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Books for 4th & 5th Graders Summer 2025 |
Rebellion 1776
by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1776, 13-year-old Elspeth is alone in a city ravaged by the smallpox epidemic and finds work taking care of a large, wealthy family as they await a turn at inoculation, as she also tries to find her father who went missing during the Siege of Boston.
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Lost in the Empire City
by Avi
Santo, a young immigrant from Italy, gets separated from his mother and siblings at Ellis Island and is left in Manhattan, knowing no English, to fend for himself, and he soon discovers that America is not what he envisioned.
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Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum
by Alasdair Beckett-King
Ten-year-old Bonnie Montgomery, the world's great detective - also known as her gentleman detective alter ego, Montgomery Bonbon - is needed at the Hornville Museum where a mysterious death has occurred.
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Rick Kotani's 400 Million Dollar Summer
by Waka T. Brown
Twelve-year-old Rick Kotani is looking forward to playing summer baseball in California but must move to Oregon to help his Grandpa Hiroshi, and after the two bond over a Japanese folktale about personal values, Rick joins a super competitive baseball league and must make big decisions about what he values most.
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Grimmworld: The Big Bad Wolf
by Michaelbrent Collings
Twins Jake and Willow return to Grimmworld and must pass the Wolf Trials in order to steal the gold Wolf Claw and trade it with the fairy queen for information about their missing father.
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Growing Home
by Beth Ferry
A motley crew of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use their newfound magical abilities to defend their family from a greedy human.
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Kaya of the Ocean
by Gloria L. Huang
Thirteen-year-old Kaya has serious anxiety and bad luck around the ocean, but after learning she is a descendant of a Chinese water goddess, she must connect with her difficult emotions to protect her loved ones.
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Kairos Files: A Home for Unusual Monsters
by Shaun David Hutchinson
Sam Osborne uses her powers of disguise to infiltrate the family of a former agent to find information about monsters hiding in plain sight, as she tries to prove herself as a member of the secretive agency investigating the unusual. Simultaneous eBook.
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Firebred: Storm Dragons
by Julie Kagawa
Remy, Gem and Storm team up to evade the king's guards, learn hidden truths and face a villain no one saw coming as they discover what it means to be a good friend and what it takes to be a hero.
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Old School
by Gordon Korman
Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
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The Restorationists: Between Flowers and Bones
by Carolyn Leiloglou
When her cousin Vincent joins the family calling and willingly steps into the heart of danger, 12-year-old Georgia doubts herself and wonders if her Gift is really enough to rescue her family, the art world, the Restorationists - and ultimately save the day.
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Beasties
by Peter Lerangis
On a field trip to Central Park, Riley and his classmates accidentally encounter a supernatural artifact that looks a lot like, well, honestly - a piece of poop. But one of them gets too close, there's a blinding flash, and suddenly the five friends are turned into various critters. Riley's sister's a hawk, the school bully's a raccoon, and Riley? He's transformed into everyone's least favorite animal, a New York City rat. Their once-dull morning quickly turns into a fight for survival. The kids have stayed alive long enough find a way to turn themselves back to normal. But as it turns out, they're not the only humans-turned-into-animals on the loose in Central Park.
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Spirit Service
by Sarena Nanua
A group of twelve-year-old girls start a small business helping their local neighborhood spirits pass on to the other side.
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One Wrong Step
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Atlas Wade's father signs the duo up for an expedition group to summit Mount Everest, as war returns to Europe and Nazis are attempting their own summit nearby, in a story about loss and letting go.
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Kingdom Keepers Inheritance: The Final Draw
by Ridley Pearson
The Villains are making their ultimate stand to take over the Disney parks, which are fading as the stories they are based on cease to exist, leaving Eli and his friends to stop Ursula before the parks are ruined.
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The Sherlock Society
by James Ponti
Starting a detective agency instead of spending the summer babysitting, mowing lawns or cleaning, siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock team up with their retired reporter grandfather to solve cold cases, including a long-lost treasure supposedly hidden near the Everglades linked to famed gangster Al Capone.
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El Niño
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Over the course of a California summer, Kai, a competitive swimmer in training, learns about a legendary Amazonian queen, about El Nino and about letting go of grief.
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The Forgotten Magic of Zoey Turner
by Erin Stewart
Zoe Turner's anxiety disorder has been ruling her life since her father's death, and after the story she's written comes alive, she takes risks she thought were behind her in pursuit of her happy ending.
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Same Page
by Elly Swartz
Bess Stein is stunned to learn people don't want certain books in the school vending machine, and the person leading the fight is her friend's mom, but Bess wants to ensure kids who might like the books can read them.
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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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