5th Grade
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Fiction
J Angleberger The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
J Applegate Wishtree or Crenshaw
J Babbitt Tuck Everlasting
J Balliett Chasing Vermeer
J Barnhill The Girl Who Drank the Moon
J Beasley Circus Mirandus
J Birdsall The Penderwicks (series)
J Birney The World According to Humphrey
J Blume Blubber or Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
J Brallier The Last Kids on Earth (series)
J Buckley The Fairy Tale Detectives (series) or The Sisters Grimm (series)
J Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts
J Clements A Week in the Woods
J Colfer Artemis Fowl (series)
J Colfer Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (series)
J Collins Gregor the Overlander (series)
J Coville Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher
J Cowell How to Train Your Dragon
J Curtis Bud, Not Buddy
J Creech Walk Two Moons
J Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
J Dear Dear America/My America (series)
J DiCamillo Louisiana’s Way Home or Raymie Nightingale
J Farmer A Girl Named Disaster
J Frazier The Other half of My Heart
J Funke The Thief Lord or Inkheart (series)
J George My Side of the Mountain
J Gibbs Spy School or Fun Jungle (series)
J Gidwitz The Inquisitor’s Tale (series)
J Grabenstein Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
J Gutman Satch and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
J Hanigan True...Sort of
J Hecht The Nocturnals (series)
J Holm Turtle in Paradise, Full of Beans or Penny from Heaven
J Hunter Warriors (series)
J Lai Inside Out and Back Again
J Larson The Pennyroyal Academy
J Lasky Guardians of Ga’Hoole (series)
J Lewis The Magician’s Nephew (first in The Chronicles of Narnia series)
J Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon or When the Sea Turned...
J Lloyd The Key to Extraordinary
J Lowry Number the Stars or The Giver
J Lupica Heat
J Martin Rain, Reign
J McMann The Unwanteds (series)
J Moore The Stars Beneath Our Feet
J Mull Fablehaven (series)
J Munoz Ryan Esperanza Rising
J Murdock The Book of Boy
J Murphy Dear Sweet Pea
J O’Connor Wish
J Palacio Wonder
J Park A Long Walk to Water
J Paterson Bridge to Terabithia
J Patterson Treasure Hunters (series) or House of Robots (series)
J Paulsen Hatchet or Call me Frances Tucket
J Peirce Max and the Midknights or Big Nate
J Pennypacker Pax
J Reynolds Ghost, Look Both Ways, or Sunny
J Riordan The Lightning Thief (series) or The Trials of Apollo (series)
J Sachar Holes
J Scott The Alchemyst (series)
J Sloan To Night Owl from Dogfish
J Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events or All the Wrong Questions (series)
J Spinelli Wringer
J Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society (series)
J Sutherland The Dragonet Prophecy (Book 1 in Wings of Fire series)
J Tarshis I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake
J Van Draanen Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception (series)
J Wiles Each little Bird that Sings
J Williams-Garcia One Crazy Summer
J Wright The Dollhouse Murders
J Yee Millicent Minn, Girl Genius
Non-Fiction
J 746.434 Larson Hello, Crochet Friends: Making Art, Being Mindful, Giving Back
J 031.02 Weird Weird but True! 6
J 201.3 Basher Mythology: Oh My! Gods and Goddesses
J 363.7387 Herman What Is Climate Change?
J 550.2 Dorling What’s Weird on Earth
J 591.6 Tarshis I Survived True Stories: Nature Attacks! (series)
J 333.7209 Winter Wangari’s Trees of Peace - A True Story from Africa
J 031.02 Quiz Quiz Whiz 1,000 Super Fun… Quizzes (National Geographic Kids)
J 523.43 Rush The Mighty Mars Rovers
J 539.72 Green Extreme Physics (Basher Science Series)
J 551.46 Davies Oceans and Seas (Scholastic Discover More)
J 590 Hearst Unusual Creatures
J 591.779 Jenkins Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
J 601.12 Zuckerman 2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow
J 646.7008 Borgenicht The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Junior Edition)
Non-Fiction Graphic Novels
JGN 978.02 Donner Party
JGN 538 Attraction Magnetism with Max Axiom
JGN 973.75 BIG Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: A Civil War… (series)
JGN Olympians Hera, The Goddess and her Glory (Olympians series)
JGN 629.892 Robots Science Comics Robots and Drones: Past, Present...
JGN 919.89 Shackleton Shackleton and the Lost Antarctic Expedition
JGN 507.8 Howtoons Howtoons
JGN B Telgemeier Smile and Sisters
Biographies
JB Basquiat Radiant Child (Jean-Michel Basquiat)
JB Bridges The Story of Ruby Bridges
JB Chavez Harvesting Hope (Cesar Chavez)
JB Ginsburg I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made Her Mark
JB Johnson Counting on Katherine (Katherine Johnson)
JB Just The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
JB King My Brother Martin (MLK, Jr.)
J B Lee Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds
JB Hopper Mathematician and Scientist Grace Murray Hopper
JB Houdini (by Fleischman) Escape!: the story of the Great Houdini
JB Lin Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
JB Maathai Planting the Trees of Kenya (Wangari Maathai)
JB Mineta Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta...
JB Owens Jesse Owens Fastest Man Alive
JB Reeves (by Nelson) Bad News of Outlaws: the Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves
JB Rudolf Wilma Unlimited
JB Schulz Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz
JB Sotomayor The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
JB Tubman Minty
JB Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming
JB Yousafzai Who Is Malala Yousafzai
Folktales and Informational Picture Books
J 398.2089 Steptoe The Story of Jumping Mouse
J 398.21 Schroeder Lily and the Wooden Bowl
J 398.24 Gibbons Behold…the Unicorn
J 398.2 Talbot King Arthur and the Round Table
J 398.2 Through Through the Water Curtain and other Tales...
J Lee (Big Book) Landed (Picture Book for Older Readers)
Mythology, Languages, Science
J 292.13 Vinge The Random House Book of Greek Myths
J 304.6097 Smith If America Were a Village
J 500 Hauser Gizmos and Gadgets
J 546.78 Loeschnig Chemistry Experiments
J 595.717 Perritano Bugs that Live on Us
J 591-599 Bredeson I Like Weird Animals (series of 6 books: 591.77, 595.44, 595.7, 597.9, 598, 599)
J 612 Mcaulay The Way We Work: getting to know the amazing human body
J 636.7 Paulsen My Life in Dog Years
J 745.592 Robinson Super Simple Paper Airplanes
Poetry
J 811.54 Muth Haiku - a Year of Seasons
J 811.54 Prelutsky My Dog May be a Genius
J 811.54 Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends
J 811.008 Winter Winter Poems
History/Geography/Explorers
J 910.41 Thuras The Atlas Obscura Explorers Guide...
J 910.9 St. George So You Want to Be an Explorer?
J 910.92 Bishop Cook’s Cook: The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook
J 917.8042 Clark Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
J 920.72 Williams Hooray for Women!
J 973 Gutman My Weird School Facts: Explorers, Presidents and…
J 970.01 Freedman Who Was First?
J 973 Leedy Celebrate the 50 States!
J 973.099 Piven What Presidents are Made Of
J 978.02 Pascal What Was The Wild West
J 979.461 Murphy Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock
J 979.462 Britton Angel Island
J 979.4 Ansary All Around California
J 979.4 Bruun California
J 363.6809 National Parks of the USA
Graphic Novels
JGN A Amulet (series)
JGN A Avatar the Last Airbender (series)
JGN B Babysitters Club (series)
JGN B Out From Boneville (series)
JGN C Calamity Jack
JGN D Drama
JGN G Guts
JGN H Hilo
JGN P Percy Jackson and the The Olympians
JGN M Mighty Jack
JGN M My Little Pony
JGN N New Kid
JGN R Roller Girl
JGN S Sunny Side Up
JGN Z Zita the Spacegirl(series)