2010s books assigned in 5th grade
US schools assign 455 books written in the 2010s to 5th grade students, across 45 states, spanning 360L–990L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 2010s
Wonder
R.J. Palacio · on 31 reading lists
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- Titles
- 455
- Written
- 2010–2019
- Lexile range
- 360L–990L
- States assigning
- 45
The list — 2010s, 5th grade
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A Band of AngelsDeborah Hopkinson
A Boy Called BatElana K. Arnold
A Boy Called ChristmasMatt Haig
A Boy Named QueenSara Cassidy
A Conspiracy of KingsMegan Whalen Turner
A Corner of WhiteJaclyn Moriarty
A Dance Like StarlightKristy Dempsey
A Dog Called HomelessSarah Lean
A Few Red DropsClaire Hartfield
A Green Place to beAshley Benham Yazdani
A Handful of StarsCynthia Lord
A Light in the Dark (Dark Stars Book 2)A. K. Duboff
A Long Walk to WaterLinda Sue Park · 720L
A Million Ways HomeDianna Dorisi-Winget
A Night DividedJennifer A. Nielsen
A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic Gold)Natalie Lloyd
A Tale Dark and GrimmAdam Gidwitz
A Visitor for BearBonny Becker
A Wolf Called WanderRosanne Parry
Abigail AdamsNatalie S. Bober
Abigail AdamsNatalie S. Bober
AboveLeah Bobet
Above WorldJenn Reese
Across the BayCarlos Aponte
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- After Ever After
- Akata Witch
- Alchemy and Meggy Swann
- Aliens Are Coming!
- All's Faire in Middle School
- Allies
- Amal Unbound
- Amelia Lost
- America is Under Attack September 11 2001
- Anna and the Swallow Man
- Anything But Typical
- Arabella of Mars
- Archivist Wasp
- Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
- Arthur, For the Very First Time
- Aru Shah and the End of Time
- As Brave As You
- At Night
- Athlete vs. Mathlete
- Ava and Pip
- Awkward
- Backlash
- Ban This Book
- Barbed Wire Baseball
- Because of Mr. Terupt
- Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold)
- Behemoth
- Belly Up
- Best Friends
- Better Nate Than Ever
- Between Shades Of Gray
- Beyond the Bright Sea
- Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
- Big Red Lollipop
- Bink & Gollie
- Black Enough
- Black Heart
- Black Potatoes
- Blended
- Blink and Caution
- Bloody Jack Series
- Bo at Ballard Creek
- Boats for Papa
- Borrowed Children
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Buddy
- Building Our House
- Call of the Klondike
- Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
- Carver
- Catfishing on CatNet
- Chickadee
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Chime
- Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
- City of Ghosts
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
- Clever Little Witch
- Cliff-Hanger
- Close to Famous
- Cog
- Counting by 7s
- Court of Fives
- Creepy Carrots!
- Crush
- Cuckoo Song
- Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine
- Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor
- Dash (Dogs of World War II)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Dead End in Norvelt
- Diego Rivera
- Dirty Wings
- Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
- Dog Man
- Dogtag Summer
- Doña Flor
- Down Sand Mountain
- Dragon Pearl
- Drama
- Dread Nation
- Dream on Amber
- Driver's Ed
- Duke
- Each Kindness
- Eagle Drums
- Echo
- Eight Keys
- El Chupacabras
- El Deafo
- Eleanor & Park
- Electric Ben
- Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold)
- Ellie's Story
- Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Enchanted
- Enchanted Air
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- Escaping the Giant Wave
- Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
- Every Day
- Everybody Sees the Ants
- Evil Librarian
- Exo
- Extra Yarn
- Eyes Like Stars
- Fair Coin
- Firebird
- Fish in a Tree
- Five, Six, Seven, Nate!
- Flora's Dare
- Found
- Framed!
- Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
- Freedom Over Me
- Front Desk
- Full of Beans
- Funny Bones
- Funny Bones
- Fuzzy Mud
- Game Changer
- Genesis Begins Again
- Ghetto Cowboy
- Ghost
- Ghost Boys
- Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma
- Ghost Knight
- Ghost Soldier
- Ghosts
- Giants Beware
- Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
- Goblin Secrets
- Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
- Gone Crazy in Alabama
- Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter
- Grandma's Gift
- Grasshopper Jungle
- Greenglass House
- Guinea Dog
- Guts
- H.O.R.S.E.
- Hand in Hand
- Handbook for Dragon Slayers
- Heart and Soul
- Heart and Soul
- Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
- Hello, Universe
- Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
- Her Right Foot
- Here Comes the Garbage Barge
- Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
- Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel
- Humbug Mountain
- I Have a Dream
- I Know Here
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
- I, Too, Am America
- I'm Dirty!
- I'm Going to Sing, Black American Spirituals, Volume Two
- If I Built a School
- In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
- Infinite Hope
- Inside Out & Back Again
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
- Iron Hearted Violet
- Jake and Lily
- Jazz Day
- John F. Kennedy and PT-109
- Jordin Tootoo
- Just a Minute
- Just In Case
- Kakapo Rescue
- La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
- Last Stop on Market Street
- Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters
- Let it Shine
- Life on Mars
- Lifeboat 12
- Lily and Dunkin
- Little Little
- Locomotive
- Loot
- Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness
- Love Is the Drug
- Lucky Broken Girl
- Lulu's Mysterious Mission
- Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
- Made By Hand: A Crafts Sampler
- Malcolm at Midnight
- Mama, Do You Love Me? & Papa, Do You Love Me? Bundle
- Mango, Abuela, and Me
- March Book Three
- Maria Had a Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita
- Mario and the Hole in the Sky
- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
- Marvelous Cornelius
- Max and the Midknights
- Maxi’s Secrets: (Or, What You Can Learn from a Dog)
- Me and Momma and Big John
- Merci Suárez Changes Gears
- Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1)
- Milo
- Mockingbird
- Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter
- Monstrous Beauty
- Moon Over Manifest
- Most Dangerous
- Mr Gumpy's Outing
- Mr Tiger Goes Wild
- Muckrackers
- My Explosive Diary
- My Mama Needs Me
- Nelson Mandela
- New Kid
- Nimona
- Noah Webster and His Words
- Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
- Okay for Now
- One Crazy Summer
- One for Sorrow
- Open This Little Book
- Openly, Honestly
- Operation: Dump the Chump
- Other Words for Home
- Otis and Will Discover the Deep
- Out of My Mind
- P.S. Be Eleven
- Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
- Pax
- Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
- Pie
- Pie in the Sky
- Piecing Me Together
- Pocketful of Posies
- Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum
- Postcards from Camp
- Prisoner B-3087
- Projekt 1065
- Queen of the Falls
- Radiant Child
- Radiant Child
- Railhead
- Railsea
- Real Friends
- Rebound
- Redwood and Ponytail
- Refugee
- Restart
- Revolution
- Rocks Fall Everyone Dies
- Roller Girl
- Rotters
- Runaway Twin
- Sadie
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
- Salvage
- Saving Winslow
- Saving Zasha
- Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
- Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy
- Scowler
- See You in the Cosmos
- Separate Is Never Equal
- September Girls
- Seraphina
- Sergeant Reckless
- Seriously Wicked
- Shadowshaper
- Siberia
- Sidekicks
- Sister Mine
- Sisters
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
- Small Spaces
- Smile
- Song for A Whale
- Sophie's Squash
- Sparks!
- Stella Díaz Has Something to Say
- Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen
- Summer of the Mariposas
- Sunny Side Up
- Teddy Mars Book #3: Almost an Outlaw
- Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus
- Tess of the Road
- The Apothecary
- The Art of Starving
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
- The Bad Guys
- The Bell Rang
- The Best School Year Ever
- The Big Bad Fox
- The Black Stallion Adventures
- The Black Stallion Challenged
- The Blackbird Girls
- The Boy at the Back of the Class
- The Boy at the End of the World
- The Boy from Ilysies
- The Boy on the Porch
- The Bridge Home
- The Candymakers
- The Cardboard Kingdom
- The Christmas Boot
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- The Crossover
- The Day the Crayons Quit
- The Detective's Assistant
- The Diviners
- The Downstairs Girl
- The Dreamer
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone
- The False Prince
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- The Farmer and the Clown
- The Fault in Our Stars
- The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
- The Forbidden Library
- The Fourteenth Goldfish
- The Fourth Stall Part III
- The Freedom Maze
- The Full Moon at the Napping House
- The Ghost of Graylock
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- The Girl Who Drew Butterflies
- The Girl with the Ghost Machine
- The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
- The Great Brain Does It Again
- The Great Pet Escape
- The Haunting of Falcon House
- The Honest Truth
- The Incredible Journey
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- The Jigsaw Jungle
- The Last Kids on Earth
- The Last Musketeer
- The Last Straw
- The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
- The Library of Ever
- The Lie Tree
- The Lifters
- The Lion Hunters Novels
- The Lost Hero
- The Magic Misfits
- The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: The Wall of Fame Game
- The Mark of Athena
- The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- The One and Only Ivan
- The Patchwork Bike
- The Perfect Score
- The Pilgrims of Plimoth
- The Port Chicago 50
- The Princess and the Warrior
- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
- The Rain Came Down
- The Red Pyramid
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
- The Remember Balloons
- The Sasquatch Escape
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
- The Scorpio Races
- The Screaming Staircase
- The Season of Styx Malone
- The Skydiving Beavers
- The Snowman: The Book of the Classic Film
- The Star-Touched Queen
- The Stonekeeper: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #1)
- The Storm in the Barn
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
- The Summer Prince
- The Sword of Summer
- The Thing About Leftovers
- The Thing About Luck
- The Undefeated
- The Unwanteds
- The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
- The Village by the Sea
- The War That Saved My Life
- The Way Things Work Now
- The Wild Robot
- The Witch Boy
- The Wizards of Once
- Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
- They Say Blue
- Thirty Minutes Over Oregon
- This Promise of Change
- Traction Man Is Here!
- Trombone Shorty
- Tucky Jo and Little Heart
- Turtle in Paradise
- Twelve Days in May
- Ultraviolet
- Una niña llamada Rose / Rain Reign
- Underground
- Ungifted
- Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)
- Updraft
- Valiant
- Vessel
- Vincent and Theo
- Viva Frida
- Want
- We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
- We Will Not Be Silent
- We're Not from Here
- Weave a Circle Round
- Wedgie & Gizmo
- Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel
- When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
- When We Wake
- White Bird
- White Cat
- Wild Wings
- Wildfire
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- Will Rogers Immortal Cowboy
- Willa of the Wood
- Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy
- Winterhouse
- Wish
- Wishtree
- Wonder
- Wonderstruck
- Young Fredle
- Zeroboxer
Most-assigned 2010s authors in 5th grade
Duncan Tonatiuh (6) · Alan Gratz (5) · Raina Telgemeier (5) · Holly Black (4) · Rita Williams-Garcia (4) · Ashley Bryan (4)
Common questions
- How many 2010s books are assigned in 5th grade?
- 455 books written between 2010 and 2019 appear on 5th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- What Lexile range do these 2010s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2010s titles assigned in 5th grade run from 360L to 990L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
- Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?
- 45 states assign at least one 2010s title at 5th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.