[LM_NET] HIT: Sad Stories for 5th grade

[Ronda Foust <ryfoust@COMCAST.NET>]

Here's the list of "Sad" stories suggested by some very quick LM_Netters. Many 
thanks to you all. As always, with any kind of compilation list, remember that not 
all of these titles will work for ever school situation. 



A Dog's Life 

A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanon Smith 

Chains 

Chicken Boy 

Diary of a Young Girl 

Diary of Anne Frank 

Fig Pudding by Ralph Fletcher 

Firegirl 

Getting Near to Baby 

Graduation of Jake Moon by Park 

Here Today (?) - definately has "Here" in the title - by Ann M. Martin 

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer 

How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor 

Ida B. 

Itch by Michelle Kwasney 

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (sp?) 

Kira-Kira (very dark) 

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech 

Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur 

Lurlene McDaniel books are perfect. Not all are for a 5th grader, but most of them 
are. 

Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood 

Mick Harte was Here by Barbara Park 

Missing May by Rylant 

My Brother Sam is Dead 

Nobody's Boy 

Old Yeller 

Olive's Ocean 

Out of the Dust 

Pictures of Hollis Woods 

Red Kayak 

Ruby Holler by Creech 

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes 

Series of Unfortunate Events 

Shiloh 

So B. It by Sarah Weeks 

So Far from the Bamboo Grove is a sad WWII story. 

Summer of My German Soldier 

Summer of the Swans 

Tadpole by White 

The Barn by Avi 

The Devil's Arithmetic 

The Mysterious Benedict Society 

The Naming of Tishkin Silk 

The Underneath (not as cute and fluffy as it appears) 

The Yearling 

Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor 

Walk Two Moons 

Wenny Has Wings by Janet Lee Carey 

When My Name was Keoko - by Linda Sue Park (?) 

Where I'd Like to Be 

Where the Red Fern Grows 





Ronda Y. Foust, Librarian 
Hardin Valley Elementary School 
Knoxvile, TN 
http://hardinvalleyes.knoxschools.org (then click on "Library Media Center) 
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com 



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