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Grade 5

163 stories, poems and plays that fit grade 5.

Short stories

67 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Helping Hand Payal Dhar short story A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett short story A Stitch in Time Himadri Das; Veena Prasad short story Around the World With a Chilli Nayan Chanda short story Arya in the Cockpit Nandita Jayaraj short story Bambi: A Life in the Woods Felix Salten short story The Beginning of the Armadillos Rudyard Kipling short story The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew 3) Carolyn Keene short story The Butterfly That Stamped Rudyard Kipling short story The Case of the Missing Water Shalini Srinivasan short story The Cat That Walked by Himself Rudyard Kipling short story Chipko takes root Jeyanthi Manokaran short story The Crab That Played with the Sea Rudyard Kipling short story Creatures of Old Veena Prasad short story The Dragon Tamers E. Nesbit short story The Elephant's Child Rudyard Kipling short story Emil and the Detectives Erich Kastner short story Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon Dhan Gopal Mukerji short story The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew 2) Carolyn Keene short story The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys 2) Franklin W. Dixon short story How Old is Muttajji? Roopa Pai short story How Pintu Found Pi Sarat Talluri Rao short story How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away Carl Sandburg short story How the Alphabet Was Made Rudyard Kipling short story How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling short story How the First Letter Was Written Rudyard Kipling short story How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo Carl Sandburg short story How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin Rudyard Kipling short story How the Whale Got His Throat Rudyard Kipling short story The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told E. Nesbit short story Kaa's Hunting Rudyard Kipling short story Kaakaasaurus Shalini Srinivasan short story Kali Wants to Dance Aparna Karthikeyan short story Long Live Friendship! A Humorous Play for Children Meera Dixit short story Lost in the Internet Kris Stokes; Madhurima Chakraborty short story Mangalyaan: A Journey to Mars Nikhil Gulati short story Mission Cycle Rohini Mohan short story Mowgli's Brothers Rudyard Kipling short story The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew 4) Carolyn Keene short story The Mystery of the Cyber Friend Zac O'Yeah short story Only Fools Go to School Chatura Rao short story Peter Pan J. M. Barrie short story Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter short story Raju's First Flight Nandita Jayaraj short story The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling short story Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving short story The Scavenger Hunt Ajit Narra short story The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew 1) Carolyn Keene short story The Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3) Franklin W. Dixon short story The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo Rudyard Kipling short story Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James short story The Sound of Water Shalini Srinivasan short story Stormy, Misty's Foal Marguerite Henry short story The Tale of the Toilet Veena Prasad short story There's a Hole in my Galaxy Ananya Dasgupta short story The Three Questions Leo Tolstoy short story Tiger! Tiger! Rudyard Kipling short story Tine and the Faraway Mountain Shikha Tripathi short story Toomai of the Elephants Rudyard Kipling short story The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1) Franklin W. Dixon short story The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly short story Turtle Story Kartik Shanker short story The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child Carl Sandburg short story White Fang Jack London short story The White Seal Rudyard Kipling short story Who Stole Bhaiya's Smile? Sanjana Kapur short story

Poems

18 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson poem The Bells Edgar Allan Poe poem Dreams Langston Hughes poem Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe poem Fog Carl Sandburg poem I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman poem I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson poem In Flanders Fields John McCrae poem Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll poem Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson poem Mother to Son Langston Hughes poem The Pasture Robert Frost poem Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers) Sara Teasdale (editor) poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost poem There is no frigate like a book Emily Dickinson poem The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll poem

Myths, fables and folk tales

46 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy Padraic Colum myth Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Arabian Nights (Lang) fairy tale Ashputtel Brothers Grimm fairy tale Baba Yaga and the Little Girl with the Kind Heart Arthur Ransome (retold) folk tale The Badger and the Bear Zitkala-Sa folk tale The Children of Odin: Norse myths Padraic Colum myth Chinese fairy tales (set I) Richard Wilhelm (collected) folk tale The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Fables IV: Belling the Cat, and four more Aesop fable Fables V: The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey, and four more Aesop fable Fables VI: The Dog in the Manger, and four more Aesop fable The Fisherman and His Wife Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Fisherman and the Genie Arabian Nights (Lang) fairy tale The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Arthur Ransome (retold) folk tale Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde fairy tale The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden Richard Wilhelm (collected) folk tale How We Got the Name 'Spider Tales' W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected) folk tale Iktomi and the Coyote Zitkala-Sa folk tale Iktomi and the Ducks Zitkala-Sa folk tale Iktomi and the Muskrat Zitkala-Sa folk tale Indian fairy tales (set) Joseph Jacobs (collected) folk tale Jack the Giant-Killer Traditional (Jacobs) folk tale The Little Match Girl Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Mirror of Matsuyama Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold) folk tale The Nightingale Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Rapunzel Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Selfish Giant Oscar Wilde fairy tale The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor Arabian Nights (Lang) fairy tale Shen of the Sea (selected stories) Arthur Bowie Chrisman folk tale The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood Charles Perrault fairy tale The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Snowdrop Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Steadfast Tin Soldier Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold) folk tale Tales from Silver Lands (selected stories) Charles J. Finger folk tale The Toad and the Boy Zitkala-Sa folk tale The Tree-Bound Zitkala-Sa folk tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Valiant Little Tailor Brothers Grimm fairy tale West African folk tales (set II) W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected) folk tale West African folk tales: Anansi and others (set) W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected) folk tale Whittington and His Cat Traditional (Jacobs) folk tale Wigwam Evenings: Sioux folk tales (set I) Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman folk tale The Wild Swans Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale

Chapter books and novels

30 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens chapter book The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi chapter book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain chapter book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll chapter book Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery chapter book Black Beauty Anna Sewell chapter book Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz L. Frank Baum chapter set The Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum chapter set Five Children and It E. Nesbit chapter set The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys 9) Franklin W. Dixon chapter set Heidi Johanna Spyri chapter book Hunting for Hidden Gold (Hardy Boys 5) Franklin W. Dixon chapter set Kari the Elephant Dhan Gopal Mukerji chapter set The Marvelous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum chapter set The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle chapter book The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys 4) Franklin W. Dixon chapter set The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys 8) Franklin W. Dixon chapter set Ozma of Oz L. Frank Baum chapter set The Phoenix and the Carpet E. Nesbit chapter set The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain chapter set The Railway Children E. Nesbit chapter book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin chapter set The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett chapter book The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys 7) Franklin W. Dixon chapter set The Shore Road Mystery (Hardy Boys 6) Franklin W. Dixon chapter set The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle chapter book The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit chapter set Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll chapter book The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame chapter book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum chapter book

True stories

2 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.
Indian Boyhood Charles A. Eastman memoir The Story of My Life Helen Keller memoir