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Fifth Grade Fiction
Jackie & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
by Dan Gutman
Fiction / J GUTMAN
Read more in this series! A Baseball Card Adventure

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
by Barry Deutsch
Comic Books / J DEUTSCH
Read more in this series! Hereville

Stuck on Earth
by David Klass
Fiction / J KLASS

The High Skies Adventure of Blue Jay the Pirate
by Scott Nash
Fiction / J NASH

Pandora Gets Heart
by Carolyn Hennesy
Fiction / J HENNESSY
Read more in this series! Mythic Misadventures

The Cabinet of Earths
by Anne Nesbet
Fiction / J NESBET
Let!s Pretend this Never Happened
by Jim Benton
Paperbacks / J BENTON
Read more in this series! Dear Dumb Diary

The Council of Mirrors
by Michael Buckley
Fiction / J BUCKLEY
Read more in this series! Sisters Grimm

Wildwood
by Colin Meloy
Fiction / J MELOY
Read more in this series! The Wildwood Chronicles

Chomp
by Carl Hiaasen
Fiction / J HIAASEN
Read similar titles by Hiaasen: Scat, Hoot, and Flush

Applewhites at Wit!s End
by Stephanie S. Tolan
Fiction / J TOLAN
Read the other title by Tolan: Surviving the Applewhites

Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes
by Lauren Child
Fiction / J CHILD

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Inside Out and Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
Fiction / J LAI

The Mighty Miss Malone
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Fiction / J CURTIS

Guys Read: Funny Business
by Jon Scieszka
Nonfiction / J 810.8 GUY
Read more in this series! Guys Read Library

Fifth Grade Nonfiction
Kung Fu
by Henry Wouk
Nonfiction / J 796.814 WOU
Read more in this series! Martial Arts in Action

Bodyguards!: From Gladiators to the Secret Service
by Edward Butts
Nonfiction / J 363.289 BUT

The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing
Human Body
by David Macaulay
Nonfiction / J 612 MAC

National Intelligence
by Robin S. Doak
Nonfiction / J 327.12 DOA
Read more in this series! Cornerstones of Freedom

The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain In the
Wild, Wild West
by Sid Fleischman
Biographies / J B TWAIN

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second President
by Mike Venezia
Nonfiction / J B ROOSEVELT
Read more in this series! Getting to Know the U.S.
Presidents

You Wouldn!t Want to Be a Ninja Warrior!: A Secret
Job That!s Your Destiny
by John Malam
Nonfiction / J 952 MAL
Read more in this series! You Wouldn!t Want to . . .

The Greatest Moments in Sports
by Len Berman
Nonfiction / J 796 BER

Michael Townsend!s Where Do Presidents Come
From?: and Other Presidential Stuff of Super Great
Importance
by Michael Townsend
Comic Books / J TOWNSEND

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
Nonfiction / J 629.45 STO

Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World
at the Bottom of the Ocean
by Bradley Hague
Nonfiction / J 551.23 HAG

The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math
by Sean Connolly
Nonfiction / J 510 CON

Seeing Red: The True Story of Blood
by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Nonfiction or Youth: New Nonfiction / J 612.1 KYI

Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet
by Don Robb
Nonfiction / J 411 ROB

Do Not Open: An Encyclopedia of the World!s Best
Kept Secrets
by John Farndon
Nonfiction / J 001.94 FAR