Chelmsford Public Library's
Books for Fifth Graders

Adventure and Survival | Animals | Biography | Classics | Fantasy |
Ghosts and Scary Stories | Graphic, Comic and Wordless Books |Historical Fiction
Holocaust | Humor | In Other Lands | Misfits & Outcasts | Mysteries | School, Family and Friends | Science Fiction | Sports

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Adventure and Survival

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Sid Fleischman

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix

The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse

Shipwreck by Gordon Korman

Fish by L. S. Matthews

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Larklight by Philip Reeve

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (Series of Unfortunate Events)

Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow by Kaye Umansky

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Animal Stories

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert

The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (series)

Thunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (series)

Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight

Benno's Bear by Naomi Fink Zucker

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Talking Animals

The Frog Princess by E. D. Baker

Runt by Marion Dane Bauer

I, Jack by Patricia Finney

Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman

Redwall by Brian Jacques (series)

The Dark Portal by Robin Jarvis

The Capture by Kathryn Lasky (Guardians of Ga'Hoole series)

The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel (series)

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Biographies

Through My Eyes: The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges by Ruby Bridges

Sing a Song of Tuna Fish by Esme Raji Codell

The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life by Sid Fleischman

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

How Angel Petersen Got His Name by Gary Paulsen

It Came from Ohio: My Life as a Writer by R. L. Stine

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Classics

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Little House in the Big Woods by Lauara Ingalls

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachan

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth G. Speare

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White

 

 

 

Fantasy

Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet (series)

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (series)

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng (series)

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (series)

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (series)

Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (series)

The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Arthurian trilogy)

Whispering to Witches by Anna Dale

The Last Dragon by Silvana De Mari

The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi (Spiderwick Chronicle series)

Hatching Magic by Ann Downer

The Magickers by Emily Drake

Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

Into the Woods by Lyn Gardner

Otto and the Flying Twins by Charlotte Haptie

The Akhenaten Adventure by P. B. Kerr (Children of the Lamp series)

Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish

The Wish by Gail Carson Levine

What-the-Dickens: the story of a rogue tooth fairy by Gregory Maguire

Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris (with companion books)

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo (series)

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (series)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

Magyk by Angie Sage

Beyond the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart (Edge Chronicles series)

The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop

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Ghost and Horror Stories

Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata by Jennifer Allison (series)

Fred and Anthony Escape from the Netherworld by Esile Arevamirp

Golden and Grey by Louise Arnold

Cold in Summer by Tracy Barrett

The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story by Mary D. Hahn

The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn

Dial-a-Ghost by Eva Ibbotson

The Ghost's Grave by Peg Kehret

The Haunted House by R. A. Montgomery (Choose your own adventure dragonlarks series)

Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett

The Haunting of Freddy by Dietlof Reiche

Double Dare to be Scared by Robert D. San Souci

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (series)

Ghost Beach by R. L. Stine

There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around by Vivian Vande Velde

The Ghost in the First Row by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children series)

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Graphic, Comic and Wordless Books

City of Light, City of Dark story by Avi, art by Brian Floca

Run Far, Run Fast by Timothy Decker

Tribal Warfare by Ricardo Delgado

Clan Apis by Jay Hosler

Houdini: the Handcuff King by Jason Lutes & Nick Bertozzi

To Dance: a memoir by Siena Cherson Siegel, art by Mark Siegel

Bone by Jeff Smith (series)

The Collected Alison Dare Little Miss Adventures by J. Torres

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Historical Fiction

The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood

Charlotte's Rose by A.E. Cannon

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Genniger Choldenko

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

A Company of Fools by Deborah Ellis

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Truth About Sparrows by Marian Hale

The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine

A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon

Mr. Tucket by Gary Paulsen

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

A Drowned Maiden's Hair: a melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

My Guardian Angel by Sylvie Weil

Once on This Island by Gloria Whelan

The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape from the Tower of London by Elvira Woodruff

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Holocaust

I am a Star: Child of the Holocaust by Inge Auerbacher

Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev

Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Surviving Hitler: a Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren

Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura Williams

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Humor

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Great Brain by John Fitzgerald

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Circle of Doom by Tim Kennemore

The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline by Lois Lowry

Seven Spiders Spinning by Gregory Maguire (first of the Hamlet Chronicles)

Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered by Gary Paulsen

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In Other Lands

Bloomability by Sharon Creech

Bindi Babes by Marinder Dhami

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Dolphin Luck by Hilary McKay

Sixth Grade by Susie Hoch Morgenstern

Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan

Close Encounters of a Third World Kind by Jennifer Stewart

The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto

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Misfits and Outcasts

Blubber by Judy Blume

The Pinballs by Betsy Byars

Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy

The Very Worst Thing by Torey Hayden

All Alone in the Universe by Lynne Perkins

There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

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Mysteries

The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs (series)

Is Anybody There? by Eve Bunting

The Mystery of Drear House by Virginia Hamilton

Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye

Eat Your Poison Dear: A Sebastian Barth Mystery by James Howe

Thieves of Ostia: A Roman Mystery by Caroline Lawrence (series)

Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Wolf Stalker by Gloria Skurzynski (National History series)

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wenedlin Van Draanen

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School, Family and Friends

What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Quit It by Marcia Byalick

Frindle by Andrew Clements

Sam I Am by Ilene Cooper

P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger

Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos (series)

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Here Today by Ann Martin

The Agony of Alice by Phyllis R. Naylor

Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

Bad Girls by Cynthia Voigt

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee

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Science Fiction

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Eager by Helen Fox

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (series)

The Giver by lois Lowry

Can of Worms by Kathy Mackel

Lost in Cyberspace by Richard Peck

Brainboy and the Deathmaster by Tor Seidler

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Sports

Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos

Babe and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure by Dan Gutman (series)

The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter

Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote

String Music by Rick Telander

The Roar of the Crowd by Rich Wallace (Winning Season series)

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