Book List for Grades 4-5 Reading at 7Th Grade Level

for Children in Grades 4-5 reading at a 7th Grade level

25 books chosen by the American Library Association & Children’s Book Council Joint Committee to provide guidance to parents, caregivers, teachers, librarians, and others interested in discovering books for children who read at an advanced level and are seeking more challenging, but still age-appropriate, books.

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2020-2021 The Best at It Girl Rising: Changing journeys to Europe to reunite by Maulik Pancholy the World One Girl at with his siblings. ▲ Spanish. HarperCollins Children’s a Time Books / Balzer+Bray, 2019 by Tanya Lee Stone The Inquisitor’s Tale: An Indian American Random House Children’s Or, The Three Magical boy in Indiana, nervous Books / Wendy Lamb, 2017 Children and Their about entering middle A compelling collection of Holy Dog school, tries to follow his stories of girls around the by Adam Gidwitz. Illus. by grandfather’s advice and world who managed to Hatem Aly become the best. get an education despite Penguin Young Readers / efforts to keep them from Dutton, 2016 attending school. A medieval tale, told from The Boy Who multiple points of view, Gracefully Grayson about three children with Harnessed the Wind: extraordinary gifts on an Young Reader’s by Ami Polonsky Little, Brown Books for Young incredible journey. Edition Readers, 2014 by William Kamkwamba and Sixth-grader Grayson feels Internment Bryan Mealer stuck in the wrong gender’s by Samira Ahmed Penguin Young Readers / body but hopes to be cast Little, Brown Books for Young Puffin Books, 2016 as the female lead in the Readers, 2019 The memoir of William school play. An emotional This cautionary tale takes Kamkwamba, who created and courageous journey of place in an internment a windmill to bring lighting self-discovery to be one’s camp in California for to his family home in true self. ▲ Spanish. Muslim Americans, with a Malawi. A true story about teen leading a revolution ingenuity from a pioneering against the camp’s director spirit. ▲ Spanish. Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson and guards. ▲ Spanish. Penguin Young Readers / Nancy Paulsen Books, 2018 The Journey of Little The Bridge Home Six sixth graders meet Charlie by Padma Venkatraman weekly to talk about by Christopher Paul Curtis Penguin Young Readers / personal and global issues, Scholastic Press, 2018 Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019 providing safe harbors for Set in 1858, a boy from Four homeless children in each other. South Carolina tries India form a chosen family to settle a debt for his and support each other Hurricane Child sharecropper family by through difficult times in by Kacen Callender accompanying a plantation this debut novel. Scholastic Press, 2018 owner on a journey to Set in the Caribbean Canada to capture a (the U.S. Virgin Islands), fugitive slave. ▲ Spanish. this coming-of-age *Front Desk novel explores topics of Legends, Icons & by Kelly Yang loneliness, abandonment, Scholastic / Arthur A. Levine Rebels: Music that friendship, and love. Books, 2018 Changed the World A resourceful Chinese by Robbie Robertson et al. immigrant girl makes Illegal Tundra Books, 2013 friends and solves by Eoin Colfer and Andrew The lives of 27 musicians mysteries while working at Donkin. Illus. by Giovanni Rigano are showcased in the front desk of the motel Sourcebooks, 2018 thoughtful biographies, that her parents manage A graphic novel exploring gorgeous artwork, and CDs for an exploitive owner. the plight of undocumented of their music. immigrants in which a Ghanian refugee child The Lightning Queen One Last Word: Sachiko: A Nagasaki by Laura Resau Wisdom from the Bomb Survivor’s Scholastic Press, 2016 Harlem Renaissance Story A glimpse of the encounter by Nikki Grimes by Caren Stelson between two fascinating Bloomsbury Children’s Books, Lerner / Carolrhoda Books, but marginalized mexican 2017 2016 cultures—the Rom and Using the Golden Shovel After surviving the bombing the Mixtec Indians— poetic form, Nikki Grimes of her hometown of while sharing an unlikely shares classic poetry and Nagasaki, Sachiko Yasui’s friendship that spans her own poems to bring the story of the aftermath and generations. Harlem Renaissance to life her journey of healing is for young readers. captured by biographer Caren Stelson. Lincoln’s Grave Samurai Rising: The Robbers Pathfinders: The Epic Life of Minamoto by Steve Sheinkin Journeys of 16 Yoshitsune Scholastic Press, 2013 Extraordinary Black A counterfeiting ring by Pamela S. Turner. Illus. by Souls Gareth Hinds plotted to ransom Lincoln’s by Tonya Bolden body to secure the release Charlesbridge, 2016 Abrams Books for Young Gareth Hinds’s stylish of their imprisoned Readers, 2017 graphic adaptation of the ringleader. Then the Secret A collection of sixteen Bard’s romantic tragedy Service conducted a mini-biographies of African- offers modern touches— daring election night sting American trailblazers, including a diverse cast operation. brought to life with detailed that underscores the histories and illustrations. Moonbird: A Year on story’s universality. the Wind with the Promise of Change: The Watch that Ends Great Survivor B95 One Girl’s Story in by Phillip Hoose the Night: Voices the Fight for School from the Titanic Macmillan Children’s Equality Publishing Group / Farrar, by Allan Wolf by Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Straus and Giroux, 2012 Candlewick Press, 2013 Debbie Levy This book shows the The Titanic story, told in Bloomsbury Children’s Books, verse (24 voices), with obstacles that shorebirds 2019 extensive back matter, called rufa red knots In 1956, Jo Ann Allen was including coded messages face as a worldwide one of twelve African- to decipher and historical team of scientists and American students who documents. conservationists try to save broke the color barrier and them before it’s too late. integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. We Will Not Be Silent by Russell Freedman HMH Books for Young The Night Diary Readers / Clarion Books, by Veera Hiranandani Refugee 2016 Penguin Young Readers / by Alan Gratz The true story of the White Kokila, 2018 Scholastic Press, 2017 Rose student resistance In 1947, as India was A hopeful novel tying movement that defied Nazi divided into two countries— together the stories of Germany. India (for Hindus) and three refugee children: a Pakistan (for Muslims)—a boy in 1930s Nazi Germany, half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl a girl in Castro’s Cuba in wonders where she will be 1994, and a boy in Syria in safe. 2015. ▲ Spanish. * asterisk denotes one book of a series. ▲ denotes Spanish edition available We suggest the following sites for more book titles: www.cbcbooks.org www.ala.org/alsc

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