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Reading Beyond for Children in Grades 4-5

ALA-CBC book list for children in grades 4-5 reading at a 7th grade level.

Santa Monica Public Library

25 items

  • Candy Bomber

    the Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"

    Tunnell, Michael O.
    Book, 2010Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2010. — YA 921 HALVORSEN, GAIL
  • Earthrise

    My Adventures as An Apollo 14 Astronaut

    Mitchell, Edgar D.
    Book, 2014Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014] — YA 629.45 MITCHELL
  • Book, 2016New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2016. — YAF SPINALE, WENDY
  • Girl Rising

    Changing the World One Girl at a Time

    Stone, Tanya Lee,
    Book, 2017New York : Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. — YA 305.23 STONE
  • Book, 2014Los Angeles ; New York : Hyperion, [2014] — YAF POLONSKY, AMI
  • Book, 2016Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016. — XF EAGAR, LINDSAY
  • The Inquisitor's Tale

    Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

    Gidwitz, Adam
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Dutton Children's Books, [2016] — XF GIDWITZ, ADAM
  • Legends, Icons & Rebels

    Music That Changed the World

    Robertson, Robbie
    Book, 2013Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, [2013] — X780.922 ROBERTSON
  • Moonbird

    a Year on the Wind With the Great Survivor B95

    Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
    Book, 2012New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. — X598 HOOSE
  • One Last Word

    Wisdom From the Harlem Renaissance

    Grimes, Nikki
    Book, 2017New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. — X811 GRIMES
  • Pathfinders

    the Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls

    Bolden, Tonya
    Book, 2017New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2017. — X920 BOLDEN
  • Red Scarf Girl

    a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

    Jiang, Ji-li
    Book, 1997New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1997. — YA 951.05 JIANG
  • Sachiko

    a Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

    Stelson, Caren, 1951-
    Book, 2016Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, [2016] — YA 940.54 YASUI
  • Samurai Rising

    the Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune

    Turner, Pamela S.
    Book, 2016Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2016] — X952 MINAMOTO