Books For Fifth Graders
Fiction
| Author | Title |
| Alexander | The Iron Ring |
| Babbitt | Tuck Everlasting |
| Boyd | Chevrolet Saturdays |
| Byars | The Dark Stairs: A Herculeah Jones Mystery |
| Cameron | The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods |
| Christopher | The White Mountains |
| Clements | Frindle |
| Cooper | The Boggart |
| Coville | Jennifer Murdley's Toad: A Magic Shop Book |
| Creech | Chasing Redbird |
| Curtis | The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 |
| DeFelice | The Ghost of Fossil Glen |
| Dexter | Alien Game |
| Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster |
| Fenner | Yolanda's Genius |
| Fitzhugh | Harriet the Spy |
| Fleischman | Mr. Mysterious & Company |
| Fletcher | Fig Pudding |
| George | My Side of the Mountain |
| Giff | Lily's Crossing |
| Hamilton | The House of Dies Drear |
| Hesse | Letters From Rifka |
| Horvath | When the Circus Came to Town |
| Ibbotson | The Secret of Platform 13 |
| Karr | The Great Turkey Walk |
| Konigsburg | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| Levine | Ella Enchanted |
| Levy | My Life as a Fifth Grade Comedian |
| Lowry | Anastasia Krupnik |
| McKay | Dog Friday |
| Mead | Junebug |
| Morgenstern | Secret Letters from 0 to 10 |
| Naylor | The Agony of Alice |
| O'Dell | Streams to the River, River to the Sea |
| Paterson | The Great Gilly Hopkins |
| Pearce | Tom's Midnight Garden |
| Reeve | Lolo and Red-Legs |
| Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| Shaik | Melitte |
| Sleator | The Beasties |
| Snyder | The Egypt Game |
| Soto | Summer on Wheels |
| Stevenson | The Bones in the Cliff |
| Taylor | Road to Memphis |
| Uchida | A Jar of Dreams |
| Vail | Daring to be Abigail |
| Voigt | Bad Girls |
| Waugh | The Mennyms |
| Yep | The Case of the Lion Dance |
Nonfiction
| Call Number | Author | Title |
| 133.5 | Schwartz | Telling Fortunes |
| 291 | Hamilton | In the Beginning: Creation Myths from Around the World |
| 296.1 | Cooper | The Dead Sea Scrolls |
| 331.3 | Bartoletti | Growing Up in Coal Country |
| 355.8 | Byam | Arms and Armor |
| 363.2 | Jackson | The Bone Detectives |
| 398.2 | Diane Goode's Book of Scary Stories and Songs | |
| 398.2 | San Souci | Cut from the Same Cloth |
| 398.2 | Yep | The Rainbow People |
| 546 | Wick | A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder |
| 551.5 | Kramer | Eye of the Storm: Chasing Storms with Warren Faidley |
| 567.9 | Tanaka | Graveyards of the Dinosaurs |
| 577.3 | Lasky | The Most Beautiful Roof in the World |
| 591.4 | Bishop | The Secrets of Animal Flight |
| 591.4 | Dewan | Inside the Whale and Other Animals |
| 597.96 | Dewey | Rattlesnake Dance |
| 598.2 | McMillan | Nights of the Pufflings |
| 599.67 | Pringle | Elephant Woman |
| 599.74 | Ryden | Your Cat's Wild Cousins |
| 600 | Macaulay | The New Way Things Work |
| 739.4 | Lyons | Catching the Fire |
| 745.5 | Irvine | How to Make Super Pop-Ups |
| 759 | Sills | Inspirations: Stories about Women Artists |
| 759.3 | Stanley | Leonardo da Vinci |
| 796.4 | Krull | Wilma Unlimited |
| 811 | Stevenson | Sweet Corn: Poems |
| 916.6 | Onyefulu | Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village |
| 917.98 | Hoyt-Goldsmith | Arctic Hunter |
| 920A | Ada | Where the Flame Trees Bloom |
| 920 B | Wells | Mary on Horseback |
| 920 F | Fleischman | The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life |
| 920 K | Kehret | Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio |
| 920 O | O'Grady | Basher Five-Two |
| 920 P | Parks | Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth |
| 920 P | Pinkney | Bill Pickett, Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy |
| 920 S | Fritz | You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? |
| 920 S | Stine | It Came from Ohio! My Life as a Writer |
| 920 S | Mochizuki | Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story |
| 920 T | Tillage | Leon's Story |
| 930.1 | Hackwell | Diving to the Past: Recovering Ancient Wrecks |
| 940.5318 | Greenfeld | The Hidden Children |
| 959.7 | Huynh | Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam |
| 970.1 | Freedman | Buffalo Hunt |
| 972 | Patent | Quetzal: Sacred Bird of the Cloud Forest |
| 973.2 | Jackson | The Witchcraft of Salem Village |
| 973.7 | Bial | The Underground Railroad |
| 978 | Greenwood | A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family |
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