Fifth Grade Student Edition 2020-2021

Fifth Grade

Student Edition

2020-2021

Imagine Schools

Advanced Reading ChallengeGrades 3-8

Congratulations on your decision to challenge yourself through reading! We hope that by taking on this CHALLENGE, you will stretch yourself to accomplish more than you might have in an ordinary year, enjoy some great new books, and model achievement and excellence for your friends and peers.

Your Role as a Student: 1. Sign the commitment form (page 11) to read the designated number of books (25 for grades 3-8) not

previously read. These books must come from the Advanced Reading Challenge grade level list. a. However, you may choose books from a list on a higher grade level. So, you may read “up” on the

lists but not down (you cannot choose books from a lower grade level list). b. Also, you can choose up to five books as part of the challenge. These books must be appropriate,

challenging and approved by your ARC Coordinator or classroom teacher. c. In addition, you can listen to up to five books towards the challenge on tape or CD. d. A pacing guide is included in this packet to help you pace yourself (page 5). Students have told us

once they get behind it is really hard to catch up. Some books are longer than others, good book selection can ensure that you complete the 25 books required on time.

2. Prepare a reading portfolio (file folder, pizza box or other container) to store your projects and attach the table of contents with a list of books read, type of genre and project and presentation score to your peers from your teacher or ARC Coordinator (page 12) .

3. You will need to prepare a creative response (see page 6-9) for each of your 25 books.a. There are a variety of presentation ideas; from written book reports, to artistic posters to oral

presentations to AR quizzes (up to ten with an 85% comprehension score). b. We encourage you to try different styles for your book reflections and not report on your book in

exactly the same way. Variation and creativity score higher on the rubric.4. Participate in school initiated activities (e.g., after school book club to present projects, etc.) as

determined by your school.5. Submit all materials upon completion to your school’s ARC Coordinator.

Helpful Adults: Advanced Reading Challenge Coordinator: This person will receive guidelines from the Imagine Schools’ ARC-Team and will help you with the expectations and materials needed to complete the reading challenge. He/she will sign off on your projects, help you select books and may hold meetings to share information with you and your parents, answer questions that you might have along the way, and will find ways to help you complete this challenge.

Teachers: Your teachers should be able to help you get started, help you select just the right books, share information with your parent/guardian, remind you of deadlines, and help you make contact with the Advanced Reading Challenge Coordinator throughout the school year.

Parent/Guardian: Your parent or guardian should talk with you about the expectations of the Advanced Reading Challenge and support you by signing the reading contract, helping you find books (at the public library if needed), and asking you about the books you are reading and projects you are completing. Your parent/guardian may participate as an audience for your book summaries, discussions, and project presentations at school or home.

Librarian/Media Specialist: Your school librarian or media specialist can help you find books in your school library or identify books on the reading lists that are in the public library collection.

Imagine Schools Mission Statement: As a national family of nonprofit public charter school campuses, Imagine Schools partners with parents and guardians in the education of their children by providing high quality schools that prepare students for lives of leadership, accomplishment, and exemplary character.

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September 8, 2020

Dear Imagine Parents/Guardians and Students,We invite you to participate in the twelfth, annual Imagine Schools National Advanced Reading

Challenge (ARC). This initiative is designed to challenge students to choose high quality literature, to read as much and as often as they are able, and to share their love for reading with peers and adults. The ARC promotes students “acquiring and owning” their education by “developing academic and character habits to increase learning opportunities” and “becoming independent, self-directed learners.” (pp. 20-21, Imagine Schools Academic Excellence Framework). ARC is a hallmark program instituted by one of the Imagine Schools founders, Eileen Bakke. This legacy program promoted Imagine Schools’ belief that it is our moral imperative to instill a love of reading in our students.

Our research shows that students who participate in the ARC also improve their academic learninggains in reading and mathematics. Many students, who are successful academically, needencouragement to take risks, to develop perseverance, and to venture out into the world of ideas andknowledge. We believe that one of the best ways to become a life-long learner is to develop a love ofreading.

The Advanced Reading Challenge is open to Imagine Schools’ students in grades 3-12 who are at or above grade level in reading, and who can assume responsibility for diving into a book on their own. The ARC book list is comprised of high quality, classic and award-winning books. Each year, we update the list with the latest award winning books and have taken special care to include books that represent a diverse population and titles that are relevant to our students’ experiences.

We encourage students to select books in a purposeful way, either through an author study, seriescompletion, or genre study. As was the case in past years, by accepting this challenge, studentspledge to read each book and complete a reflection about their book in order to certify theiraccomplishment. Imagine Schools will give a $50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card to each student whoreads and reports on the designated number of books (25 for grades 3-8 and 15 for grades 9-12)during the school year. These students will be recognized nationally by Imagine Schools. A little over1,500 Imagine Schools’ students participate in the 2019-2020 ARC, and in spite of Covid-19 , we areproud to say that 323 students completed the challenge and received their awards. We want to thankthe ARC coordinators for their extraordinary effort to keep this program alive under difficultcircumstances. This past year, the national coordinators conducted a Reading Buddy DonationProgram. We raised $2370.00 and awarded each school participating in ARC a gift card of $87.50 forbooks to add to their libraries.

We hope that by taking on this challenge, students will stretch themselves as readers and learners,enjoy some great new books, and model achievement and excellence for their friends and peers.

Sincerely,

Jason BryantPresident and CEOImagine Schools

Imagine Schools Advanced Reading Challenge

Important Dates

Friday, April 23.2021: All student portfolios must be turned in to your Advanced Reading Challenge Coordinator.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2020: All students participating in the challenge should return their contract to the ARC Coordinator by the last week in September at the latest.

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Suggested Pacing Guide

2020-2021

Congratulations on taking the Advanced Reading Challenge! Use this schedule as a guideline to pace your reading & project completion. Try to keep on or ahead of schedule.

ALL twenty-five books and projects are due by April 23, 2021. Happy Reading!


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ARC BOOK AND PROJECT # STARTING ENDING

SIGN CONTRACT & BOOK 1 9.8.20 9.21.20

BOOKS 2 & 3 9.22.20 10.6.20

BOOKS 4 & 5 10.7.20 10.21.20

CATCH UP WEEKS 10.22.20 11.4.20

BOOKS 6 & 7 11.5.20 11.19.20

BOOKS 8 & 9 11.20.20 12.2.10

BOOKS 10 & 11 12.3.20 12.17.20

BOOKS 12 &13 12.18.20 1.4.21

ARC BOOK AND PROJECT # STARTING ENDING

BOOKS 14 & 15 1.5.21 1.19.21

BOOKS 16 & 17 1.20.19 2.3.21

BOOKS 18 & 19 2.4.21 2.18.21

CATCH UP WEEKS 2.19.21 3.3.21

BOOKS 20 & 21 3.4.21 3.16.21

BOOKS 22 & 23 3.17.21 3.31.21

BOOKS 24 AND 25 4.1.21 4.12.21

CATCH UP WEEKS 4.13.21 4.23.21

Imagine SchoolsAdvanced Reading Challenge

Creative Responses to Literature Projects for (Grades 3-8)

Create a portfolio to showcase your creative responses for your 25 book. Your portfolio may be assimple as a file folder or as creative as a decorated clean pizza box. Remove the Portfolio Table ofContents (page 12) from this packet and attach to the front of your ARC Portfolio. After reading abook from the ARC list (or five approved personal choice), create an entry on the Portfolio Table ofContents. Use the chart below and pages 7-9 as well as the rubric on page 10, to thoughtfully decideon the best way to present your book to others immediately after you have completed the book.Your teacher or ARC Coordinator will be providing feedback and sign off on the Table of Contents.Photographs of displays, oral presentation notes and AR quiz results can be filed as evidence. Keep allfinished projects organized neatly in your portfolio. Vary your projects, show your creativity. YourARC Coordinator will do a final review of your completed portfolio (bottom portion of rubric) to verifythe 25 books and 25 projects for your $50.00 Barnes and Nobel Gift Card Award.

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Oral Kinesthetic Written Visual Graphic Technological

One-Person Show

Puzzle StoryIt’s All in the

MailPosting

PostcardsThe “What” Chart 3-W’s

Glog

Tell –Along Boards

Trading CardsQuotable

QuotationsQuilt

Mapping the Way

Prezi or PowerPoint

Presentation

The Press Conference

Can a Character

To Market, To Market

Artistic Timelines

Recipe for a Good Book

Book Blog Entry

Book ClubCulture Kits

Fast Fact Cards

Crayon Conversations

The Plot Chart

Cartoon

Point of Decision

Rolling the Dice

Catch the News

Story Tree Top Ten ListShort Video clip

Summary

Now Hear This Tangram TalesSigned, Sealed and Delivered

CaricatureDouble Bubble

Book Character Avatar

1. One-Person Show: Perform a monologue, pretending you are the main character (or another significant character) in your book.

2. Tell-Along Boards: Use puppets and art to create a Tell-Along Board to later use during storytelling—to retell the most important parts of the story or book you read.

3. The Press Conference: Pretend you are the main character in your book and hold a press conference to answer your classmates’ prepared questions.

4. Book Club: Participate in a book club discussion with other students and/or teachers in your school who are reading the same book.

5. Point of Decision: List important decisions made by book characters and explain what happens in the story as a result of those decisions.

6. Now Hear This: Write a 2 to 3-minute radio advertisement persuading the public that they should buy and read this book.

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lCreative Responses to Literature Descriptions

1. Puzzle Story: Discuss the story and then create a puzzle board, including pictures and a discussion of the story. Then pass on to others who read the story.

2. Trading Cards: Create trading cards of favorite figures in your story. You might use a pattern from a popular sports team.

3. Character Can or Case: Take a gallon coffee can or small suitcase and decorate it to represent a character in your book. Insert strips of events, problems, or challenges characters faced and/or overcame throughout the story.

4. Culture Kits: Create a kit containing items representative of other culture described in the book you read.

5. Rolling the Dice: Create scenes from the book on the sides of oversized dice. One dice depicts the beginning of the book and the other focuses on the scenes at the end of the book.

6. Tan gram Tales: Tan grams are ancient Chinese puzzles. Storytellers use the puzzle pieces, called tans, when they tell stories. You can create a Tan gram Tale in many ways: a) Use your tans to create a puzzle that looks like or represents your character. b) use your tan grams to make a puzzle that looks like the event or place where the majority of action takes place. c) Use your tans to make a puzzle that looks like something from the ending of your book. *Ask your teacher or an art teacher for an example of a tan gram if you need help.

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Written

Creative Responses to Literature Descriptions

1. It’s All in the Mail: Write and address two friendly letters to characters in your book.

2. Quotable Quotations: Identify important quotations made by different book characters, and explain why each quotation is important in the story.

3. To Market, To Market: As a literary agent, write a letter to the publishing company designed to persuade them to publish this book.

4. Fast Fact Cards: Share information from nonfiction books by creating sets of Fast Fact Cards. Create a minimum of 10 cards.

5. Catch the News: Create a news report that highlights your story’s main characters and events.

6. Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Write a letter to the author asking questions about the book and/or what it is like to be an author.

1. Posting Postcards: Pretend you are a character from your book and create postcards to send to their classmates.

2. Quilt: Create pictures of different scenes and stitch them together to make a quilt.

3. Artistic Timelines: Students visually sequence events and create time lines.

4. Crayon Conversations: Draw highlights from your book as you retell the story.

5. Story Tree: Create a story tree like a family tree highlighting main ideas in the branches and supporting details in the leaves.

6. Caricature: Create a caricature that emphasizes the main characters’ personality with an appropriate background.

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Graphic

Creative Responses to Literature Descriptions

1. The “What” Chart (3W’s): List information about a topic you’re interested in under three headings. “What I know already.” “What I want to know” and “What I’ve learned from reading.”

2. Mapping the Way: Create maps or plot routes in the form of a map. Create a key to clearly show the symbolism.

3. Recipe for a Good Book: Follow a recipe format to put the main idea (dish) and the supporting ideas (ingredients) on an index card and decorate with the tasty delight.

4. The Plot Chart (SWBS): Identify plot elements and write them on a Plot Chart.

5. Top Ten List: Create a Top Ten List of the things you learned from this book.

6. Double Bubble: Create a Thinking Mapping comparing the book to another book you have read.

1. Glog: Create your own interactive blog or “glog” at www.glogster.com. Find creative ways to share your glog with others.

2. Prezi Presentation: Create a PowerPoint or Prezi Presentation at prezi.com. with information about your favorite parts of the book, a summary of the book, and other interesting information. Be sure to present your new creation to your ARC club or classmates, family or friends!

3. Book Blog Entry: Create a book blog and complete an entry about a book you’ve read towards the ARC. Include a summary of the book and your personal reaction to the book in your entry. You can create a free blog at www.blogger.com. Share your blog with friends, your ARC club, or your class!

4. Cartoon: Using a tool like Creaza www.creaza.com create a cartoon version of the book.

5. Short Video Clip Summary: Using a tool like Powtoons at www.powtoons.com or Animoto at www.animoto.com

6. Book Character Avatar: Create an avatar for a book character using a tool such as http://avachara.com/avatar/

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http://www.glogster.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.creaza.com/

http://www.powtoons.com/

http://www.animoto.com/

http://avachara.com/avatar/


Cumulative Portfolio Criteria

EvidentNot

EvidentComments

Student read 25 books

(Up to 5 audio books allowed)

Student completed 25 projects

(Up to 10 AR quizzes allowed)

Coordinator’s Signature: ______________________________________________ Date:____________

Book Review Rubric

Area for Review 3 2 1

Book Selection

(from grade level or

above ARC list – up to

five personal choice if

not on the ARC list)

Student selects an

appropriately challenging

book for his/her ability

without assistance.

Student selects an

appropriately challenging

book for his/her ability

with assistance.

Student selects a book that

is not an appropriately

challenging book.

Creative Responses

for the Book

(see packet and ARC

resources for examples

of project types)

Student presents a response

about the book that aligns

with the book’s genre,

shows creativity, varies

project type and shows

maximum effort.


about the book that

somewhat aligns with the

book’s genre, shows some

creativity, some project

type variation and some

effort.


about the book that lacks

alignment with the book’s

genre, lacks creativity,

lacks project type variation

or lacks effort.

Understanding of the

Book

(limit 10 AR quizzes

85% passing rate

Student demonstrates a

clear understanding of the

theme or main idea of the

book.

Student demonstrates a

partial understanding of

the theme or main idea of

the book.

Student does not

demonstrate an

understanding of the theme

or main idea of the book.

1. Use the top rubric when students present each of their twenty-five books.

Goal 2 or 3, if a student receives a 1; have them revise the area of weakness.

2. Sign off for the book on the student’s portfolio table of contents.

3. At the completion of the ARC, conduct a portfolio check to cumulatively sign

off on the students’ reading accomplishments before submitting their name as a

“finisher” to receive their $50.00 Barnes and Nobel gift card

3 = Beyond Expectations2 = Met Expectations1 = Did Not Meet Expectations

Imagine Schools Advanced Reading Challenge

Portfolio Rubric

Imagine SchoolsAdvanced Reading Challenge

Commitment Letter Grades 3-8

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Purpose: The purpose of the Advanced Reading Challenge (ARC) is to challenge students to read 25 books over the course of one school year and complete 25 personal creative reflections based on the book’s genre demonstrating a review of the book’s message and sharing personal reflections about the book in a creative way.

Student’s Responsibility: To challenge myself to achieve to the best of my ability, enjoy the books I read, and encourage my peers to read good literature.

Student Commitment

I, _____________________________, accept the Advanced Reading Challenge. I commit to reading 25 books from the ARC list. I understand that these should be books I have not previously read. I commit to sharing the message of the books with my teacher, class, parent/guardian or school group in a creative way and documenting all books I read through preparing an ARC Portfolio.

_______________________ ________ _________________Student Signature Grade Date

____________________ Circle Yes or No Yes or No School Did you participate last year? Finish?

Parent/Guardian Commitment

I, __________________________, accept to support my child with the Advanced Reading Challenge. I am committed to supporting my child in his/her endeavor to read 25 books, complete 25 personal reflections, share these reflections with others and keep a portfolio to highlight these accomplishments. I sign to acknowledge that I am aware of the ARC requirements that my child will read each book and complete the personal reflection independently.

____________________________________ _____________Signature Date


# Date Title of Book Author Genre

Type of

creative

Response

Adult’s

Initials

to confirm

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Imagine Schools

Advanced Reading Challenge

Portfolio Table of Contents Grades 3-8

Name _____________________ Grade_____ Teacher__________________


Goal Setting

Set monthly goals for reading:

MONTH # of BOOKS LEXILE OR ATOS LEVEL

September:

October:

November:

December:

January:

February:

March:

April:

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Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

The High King* Alexander, Lloyd 6.1 900L

The Illyrian Adventure Alexander, Lloyd 5.5 770L

The Underneath Applet, Kathi 5.2 830L

Captain Grey Avi 5.8 840L

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane DiCamillo, Kate 6.7 700L

The Twenty-One Balloons* Du Boise, William Pene 6.8 1070L

Julie of the Wolves George, Jean Craighead 5.8 860L

The Blue Sword McKinley, Robin 6.8 1030L

Silverwing Oppel, Kenneth 4.7 660L

Tom's Midnight Garden Pearce, Philippa 6.1 860L

Summer of the Monkeys Rawls, Wilson 4.8 810L

The Lightning Thief Riordan, Rick 4.7 740L

Sea of Monsters Riordan, Rick 4.6 740L

Hidden Roots Bruchac, Joseph 4.8 830L

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir Engle, Margartia 6.4

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Sis, Peter 5.2 AD760L

Living with the Senecas: A Story about Mary Jamison Aller, Susan Bivin 5.9

Tecumseh Aller, Susan Bivin 5.4 840L

Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson,

NASA Mathematician

Cline-Ransome, Lesa 5.9 1030L

Satchel Paige Cline-Ransome, Lesa 5.2 1010L

The Power of the Pen: The Story of Groundbreakimg

Journalist Ethel Payne

Cline-Ransome, Lesa 5.9 1080L

Chuck Close: Face Book Close, Chuck 900L

12 Musician Who Changed the World Kallilo, Jamie 5.1

The Fairy Ring, or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World Losure, May 5.9 940L

Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the

English Channel and Took the World by Storm

Macy, Sue 5.9 AD980L

12 Poets Who Changed The World Morey, Allan 5 690L

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told Myers, Walter Dean 5.4 AD900L

12 Scientists Who Changed the World Richard, Orlin 5.4 700L

12 Athletes Who Changed the World Sollen, Paula 5.2 760L

Soldier for Equality: Jose de la Luz Saenz and the Great

War

Tonatiuh, Duncan 5.3 860L

Advanced Reading Challenge Book List Grade 5

ADVENTURE

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

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The Graveyard Book* Gaiman, Neil 5.1 820L

Whale Rider Ihimaera, Witi 5.7

Mariel of Redwall Jacques, Brian 5.7 900L

Mossflower Jacques, Brian 5.1 600L

The Phantom Tollbooth Juster, Norton 6.7 1000L

The Ordinary Princess Kaye, M. M. 6.4 1090L

Savvy Law, Ingrid 6 1070L

The Magician's Nephew (Book #1) Lewis, C.S. 5.4 790L

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Book #2) Lewis, C.S. 5.7 940L

The Horse and His Boy (Book #3) Lewis, C.S. 5.8 970L

Prince Caspian (Book #) Lewis, C.S. 5.7 870L

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Book #5) Lewis, C.S. 5.9 970L

The Silver Chair (Book #6) Lewis, C.S. 5.7 840L

The Last Battle (Book #7) Lewis, C.S. 5.6 890L

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Lin, Grace 5.5 810L

Departure Time Matti, Truus 4.2

Bridge to Terabithia* Paterson, Katherine 4.6 810L

Guys Read: Heroes and Villains (Book #7) Scieszka, Jon 5.1 770L

Mary Poppins Travers, P.L. 6.1 840L

When the Sea Turned to Silver Lin, Grace 5.3 750L

A Lantern in Her Hand Aldrich, Bess Streeter 6.4 1020L

Ms. Bixby's Last Day Anderson, John David 5.2 800L

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp Applet, Kathi 5.4 810L

The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove Bredsdorff, Bodil

Translated by Faith Ingwersen

5.2 810L

Eidi Bredsdorff, Bodil

Translated by Kathryn Mahaffy

5.2 810L

The Secret Garden Burnett, Frances Hodgson 6.3 530L

A Little Princess (Unabridged) Burnett, Francis Hodgson 6 840L

Virginia Bound Butler, Amy 4.4 700L

Hurricane Child Callender, Kheryn 5.3 1010L

Walk Two Moons* Creech, Sharon 4.9 770L

The Only Road Diaz, Alexandra 5.6 830L

The Tiger Rising DiCamillo, Kate 4 520L

A Christmas Carol, Unabridged Dickens, Charles 6.7 1080L

What Elephants Know Dinerstein, Eric 5.6 790L

The Matchlock Gun* Edmonds, Walter 5.1 860L

Thimble Summer* Enright, Elizabeth 5.7 810L

Ginger Pye Estes, Eleanor 6 990L

Fig Pudding Fletcher, Ralph 3.9 620L

GENERAL FICTION

FANTASY

FOLK TALE or FAIRY TALE


Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

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One-Eyed Cat Fox, Paula 5.4 1000L

Dead End in Norvelt* Gantos, Jack 5.7 920L

Princess Academy Hale, Sharon 6 890L

The House of Dies Drear Hamilton, Virginia 4.8 670L

King of the Wind* Henry, Marguerite 5.4 830L

Minn of the Mississippi Holling, Holling C. 5.6 910L

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics Juster, Norton 5 740L

The Thing About Luck Kadohata, Cynthia 4.7 700L

The Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk 5.7 840L

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book #1) Kinney, Jeff 5.2 950L

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Book #2) Kinney, Jeff 5.2 910L

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Book #3) Kinney, Jeff 5.2 970L

The Wimpy Kid Movie diary: How Greg Heffley Went

Hollywood

Kinney, Jeff 6.5 1000L

The View from Saturday* Konigsburg, E.L. 5.9 870L

Rabbit Hill* Lawson, Robert 6.4 1050L

The Apprentice Llorente, Pilar Molina 5 730L

The Root Cellar Lunn, Janet 5.2 840L

Good Night Mr. Tom Magorian, Michelle 4.8 760L

Mister Orange Matti, Truus 4.6 690L

Freedom Songs Moore, Yvette 4.6 790L

The Pull of the Ocean Mourlevat, Jean-Claude

Translated by Y. Maudet

4.4 620L

Chain of Fire Naidoo, Beverley 6.2 910L

When Mischief Came to Town Nannestad, Katrina 5.6 930L

The Higher Power of Lucky (The Hard Pan Trilogy, #1)* Patron, Susan 5.9 950L

Lucky Breaks (Book #2) Patron, Susan 6 960L

Lucky for Good (Book #3) Patron, Susan 6.5 980L

I Funny, A Middle School Story Patterson, James 3.9 610L

I Funny TV: A Middle School Story Patterson, James 4.1 630L

Pax Pennypacker, Sara 5.3 760L

Criss Cross* Perkins, Lynne Rae 5.5 820L

Swallows and Amazons Book #1 Ransome, Arthur 800L

Swallowdale Book #2 Ransome, Arthur 800L

Peter Duck: A Treasure Hunt in the Caribbees Book #3 Ransome, Arthur 800L

Winter Holiday Book #4 Ransome, Arthur 800L

Coot Club Book #5 Ransome, Arthur 800L

Pigeon Post Book #6 Ransome, Arthur 800L

We Didn't Mean to Go To Sea Book #7 Ransome, Arthur 800L

Amal Unbound Saeed, Aisha 4.2 600L

The Jumping Tree Saldana, Rene Jr. 5.1 770L

Roller Skates Sawyer, Ruth 6.3 810L

Guys Read: Funny Business (Book #1) Scieszka, Jon 5.1 740L


Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

GENERAL FICTION

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Guys Read:The Sports Pages (Book #3) Scieszka, Jon 5.2 840L

The Rescuers Sharp, Margery 6.3 880L

Counting by 7s Sloan, Holly Goldberg 5.6 770 L

Runaway to Freedom: A Story of the Underground

Railroad

Smucker, Barbara 5 770L

The Bronze Bow* Speare, Elizabeth George 5 760L

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Staples, Suzanne Fisher 5.9 970L

Donuthead Stauffacher, Sue 5.6 850L

The Pearl Steinbeck, Jon 4.5 1000L

Let the Circle Be Unbroken Taylor, Mildred D. 5.7 1060L

King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige Tooke, Wes 5.6 900L

Navigating Early Vanderpool, Clare 5.2 790L

A Solitary Blue Voigt, Cynthia 5 710L

Other Words for Home* Warga, Jasmine 5.3 930L

Bronze and Sunflower Wenxuan, Cao 5.6 790L

Stuart Little White, E. B. 6 920L

Belle Prater's Boy White, Ruth 4.4 760L

Dragonwings* Yep, Laurence 5.3 870L

Illegal Colfer, Eoin 2.5 GN490L

March: Book One Lewis, John 4.6 760L

March: Book Two Lewis, John 5.5 850L

March: Book Three Lewis, John 5.9

Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness Uehashi, Nahoko

Translated by Cathy Hirano

5.9 840L

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit Uehashi, Nahoko

Translated by Cathy Hirano

5.9 830L

One Crazy Summer* Williams-Garcia, Rita 4.6 750L

Chains Anderson, Laurie Halse 500L

Crispin: The Cross of Lead* Avi 5 730L

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi 5.3 740L

A Time of Miracles Bondoux, Anne-Laure

Translated by Y. Maudet

4.7 HL700L

Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol Ryrie 6 890L

My Brother Sam is Dead * Collier, James Lincoln and

Christopher

4.9 770L

Bud Not Buddy* Curtis, Christopher Paul 5 950L

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 Curtis, Christopher Paul 5 1000L

The Midwife's Apprentice* Cushman, Karen 6 1240L

Soldier Bear Dumon, Bibi 5.2 780LJohnny Tremain* Forbes, Esther 5.9 840L

Adam of the Road * Gray, Elizabeth Janet 6.5 1030L

Summer of My German Soldier Greene, Bette 5.2 800L

Minn of the Mississippi* Holling, Holling C. 5.6 910L

Turtle in Paradise Holm, Jennifer 3.7 610L

Miss Hickory* Bailey, Caroly Sherwin 5.9 870L

GRAPHIC NOVEL

HISTORICAL FICTION


Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

GENERAL FICTION

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Rifles for Watie* Keith, Harold 6.1 910L

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Kelly, Jacqueline 5.3 830L

Number the Stars* Lowry, Lois 5.1 670L

Riot Myers, Walter Dean 4.6

My Name is not Angelica O’Dell, Scott 4.8 750L

Sarah Bishop O’Dell, Scott 4.9 760L

A Single Shard* Park, Linda Sue 6.6 920L

Lyddie Paterson, Katherine 5.6 860L

The Master Puppeteer Paterson, Katherine 5.4 860L

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Philbrick, Rodman 5.6 950L

Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona of Mytinlini:

Captured and Sold as a Slave in Rome

Platt, Richard 6 940L

Ninth Ward Rhodes, Jewell Parker 3.3 470L

The Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth 5.7 770L

The Witch of Blackbird Pond* Speare, Elizabeth 5.7 850L

The Shadows of Ghadames Stolz, Joëlle

Translated by Catherine

Temerson

5.9 920L

The Land Taylor, Mildred D. 5 920L

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* Taylor, Mildred D. 5.7 850L

A Faraway Island Thor, Annika

Translated by Linda Schenck

4.4 680L

The Lily Pond Thor, Annika

Translated by Linda Schenck

4.7 740L

Moon Over Manifest* Vanderpool, Clare 5.3 800L

Bat 6 Wolff, Virginia Euwer 5.1 930L

Breaking Stalin's Nose Yelchin, Eugene 4.6 670L

The Devil's Arithmetic Yolen, Jane 4.6 730L

Hans Christian Andersen: Complete Fairy Tales Andersen, Hans Christian 500L

The Lost Years of Merlin Barron. T.A. 5.1 770L

A Pride of Princesses: Princess Tales from Around the

World

Climo, Shirley 740L

Just So Stories Kipling, Rudyard 6.4 1060L

Rikki, Tikki-Tavi Kipling, Rudyard 5 1060L

Sea of Monsters Riordan, Rick 4.7 740L

The Lightning Thief Riordan, Rick 4.6 740L

The Titan's Curse Riordan, Rick 630L

Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greek Myths Retold Rylant, Cynthia 5.9

The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women Tchana, Katrin Hyman 5.9 890L

LEGENDS AND MYTHS


Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

HISTORICAL FICTION

19

Hoot Hiaasen, Carl 5.2 760L

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg, E. L. 4.7 700L

A Spy in the House (The Agency Series Book #1) Lee, Y.S. 5.1 680L

The Body in the Tower (Book #2) Lee, Y.S. 5.6 760L

The Traitor in the Tunnel (Book #3) Lee, Y.S. 5.8 770L

Rivals in the City (Book #4) Lee, Y.S. 6.3 820L

The Golden Goblet* McGraw, Eloise Jarvis 6.3 930L

The Railway Children Nesbit, E. 5.5 920L

The Westing Game* Raskin, Ellen 5.3 750L

Splendors and Glooms Schlitz, Laura Amy 5.1 670L

Guys Read: Terrifying Tales (Book #6) Scieszka, Jon 4.3 660L

I.Q.: Independence Hall (Book #1) Smith, Roland 4.5 660L

I.Q.: The White House (Book #2) Smith, Roland 4.5 670L

I.Q.: Kitty Hawk (Book #3) Smith, Roland 4.4 620L

Daddy Long-Legs Webster, Jean 6.1 920L

When You Reach Me* Stead, Rebecca 4.5 750L

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of

Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

Barton, Chris 4.6 770L

March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little

Rock Nine

Beals, Melba Pattilo 5.9 950L

Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That

Changed the Future of Girls in America

Blumenthal, Karen 8.7 1140L

Step Right UP: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World

about Kindness

Bowman, Donna Janell 5.3 910L

Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena

Williams

Cline-Ransome, Lesa 6 1030L

A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World D.K. Publishing

The Monk of Mokha Eggers, Dave 960L

Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreno Played the Piano

for President Lincoln

Engle, Margartia 5.5 1260L

The Days When the Animals Talked: Black Folktales and

How They Came to Be

Faulkner, William J. 5.6 860L

Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of

America

Favreau, Marc 670L

The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius Greenberg, Jan & Sandra

Jordan

6.9 1070L

Coping with Moving Away Guillain, Charlotte 5.8 960L

Music (Jobs if You Like . . .) Guillain, Charlotte 6 780L

Hammering for Freedom Hubbard, Rita Lorraine 4.6 870L

Basketball Hughes, Morgan 5.7

Entertainment Hall of Fame Hughes, Morgan 5.7 1030L

Music Hall of Fame Hughes, Morgan 5.5 960L

Sports Hall of Fame Hughes, Morgan 5.5 960L

Women's Hall of Fame Hughes, Morgan 5.5 1020L

Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller Lambert, Joseph 4.4 630L

Hurricanes: Earth's Mightiest Storms Lauber, Patricia 6 930L

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens Lauber, Patricia 5.2 830L

MYSTERY

NON-FICTION


Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

20

The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World Losure, May 5.9 940L

All that Trash: The True Story of the 1987 Garbage

Barge and Our Problem with Stuff

McCarthy, Meghan 5 800L

The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs Messner, Kate 4.6 830L

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot Montgomery, Sy 6.4 830L

The Tarantula Scientist Montgomery, Sy 5.8 890L

The Eye that Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton

Saved President Lincoln

Moss, Marissa 5.9

A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam Myers, Walter Dean 5.2 700L

Thirty Minutes over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World

War II Story

Nobleman, Marc Tyler 5.7 990L

Beavers Poliquin, Rachel 5.2 890L

Here's Looking at Me: How Artists See Themselves Raczka, Bob 5.7

Name That Style: All About Isms in Art Raczka, Bob 5.7

So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward

Freedom

Schmidt, Gary D. 4.7 850L

Bones: Our Skeletal System Simon, Seymour 6.5 1000L

Book of Trains Simon, Seymour 5.3 940L

Comets, Meteors, Asteroids Simon, Seymour 6.4 1050L

Extreme Oceans Simon, Seymour 6.9 1170L

Volcanoes Simon, Seymour 5.1 880L

Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer

Programmer

Stanley, Diane 5 810L

Sachiko:A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story Stelson, Caren 5.7 850L

Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How

Monopoly Was Invented

Stone, Tanya Lee 5.3 930L

Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the

Football Field to the Art Gallery

Wallace, Sandra Neil 4 660l

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval

Village*

Schlitz, Laura Amy 5.6

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for

Freedom

Engle, Margartia 6.4

On My Journey Now: Looking at African American

History Through the Spirituals

Giovanni, Nikki 5.7 920L

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Hudson, Wade & Cheryl Willis

Hudson

850L

Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and

Friendship

Latham, Irene and Charles

Waters

4.6 NP

Here In Harlem: Poems in Many Voices Myers, Walter Dean 5.9 NP

Freedom in Congo Square Weatherford, Carole Boston 5.4 AD600L

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Weatherford, Carole Boston 6 910L

Brown Girl Dreaming Woodson, Jacqueline 5.3 990L

POETRY

PLAY


Title AuthorATOS

Level

Lexile

Level

NON-FICTION

21

Return to Sender Alvarez, Julia 5.5 890L

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World Blake, Ashley Herring 4.9 AD740L

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Blume, Judy 3.6 590L

Summer of the Swans* Byars, Betsy 4.9 830L

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish Cartaya, Pablo 3.9 580L

On My Honor Dane Bauer, Marion 4.7 750L

Yolanda’s Genius Fenner, Carol 4.8 710L

The Talking Earth George, Jean Craighead 5.2 770L

Old Yeller* Gipson, Fred 5 910L

Cousins Hamilton, Virginia

Up a Road Slowly* Hunt, Irene 6.6 1060L

Midnight Without a Moon Jackson, Linda Williams 5.6 870L

Heat Lupica, Mike 5.3 940L

Tight Maldonado, Torrey 3.9 600L

Rain Reign Martin, Ann M. 4.3 720L

My Friend Flicka O'Hara, Mary 6 960L

Wonder Palacio, R.J. 4.8 790L

Dogtag Summer Partridge, Elizabeth 4.5 720L

Jacob Have I Loved* Paterson, Katherine 5.7 880L

A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck, Robert Newton 4.4 690L

Where the Red Fern Grows* Rawls, Wilson 4.9 700L

Missing May* Rylant, Cynthia 5.3 980L

Under the Persimmon Tree Staples, Suzanne Fisher 5.9 1010L

Artichoke's Heart Supplee, Suzanne 5.1 780L

Paperboy Vawter, Vince 5.1 940L

Dicey's Song* Voigt, Cynthia 5 710L

Peace, Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline 4.7 860L

Hiroshima Yep, Laurence 4.9 660L

Shadow of a Bull* Wojciechowska 5.2 750L

The Wild Robot Brown, Peter 5.1 740L

The Tripods: The White Mountains Christopher, John 6.2 920L

A Swiftly Tilting Planet L'Engle, Madeline 5.2 850L

A Wind in the Door L'Engle, Madeline 5 790L

A Wrinkle in Time* L'Engle, Madeline 4.7 740L

Guys Read: Other Worlds (Book #4) Scieszka, Jon 5 760L

Lexile Level: Measures readability level and text difficulty level. AD - Adult Directed

*Indicates the book received the Newbery or Caldecott Award

Books that are highlighted have been added to the ARC list during the 2020-2021 School Year.

REALISTIC FICTION

SCIENCE FICTION

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Fifth Grade Student Edition 2020-2021