Grades 4 and 5
Friends and Family
Skellig by David Almond
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary
Granny Torelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
Football Genius by Tim Green
The View From Saturday by K.L. Konigsburg
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
The Sisters Club by Megan McDonald
How I Found the Strong: a Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan
Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Kid in the Red Jacket by Barbara Park
Bridge to Terabitha by Katherine Paterson
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley
All -Of-A-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Scooter by Vera B. Williams
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Alice Miranda at School by Jacqueline Harvey
The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani
A Dog’s Life by Anne M. Martin
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
My Life as a Stuntboy by Janet Tashjian
Funny Books
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Kid Who Ran For President by Dan Gutman
Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise
My Life as a Fifth Grade Comedian by Elizabeth Levy
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
Beetles, Lightly Toasted by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
The Artsy Smartsy Club by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Mystery and Adventure
Iron Thunder by Avi
Knee-Knock Rise by Natalie Babbit
The Name of This Book is Secret by Psuedonymous Bosch
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
Half Magic by Edward Eager
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
Time for Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn
The View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Sports
Return of the Home Run Kid by Matt Christopher
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane
Football Genius by Tim Green
Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
Louise, Soccer Star? by Stephen Krensky
Two-Minute Drill by Mike Lupica
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park
Six Innings by James Preller
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter
Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta
The Koufax Dilemma by Steven Schnur
Finding Buck Henry by Alfred Slote
Some Kind of Pride by Maria Testa
Lucky by Wes Tooke
Fantasy
The Merlin Series by T.A. Barron
The Warrior Series by Erin Hunter
The Atherton Series by Patrick Carman
Raven’s Gate by Anthony Horowitz
Not Just a Witch by Eva Ibbotson
The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Doll People by Ann M. Martin
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Magyk by Angie Sage
The Strictest School in the World by Howard Whitehouse
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows
The Memory Bank by Carolyn Coman
The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler
Brother in a Box by Kevin Kuhlman
Hero by Mike Lupica
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Leisl Shurtliff
Frogged by Vivian Vande Velde
Historical Fiction
Gingersnap by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Friendship Doll by Kirby Larson
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience by Kathryn Lasky
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Wicked Will by Baily Macdonald
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II Soldier by Walter Dean Myers
Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball by John Ritter
May B: a novel-in-verse by Caroline Starr Rose
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor
Lucky: Maris, Mantle and My Best Summer Ever by Wes Tooke
Voyage on the great Titanic : the diary of Margaret Ann Brady by Ellen Emerson White
Animals
Poppy and Rye by Avi
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets by Jean Craighead George
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Nine Lives of Aristotle by Dick King-Smith
Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes by Louis Sachar
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Zoobreak by Gordan Korman
Bless This Mouse by Louis Lowry
Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck