Grade 5 Recommended Traditional Literature Book List

Title
The First Adventures of Spider
The Kings Equal
The Village That Vanished
Cyclopes
The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and
the Beast Tale
Tales from the Odyssey, Part I
And Still the Turtle Watched
Native American Stories
The Elephants Friend and Other Tales
from Ancient India
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
The Magicians Boy
How the Leopard Got His Claws
Pigling: A Cinderella Story (A Korean
Tale)
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the
Supernatural
Thors Wedding Day
Aesops Fables
The Rough-Face Girl
The Robe of Skulls
The World Before this One
Cut From the Same Cloth
Egyptian Myths
Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight
Rabbit and the Dragon King
The Grasshoppers Song
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Ali Baba: Fooling the Forty Thieves
(Arabian Tale)
Merlin and the Dragons
Sunjata: Warrior King of Mali (West
African Tale)
The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West
African Stories
The Hero Twins: Against the Lords of
Death (Mayan Myth)
Amaterasu: Return of the Sun (Japanese
Myth)
Beowulf: Monster Slayer (British Legend)
Golem
Guan Yu: Blood Brothers to the End
(Chinese Legend)
The Earth Under Sky Bears Feet

Author
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Katherine Paterson
Ann Grifalconi
Blake A. Hoena
Laurence Yep

Genre
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

Reading Level
O
O
O
P
P

Mary Pope Osborne

Sheila MacGillCallahan
Joseph Bruchac
Marcia Williams

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

P
Q

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

Q
Q

Aliki
Susan Cooper
Chinua Achebe
Dan Jolley

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

Q
Q
R
R

Patricia McKissack

Traditional Literature

Bruce Coville
Ann McGovern
Rafe Martin
Vivian French
Rafe Martin
Souci San & Robert D.
Gary Jeffrey
Katherine Paterson
Daniel San Souchi
Nikki Giovanni
Grace Lin
Marie P. Croall

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

R
S
S
S
S
T
T
T
T
T
T
U

Jane Yolen
Justine & Ron Fontes

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

U
U

Traditional Literature

Dan Jolley

Traditional Literature

Paul D. Storrie

Traditional Literature

Paul D. Storrie
David Wisniewski
Dan Jolley

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

V
V
V

Joseph Bruchac

Traditional Literature

Harold Courlander

The Rainbow People

Athena
Into the Woods
Once Upon a Marigold
Perseus: The Hunt for Medusas Head
(Greek Myth)
The Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greek
Myths, Retold
The Lightning Thief
Venus
The People Could Fly: American Black
Folktalkes
The Pig Scrolls
The Trojan War
Tristan & Isolde: The Warrior and the
Princess (British Legend)
A Curse Dark as Gold
Black Ships Before Troy
Favorite Greek Myths
Greek Myths
Keeper of the Grail
Beowulf
Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native
American Sacred Places
Dracula
Fox
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Eagle of the Ninth
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories
The Time Machine
Treasure Island

Laurence Yep
Blake A. Hoena
Lyn Gardner
Jean Ferris
Paul D. Storrie

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

V
W
W
W
W

Cynthia Rylant

Traditional Literature

Rick Riordan
Blake A. Hoena
Virginia Hamilton

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

W
W
X

Paul Shipton
Olivia Coolidge
Jeff Limke

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

X
X
X

Elizabeth C. Bunce
Rosemary Sutcliff
Mary Pope Osborne
Olivia Coolidge
Michael Spradlin
Nicky Raven
Joseph Bruchac

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Z
Z

Bram Stoker
Margaret Wild
Mark Twain
Rosemary Sutcliff
Arthur Conan Doyle
Jack London
H.G. Wells
Robert Louis
Stevenson

Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature
Traditional Literature

Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z