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Realistic Fiction Books for 4th and 5th graders |
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The Lemonade War
by Jacqueline Davies
Evan Treski, who is people-smart, and his younger sister Jesse, who is math-smart, battle it out through competing lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn one hundred dollars.
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Scat
by Carl Hiaasen
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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Lost and Found
by Andrew Clements
Moving to another new town and school, identical twins Ray and Jay discover an opportunity for mischief when Ray misses the first day of the sixth grade and Jay discovers that Ray was inadvertently not enrolled. By the best-selling author of Frindle.
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Judy Moody and the Bucket List
by Megan McDonald
Discovering Grandma Lou's mysterious "bucket list" of things that she wants to do in her lifetime, Judy Moody is inspired to create a list of her own goals, from learning to do a cartwheel to visiting Antarctica.
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Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street
by Sharon Flake
Ten-year-old Queen, a spoiled and conceited African American girl who is disliked by most of her classmates, learns a lesson about friendship from an unlikely "knight in shining armor."
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Seedfolks
by Paul Fleischman
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
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Dumpling Days
by Grace Lin
Traveling to Taiwan with her family for a month-long visit, Pacy struggles with her inability to speak the local language, accidentally eats chicken feet and discovers astonishing facts about her heritage. By the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
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Swindle
by Gordon Korman
When his precious baseball card is stolen by a mean dealer named Swindle, Griffin Bing gathers up a group of courageous misfits and devises a plan to break into the compound to get it back.
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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The First Rule of Punk
by Celia C. Pérez
When her first day at a new school is overshadowed by a clash with a queen bee and her dress code violating punk-rock clothes, 12-year-old Malú listens to her faraway dad's advice and resolves to be herself by pursuing the interests she loves and standing up to an anti-punk administration.
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