What are some good books for a 5th grader to read over the summer?

These are some of my favorite books when I was in 5th-6th grade:
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'engle
Because Of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Number The Stars by Lois Lowry
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Out Of The Dust by Karen Hesse
The Witch Of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery. This is part of a series, but it's the kind of series that exists because readers liked this book so much they begged for more. Around 50 million copies sold.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis. Everyone in my fifth grade class loved this book. It's on Time's list of 100 best English novels. It's another book that was meant to stand on it's own but became a series.

The Hobbit by Tolkien. The Hobbit is much, much easier to read than Tolkien's other novels and it's just as good. 100 million copies sold.

Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White. These novels have separate plots, they aren't a series.

Everything by Ronald Dahl. Dahl's books are hilarious. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Matilda, The Vicar of Nibbleswicke... all excellent.
Any of the Nancy Drew Mysteries
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Mermaid Summer by Mollie Hunter
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Changeling Sea by Patricia McKillip

EDIT: Also read books by Sarah Dessen:
Just Listen
The truth about Forever
Lock and Key
That Summer
Someone like You
Keeping the Moon
 
Well i dont know how good the reader is but i enjoyed the chronicles of narnia books, all the harry potters,goosebumps, maximum ride books, if its a girl there are the saddleclub books or princess diaries books, if its a boy the jedi apprentice books, i was a nerd kid so i read them all lol.
 
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