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1 Book Recommendations Realistic Fiction I Am the Ice Worm by MaryAnn Easley Peak by Roland Smith Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto The Canning Season by Polly Horvath The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of 5th Grade by Kenneth Derby The Pepins and Their Problems by Polly Horvath The Contest: Everest #1 by Gordon Korman Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Love That Dog by Sharon Creech Lunch Money by Andrew Clements No Talking by Andrew Clements Picklemania by Jerry Spinelli The Potato Chip Puzzles by Eric Berlin Wonder by R.J. Palacio Hidden by Helen Frost

2 Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise Broach The Underdogs by Mike Lupica Close to Famous by Joan Bauer 13 Gifts by Wendy Mass Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick I Funny by James Patterson Historical Fiction Bread and Roses, Tooby Katherine Paterson The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E. L. Konigsburg The Mystery of Rascal Pratt by Robbie Scott and Gary Cianciarulo The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan The I Survived series Will at the Battle of Gettysburg by Laurie Calkhoven Mystery Airborn by Kenneth Oppel Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman Spy Force Mission: In Search of the Time and Space Machine by Deborah Abela Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye

3 No Talking by Andrew Clements Murder, My Tweet: A Chet Gecko Mystery by Bruce Hale Mudshark by Gary Paulson Science Fiction Davin by Dan and Zaki Gordon The Emerald Wand of Oz by Sherwood Smith The Five Ancestors: Snake by Jeff Stone Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure by Georgia Byng Ranger's Apprentice Book One: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman The Sisters Grimm Book One: The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley 2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow's Kids by Amy Zuckerman and Jim Daly Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies by Andrea Beaty The Giver by Lois Lowry Among the Hidden Margaret Petterson Haddix My Teacher the Alien by Bruce Coville The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Infinity Ring by James Dashner Aliens on Vacation by Clete Barrett Smith Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson

4 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart My Sister the Vampire by Sienna Mercer Animorphs by K.A. Applegate Help! I m Trapped in my Teacher s Body by Todd Strasser Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Lunchbox and the Aliens by Bryan W. Fields Franny K. Stein series by Jim Benton The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy by William Boniface Aliens Don t Wear Braces by Debbie Dadey and Marcia T. Jones The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L Engle Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce Dark Fire by Chris d Lacey Akiko on the Planet Smoo by Mark Crilly Found Margaret Petterson Haddix Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O Brien The Time Hackers by Gary Paulson George Washington s Socks by Elvira Woodruff Fantasy Snow Wings by Jutta Goetze The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

5 Bone #1: Out From Boneville by Jeff Smith The Boy Who Painted Dragons by Demi Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters by Patricia C. McKissack Traditional Literature Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales by Neil Philip Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters by Patricia C. McKissack Informational Everything Kids' Environment Book by Sheri Amsel Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine by Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring How Basketball Works by Keltie Thomas Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela S. Turner Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship by Isabella and Craig Hatkoff and Paula Kuhumbu

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