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4th and 5th grade books
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items Book suggestions from a 4th and 5th grade teacher and reading specialist!
This powerful book gives kids a new perspective on what it’s like to live with communication barriers. It fosters empathy, encourages inclusion, and shows that determination and friendship can break through even the toughest challenges. Out of My Min...
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, Paperback
My kids always love this book. Each chapter is told from a different characters perspective to help us build the main character, Chase, who develops amnesia after falling off of his roof. As he starts to learn more about himself, he starts to wonder ...
Restart
Like Out of My Mind, this book helps kids develop empathy and understanding of what it is like to live with facial differences. Auggie, the main character, wants so badly to be treated normally when he starts school for the first time after being hom...
Wonder
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Two things I love about this book! 1. It teaches context clues and word development so well! The author uses above grade level words but then explains what they are explicitly. As I read I like to pause and try to figure out together what the word is...
The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events 1)
My kids that are older siblings always relate to Peter and him having to deal with Fudge, his younger brothers antics. This book gets some good giggles out.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
My kids get some good conversations going about what our responsibilities are to animals while reading this book about a failing zoo stuck in a mall. It also is great for imagery and figurative language discussions.
The One and Only Ivan: A Newbery Award Winner
Kids follow along Cameron who sees himself as a professional slacker and video gamer as his one small lie slowly grows bigger and bigger until he has the whole town trying to save a beaver. This hysterical book teaches important lessons about honesty...
Slacker
It's a classic that needs read to explore the theme of friendship, family dynamics, and creativity.
Bridge to Terabithia
The conversations we have about what makes an action morally right - whether that be following the law or protecting what we love- is so important. Kids really get fired up over what is the right thing to do when reading this book.
Shiloh (Shiloh Quartet, The)
This is a thrilling mystery involving secret letters, time travel, and friendship.
When You Reach Me (Newbery Medal Winner)
Another thrilling mystery about a mansion, a murder, and a fortune.
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Kids love these historical fiction books that put them in the middle of some of histories greatest disasters.
I Survived: Ten Thrilling Books (Ten-Book Set)
After being wrongly convicted of stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley is sentenced to summer at Camp Green Lake- only there's no lake. Here boys have to dig holes all day looking for something but they aren't sure what.
Holes (Holes Series)
Opal moved to a new town where she knows no one. After finding a stray dog her summer adventures and friends only grow!
Because of Winn-Dixie: Middle-Grade Classic
This book is not only captivating but also beautifully illustrated. It's also a great opportunity to watch the movie afterwards and discuss how different movies and books can be!
The Wild Robot (Volume 1) (The Wild Robot, 1)
What happens when you pair the worst class in the school with a burned out teacher? You get another Gordon Korman favorite!
The Unteachables
4 siblings of a newly blended family are stranded on an island. My kids love the survival details that Survivor host Jeff Probst adds in here!
Stranded
My students LOVE anything by Korman and were so excited to add this one to our class set.
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