5th grade Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) reading list
Books referenced by Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) at the 5th grade level. Source: www.goodreads.com.
About the 5th grade Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) reading list
Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) is the Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) framework. ReadingList tracks 45 titles referenced by Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) at the 5th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 410L–730L. The framework is published at goodreads.com.
At the 5th grade level — the 3-5grade band — students are transitional readers, with the curriculum focused on moving from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn across longer chapter books. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 400L to 800L. Measured against that 740–1010L range, of the 3 titles here with a Lexile score 0 are grade-level, 3 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 5th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) expects.
How to use this list: treat the Iowa Children's Choice Award (ICCA) titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 5th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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45 books
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A Week in the WoodsAndrew Clements
AbductionPeg Kehret
AllergicMegan Wagner Lloyd
Among the HiddenMargaret Peterson Haddix
Attaboy, Sam!Lois Lowry
Because of Mr. TeruptRob Buyea
Because of Winn-DixieKate DiCamillo · 610L
BunniculaDeborah Howe
DukeKirby Larson
Ellie's StoryW. Bruce Cameron
Escaping the Giant WavePeg Kehret
FudgeCharlotte Towner Graeber
Fudge-a-ManiaJudy Blume
How to Eat Fried WormsThomas Rockwell
I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871Lauren Tarshis
Mick Harte Was HereBarbara Park
New KidJerry Craft
Night of the TwistersIvy Ruckman
Nightmare MountainPeg Kehret
Nothing's Fair in Fifth GradeBarthe DeClements
Ralph S. MouseBeverly Cleary
Ramona ForeverBeverly Cleary- RestartGordon KormanRestartGordon Korman · 730L
Runaway TwinPeg Kehret
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- Saving Shiloh · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Shiloh Season · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Small Spaces · Katherine Arden
- Smile · Raina Telgemeier
- Stolen Children · Peg Kehret
- Superfudge · Judy Blume
- Swim Team · Johnnie Christmas
- Terror at the Zoo · Peg Kehret
- The Best School Year Ever · Barbara Robinson
- The Dollhouse Murders · Betty Ren Wright
- The Ghost of Fossil Glen · Cynthia C. DeFelice
- The Ghost of Graylock · Dan Poblocki
- The Great Gilly Hopkins · Katherine Paterson
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret · Brian Selznick
- The Million Dollar Shot · Dan Gutman
- The Old Willis Place · Mary Downing Hahn
- The World According to Humphrey · Betty G. Birney
- There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom · Louis Sachar
- Wait Till Helen Comes · Mary Downing Hahn
- When the Boys Ran the House · Joan Davenport Carris
- Wish · Barbara O'Connor