Grade 5 Recommended Realistic Fiction Book List

Title
Mitch and Amy
Getting Through Thursday
The Gold-Threaded Dress
Trouble Magnet
Felita
The Kid Coach
The Lotus Seed
Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family
On the Line
Last Summer with Maizon
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Year of the Dog
Winners Take All
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
Hound Dog True
Lunch Money
Rules
Soccer Team Upset
Guilty! The Complicated Life of Claudia
Cristina Cortez
Dance Trap: The Complicated Life of
Claudia Cristina Cortez
Horse Power
Junebug
Junonia
On My Honor
Whatever! The Complicated Life of
Claudia Cristina Cortez
Love that Dog
Notes From A Liar and Her Dog
Sounder
Throwing Shadows
Uncharted Waters
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Love, Ruby Lavender
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Red Dog
Stand Tall
The Great Wheel
Ways to Live Forever
Absolutley Normal Chaos
Becoming Naomi Leon
Flat Broke: The Theory, Practice and
Destructive Properties of Greed
Money Hungry

Author
Beverly Cleary
Melrose Cooper
Carolyn Marsden
Graham Salisbury
Nicholasa Mohr
Fred Bowen
Sherry Garland
Lensey Namioka
Fred Bowen
Jacqueline Woodson
Judy Blume
Grace Lin
Fred Bowen
Lauren Child
Linda Urban
Andrew Clements
Cynthia Lord
Fred Bowen
Diana G. Gallagher

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Reading Level
O
O
O
O
P
P
P
P
Q
Q
Q
Q
Q
R
R
R
R
R
S

Diana G. Gallagher

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Ann Walsh
Alice Mead
Kevin Henkes
Marion Dane Bauer
Diana G. Gallagher

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S
S
S
S
S

Sharon Creech
Gennifer Choldenko
William H. Armstrong
E.L. Konigsburg
Leslie Bulion
Linda Urban
Deborah Wiles
Patricia Reilly Giff
Bill Wallace
Joan Bauer
Robert Lawson
Sally Nicholls
Sharon Creech
Gary Paulsen

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T
T
T
T
T
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
V
V
V

Sharon G. Flake

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Title
Shadow
The Dark Stairs
My Brothers Hero
Sister Spider Knows All
Sparrow Road
The Higher Power of Lucky
Truth and Salsa
Words in the Dust
Diceys Song
Iqbal
The Young Landlords
Travel Team
After Tupac and D Foster
Alidas Song
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Rough Waters
See You at Harrys
And Now Miguel
Deenie
Downriver
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Little Women (Signet Classic)
Miracles Boys
The Breadwinner
The Planet of Junior Brown
The Wave
Toning the Sweep

Author
Michael Morpurgo
Betsy Byars
Adrian Fogelin
Adrian Fogelin
Shelia OConnor
Susan Patron
Linda Lowery
Trent Reedy
Cynthia Voigt
Francesco DAdamo
Walter Dean Myers
Mike Lupica
Jacqueline Woodson
Gary Paulsen
Walter Dean Myers
Bette Greene
S.L. Rottman
Jo Knowles
Joseph Krumgold
Judy Bloom
Will Hobbs
Gennifer Choldenko
Louisa May Alcott
Jacqueline Woodson
Deborah Ellis
Virginia Hamilton
Todd Strasser
Angela Johnson

Genre
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Reading Level
V
V
W
W
W
W
W
W
X
X
X
X
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z