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Fifth and Sixth Grade Recommended Reading List

REALISTIC

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What Not to Do if You Turn Invisible

by Ross Welford

Harbor Me

by Jacqueline Woodson

Nowhere Boy

by Katherine Marsh

The Eleventh Trade

by Alyssa Hollingsworth

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Anything but Typical

by Nora Baskin

Goodbye Stranger

by Rebecca Stead

The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani 

R is for Rebel

by J. Anderson Coats

FANTASY

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The Boy From Tomorrow

by Camille DeAngelis

Orphan Island

by Laurel Snyder

Rose series

by Holly Webb

Last Day on Mars series

by Kevin Emerson

Olympians series

by George O'Connor

Dragons vs. Drones

by Wesley King

Amulet series

by Kazu Kabuishi

The School for Good and Evil series

by Soman Chainani

Knights of the Borrowed Dark by Dave Rudden

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The Eighth Day

by Dianne Salerni

Twice Magic

by Cressida Cowell

ADVENTURE

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Scar Island

by Dan Gemeinhart

The Apothecary

by Maile Meloy

The Honest Truth

by Dan Gemeinhart

Children of Exile series

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Doll Bones

by Holly Black

Spy School series

by Stuart Gibbs

Maniac Magee

by Jerry Spinelli

Princess Academy series

by Shannon Hale

FUNNY

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Awful Auntie

by David Walliams

The Incorrigible Children from Ashton Place series

by Maryrose Wood

Making Friends

by Kristen Gudsnuk

Ungifted 

by Gordon Korman

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The 52-Storey Treehouse

by Andy Griffiths

Roller Girl

by Victoria Jamieson

Swing it, Sunny

by Jennifer L. Holm

Lupin Leaps In

by Georgia Dunn

NONFICTION

That's Deadly! series

by Crispin Boyer

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Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

Who Was series

by various authors

Horrible Histories series

by Terry Deary

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Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Weird by True! Ripped from the Headlines

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 

by Francesca Cavallo

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