Grade 5

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The Comeback

From the Series Lorimer Sports Stories

On the surface, fourteen-year-old Chris is pretty average, playing hockey and having friends. But underneath it all, Chris is depressed. He quits his hockey team, but his doctor suggests that Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

The Congress: A Look at the Legislative Branch

From the Series Searchlight Books ™ — How Does Government Work?

What is the legislative branch? It's the part of government that makes our country's laws. But just how does the legislative branch make a law? And what else does this branch do? Read this… Read More →

  • Lexile: 740
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: 328.73
  • Copyright: 2012

The Conundrum of the Crooked Crayon: Solving Mysteries Through Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math

From the Series Jesse Steam Mysteries

While doing spring cleaning in her room, Jesse comes across a crayon on her window sill that is curiously bent over. She recalls that the crayon was there all winter and not bent at all.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 720
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021

The Country Artist: A Story about Beatrix Potter

From the Series Creative Minds Biographies

Tea with a hedgehog and supper with a rabbit? Beatrix Potter entertained guests that most people--certainly Beatrix Potter's proper Victorian parents--would have thought belonged in a meadow, Read More →

  • Lexile: 830
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: 823'.912
  • Copyright: 1989

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Coronavirus Timeline

From the Series Gateway Biographies

In late 2019 the Chinese city of Wuhan reported several cases of what doctors thought was pneumonia. But it wasn't long before officials identified a new coronavirus behind the outbreak:… Read More →

  • Lexile: 920
  • ATOS: 6.4
  • Dewey: 614.5/924140973
  • Copyright: 2021

The Crazy Careers of Video Game Designers

From the Series ShockZone ™ — Games and Gamers

You might think that working in the video game industry is all fun and, well...games. Jobs like combat designer and animator sound pretty exciting. But do you know what it really takes to do… Read More →

  • Lexile: 810
  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: 794.8
  • Copyright: 2014

The Crumbling Castle

From the Series The Fabulous Cakes of Zinnia Jakes

Meet Zoe Jones (aka Zinnia Jakes), a nine-year old SECRET PASTRY CHEF! Schoolgirl by day and chef by night! When Zinnia Jakes get a new pastry order for a special medieval crumbling castle… Read More →

  • Lexile: 660
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020
Spring 2024

The Cupsnake Escape: Book 2

From the Series Frankinschool

Fred and Luisa find themselves in trouble once again when the new student mixes up recipes at their class's bakery field trip, leading to snakes running amok. While the students scramble out… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024

The Currys

From the Series Families of Fame & Fortune

Meet the Currys, a family of superstar athletes. The Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and his brother, Seth Curry of the Portland Trail Blazers, faced off on the court in the first-ever… Read More →

  • Lexile: 720
  • Dewey: 796.323
  • Copyright: 2022

The Curse of the Cairo Cat: A Lottie Lipton Adventure

From the Series The Adventures of Lottie Lipton

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! When the mysterious Golden Cat of Cairo disappears, Sir Trevelyan Taylor, the head curator of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

The Dawn of Planet Earth

From the Series Prehistoric Field Guides

Join Ackerley the Acanthostega and travel back in time 4,500 million years to the Precambrian period, when our planet first formed. Witness the appearance of the very first organisms in the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 960
  • ATOS: 6.2
  • Dewey: 576.8
  • Copyright: 2016

The Daytona 500: The Thrill and Thunder of the Great American Race

From the Series Spectacular Sports

Who won the first Daytona 500? What do teams do to prepare their cars for 500 miles of hard, high-speed racing? Who gave the Daytona 500 the nickname the "Great American Race"? Learn all… Read More →

  • Lexile: 910
  • ATOS: 5.9
  • Dewey: 796.720975921
  • Copyright: 2011

The Deadening: Book 1

From the Series Dead Max Comix

Derrick Hollis is a 7th grader at Zachary Taylor Middle School and an aspiring cartoonist, too shy to show his work to anybody but his best friend Doug. When his dog Max dies, Derrick is left Read More →

  • Lexile: 490
  • ATOS: 2.3
  • Dewey: 741.5
  • Copyright: 2020

The Demon Babysitter

From the Series The Nightmare Club

The Nightmare Club is not for just ANYBODY. Only the spookiest, scariest stories get told at Annie's Halloween sleepovers—and if you can't take it, well, tough! All the neighborhood kids… Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • ATOS: 3.7
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2015

The Discovery of Germs: A Graphic History

From the Series Medical Breakthroughs

Earth is home to trillions of germs. But for most of human history, people didn't know germs existed! Healers of the past had different ideas about illnesses and their cures. They blamed… Read More →

  • Lexile: 830
  • Dewey: 579
  • Copyright: 2022
Fall 2023

The Dodo and the Kiwi

From the Series Endangered: Lessons from the Past

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In that time, animals have come and gone. That's nature. But sometimes, people have played a role in an animal's early disappearance. Deforestation,… Read More →

  • Dewey: 591
  • Copyright: 2023

The Drained Brains Caper: Book 1

From the Series Chicagoland Detective Agency

Raf knows Megan is trouble from the moment she steps into his mom's pet food store asking for a tarantula. But there's one thing you can count on in Chicagoland: weird things happen several… Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • ATOS: 3.1
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2010

The Eagle of Rome: A Lottie Lipton Adventure

From the Series The Adventures of Lottie Lipton

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! Lady Viola Kirton, the famous treasure hunter, is on the trail of a legendary Roman eagle. But Read More →

  • Lexile: 750
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

The Early Cretaceous Volume 2: Notes, Drawings, and Observations from Prehistory

From the Series Ancient Earth Journal

What it would be like to see a living, breathing dinosaur? The Early Cretaceous brings readers closer to prehistoric life than ever before. By combining the latest paleontological findings… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1110
  • Dewey: 560.177
  • Copyright: 2017

The Ears and Nose (A Disgusting Augmented Reality Experience)

From the Series The Gross Human Body in Action: Augmented Reality

Explore how your body works through interactive augmented reality experiences! Examine sticky, stinky earwax and find out exactly what's going on in your nose when you smell something nasty.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 850
  • Dewey: 612.8/5
  • Copyright: 2021

The Edelweiss Pirates

In Germany in 1938, playing and dancing to jazz music is forbidden. The Hitler Youth patrol the night streets looking for anyone who breaks the rules. Albert is a member of the Edelweiss… Read More →

  • Lexile: 630
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2018

The Egyptian Enchantment: A Lottie Lipton Adventure

From the Series The Adventures of Lottie Lipton

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! When Lottie reads a magic spell that brings some mischievous Egyptian statues to life, the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 700
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

The Electric Guitar: A Graphic History

From the Series Amazing Inventions

For decades, the blasts and howls of the electric guitar have been some of the defining sounds of popular music. But more than a century of effort and innovation had to happen before this… Read More →

  • Lexile: 860
  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: 787.87/192
  • Copyright: 2021

The Epic Evolution of Video Games

From the Series ShockZone ™ — Games and Gamers

Have you ever wondered what video games would be like if they never changed? The first games were little more than bouncing dots on a plain screen. Modern games include astonishing action,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 860
  • ATOS: 5.5
  • Dewey: 794.809
  • Copyright: 2014