Children's Books for 5th Graders

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• Ghost Knight · Cornelia Funke
• Hail, Hail, Camp Timberwood · Ellen Conford
• Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• John Henry · Julius Lester
• Lifeboat 12 · Susan Hood
• Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale · Carmen Agra Deedy
• Most Dangerous · Steve Sheinkin
• Noah Webster and His Words · Jeri Ferris
• Otis and Will Discover the Deep · Barb Rosenstock
• Poppy · Avi
• Remember Us · Jacqueline Woodson
• Song of a Blackbird · Maria van Lieshout
• Stella Díaz Has Something to Say · Angela Dominguez
• The Bridge Home · Padma Venkatraman
• The Knife of Never Letting Go · Patrick Ness
• The Schwa was Here · Neal Shusterman
• Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub · Jamie Gilson
• Traction Man Is Here! · Mini Grey
• Ways to Make Sunshine · Renée Watson
• We Will Not Be Silent · Russell Freedman
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn · Nancy Willard
• Better Nate Than Ever · Tim Federle
• Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun · Rhoda Blumberg
• Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist · Susan Wood
• Grandfather's Journey · Allen Say
• H.O.R.S.E. · Christopher Myers
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · J. K. Rowling
• I Talk Like a River · Jordan Scott
• Lon Po Po · Ed Young
• M.C. Higgins, the Great · Virginia Hamilton
• Mexikid · Pedro Martín
• Missing May · Cynthia Rylant
• Mr Tiger Goes Wild · Peter Brown
• Nation · Terry Pratchett
• Pocketful of Posies · Salley Mavor
• Revolution · Deborah Wiles
• Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush · Virginia Hamilton
• The Dark Is Rising · Susan Cooper
• The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia · Candace Fleming
• The Friendship · Mildred D. Taylor
• The Lie Tree · Frances Hardinge
• The Man Who Walked Between the Towers · Mordicai Gerstein
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle · Avi
• Vincent and Theo · Deborah Heiligman
• "Let's Get a Pup!", Said Kate · Bob Graham
• A Band of Angels · Deborah Hopkinson
• A Boy Called Christmas · Matt Haig
• A Chair for My Mother · Vera B. Williams
• A Dance Like Starlight · Kristy Dempsey
• A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder · Walter Wick
• A Life in the Wild · Pamela S. Turner
• A Little Fear · Patricia Wrightson
• A Mouse Called Wolf · Dick King-Smith
• A Plate of Hope · Erin Frankel
• A Room on Lorelei Street · Mary E. Pearson
• A Scar like a River · Lisa Graff
• A Sitting in St. James · Rita Williams-Garcia
• A Visitor for Bear · Bonny Becker
• A Wizard of Earthsea · Ursula K. Le Guin
• A World Without Summer · Nicholas Day
• Abigail Adams · Natalie S. Bober
• Abigail Adams · Natalie S. Bober
• Absolutely Positively Not · David LaRochelle
• After the Dancing Days · Margaret Rostkowski
• Ajeemah and His Son · James Berry
• All Because You Matter (An All Because You Matter Book) · Tami Charles
• Alphabatics · Suse MacDonald
• Amelia Lost · Candace Fleming
• An American Plague · Jim Murphy
• And If the Moon Could Talk · Kate Banks
• And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine · Stella Pevsner
• Anna and the Swallow Man · Gavriel Savit
• Anno's Alphabet · Mitsumasa Anno
• Anno's Journey · Mitsumasa Anno
• Anthony Burns · Virginia Hamilton
• Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds · Cynthia Rylant
• Apples to Oregon · Deborah Hopkinson
• Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian · Eoin Colfer
• Arthur, For the Very First Time · Patricia MacLachlan
• As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President! · Donna Gephart
• Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song · Ashley Bryan
• At Night · Jonathan Bean
• Auks, Rocks, and the Odd Dinosaur · Peggy Thomson
• Behind Barbed Wire · Daniel S. Davis
• Big Mama Makes the World · Phyllis Root
• Big Red Lollipop · Rukhsana Khan
• Black Enough · Ibi Zoboi
• Black Girl You Are Atlas · Renée Watson
• Black Potatoes · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Blackwater Swamp · Bill Wallace
• Blink and Caution · Tim Wynne-Jones
• Bloody Jack Series · L. A. Meyer
• Boats for Papa · Jessixa Bagley
• Borrowed Children · George Lyon
• Bubble Trouble · Margaret Mahy
• Bucking the Sarge · Christopher Paul Curtis
• Building Our House · Jonathan Bean
• By the Light of the Halloween Moon · Caroline Stutson
• By the Shores of Silver Lake · Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Call of the Klondike · David Meissner
• Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms · Katherine Rundell
• Carver · Marilyn Nelson
• Catherine, Called Birdy · Karen Cushman
• Chance · Uri Shulevitz
• Chicken Sunday · Patricia Polacco
• Child of the Owl · Laurence Yep
• Children of the Great Depression · Russell Freedman
• Chimney Sweeps · James Cross Giblin
• Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang · Ian Fleming
• Chuck Close · Robert Storr
• Clever Little Witch · Muon Thi Van
• Cold Feet · Cynthia C. DeFelice
• Conrad's War · Andrew Davies
• Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine · Raymond Abrashkin
• Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor · Raymond Abrashkin
• Darkness Over Denmark · Ellen Levine
• Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel · Leigh Bardugo
• Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories · Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Dooby Dooby Moo · Doreen Cronin
• Down Sand Mountain · Steve Watkins
• Doña Flor · Pat Mora
• Dream on Amber · Emma Shevah
• Driver's Ed · Caroline B. Cooney
• Du Iz Tak? · Carson Ellis
• Dust to Eat · Michael L. Cooper
• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery · Russell Freedman
• Electric Ben · Robert Byrd
• Enchanted Air · Margarita Engle
• Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace · Donald J. Sobol
• Evil Librarian · Michelle Knudsen
• Extra Yarn · Mac Barnett
• Eyes That Kiss in the Corners · Joanna Ho
• FIREBOAT · Maira Kalman
• Fairy Wings · Lauren Mills
• Fighting Words · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• Firegirl · Tony Abbott
• Five, Six, Seven, Nate! · Tim Federle
• Fly · Brittany J. Thurman
• Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have · Allen Zadoff
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt · Russell Freedman
• Freddie vs. the Family Curse · Tracy Badua
• Freedom Over Me · Ashley Bryan
• From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry · Paula Yoo
• Ghetto Cowboy · G. Neri
• Girls Like Her · Melanie Sumrow
• Goldengrove ; Unleaving · Jill Paton Walsh
• Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs · Mo Willems
• Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter · Kenard Pak
• Grasshopper Jungle · Andrew Smith
• Henry Hikes to Fitchburg · D.B. Johnson
• Henry Huggins · Beverly Cleary
• Henry and the Paper Route · Beverly Cleary
• Home Place · Crescent Dragonwagon
• Home of the Brave · Katherine Applegate
• Homer Price · Robert McCloskey
• How the Boogeyman Became a Poet · Tony Keith Jr.
• Humbug Mountain · Sid Fleischman
• I Dream of Trains · Angela Johnson
• I Know Here · Laurel Croza
• I Know How to Draw an Owl · Hilary Horder Hippely
• I'm Dirty! · Kate McMullan
• In the Belly of the Bloodhound · L. A. Meyer
• Infinite Hope · Ashley Bryan
• Inheritance · Elizabeth Acevedo
• Jambo Means Hello · Muriel Feelings
• Jazz Day · Roxane Orgill
• Jenny of the Tetons · Kristiana Gregory
• John F. Kennedy and PT-109 · Richard Tregaskis
• Kent State · Deborah Wiles
• Kids at Work · Russell Freedman
• Kin · Carole Boston Weatherford
• King of Ragtime · Stephen Costanza
• Kumo · Kyo Maclear
• La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One · Philip Pullman
• Lassie Come Home · Eric Knight
• Last Night · Hyewon Yum
• Leaf Man Board Book · Lois Ehlert
• Legendary Frybread Drive-In · Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Leon's Story · Leon Walter Tillage
• Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer · Robert Byrd
• Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters · K. G. Campbell
• Letters from a Slave Girl · Mary E. Lyons
• Little Little · M. E. Kerr
• Little Red Riding Hood (40th Anniversary Edition) · Trina Schart Hyman
• Lord of the Deep · Graham Salisbury
• Lupe Wong Won't Dance · Donna Barba Higuera
• Made By Hand: A Crafts Sampler · Carole Lexa Schaefer
• Make Lemonade · Virginia Euwer Wolff
• Mama Don't Allow 25th Anniversary Edition · Thacher Hurd
• Mama, Do You Love Me? & Papa, Do You Love Me? Bundle · Barbara M. Joosse
• Marching For Freedom · Elizabeth Partridge
• Mario and the Hole in the Sky · Elizabeth Rusch
• Martha Graham · Russell Freedman
• Marvelous Cornelius · Phil Bildner
• McElligot's Pool · Dr. Seuss
• Me and Momma and Big John · Mara Rockliff
• Milkweed · Jerry Spinelli
• Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1) · Lisa Yee
• Milo · Alan Silberberg
• Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars · Ellen MacGregor
• Monstrous Beauty · Elizabeth Fama
• Mr Gumpy's Outing · John Burningham
• Mrs. Crump's Cat · Linda Smith
• Muckrackers · Ann Bausum
• Navigating Night · Julie Leung
• Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane · K. E. LEWIS
• No Crystal Stair · Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
• Not Afraid of Dogs · Susanna Pitzer
• Off to School, Baby Duck! · Amy Hest
• Okay for Now · Gary D. Schmidt
• Old Elm Speaks · Kristine O'Connell George
• Once for Yes · Allie Millington
• One More Flight · Eve Bunting
• Open This Little Book · Jesse Klausmeier
• Openly, Honestly · Bill Konigsberg
• Orphan Train Rider · Andrea Warren
• Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth · Stacy McAnulty
• Outside Over There · Maurice Sendak
• Over and Under the Rainforest · Kate Messner
• Panama Canal · Judith St. George
• Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe · Dell J. McCormick
• Peace, Locomotion · Jacqueline Woodson
• Perfectly Parvin · Olivia Abtahi
• Photographic · Isabel Quintero
• Playing Beatie Bow · Ruth Park
• Poverty in America · Milton Meltzer
• Red, White, and Whole · Rajani LaRocca
• Red-eyed Tree Frog · Joy Cowley
• Redwood and Ponytail · K.A. Holt
• River Friendly, River Wild · Jane Kurtz
• Rotters · Daniel Kraus
• Rules of the Road #1 · Joan Bauer
• Sadie · Courtney Summers
• Samira Surfs · Rukhsanna Guidroz
• Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library · Carole Boston Weatherford
• Scowler · Daniel Kraus
• Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague · Marguerite Henry
• Sea of the Dead · Julia Durango
• See You in the Cosmos · Jack Cheng
• Seven Blind Mice · Ed Young
• Shy Charles · Rosemary Wells
• Sisters of the Lost Marsh · Lucy Strange
• Skulduggery Pleasant · Derek Landy
• Snow · Uri Shulevitz
• Sojourner Truth · Pat McKissack
• Some of Us · Rajani Larocca
• Some of the Kinder Planets · Tim Wynne-Jones
• Sophie's Squash · Pat Zietlow Miller
• Soundtrack: A Novel · Jason Reynolds
• Space Station Science · Marianne J. Dyson
• Stateless · Elizabeth Wein
• Stones in Water · Donna Jo Napoli
• Stuntboy, In-Between Time · Jason Reynolds
• Summer of My German Soldier · Bette Greene
• Sunshine: A Graphic Novel · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• Tancy · Belinda Hurmence
• Teddy Mars Book #3: Almost an Outlaw · Molly B. Burnham
• The Adventures of Paddy Pork · John S. Goodall
• The Adventures of Sparrowboy · Brian Pinkney
• The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens · Isabel Roxas
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I · M. T. Anderson
• The Bear and the Moon · Matthew Burgess
• The Black Stallion Adventures · Walter Farley
• The Black Stallion Challenged · Walter Farley
• The Boxer · Kathleen Karr
• The Boy's War · Jim Murphy
• The Christmas Boot · Lisa Wheeler
• The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child · Francisco Jiménez
• The Civil War of Amos Abernathy · Michael Leali
• The Dead of Summer (Book 1) · Ryan La Sala
• The Detective's Assistant · Kate Hannigan
• The Dirty Cowboy · Amy Timberlake
• The Double Life of Pocahontas · Jean Fritz
• The Farmer and the Clown · Marla Frazee
• The Fire Eaters · David Almond
• The First Helping (Lunch Lady Books 1 & 2) · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook · Joanne Rocklin
• The Folk Keeper · Franny Billingsley
• The Fortune-Tellers · Lloyd Alexander
• The Fourth Stall Part III · Chris Rylander
• The Friends · Kazumi Yumoto
• The Full Moon at the Napping House · Audrey Wood
• The Garden of Abdul Gasazi · Chris Van Allsburg
• The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales · Jane Yolen
• The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us · Tanya Lee Stone
• The Great Brain Does It Again · John D. Fitzgerald
• The Great Brain Reforms · John Dennis Fitzgerald
• The Great Little Madison · Jean Fritz
• The Haunting of Falcon House · Eugene Yelchin
• The Honeys · Ryan La Sala
• The Illustrated Dinosaur Dictionary · Helen Roney Sattler
• The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark · Rhoda Blumberg
• The Intruder · John Rowe Townsend
• The Jamie and Angus Stories · Anne Fine
• The Lincolns · Candace Fleming
• The Little Fishes · Erik Christian Haugaard
• The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) · Philemon Sturges
• The Long Road to Gettysburg · Jim Murphy
• The Longest Night · Marion Dane Bauer
• The Longitude Prize · Joan Dash
• The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: The Wall of Fame Game · Crystal Allen
• The Mona Lisa Vanishes · Nicholas Day
• The Moorchild · Eloise McGraw
• The Moves Make the Man · Bruce Brooks
• The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson · Jean Cassels
• The Notorious Benedict Arnold · Steve Sheinkin
• The Patchwork Bike · Maxine Beneba Clarke
• The Pilgrims of Plimoth · Marcia Sewall
• The Port Chicago 50 · Steve Sheinkin
• The Race to Save the Lord God Bird · Phillip Hoose
• The Rain Came Down · David Shannon
• The Rain Catchers · Jean Thesman
• The Remember Balloons · Jessie Oliveros
• The Return of Silver Chief · Jack O'Brien
• The Road from Home · David Kherdian
• The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place · Julie Berry
• The Scorpio Races · Maggie Stiefvater
• The Shoe Tree of Chagrin · J. Patrick Lewis
• The Snowman: The Book of the Classic Film · Raymond Briggs
• The Spring Rider · John Shults Lawson
• The Strongest Man in the World · Nicolas Debon
• The Swamp Fox of the Revolution · Stewart H. Holbrook
• The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks · Katherine Paterson
• The Top of the World · Steve Jenkins
• The Village by the Sea · Paula Fox
• The Wall · Peter Sís
• The Way Things Work Now · David Macaulay
• The Weaver's Gift · Kathryn Lasky
• The Wizards of Once · Cressida Cowell
• The Wright Brothers · Russell Freedman
• There Might Be Lobsters · Carolyn Crimi
• They Say Blue · Jillian Tamaki
• This Promise of Change · Jo Ann Allen Boyce
• Tikki Tikki Tembo · Arlene Mosel
• Tomfoolery! · Michelle Markel
• Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day · Alex L. Combs
• Treasure Island · Robert Louis Stevenson
• Tristan And Iseult · Rosemary Sutcliff
• True Believer · Virginia Euwer Wolff
• Turtle in Paradise · Jennifer L. Holm
• Upon the Head of the Goat · Aranka Siegal
• Voyaging to Cathay · Alfred H. Tamarin
• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga · Traci Sorell
• We Are the Ship · Kadir Nelson
• We Go Slow · Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
• We're Not from Here · Geoff Rodkey
• Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel · Chris Grabenstein
• Whale Eyes · James Robinson
• When Alexander Graced the Table · Alexander Smalls
• When You Can Swim · Jack Wong
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson · John Green
• Will Rogers Immortal Cowboy · Shannon Garst
• William Still and His Freedom Stories · Don Tate
• You Are Brave: A Book About Trying New Things · Margaret O'Hair
• Young Fredle · Cynthia Voigt