FIFTH GRADE INVENTORY 2013-2014
No.
Title
Author
1
2
Adaline Falling Star
Osborne
Al Capone Does My
Shirts
Choldenko
The Best Bad Thing
Uchida
Cat Running
Snyder
Awards
Conly
The Door in the Wall
de Angeli
Eleanor Roosevelt:
A Life of Discovery
Freedman
1993
1949
1993
2000
Ghost Canoe
Ryan
1997
Hobbs
The Girl with the
Silver Eyes
Roberts
The Giver
Lowry
9/9/12
Lexile
Level
#
copies
CD/
#
Tape pages
Cultural/
Historical fiction
SLJ*
720
13
169
Historical fiction
Newbery Honor
600
18
215
Realistic fiction
ALA Notable
SLJ Best Book
870
17
120
Realistic fiction
Kirkus
SLJ *
970
13
168
Realistic fiction
Newberry Honor
SLJ *
570
14
180
Historical fiction
Newbery Medal
990
16
121
Biography
Newberry
Honor
ALA Notable
1100
Historical/
Cultural fiction
ALA Best Book
SLJ *
750
30
253
Mystery/
Adventure/
Historical fiction
AB Pick
Edgar Award
900
20
193
840
17
198
760
24
179
680
Crazy Lady!
Esperanza Rising
12
Genre
City of Ember
9
11
Adaline is a fiery child--an irrepressible combination of her white explorer father Kit Carson and her
Arapaho mother. When Ma dies and Pa sets off on an expedition out West, Adaline finds herself
living in St. Louis with racist white relatives who call her a savage and work her like a slave. When
Adaline realizes she may have been abandoned, she decides to find her own way back to her mother's
people, where she is sure her father will find her.
A 12-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards’ families were
housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his
autistic sister.
At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the
household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers that there are pleasant surprises for her,
but then bad things start to happen.
Hoping to win the runner's grand finale for a second year in a row, talented runner Cat Kinsey is
infuriated when her old-fashioned father refuses to allow Cat to wear slacks like the other girls, a
situation that makes Cat want to give up running.
1994
7
10
2000
1983
4
8
Description
2004
3
5
6
Year
1980
1993
As he tries to come to terms with his mother’s death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship
with the neighborhood outcasts.
As the son of a nobleman, Robin's destiny is changed suddenly when he falls ill and loses the use of
his legs. When the great castle of Lindsay is in danger, Robin discovers that there is more than one
way to serve his king.
A photobiography of the first wife of a President to have a public life and career of her own.
Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico. But a sudden tragedy
forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depression, and to settle in a camp
for Mexican farm workers. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard labor, financial struggles, or lack of
acceptance she now faces. When their new life is threatened, Esperanza must find a way to rise above
her difficult circumstances.
When a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, it's clear
that no one could have survived. But Nathan MacAllister, the 14-year-old son of the lighthouse
keeper, is troubled by footprints found on the beach.
A 10 year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only
has unusual powers but that there are others like her.
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no
choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to
0/2
Science fiction
Science Fiction
Newberry Medal
1
No.
13
14
15
Title
Author
2008
The Gollywhopper
Games
Feldman
Good Masters!
Sweet Ladies!
Schlitz
The Graveyard Book
Gaiman
Half Magic
Eager
Hatchet
Paulsen
16
2010
Heart of a Samurai
Preus
King George: What
Was His Problem?
Sheinkin
Maniac Magee
Spinelli
The Mennyms
Waugh
The Midwife’s
Apprentice
Cushman
Moon Over Manifest
Vanderpool
My Side of the
Mountain
George
The Night Journey
Lasky
21
22
25
2005
1990
1993
1995
23
24
2008
1987
18
20
2007
1954
17
19
Year
2010
9/9/12
1959
1981
Description
receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and
pleasure of life. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.
12-year-old Gil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles,
stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father
was falsely accused of embezzling from Golly Toy and Game Company.
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between 10 and 15 years old, who live in
or near a 13th century English manor.
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the
graveyard.
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves
involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that
seems to grant wishes.
After a plane crash, 13 year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only
the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parent’s divorce.
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his 4
companions castaways on a remote island, 14-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a
Samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the
United States.
The whole hilarious story of the American Revolution. Everything your schoolbooks didn’t tell you
about the American Revolution.
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee’s life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and
other feats which awe his contemporaries.
The Mennyms, a family of life-sized fag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be
human, see their peaceful existence threatened when the house’s owner announces he is coming from
Australia for a visit.
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife and, in spite
of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented
heart, and a place in the world.
12 year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay
with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some
things about his past.
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains
including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate
realization that he needs human companionship.
A young girl ignores her parents’ wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of
her escape from czarist Russia.
Genre
Awards
Contemporary
fiction
Lexile
Level
590
#
copies
CD/
#
Tape pages
16
308
16
81
820
16
307
192
Drama/
Historical fiction
Fantasy/
Horror
Newberry Medal
SLJ*
Newberry Medal
Kirkus*
Fantasy
LJ*
830
22
Adventure
Newbery Honor
ALA Notable
Kirkus *
1020
24
195
Historical
fiction
Newberry
Honor
760
16
274
880
19
168
820
23
184
800
22
230
Nonfiction/
History/Humor
Urban myth
Fantasy
Newbery Medal
Kirkus
0/2
Historical fiction
Newbery Medal
ALA Notable
SLJ Best Book
1240
22
117
Historical fiction
Newberry Medal
800
16
342
Survival/
Adventure
Newbery Honor
ALA Notable
810
22
177
Historical fiction
ALA Notable
National Jewish
860
15
150
2
No.
Title
Author
Year
Description
1997
Written in first-person, free-verse poems, this is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive
during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of
her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's
badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again.
Milo, a bored ten-year-old, comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining
forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a
memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish, yet lovable Humbug, the
Mathemagician, and the not-so-wicked "Which," Faintly Macabre, who gives Milo the "impossible"
mission of returning two princesses to the Kingdom of Wisdom.
New York City's streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic,
and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of
them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city.
The pushcart peddler’s declare war, with hysterical results!
The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal
racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.
13-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens, which is on
the brink of another eruption, in an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless
hunters.
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father’s shadow and become a
bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a 13-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is
on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the slaves.
Living on a poor island in 1932, a young boy determines, despite his family’s bitter opposition, to
identify and somehow bring to justice the liquor smugglers who have been terrorizing the island.
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young
black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with
his devoted dog Sounder.
Billie Wind ventures out alone into the Florida Everglades to test the legends of her Indian ancestors
and learns the importance of listening to the earth’s vital messages.
Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines
to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet.
Granted eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family finds that living forever at
one age is less a blessing than it might seem.
The story of Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights.
Genre
Awards
Lexile
Level
#
copies
CD/
#
Tape pages
Book Award
26
Out of the Dust
Hesse
27
1961
The Phantom
Tollbooth
Juster
28
29
1964
The Pushcart War
Merrill
Roll of Thunder,
Hear My Cry
M. Taylor
Sasquatch
Smith
Shadow of a Bull
Wojciechowska
The Slave Dancer
Fox
1998
30
31
32
33
Smugglers’ Island
Avi
34
35
36
37
38
1976
1964
1973
1983
1969
Sounder
Armstrong
The Talking Earth
George
The Trumpet of the
Swan
E. B. White
Tuck Everlasting
Babbitt
The Voice That
Challenged a Nation
Freedman
9/9/12
1983
1970
1975
2004
Poetry/Historical
fiction
Newberry Medal
O'Dell Award
ALA Notable
RL6
15
227
0/3
Fantasy
1000
20
256
0/3
Humor/
Realistic (sort of)
fiction
SLJ*
1020
20
223
Historical fiction
Newbery Medal
ALA Notable
920
11
210
Suspense/
Fantasy
ALA top 10 pick
680
13
188
Realistic fiction
Newbery Medal
740
10
141
Newbery Medal
970
18
127
Newbery author
520
20
Newbery Medal
900
21
Newberry author
770
18
750
14
770
22
1180
16
Adventure/
Historical fiction
Mystery/
Historical fiction
Historical fiction
Cultural fiction/
Ecology
Classic/
Animal tale
Fantasy
Biography
ALA Notable
SLJ*
Newberry
Honor
Sibert Medal
0/3
178
116
0/4
151
210
0/2
139
92
3
No.
Title
Author
Walk Two Moons
Creech
39
40
43
44
45
Description
1994
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal her grandparents take a car trip
retracing her mother’s route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose
mother also left.
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either
Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom,
where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world
he lives in.
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, “The 20,000 Pyramid,”
a 12 year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an
anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Everything your schoolbooks didn’t tell you about America’s westward expansion.
2007
The Wednesday
Wars
Schmidt
When You Reach Me
Stead
Which Way to the
Wild West
Sheinkin
41
42
Year
2009
Wonder
The Wright Brothers
Freedman
A Wrinkle in Time
L’Engle
9/9/12
2009
1991
1962
Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg’s father,
who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Genre
Awards
Lexile
Level
#
copies
CD/
#
Tape pages
Realistic fiction
Newberry Medal
770
17
266
Realistic fiction
Newberry Honor
990
16
264
Science fiction
Newberry Medal
750
16
197
940
20
215
Nonfiction/
History/Humor
Nonfiction
Realistic fiction
Biography
Newberry Honor
790
1160
19
117
Science fiction
Newbery Medal
740
29
211
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