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ALSC Recommended Books for Kids Entering Grades 3-5 |
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And then, boom!
by Lisa Fipps
This novel in verse features poverty-stricken Joseph, who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.
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Bea and the new deal horse
by Laura Elliott
When her father abandons her and her sister during the Great Depression, Bea sets out to convince the imposing Mrs. Scott to take in two stray children by gaining the trust of her dangerous chestnut horse to save her farm.
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Bog myrtle
by Sid Sharp
Living with a family of helpful spiders, Beatrice is gifted magic yarn from a giant sustainability-obsessed forest spider named Bog Myrtle, but when her sister Magnolia uses this opportunity for profit, turning their home into a magic sweater factory, Bog Myrtle is not pleased.
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The boy and the elephant
by Freya Blackwood
In this beautifully illustrated wordless picture book, a young boy who has an imaginary friend in the wooded lot next to his house—an elephant he sees within the shapes of the trees—sets out save the land when it's sold and the trees are marked for removal.
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Continental drifter
by Kathy Macleod
Spending most of the year in Bangkok and then the summer in Maine, Thai American Kathy struggles to fit in and longs to find a place where she truly belongs, but she's not sure if it's in America, Thailand… or anywhere.
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The curse of Eelgrass Bog
by Mary Averling
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse.
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Daughters of the lamp
by Nedda Lewers
While in Egypt for her uncle's wedding, Sahara Rashad, who lives by logic and has never believed in magic, embarks on an adventure of a lifetime when her late mother's necklace leads her to Ali Baba's magical treasure and the discovery of her true legacy.
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Ferris
by Kate DiCamillo
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Uncle Ted moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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The first state of being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
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LOL 101 : a kid's guide to writing jokes
by David Roth
This hilarious how-to joke book for kids who want to channel their inner comedian provides easy-to-follow exercises to help them write jokes that really make people LOL.
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Magnolia Wu unfolds it all
by Chanel Miller
A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way.
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Max in the house of spies / : A Tale of World War II
by Adam Gidwitz
To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible: become a British spy.
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Quagmire Tiarello couldn't be better
by Mylisa Larsen
When his mother's unstable mental health forces him to find shelter with an uncle he didn't know he had, fiercely independent nonconformist Quagmire must recalibrate his formidable survival skills to build a new life.
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The secret library
by Kekla Magoon
Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she“checks out” adventure after adventure.
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A strange thing happened in Cherry Hall
by Jasmine Warga
When he encounters a floating girl who resembles the girl in a painting stolen from the museum, Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery and teams up with a classmate and a turtle named Agatha to look for the clues all around them.
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The wrong way home
by Kate O'Shaughnessy
When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one
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