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Good Reads

Good Reads. Great Books for Fifth Graders!. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life. By James Patterson 4.5 / 4 points

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Good Reads

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  1. Good Reads Great Books for Fifth Graders!

  2. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life • By James Patterson • 4.5 / 4 points • When Rafe enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct. The plot contains violence. The coauthor is Chris Tebbetts.

  3. Esperanza Rising • By Pam Munoz Ryan • 5.3 / 6 points • Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to work in the labor camps of Southern California on the eve of the Great Depression.

  4. Slob • By Ellen Potter • 5.0 / 7 points • Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed. The plot contains mild profanity and violence, including bullying situations.

  5. Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning • By Lemony Snicket • 6.4 / 4 points • After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. #1

  6. Eragon • By Christopher Paolini • 5.6 / 25 points • In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon, finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. Book #1

  7. Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life • By Rachel Renee Russell • 5.4 / 5 points • Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to simply be herself. Book #1

  8. Hatchet • By Gary Paulsen • 5.7 / 7 points • After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. #1

  9. The Invention of Hugo Cabret • By Selznick • 5.1 / 4 points • When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

  10. Moon Over Manifest • By Clare Vanderpool • 5.3 / 12 points • Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

  11. Stormbreaker • By Anthony Horowitz • 5.1 / 7 points • After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, Alex is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency. Book #1

  12. Schooled • By Gordon Korman • 4.9 / 6 points • Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie, but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school.

  13. Mr. Popper’s Penguins • By Richard Atwater • 5.6 / 3 points • The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.

  14. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer • By James L. Swanson • 7.5 / 6 points • Based on James Swanson's bestselling adult book MANHUNT: THE 12-DAY CHASE FOR LINCOLN'S KILLER, this young adult version is an accessible look at the assassination of a president and describes Abraham Lincoln, the man, the father, and the husband.

  15. Hoot • By Carl Hiaasen • 5.2 / 9 points • Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

  16. One Crazy Summer • By Rita Williams Garcia • 4.6 / 7 pointsIn 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover their mother wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

  17. Freak the Mighty • By Rodman Philbrick • 5.5 / 5 points • At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.

  18. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg • By Rodman Philbrick • 5.6 / 7 points • Homer P. Figg escapes from his ruthless guardian's home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.

  19. The Magician’s Nephew(The Chronicles of Narnia Series) • By C.S. Lewis • 5.4 / 6 points • When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic is mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.

  20. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon • By Grace Lin • 5.5 / 7 points • Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish and then joins a dragon on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of discovering how to change her family's fortune.

  21. Heat • By Mike Lupica • 5.3 / 9 points • Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old, and he has no parents to offer them proof.

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