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Fifth Grade Books
Adventure
Animal Stories
Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humor
Mystery
Realistic Fiction
Graphic Novels
Nonfiction
Adventure books for fifth graders
5th Grade Adventure Books
 Chase Cooper is recruited by a group of school-aged ninjas at his new school. |  A boy named Shipwreck attempts to sail back home to Boston aboard the most notorious pirate ship in the Pacific. |  Wahoo’s dad, a professional animal wrangler, is hired to consult on the reality show Expedition Survival!, but the show’s star goes missing in the Florida Everglades. |
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 A family vacation turns into a game of survival when four kids are shipwrecked on a jungle island in the South Pacific. |  Sadie and Carter embark on a dangerous journey across the globe in order to put things right after their Egyptologist dad unleashes the Egyptian god Set. |  A curse lands Stanley at the juvenile detention center Camp Green Lake where there is no lake and the boys are forced to dig holes all day for a mysterious purpose. |
 Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy learns the skills of survival from local Native Americans. |  When a notorious cat burglar dies during a burglary it’s up to his twelve-year-old son to finish his last heist. |
Animal Stories for fifth graders
5th Grade Animal Stories
Fantasy & Sci-Fi books for fifth graders
5th Grade Fantasy & Sci-Fi
 Ragweed the mouse is determined to see the world, even if it means leaving his family and cozy country home for the big city. A Tales from Dimwood Forest story. |  A pet shop mouse escapes to find a civilization of ravenous cats, utopian rats, and a generations-long battle involving deadly secrets. |  Sophie moves from the big city to a rustic farm where the chickens are not what they seem. She is pretty sure the cranky white chicken can move things with its mind and that another may be turning itself invisible. Sophie better learn how to take care of the unusual chickens before a chicken thief snatches them away. |
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 A young barn owl is rescued by a mysterious school for orphaned owls. |  Mrs. Frisby is forced to move her family to safe quarters and turns to the intelligent rats of NIMH for help. |  A young boy is forced to give up his pet fox then ventures out alone to find him. |
Historical Fiction for fifth graders
5th Grade Historical Fiction
 Micah sets out to find an enchanted circus to use its magic to save his grandfather’s life. |  Twins Alex and Connor find themselves in a magical land filled with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about. |  After falling through a grate in his apartment building and into the Underland, Gregor embarks on a dangerous quest to fulfill his destiny. |
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 Meg sets off to the outer reaches of space to find her scientist father who disappeared while researching tesseracts. |  Princes, ogres, and fairies, oh my! Unfortunately, a fairy gave Ella the “gift” of obedience at birth and she must go on a quest to reverse the curse. |  After accidentally punching a hole into a new fantastical world, Tristan much join forces with John Henry, Anansi the Spider, and other characters from African American folklore. |
 While taking a detour through the woods to avoid a bully, Tamaya and Marshall come into contact with some odd mud that might affect the future of the world. |  Morrigan Crow is unexpectedly whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor and must complete against hundreds of other children for a spot in the prestigious Wundrous Society. |
Horror books for fifth graders
5th Grade Horror
 An orphan is falsely accused of theft and murder in fourteenth-century England and meets a juggler with a dangerous secret. |  Bud escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of his father during the U. S. Great Depression. |  A nameless girl in medieval England is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and given a place in this world. |
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 Turtle is sent to live with her eccentric but enterprising relatives in Key West, Florida amidst the U.S. Great Depression in 1935. |  With the fall of Saigon, Hà and her family flee Vietnam and face the quirks and grief of being immigrants in Alabama. |  Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother who was sold into service in the Civil War. |
 In 1841, Nakahama Manjiro became the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States after an American whaling ship rescues him from a shipwrecked island. |  Three sisters spend the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California with the mother they barely know and end up attending a Black Panther summer camp to stay out of her hair. |
5th Grade Humor
Humor books for fifth graders
 The intrepid Pals in Perils heroes discover Lily’s mom has become possessed by a zombie who wants to take over the world. |  In New York City in 1872, a photographer’s apprentice accidentally frees the ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge. |  Once upon a time, fairy tales were awesome. Awesomely shocking and bloody! |
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 Rudger, an imaginary friend, is being hunted by the evil Mr. Bunting who captures imaginaries. |  Short scary stories by an assortment of authors and illustrators including Neil Gaiman, Jack Gantos, and Lane Smith. |  Charlie’s dad remarries and moves them into a creepy purple mansion where the creatures of his nightmares may be coming to life. |
5th Grade Mystery Books
Mystery Books for fifth graders
 |  It’s prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two finally decide to join forces and pull off the biggest prank ever seen. Recommend to Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans. |  Wyatt and Matt discover a plot to blow up the White House while on a class trip to Washington D.C. |
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 A group of unpopular fifth graders run an international spy network from inside their school. |  Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing. |  An epic prank battle breaks out after Reese Tapper calls his twin sister, Claudia, Princess Farts-a-Lot in front of the whole sixth grade. |
 Derek looks forward to spending his summer vacation throwing water balloons at the UPS truck and conducting investigations until his parents decide to send him to Learning Camp instead. |
 Two misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais from finding the secret of immortality. |  Kyle stays overnight in the new library designed by his game making hero, Luigi Lemoncello, but he and his friends must solve puzzles to escape. |  At the smuggler’s inn, known as the Greenglass House, the innkeeper’s son hears strange stories from the guests leading him on an adventure in this classic whodunit. |
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 The will of a game-loving millionaire leads sixteen strangers on mysterious adventures to determine who will inherit his fortune. |  Mo LoBeau washed ashore as a baby during a hurricane and has been making waves ever since. A murder in her tiny town turns her and her best friend Dale into detectives. |
5th Grade Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction for fifth graders
5th Grade Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels for fifth graders
 Summer adventures of four sisters on the beautiful estate of Arundel. |  A Midwestern school girl writes letters to a boy and girl in the mountains of Afghanistan and they all learn more than their teachers intended. |  Auggie wants nothing more than to be treated like an ordinary kid, but being born with a facial deformity makes entering fifth grade a bit more extraordinary. |
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 One morning Jess’s friend visits their imaginary kingdom in the woods without him and tragedy occurs. Jess must overcome his anger and grief in this touching tale. |  Ghost may be the fastest sprinter on the local track team, but only if he can come to terms with the childhood scars that have been slowing him down. |  Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she’ll realize how big she is inside, and that’s where is counts. Theater kids will love this tale, but Sloan’s observational humor will make anyone giggle. |
 Ravi and Joe appear to only have one thing in common, a bully name Dillon. However, appearances and perceptions can be deceiving. Fans of Wonder will enjoy. |  Ten-year-old Mia lives in the motel her immigrant parents clean and run, but the mean owner, Mr. Yao, makes life difficult. Mia takes it upon herself to make her dreams and those of her parents a reality. |
5th Grade Nonfiction
Nonfiction books for fifth graders
 Instead of sending him to the art school he longs for, Jordan is forced to attend a prestigious academy where kids of color like him are few and far between. |  Sunny is sent to live with her grandfather in Florida for the summer, but instead of trips to Disney World she must survive his retirement community and face the family secret behind why she’s there. |  Two siblings try to save their mom from an underground world of talking animals, elves, and demons. |
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 Get ready to giggle with these 3 short stories about a moose that can shoot laser beams from his eyes, a mutant bear that fell into toxic waste, and a robot squirrel with super strength. Need I say more? |  Babysitting isn’t easy, and neither are new families, fashion emergencies, strict parents, and secrets, but the BSC always has friendship. The graphic novel adaption of the classic series. |  After falling and injuring her two front teeth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself from sixth grade through tenth. |
 Collection of stories and photos of heroic dogs that have served and protected the Unites States military at home and abroad. |  Hundreds of unsung heroes overcame segregation and hatred to do the thing they loved, play ball. For baseball lovers of all ages. |  How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is Knucklehead. |
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 Excellent mix of history and memories from the author who proudly grew up on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain, but discovers the fruits of the West in adolescence. |
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