Hynes Summer Reading 2012 - Grade 5

A Wrinkle in Time
By L'Engle, Madeleine
1962-01 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374386139 Check the Library

1st book in Murry family time quintet

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. …More

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
By Lord, Bette Bao
Illustrator Simont, Marc
1984-10 - HarperCollins
9780060240042 Check the Library

Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams.Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley as well, on the ball field and off, America becomes the land of opportunity. …More

The War with Grandpa
By Smith, Robert Kimmel
Illustrator Lauter, Richard
1984-09 - Yearling Books
9780440492764 Check the Library

Peter thinks the only way he can reclaim his room is by declaring war on his grandfather.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, William Allen White Award, Tennessee Children's Choice Book Award, Parents' Choice Award, An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, Mark Twain Award, Young Hoosier Award, South Carolina Children's Book Award, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, Georgia Children's Book Award. …More

The Kid in the Red Jacket
By Park, Barbara
1988-08 - Random House Children's Books
9780394805719 Check the Library

Howard Jeeter has moved across the country and his only friend is an annoying six-year-old girl. Of course, when you're really lonely, you'll be friends with anyone--almost. …More

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery
By Howe, Deborah
Author Howe, James
Illustrator Daniel, Alan
2006-08 - Aladdin Paperbacks
9781416928171 Check the Library

1st book in Bunnicula series

BEWARE THE HARE!

"Is he or isn't he a vampire?"

Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits...and fangs! …More

A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. …More

Ella Enchanted
By Levine, Gail Carson
Illustrator Levine, Gail Carson
1997-04 - HarperCollins
0060275103 Check the Library

At birth, Ella of Frell was given the gift of obedience by a fairy. Ella soon realizes that this gift is little better than a curse, for how can she truly be herself if at any time anyone can order her to hop on one foot, or cut off her hand, or betray her kingdom--and she'll have to obey? Ella's quest to break the curse and discover who she really is, is both funny and poignant. 1998 Newbery Honor Book; ALA 1998 Best Book for Young Adults. …More

The Bfg
By Dahl, Roald
Illustrator Blake, Quentin
1993-11 - Everyman's Library
0679428135 Check the Library

Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. …More

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  Also available in PlayAway.

The following books are in the Harry Potter Series:

What did Harry Potter know about magic? He was stuck with the decidedly un-magical Dursleys, who hated him. He slept in a closet and ate their leftovers. But an owl messenger changes all that, with an invitation to attend the Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches, where it turns out Harry is already famous.. . . Full color. …More

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been unleashed on the school. …More

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By Rowling, J. K.
Illustrator GrandPre, Mary
1999-09 - Scholastic
0439136350 Check the Library

3rd book in Harry Potter series

FOR TWELVE long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing 13 people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. …More

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By Rowling, J. K.
2000-07 - Scholastic
0439139597 Check the Library

4th book in Harry Potter series

It's the pivotal fourth novel in the seven-part saga of a young wizard's coming of age. The thickest. The juiciest yet. Harry Potter turns fourteen. But will all his friends? Rumors have persisted that one of the characters may not see the conclusion of this novel, something the author has refused either to confirm or deny. But we who love Ron, Hermione, Hagrid...even pitiful Neville Longbottom...wait anxiously to see if they will make it through safely. No one's fate is certain when Volde -- excuse me -- He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is part of the picture. …More

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By Rowling, J. K.
Illustrator GrandPre, Mary
2003-06 - Arthur A. Levine Books
043935806X Check the Library

5th book in Harry Potter series

In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter confronts the unreliability of the very government of the magical world, and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) Harry finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew; boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot (as well as the spine), readers will race through these pages, and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back. …More

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
By Rowling, J. K.
Illustrator GrandPre, Mary
2005-07 - Arthur A. Levine Books
0439784549 Check the Library

6th book in Harry Potter series

Harry struggles to uncover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, the past owner of a potions textbook he now possesses that is filled with ingenious, potentially deadly, spells. But Harry's life is suddenly changed forever when someone close to him is heinously murdered right before his eyes. …More

2008 Children's Choice Book Award- Winner Author

It all comes down to this - a final faceoff between good and evil. You plan to pull out all the stops, but every time you solve one mystery, three more evolve. Do you stay the course you started, despite your lack of progress? Do you detour and follow a new lead that may not help? Do youlisten to your instincts, or your friends?

Lord Voldemort is preparing for battle and so must Harry. With Ron and Hermione at his side, he's trying to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes, escape danger at every turn, and find a way to defeat evil once and for all. How does it all end? …More