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Books for 4th & 5th Graders Spring 2025 |
The Beanstalk Murder
by P. G. Bell
When a giant falls right onto them, dead BEFORE he hit ground, Anwen and her rival, Cerys, are accidentally shot up to the kingdom of giants where Anwen decides to solve this murder with the help of a pageboy, some new animal friends and her reluctant rival.
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Giada the Healer: How to Free a Leviathan
by Meg Cannistra
Giada Bellantuono is training with fellow magical veterinarians in Argentina when her black cat familiar is kidnapped and she suspects a company that is kidnapping and hurting animals to make human medicine, in the series' third and final installment.
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Izzy Wong's nose for news
by Marty Chan
Izzy Wong finds the perfect subject for her podcast - investigating the school bathroom flooding that caused damage to classrooms. But the deeper she gets into her reporting, the more she blurs the line between truth and gossip... and right and wrong.
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The Empty Place
by Olivia A. Cole
When 11-year-old Henry's father returns a year after getting lost in the forest bearing a strange necklace as a gift, she returns to the forest to find answers and discovers that the truth isn't always simple.
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Out of My Mind: Out of My Dreams
by Sharon M. Draper
Chosen to be a U.S. spokesperson at an international symposium for kids with different abilities, Melody arrives in London where she meets like-minded kids who want to make the world more equal, no matter the unusual challenges they face, and hopes her words can make an impact.
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The Mystery of Mystic Mountain
by Janet S. Fox
Twelve-year-old Becca's unwelcome trip to a dude ranch turns adventurous when she and the wrangler's son uncover clues to the lost treasure of Pearlhandle Pete.
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Spirals & Stars
by Kate Gordon
It's 1993. Beth McMaugh is eleven years old and about to start Year Six. Her best friend, Ashlee, assures Beth that it is going to be the best year ever, but then why is she sitting with the popular girls? When the new strange, nerdy kid, Jools, befriends Beth, she is swept up instead into the School Nerd Club. Behind everything is a secret from Beth's past, a secret so terrible it stays with her, every day. Making the spirals come. And there was that day at the beach. Is that why Ashlee doesn't want to be friends? Is that why her Mum avoids her? Has Beth ruined everything? Can a nerdy girl with mismatched socks, a rebellious punk, a popular boy and a science fiction movie help set it right?
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Mr. Lemoncello's Fantabulous Finale
by Chris Grabenstein
Mr. Limoncello's game-making empire is up for grabs, and he's invited 13 lucky 13-year-olds to compete for it, including Kyle Keeley, who must stop someone from destroying the empire and all it stands for, in the popular series finale.
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Children of the Phoenix 3: The Tomb Planet
by Oskar Källner
Alice and Elias' new home, a spaceship called The Phoenix, crashes on the Empire's old burial planet, where only the dead roam, or so they think, until they receive a distress signal from their mother.
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Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North
by Antonia Maxwell
The last ice cap has melted, and the world is on the brink of collapse. A deadly force - Terra Electrica - has been unleashed. It feeds on electricity and is infecting civilization. In this chaotic, rapidly changing reality, 12-year-old Mani has lost her family and community to the Terra Electrica. Armed only with some ancestral wisdom and a powerful, ancient wooden mask she was never meant to inherit so soon, she suddenly finds herself responsible for the fate of the world. Can Mani piece everything together and harness her newfound powers in time to save humanity?
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Team Awkward: Jojo vs. Middle School
by Joy McCullough
Despite her careful planning, 11-year-old Jojo's first day of middle school unravels after an outfit mishap, caused by her cat-fluencer stepdad's new kitten, but as she tries hiding her embarrassment, she finds solace in new friends.
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The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
by Kate McKinnon
From a beloved Saturday Night Live alum comes a madcap new adventure about sisters Gertrude, Eugenia and Dee-Dee Porch, who don't belong in their snooty town, school, or adoptive family. After getting kicked out of the last etiquette school that would take them, the girls receive a mysterious invitation to a new school under the tutelage of the infamous Millicent Quibb - a mad scientist with worms in her hair and oysters in her bathtub.
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After the Wallpaper Music
by Jean Mills
When a Battle of the Bands competition is announced, Flora and her friends are thrilled. Flora wants her string quartet to play a classical song like they always do, but her friends want to play something new. Then, Simon, a talented drummer, who is struggling with a recent loss, invites Flora to join his rock trio. For Flora, finding harmony with her friends, music, and family just became more complicated.
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Radiant
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
As school begins in 1963, Cooper Dale wrestles with what it means to“shine” for a black girl plus faces bullying in a predominantly white community near Pittsburgh, in a historical novel told in verse.
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Operation Sisterhood: Stealing the Show!
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Sisters Sunday, Bo, Lee and Lil are bonded by their love of music and their musical babysitting band business, but after Sunday announces she's staging an original musical, she loses her creative mojo, so it's Operation Sisterhood to the rescue!
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Moonwind Mysteries: The Lost Ones
by Johan Rundberg
It's summer in 1880 Stockholm, and the city bakes in the heat - but the heat on twelve-year-old Mika is lifting. After lying low following the dramatic blast at the jail, Mika's relieved to learn her name is finally cleared. And it's not a moment too soon - because Detective Hoff has a perplexing case involving the disappearance of a local teen. The girl's wealthy family wants to make sure things stay quiet. Why would a girl who has everything want to run away? And why is her family so afraid to go public? Then Tekla reaches out to Mika with a truly chilling discovery at a construction site in the city - a discovery that might hit a little too close to home for Mika. Could it be the work of the Dark Angel?
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Bridget Vanderpuff and the Ghost Train
by Martin J. Stewart
As the Night of the Hungry Ghosts approaches, Bridget and Tom investigate a mysterious ghost train that causes disappearances in their town and race against time to save Mr. Vanderpuff and stop the looming threat to Belle-on-Sea.
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A Copycat Conundrum
by Lisa Yee
When one of their classmates starts receiving threatening notes, the Misfits investigate and uncover ties to an art forgery scheme.
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The One and Only Family
by Katherine Applegate
When silverback gorilla Ivan and his mate Kinyani welcome a set of twins to their family, Ivan can't help but recall his childhood in the jungle - and his own twin - as he navigates joys and challenges of parenthood.
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The Last Human: Fall of the Robots
by Lee Bacon
In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
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Minecraft: The Village
by Max Brooks
The final book in Max Brooks's official Minecraft trilogy, details the story of two stranded heroes whose block-breaking expedition lands them squarely in the middle of a conflict that only they can resolve.
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The Wild Robot Protects
by Peter Brown
Witnessing the devastation caused by the poison tide, Roz the wild robot sets out to stop it in order to save her island and everything she loves, encountering amazing geological formations and incredible creatures along the way.
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Shadow Bruja: Dawn of the Jaguar
by J. C. Cervantes
To get her life back and escape the darkness, shadow bruja Ren Santiago makes a deal with Ixtab, queen of Xibalba, and to accomplish the queen's task without magic, she must recognize the power that's always been inside her.
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Middle School and Other Disasters: Worst Love Spell Ever!
by Wanda Coven
Heidi is settling in at Broomsfield Academy. She and Melanie are trying to get along and Heidi is getting used to her classes, all her new friends, and her very first crush, Hunter! The problem is: Hunter is really popular. How will Heidi get him to notice her? Her friends tell her to just be herself, but that sounds so boring! After all, Heidi is a witch-in-training. What good is having magic if you can't use it? She knows she can find the perfect love spell to make Hunter fall in love with her. What could possibly go wrong?
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Amazing Adventures of Noah Minor: The Minor Miracle
by Meredith Davis
When seventh grade Noah discovers he can manipulate gravity, he is excited to train with Gravitas, a top-secret government agency, but his excitement is tempered by the revelation that his great-uncle Saul is both on the agency's most-wanted list and holds the key to unlocking Noah's full potential.
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Thousand Worlds: Fox Snare
by Yoon Ha Lee
When Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun are sent on a goodwill mission to prevent war from breaking out, they end up getting stranded on a death planet behind enemy lines.
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ChupaCarter and the Screaming Sombrero
by George Lopez
When Ernie's dad is accused of stealing artifacts related to the legendary El Dorado gold, Jorge and his friends set out to clear his name and run into a fiendish ring of thieves along the way.
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Deadlands: Trapped
by Skye Melki-Wegner
After thwarting the Carrion Kingdom and destroying their stronghold, Eleri and the other young exiles must risk their lives by returning home to unite and lead the war-torn herds that turned their backs on them into one final, all-out battle for the very future of Cretacea.
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A Horse Named Sky
by Rosanne Parry
Young wild colt Sky must find his way over rough terrain to rejoin his family after being captured for the Pony Express.
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The Ghosts of Nameless Island
by Carly Anne West
Moving to remote Nameless Island with his mom, who has been hired to restore Rotham Manor, 12-year-old Gus, who can talk to the dead, meets a colorful cast of characters while facing off against a ghost who wants to hurt him.
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Farrah Noorzad and the Ring of Fate
by Deeba Zargarpur
When a birthday wish gone wrong traps her father in a magical ring, 12-year-old Farrah discovers she's half-jinn and her father is one of the seven great jinn kings, and she must find a way to navigate the mysteries and dangers of her new world to set things right. Simultaneous eBook.
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Winnie Zeng Shatters the Universe
by Katie Zhao
Winnie and David join shamans from around the world to participate in the Shaman Youth Tournament, but while all the competitors are away, evil spirits threaten to overrun the defenseless human world
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