2010s books assigned in 5th grade

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• After Ever After · Jordan Sonnenblick
• Akata Witch · Nnedi Okorafor
• Alchemy and Meggy Swann · Karen Cushman
• Aliens Are Coming! · Megan McCarthy
• All's Faire in Middle School · Victoria Jamieson
• Allies · Alan Gratz
• Amal Unbound · Aisha Saeed
• Amelia Lost · Candace Fleming
• America is Under Attack September 11 2001 · Don Brown
• Anna and the Swallow Man · Gavriel Savit
• Anything But Typical · Nora Raleigh Baskin
• Arabella of Mars · David D. Levine
• Archivist Wasp · Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian · Eoin Colfer
• Arthur, For the Very First Time · Patricia MacLachlan
• Aru Shah and the End of Time · Roshani Chokshi
• As Brave As You · Jason Reynolds
• At Night · Jonathan Bean
• Athlete vs. Mathlete · W. C. Mack
• Ava and Pip · Carol Weston
• Awkward · Svetlana Chmakova
• Backlash · Sarah Darer Littman
• Ban This Book · Alan Gratz
• Barbed Wire Baseball · Marissa Moss
• Because of Mr. Terupt · Rob Buyea
• Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold) · Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Behemoth · Scott Westerfeld
• Belly Up · Stuart Gibbs
• Best Friends · Shannon Hale
• Better Nate Than Ever · Tim Federle
• Between Shades Of Gray · Ruta Sepetys
• Beyond the Bright Sea · Lauren Wolk
• Big Nate: In a Class by Himself · Lincoln Peirce
• Big Red Lollipop · Rukhsana Khan
• Bink & Gollie · Kate DiCamillo
• Black Enough · Ibi Zoboi
• Black Heart · Holly Black
• Black Potatoes · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Blended · Sharon M. Draper
• Blink and Caution · Tim Wynne-Jones
• Bloody Jack Series · L. A. Meyer
• Bo at Ballard Creek · Kirkpatrick Hill
• Boats for Papa · Jessixa Bagley
• Borrowed Children · George Lyon
• Brown Girl Dreaming · Jacqueline Woodson
• Buddy · M. H. Herlong
• Building Our House · Jonathan Bean
• Call of the Klondike · David Meissner
• Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms · Katherine Rundell
• Carver · Marilyn Nelson
• Catfishing on CatNet · Naomi Kritzer
• Chickadee · Louise Erdrich
• Children of Blood and Bone · Tomi Adeyemi
• Chime · Franny Billingsley
• Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang · Ian Fleming
• City of Ghosts · Victoria Schwab
• Clayton Byrd Goes Underground · Rita Williams-Garcia
• Clever Little Witch · Muon Thi Van
• Cliff-Hanger · Alane Ferguson
• Close to Famous · Joan Bauer
• Cog · Greg van Eekhout
• Counting by 7s · Holly Goldberg Sloan
• Court of Fives · Kate Elliott
• Creepy Carrots! · Aaron Reynolds
• Crush · Svetlana Chmakova
• Cuckoo Song · Frances Hardinge
• Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine · Raymond Abrashkin
• Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor · Raymond Abrashkin
• Dash (Dogs of World War II) · Kirby Larson
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone · Laini Taylor
• Dead End in Norvelt · Jack Gantos
• Diego Rivera · Duncan Tonatiuh
• Dirty Wings · Sarah McCarry
• Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories · Laura Vaccaro Seeger
• Dog Man · Dav Pilkey
• Dogtag Summer · Elizabeth Partridge
• Doña Flor · Pat Mora
• Down Sand Mountain · Steve Watkins
• Dragon Pearl · Yoon Ha Lee
• Drama · Raina Telgemeier
• Dread Nation · Justina Ireland
• Dream on Amber · Emma Shevah
• Driver's Ed · Caroline B. Cooney
• Duke · Kirby Larson
• Each Kindness · Jacqueline Woodson
• Eagle Drums · NASUGRAQ RAINEY. HOPSON
• Echo · Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Eight Keys · Suzanne M. LaFleur
• El Chupacabras · Adam Rubin
• El Deafo · Cece Bell
• Eleanor & Park · Rainbow Rowell
• Electric Ben · Robert Byrd
• Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold) · Christopher Paul Curtis
• Ellie's Story · W. Bruce Cameron
• Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah · Laurie Ann Thompson
• Enchanted · Alethea Kontis
• Enchanted Air · Margarita Engle
• Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library · Chris Grabenstein
• Escaping the Giant Wave · Peg Kehret
• Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist · Susan Wood
• Every Day · David Levithan
• Everybody Sees the Ants · A.S. King
• Evil Librarian · Michelle Knudsen
• Exo · Fonda Lee
• Extra Yarn · Mac Barnett
• Eyes Like Stars · Lisa Mantchev
• Fair Coin · E.C. Myers
• Firebird · Misty Copeland
• Fish in a Tree · Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• Five, Six, Seven, Nate! · Tim Federle
• Flora's Dare · Ysabeau S. Wilce
• Found · Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Framed! · James Ponti
• Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom · Eric Wight
• Freedom Over Me · Ashley Bryan
• Front Desk · Kelly Yang
• Full of Beans · Jennifer L. Holm
• Funny Bones · Duncan Tonatiuh
• Funny Bones · Duncan Tonatiuh
• Fuzzy Mud · Louis Sachar
• Game Changer · Tommy Greenwald
• Genesis Begins Again · Alicia D. Williams
• Ghetto Cowboy · G. Neri
• Ghost · Jason Reynolds
• Ghost Boys · Jewell Parker Rhodes
• Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma · Joe Hayes
• Ghost Knight · Cornelia Funke
• Ghost Soldier · Elaine Marie Alphin
• Ghosts · Raina Telgemeier
• Giants Beware · Jorge Aguirre
• Glory O'Brien's History of the Future · A.S. King
• Goblin Secrets · William Alexander
• Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs · Mo Willems
• Gone Crazy in Alabama · Rita Williams-Garcia
• Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter · Kenard Pak
• Grandma's Gift · Eric Velasquez
• Grasshopper Jungle · Andrew Smith
• Greenglass House · Kate Milford
• Guinea Dog · Patrick Jennings
• Guts · Raina Telgemeier
• H.O.R.S.E. · Christopher Myers
• Hand in Hand · Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Handbook for Dragon Slayers · Merrie Haskell
• Heart and Soul · Kadir Nelson
• Heart and Soul · Kadir Nelson
• Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller · Doreen Rappaport
• Hello, Universe · Erin Entrada Kelly
• Help Me, Mr. Mutt! · Susan Stevens Crummel
• Her Right Foot · Dave Eggers
• Here Comes the Garbage Barge · Jonah Winter
• Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword · Barry Deutsch
• Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
• Humbug Mountain · Sid Fleischman
• I Have a Dream · Martin Luther King Jr.
• I Know Here · Laurel Croza
• I Lived on Butterfly Hill · Marjorie Agosín
• I Shall Wear Midnight · Terry Pratchett
• I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 · Lauren Tarshis
• I, Too, Am America · Langston Hughes
• I'm Dirty! · Kate McMullan
• I'm Going to Sing, Black American Spirituals, Volume Two · Ashley Bryan
• If I Built a School · Chris Van Dusen
• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse · Joseph Marshall
• Infinite Hope · Ashley Bryan
• Inside Out & Back Again · Thanhha Lai
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus · Dusti Bowling
• Iron Hearted Violet · Kelly Barnhill
• Jake and Lily · Jerry Spinelli
• Jazz Day · Roxane Orgill
• John F. Kennedy and PT-109 · Richard Tregaskis
• Jordin Tootoo · Melanie Florence
• Just a Minute · Yuyi Morales
• Just In Case · Yuyi Morales
• Kakapo Rescue · Sy Montgomery
• La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One · Philip Pullman
• Last Stop on Market Street · Matt de la Peña
• Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters · K. G. Campbell
• Let it Shine · Ashley Bryan
• Life on Mars · Jennifer Brown
• Lifeboat 12 · Susan Hood
• Lily and Dunkin · Donna Gephart
• Little Little · M. E. Kerr
• Locomotive · Brian Floca
• Loot · Jude Watson
• Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness · Donn Fendler
• Love Is the Drug · Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Lucky Broken Girl · Ruth Behar
• Lulu's Mysterious Mission · Judith Viorst
• Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess · Shari Green
• Made By Hand: A Crafts Sampler · Carole Lexa Schaefer
• Malcolm at Midnight · W. H. Beck
• Mama, Do You Love Me? & Papa, Do You Love Me? Bundle · Barbara M. Joosse
• March Book Three · John Lewis
• Maria Had a Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita · Angela Dominguez
• Mario and the Hole in the Sky · Elizabeth Rusch
• Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale · Carmen Agra Deedy
• Marvelous Cornelius · Phil Bildner
• Max and the Midknights · Lincoln Peirce
• Maxi’s Secrets: (Or, What You Can Learn from a Dog) · Lynn Plourde
• Me and Momma and Big John · Mara Rockliff
• Merci Suárez Changes Gears · Meg Medina
• Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1) · Lisa Yee
• Milo · Alan Silberberg
• Mockingbird · Kathryn Erskine
• Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter · D. M. Cornish
• Monstrous Beauty · Elizabeth Fama
• Moon Over Manifest · Clare Vanderpool
• Most Dangerous · Steve Sheinkin
• Mr Gumpy's Outing · John Burningham
• Mr Tiger Goes Wild · Peter Brown
• Muckrackers · Ann Bausum
• My Explosive Diary · Emily Gale
• My Mama Needs Me · Mildred Pitts Walter
• Nelson Mandela · Kadir Nelson
• New Kid · Jerry Craft
• Nimona · ND Stevenson
• Noah Webster and His Words · Jeri Ferris
• Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle · Brian Dennis
• Okay for Now · Gary D. Schmidt
• One Crazy Summer · Rita Williams-Garcia
• One for Sorrow · Mary Downing Hahn
• Open This Little Book · Jesse Klausmeier
• Openly, Honestly · Bill Konigsberg
• Operation: Dump the Chump · Barbara Park
• Other Words for Home · Jasmine Warga
• Otis and Will Discover the Deep · Barb Rosenstock
• Out of My Mind · Sharon M. Draper
• P.S. Be Eleven · Rita Williams-Garcia
• Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote · Duncan Tonatiuh
• Pax · Sara Pennypacker
• Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword · Henry Lien
• Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions · Henry Lien
• Pie · Sarah Weeks
• Pie in the Sky · Remy Lai
• Piecing Me Together · Renée Watson
• Pocketful of Posies · Salley Mavor
• Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum · Meghan McCarthy
• Postcards from Camp · Simms Taback
• Prisoner B-3087 · Alan Gratz
• Projekt 1065 · Alan Gratz
• Queen of the Falls · Chris Van Allsburg
• Radiant Child · Javaka Steptoe
• Radiant Child · Javaka Steptoe
• Railhead · Philip Reeve
• Railsea · China Miéville
• Real Friends · Shannon Hale
• Rebound · Kwame Alexander
• Redwood and Ponytail · K.A. Holt
• Refugee · Alan Gratz
• Restart · Gordon Korman
• Revolution · Deborah Wiles
• Rocks Fall Everyone Dies · Lindsay Ribar
• Roller Girl · Victoria Jamieson
• Rotters · Daniel Kraus
• Runaway Twin · Peg Kehret
• Sadie · Courtney Summers
• Sal and Gabi Break the Universe · Carlos Hernandez
• Salvage · Alexandra Duncan
• Saving Winslow · Sharon Creech
• Saving Zasha · Randi G. Barrow
• Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library · Carole Boston Weatherford
• Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy · Scott Westerfeld
• Scowler · Daniel Kraus
• See You in the Cosmos · Jack Cheng
• Separate Is Never Equal · Duncan Tonatiuh
• September Girls · Bennett Madison
• Seraphina · Rachel Hartman
• Sergeant Reckless · Patricia McCormick
• Seriously Wicked · Tina Connolly
• Shadowshaper · Daniel José Older
• Siberia · Ann Halam
• Sidekicks · Dan Santat
• Sister Mine · Nalo Hopkinson
• Sisters · Raina Telgemeier
• Skulduggery Pleasant – Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 1 - 12 · Derek Landy
• Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe · Jo Watson Hackl
• Small Spaces · Katherine Arden
• Smile · Raina Telgemeier
• Song for A Whale · Lynne Kelly
• Sophie's Squash · Pat Zietlow Miller
• Sparks! · Ian Boothby
• Stella Díaz Has Something to Say · Angela Dominguez
• Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender · Leslye Jo Anne Walton
• Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen · Candace Fleming
• Summer of the Mariposas · Guadalupe Garcia McCall
• Sunny Side Up · Jennifer L. Holm
• Superfudge · Judy Blume
• Teddy Mars Book #3: Almost an Outlaw · Molly B. Burnham
• Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus · John Grandits
• Tess of the Road · Rachel Hartman
• The Apothecary · Maile Meloy
• The Art of Starving · Sam J. Miller
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I · M. T. Anderson
• The Bad Guys · Aaron Blabey
• The Bell Rang · James E. Ransome
• The Best School Year Ever · Barbara Robinson
• The Big Bad Fox · Benjamin Renner
• The Black Stallion Adventures · Walter Farley
• The Black Stallion Challenged · Walter Farley
• The Blackbird Girls · Anne Blankman
• The Boy at the Back of the Class · Onjali Q. Raúf
• The Boy at the End of the World · Greg van Eekhout
• The Boy from Ilysies · Pearl North
• The Boy on the Porch · Sharon Creech
• The Bridge Home · Padma Venkatraman
• The Candymakers · Wendy Mass
• The Cardboard Kingdom · Chad Sell
• The Christmas Boot · Lisa Wheeler
• The Coldest Girl in Coldtown · Holly Black
• The Crossover · Kwame Alexander
• The Day the Crayons Quit · Drew Daywalt
• The Detective's Assistant - FREE PREVIEW EDITION (The First 8 Chapters) · Kate Hannigan
• The Diviners Free Preview Edition (The First 11 Chapters) · Libba Bray
• The Downstairs Girl · Stacey Lee
• The Dreamer · Pam Muñoz Ryan
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone · Delia Sherman
• The False Prince · Jennifer A. Nielsen
• The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia · Candace Fleming
• The Farmer and the Clown · Marla Frazee
• The Fault in Our Stars · John Green
• The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook · Joanne Rocklin
• The Forbidden Library · Django Wexler
• The Fourteenth Goldfish · Jennifer L. Holm
• The Fourth Stall Part III · Chris Rylander
• The Freedom Maze · Delia Sherman
• The Full Moon at the Napping House · Audrey Wood
• The Ghost of Graylock · Dan Poblocki
• The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories · Rae Carson
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making · Catherynne M. Valente
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon · Kelly Barnhill
• The Girl Who Drew Butterflies · Joyce Sidman
• The Girl with the Ghost Machine · Lauren DeStefano
• The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us · Tanya Lee Stone
• The Great Brain Does It Again · John D. Fitzgerald
• The Great Pet Escape · Victoria Jamieson
• The Haunting of Falcon House · Eugene Yelchin
• The Honest Truth · Dan Gemeinhart
• The Incredible Journey · Burnford Sheila
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret · Brian Selznick
• The Jigsaw Jungle · Kristin Levine
• The Last Kids on Earth · Max Brallier
• The Last Musketeer · Stuart Gibbs
• The Last Straw · Jeff Kinney
• The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors · Drew Daywalt
• The Library of Ever · Zeno Alexander
• The Lie Tree · Frances Hardinge
• The Lifters · Dave Eggers
• The Lion Hunters Novels · Elizabeth Wein
• The Lost Hero · Rick Riordan
• The Magic Misfits · Neil Patrick Harris
• The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: The Wall of Fame Game · Crystal Allen
• The Mark of Athena · Rick Riordan
• The Notorious Benedict Arnold · Steve Sheinkin
• The One and Only Ivan · Katherine Applegate
• The Patchwork Bike · Maxine Beneba Clarke
• The Perfect Score · Rob Buyea
• The Pilgrims of Plimoth · Marcia Sewall
• The Port Chicago 50 · Steve Sheinkin
• The Princess and the Warrior · Duncan Tonatiuh
• The Race to Save the Lord God Bird · Phillip Hoose
• The Rain Came Down · David Shannon
• The Red Pyramid · Rick Riordan
• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise · Dan Gemeinhart
• The Remember Balloons · Jessie Oliveros
• The Sasquatch Escape · Suzanne Selfors
• The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place · Julie Berry
• The Scorpio Races · Maggie Stiefvater
• The Screaming Staircase · Jonathan Stroud
• The Season of Styx Malone · Kekla Magoon
• The Skydiving Beavers · Susan Wood
• The Snowman: The Book of the Classic Film · Raymond Briggs
• The Star-Touched Queen · Roshani Chokshi
• The Stonekeeper: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #1) · Kazu Kibuishi
• The Storm in the Barn · Matt Phelan
• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda · Tom Angleberger
• The Summer Prince · Alaya Dawn Johnson
• The Sword of Summer · Rick Riordan
• The Thing About Leftovers · C.C. Payne
• The Thing About Luck · Cynthia Kadohata
• The Undefeated · Kwame Alexander
• The Unwanteds · Lisa McMann
• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street · Karina Yan Glaser
• The Village by the Sea · Paula Fox
• The War That Saved My Life · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• The Way Things Work Now · David Macaulay
• The Wild Robot · Peter Brown
• The Witch Boy · Lee Knox Ostertag
• The Wizards of Once · Cressida Cowell
• Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer · John Grisham
• They Say Blue · Jillian Tamaki
• Thirty Minutes Over Oregon · Marc Tyler Nobleman
• This Promise of Change · Jo Ann Allen Boyce
• Traction Man Is Here! · Mini Grey
• Trombone Shorty · Troy Andrews
• Tucky Jo and Little Heart · Patricia Polacco
• Turtle in Paradise · Jennifer L. Holm
• Twelve Days in May · Larry Dane Brimner
• Ultraviolet · R.J. Anderson
• Una niña llamada Rose / Rain Reign · Ann M. Martin
• Underground · Shane W. Evans
• Ungifted · Gordon Korman
• Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3) · Sarah Rees Brennan
• Updraft · Fran Wilde
• Valiant · Holly Black
• Vessel · Sarah Beth Durst
• Vincent and Theo · Deborah Heiligman
• Viva Frida · Yuyi Morales
• Want · Cindy Pon
• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga · Traci Sorell
• We Will Not Be Silent · Russell Freedman
• We're Not from Here · Geoff Rodkey
• Weave a Circle Round · Kari Maaren
• Wedgie & Gizmo · Suzanne Selfors
• Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel · Chris Grabenstein
• When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop · Laban Carrick Hill
• When We Wake · Karen Healey
• White Bird · R.J. Palacio
• White Cat · Holly Black
• Wild Wings · Gill Lewis
• Wildfire · Rodman Philbrick
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson · John Green
• Will Rogers Immortal Cowboy · Shannon Garst
• Willa of the Wood · Robert Beatty
• Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy · Tui T. Sutherland
• Winterhouse · Ben Guterson
• Wish · Barbara O'Connor
• Wishtree · Katherine Applegate
• Wonder · R.J. Palacio
• Wonderstruck · Brian Selznick
• Young Fredle · Cynthia Voigt
• Zeroboxer · Fonda Lee