Grade 5 & 6
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 | Appelt, Kathi |
| The Underneath |
A cat abandoned and about to have kittens makes an unlikely friend: a hound dog. Their makeshift family lives under the porch of the meanest man in town, in the Underneath, until the kittens decide to venture further.
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 | Buckley, Michael |
| NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society |
A group of fifth-graders run a spy network from inside their school, and Jackson Jones is their newest recruit now that he’s been fitted with braces.
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 | Choldenko, Gennifer |
| Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Moose’s family moves to Alcatraz Island during the Depression. Moose just wants to stay out of trouble, but with a spoiled warden’s daughter and your laundry being done by convicts, that’s really hard to do for long.
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 | Draper, Sharon M. |
| Out of My Mind |
Melody is a brilliant 5th grader. She has a photographic memory. She outscored all her classmates on their quizzes but none of them believe she did it alone because she is wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy.
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 | Flanagan, John |
| The Ruins of Gorlan |
Will always wanted to be a knight and he thinks it is because he is small that he wasn’t accepted in Battle School. But what he doesn’t know is he has already been chosen to be a Rangers apprentice.
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 | Fradin, Judy |
| Tornado!: The Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning and Spiraling Storms |
Eyewitness accounts tell exactly what it’s like to be caught in a tornado. Includes historical accounts of tornado survivors and what scientists say about what causes tornadoes and how to keep yourself safe.
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 | Gantos, Jack |
| Dead End in Norvolk |
Jack is “grounded for life”. Worse, he is forced by his mother to help an elderly neighbor with a project typing obituaries. His summer seems doomed until he uncovers a possible murder, which leads him on a quirky and unusual adventure.
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 | George, Jessica Day |
| Dragon Slippers |
Creel is no damsel in distress: she sends away the snobby prince who comes to rescue her, befriends the dragons, works as a dressmaker and receives from her new dragon friends a pair of slippers with mysterious properties.
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 | Horowitz, Anthony |
| Stormbreaker |
When he is just 14 Alex Rider is orphaned for the second time in his life. After discovering bullet holes in the car his uncle was killed in he is contacted by British Secret Service, MI6, to finish the job his uncle started.
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 | Kelly, Jacqueline |
| The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
A spunky 12-year-old girl in 1899 decides that she likes creatures of the outdoors better than cooking or sewing, and her cantankerous grandfather apprentices her as a naturalist.
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 | Riordan, Rick |
| The Lost Hero |
Jason wakes up on a field trip with no memory of his best friend or girlfriend, and the three of them are whisked away to a camp for demigods where they prepare for a quest across the US on a giant mechanical dragon.
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 | Schmidt, Gary |
| The Wednesday Wars |
Hollis just knows his teacher hates him. She assigns him ALL of Shakespeare’s plays to read and discuss with her on Wednesdays. Add an unfortunate pair of tights, Shakespearean insults and rats gone wild, and Hollis is in for quite a year.
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 | Selznick |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
Part picture novel and part text, this book tells the story of an orphan thief who lives in the train station, and the secret from his father that he protects until he is caught by an old toy seller and befriended by a young girl.
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 | Van Allsburg, Chris |
| The Chronicles of Harris Burdick |
14 popular authors write stories to go with the illustrations in The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.
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 | Vanderpool, Clare |
| Moon Over Manifest |
While her father works on the railroad Abilene has been sent to Manifest, Kansas to live with Pastor Shady Howard. With the help of new friends and a diviner she uncovers the mysteries of Manifest.
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