Top 40 Picks for Fifth Graders

 

Booklist fifth gradersStories

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda  —  Angleberger

Keeper  —  Appelt

The Seer of Shadows  —  Avi

Zora and Me  —  Bond

No Talking  —  Clements

Crunch  —  Connor

Cosmic  —  Cottrell

School of Fear  —  Daneshvari

The Magician’s Elephant  —  DiCamillo

Out of My Mind  —  Draper

City of Ember  —  DuPrau

Birchbark House  —  Erdrich

The Fabled Fifth-Graders of Aesop Elementary School  —  Fleming

Inkheart  —  Funke

Scat  —  Hiaasen

Brains for Lunch: a Zombie Novel in Haiku?!  —  Holt

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate  —  Kelly

Swindle  —  Korman

Savvy  —  Law

Day of Tears  —  Lester

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon  —  Lin

The Giver  —  Lowry

The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester  —  O’Connor

Becoming Naomi Leon  —  Ryan

Holes  —  Sachar

When You Reach Me  —  Stead

Lost & Found  —  Tan

Smile  —  Telgemeier

Millicent Min: Girl Genius  —  Yee

 

People, Poetry, Facts and Folklore

Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down  —  Pinkney

The Boy’s Body Book  —  Dunham

The Girl’s Body Book  —  Dunham

Leonardo Da Vinci  —  Augarde

Kids Knit! Simple Steps to Nifty Projects  —  Bradberry

Vile Verses  —  Dahl

Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out 

The Amazing Mr. Franklin, or, the Boy Who Read Everything  —  Ashby

Who Was Harry Houdini?  —  Sutherland

Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path  —  Bruchac

The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)  —  Kerley

 

Note: These titles were chosen by the Youth Services Librarians of the Dauphin County Library System for their appeal to the interest level of this age group. They are not meant to represent or measure a student’s reading level.