4th-6th Grade Classic Literature

I am compiling a list of books for next school year for my son. What are your favorite classic literature picks around the 4th-6th reading level?

 

Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
King Arthur
Anne of Green Gables
Little House series
Adam of the road
Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia

 

Johnny Tremaine
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Bronze Bow
Treasure Island
The Secret Garden
(Not a "classic", but boys LOVE, LOVE, LOVE "The Adventures of The Mad Scientist Club"!!!)
Black Beauty
My Friend, Flicka
Robin Hood

 

Some we read:
Where the Red Fern Grows
Across Five Aprils
The Sign of the Beaver
Call it Courage
A Wrinkle in Time
The Cay

 

Old Yeller
Rascal

 

Thanks! I'm not familiar with the King Arthur book. Which one are you referring to?

 

Great list. I haven't seen the Mad Scientist Club. I'll have to check it out. Is the Robin Hood book you refer to the one by Pyle?

 

Some new titles there for me. I'll have to check them out. Thanks!

 

Thanks again I don't know the Rascal book. I'll have to look into it.

 

My son is a reluctant reader but he liked these around that age:

Mr Popper's Penguins
It's Like This, Cat
Huck Finn
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Sign of the Beaver
The Cay
Island of the Blue Dolphin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Esio Trot

 

I'm not refering to any one particular Robin Hood book. I have one upstairs, but I'm too lazy to go upstairs to see, lol! I do have a copy of King Arthur and his Knights by Henry Frith.

Rascal is by Sterling North. It's about a boy whose mother is dead. He has a pet raccoon, which (of course!) is always getting into trouble.

Here's about The Mad Scientist Club: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781930900103-0 The stories originally appeared in Boys Life magazine (the official magazine for the Boy Scouts) when I was a kid. I loved them back then, and Phillip thinks they're great now.

 

Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Snow Treasure (by Marie McSwigan)
Farmer Boy
Cricket in Times Square
Charlotte's Web or any E.B. White book

MT3

 

Thanks. I love Roald Dahl and so does my son. You have a few I don't know that I'll check out. Thanks!

 

LOL, thanks! I'll check out the Frith book. I was thinking it was the Mallory one My boy loves knights and castles so it would be one he would like. Thanks for the link for the Mad Scientist Club. I have some books to check out!

 

Thanks! I hadn't heard of a couple of these. I'll check them out!

 

You're welcome!

I'll have to look at some of the other suggestions as well. Thanks all!

MT3

 

Have you seen this? http://mensaforkids.com/ReaderAward/all.pdf

 

WOW!!! WHAT a list!!! We've done many on that list, but boy, do we have a long way to go! But at least it will give me an idea of what I might want to read aloud this year....

 

If you haven't read "The Phantom Tollbooth" yet, I'd also highly recommend that! (Even adults would appreciate the humor and twist of words.)

 

Thanks! Great list. I like how it is all broken down by grade levels.