERSONALISP.COM>]

Thanks to all of you who gave me ideas for my fifth grade
class.  Most of the responses were books of interest to fifth
graders.

I have compiled them below:

A Long Way from Chicago
Armadillo From Amarillo
A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck
Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Because of Winn Dixie-DiCamillo
The Best School Year Ever
Bridge to Terabithia
The Carrot Seed
Crash - Jerry Spinelli
David Goes to School
Freak the Mighty
Frindle
The Grand Escape - Naylor
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Holes - Louis Sachar
I Can't Believe I Have to Do This -Jan Alford
The Janitor's Boy - Clements
The Landy News - Andrew Clements
Mick Harte Was Here
My Brother Made Me Do It -Kehret
My Life In Dog Years -Gary Paulsen
My Louisiana Sky - Holt
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Shiloh
Tangerine -Edward Bloor
Rascal
books by Polacco and Byars

Others also shared that fifth graders like playing games,  candy, =
stickers, pencils, erasers, bookmarks, any type of food (soda, cookies) =
passes for free time, free homework, free assignment, etc.

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