Top 40 Picks for Fifth Graders
Stories
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.