Novels for Fifth & Sixth Graders

• Book of three
  Alexander
• Whittington
  Armstrong
• Family tree
  Ayres
• Chasing Vermeer
  Balliett
• Tuck everlasting
  Babbitt
• Lost years of Merlin
  Barron
• House with a clock in its walls
  Bellairs
• Revenge of the Shadow King
  Benz
• Superfudge
  Blume
• Children of Green Knowe
  Boston
• Because of Mr. Terupt
  Buyea
• Summer of the swans
  Byars
• Janitor's boy
  Clements
• Dark is rising
  Cooper
• Elijah of Buxton
  Curtis
• The BFG
  Dahl
• Tale of Despereaux
  DiCamillo
• Fire Within
  D'Lacey
• Gift of magic
  Duncan
• City of Ember
  Duprau
• The Breadwinner
  Ellis
• Harriet, the spy
  Fitzhugh
• My side of the mountain
  George
• Homework machine
  Gutman
• Among the hidden
  Haddix
• Deep and Dark and Dangerous
  Hahn
• From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
  Konigsburg
• Wrinkle in time
  L'Engle
• Ella enchanted
  Levine
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
  Lin
• Gentle Ben
  Morey
• Climb or die
  Myers
• Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH
  O'Brien
• Bridge to Terabithia
  Paterson
• Westing game
  Raskin
• Where the red fern grows
  Rawls
• Lightning Thief
  Riordan
• Boy who saved baseball
  Ritter
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  Rowling
• Becoming Naomi Leon
  Ryan
• Paint the wind
  Ryan
• Holes
  Sachar
• Wolf stalker
  Skurzynski
• Sign of the beaver
  Speare
• Roll of thunder, hear my cry
  Taylor
• Blind mountain
  Thomas
• Sammy Keyes and the hotel thief
  Van Draanen
• Legend of Thunderfoot
  Wallace
• Castle in the attic
  Winthrop
• Millicent Min girl genius
  Yee
• Dear Papa
  Ylvisaker

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Nonfiction Books

• Oh yuck! The encyclopedia of everything nasty
  J 031.02 M38O
• Scary stories to tell in the dark
  J 398.2 SCH9S
• Sports science
  J 507 L57SP
• Tracking trash
  J 551.46 B93T
• Tooth and claw: animal adventures in the wild
  J 590 L58T
• Heart of the beast: eight great gorilla stories
  J 599.884 P64H
• Mistakes that worked
  J 609 J71M
• Team Moon: how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon
  J 629.454 T34T
• Top secret: a handbook of codes, ciphers and secret writing
  J 652.8 J25T
• Totally Cool Soapmaking for Kids
  J 668.12 B82T
• Stephen Biesty's incredible cross-sections
  J 721 B47S
• Racehorse
  J 798.4 T18R
• Oops!
  J 811 K15OO
• Exploring the Titanic
  J 910.4 B21E
• Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz
  J 920 SCH8G
• World War II
  J 940.53 AD1W
• Hana's suitcase
  J 940.5318 L57HA