G5 FT Extended Reading List

Unit 1Community & Belonging

Informational

101 Small Ways to Change the World

Aubre Andrus

Lonely Planet KidsN/A

Amazon

Informational

Hand to Heart: Improving Communities

Jessica Cohn

Teacher Created MaterialsN/A

Amazon

Fiction

Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio

Tony Johnston

Scholastic Paperbacks600L

Amazon

Fiction

Junebug

Alice Mead

Dell Publishing570L

Amazon

Fiction

Lucky Broken Girl

Ruth Behar

Nancy Paulsen Books670L

Amazon

Fiction

Nowhere Boy

Katherine Marsh

HMH Books for Young ReadersN/A

Amazon

Fiction

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

Pablo Cartaya

Yearling750L

Amazon

Fiction

The Harlem Charade

Natasha Tarpley

Scholastic Press800L

Amazon

Fiction

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Karina Yan Glaser

HMH Books for Young ReadersN/A

Amazon

Fiction

The Year of the Garden

Andrea Cheng

HMH Books for Young Readers620L

Amazon

Unit 2Conflict, Refugees & Human Rights

Fiction

Mud City

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books740L

Amazon

Fiction

My Name is Parvana

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books670L

Amazon

Fiction

Parvana's Journey

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books700L

Amazon

Informational

Every Human Has Rights

Mary Robinson

National Geographic Kids880L

Amazon

Informational

Kids of Kabul

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books800L

Amazon

Informational

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood

Ibtisam Barakat

Farrar Straus Giroux870L

Amazon

Informational

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books790L

Amazon

Informational

Understanding Afghanistan Today

Don Nardo

Mitchell Lane PublishersN/A

Amazon

Informational

Who is Malala Yousafzai

Dinah Brown

Penguin Workshop680L

Amazon

Fiction

Amina's Voice

Hena Khan

Salaam Reads800L

Amazon

Fiction

Escape from Aleppo

N.H. Senzai

Simon & Schuster880L

Amazon

Fiction

I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Marjorie Agosin

Atheneum Books770L

Amazon

Fiction

Shooting Kabul

N.H. Senzai

Simon & Schuster800L

Amazon

Fiction

The Bone Sparrow

Zana Fraillon

Disney-Hyperion840L

Amazon

Fiction

The Only Road

Alexandra Diaz

Simon & Schuster830L

Amazon

Fiction

The Red Pencil

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Little Brown Books620L

Amazon

Unit 3Environment & Ocean Conservation

Fiction

Flush

Carl Hiaasen

Knopf Books770L

Amazon

Informational

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba

Puffin Books860L

Amazon

Informational

World Without Fish

Mark Kurlansky

Workman Publishing1160L

Amazon

Informational

Endangered Oceans

Jody S. Rake

Capstone Press830L

Amazon

Informational

Human Impact

Carole Garbuny Vogel

Twenty-First Century BooksN/A

Amazon

Informational

One Plastic Bag

Miranda Paul

Millbrook Press570L

Amazon

Informational

Plastic Soup

Michiel Roscam Abbing

Island PressN/A

Amazon

Informational

Plastic Ahoy!

Patricia Newman

Millbrook Press900L

Amazon

Informational

The Plastic Problem

Rachel Salt

Firefly BooksN/A

Amazon

Informational

Tracking Trash

Loree Griffin Burns

Houghton MifflinN/A

Amazon

Informational

What a Waste

Jess French

DK Children920L

Amazon

Unit 4Civil Rights Movement

Fiction

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

Nancy Paulsen Books990L

Amazon

Fiction

Piecing Me Together

Renée Watson

Bloomsbury680L

Amazon

Fiction

The Lions of Little Rock

Kristin Levine

Puffin Books630L

Amazon

Informational

Child of the Civil Rights Movement

Paula Young Shelton

Schwartz & Wade840L

Amazon

Informational

If You Were a Kid During the Civil Rights Movement

Gwendolyn Hooks

Scholastic700L

Amazon

Informational

Little Rock Nine

Marshall Poe

Aladdin PaperbacksN/A

Amazon

Informational

Nonviolent Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement

Gail Terp

Core Library780L

Amazon

Informational

The Little Rock Nine

Brian Krumm

Capstone Press880L

Amazon

Informational

The Power of One

Judith Fradin

Clarion Books1100L

Amazon

Informational

Warriors Don't Cry

Melba Pattillo Beals

Simon Pulse1000L

Amazon

Informational

We Were There Too!

Phillip Hoose

Farrar Straus Giroux950L

Amazon

Informational

We've Got a Job

Cynthia Levinson

Peachtree Publishers1020L

Amazon

Unit 5Latino Heritage & Identity

Fiction

Tia Lola Stories

Julia Alvarez

Yearling810–850L

Amazon

Informational

César Chávez

Ilan Stavans

Chelsea House1030L

Amazon

Informational

La Causa

Dana Catharine de Ruiz

Children's PressN/A

Amazon

Informational

National Geographic: Mexico

Beth Gruber

National Geographic Kids1180L

Amazon

Informational

The Circuit

Francisco Jiménez

Houghton Mifflin880L

Amazon

Fiction

Becoming Naomi Leon

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Scholastic Paperbacks830L

Amazon

Fiction

Esperanza Rising

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Scholastic Paperbacks750L

Amazon

Fiction

Habibi

Naomi Shihab Nye

Simon Pulse850L

Amazon

Fiction

My Name Is María Isabel

Alma Flor Ada

Atheneum Books860L

Amazon

Fiction

Sylvia & Aki

Winifred Conkling

Tricycle Press760L

Amazon

Fiction

The Tequila Worm

Viola Canales

Wendy Lamb Books830L

Amazon

Fiction

The Turtle of Oman

Naomi Shihab Nye

Greenwillow Books700L

Amazon

Fiction

What the Moon Saw

Laura Resau

Yearling750L

Amazon

Unit 6Space Exploration & Science

Informational

Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover

Markus Motum

Candlewick970L

Amazon

Informational

Curiosity's Mission on Mars

Ron Miller

Twenty-First Century Books1140L

Amazon

Informational

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

HarperCollins1120L

Amazon

Informational

Impact!

Elizabeth Rusch

Houghton Mifflin1070L

Amazon

Informational

Mission to Pluto

Mary Kay Carson

Houghton Mifflin940L

Amazon

Informational

Mysterious Universe

Ellen Jackson

Houghton MifflinN/A

Amazon

Informational

The 10 Greatest Breakthroughs in Space Exploration

Julie Clark

Capstone Press960L

Amazon

Informational

The Amazing Story of Space Travel

Agnieszka Biskup

Capstone Press800L

Amazon

Unit 7Voting Rights & Selma

Fiction

Gone Crazy in Alabama

Rita Williams-Garcia

HarperCollins740L

Amazon

Fiction

P.S. Be Eleven

Rita Williams-Garcia

HarperCollins770L

Amazon

Informational

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose

Square Fish1000L

Amazon

Informational

Freedom's Children

Ellen S. Levine

Puffin Books760L

Amazon

Informational

Little Leaders

Vashti Harrison

Little Brown Books1050L

Amazon

Informational

Selma Lord Selma

Sheyann Webb-Christburg

HarperCollins830L

Amazon

Informational

The Civil Rights Movement

Heather Adamson

Capstone Press680L

Amazon

Informational

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Michael Burgan

Capstone Press740L

Amazon

Informational

Turning 15

Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Dial Books780L

Amazon

Informational

Witnesses to Freedom

Belinda Rochelle

Puffin Books1040L

Amazon

Fiction

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

Rita Williams-Garcia

HarperCollins710L

Amazon

Fiction

Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson

Nancy Paulsen Books710L

Amazon

Fiction

Ghost

Jason Reynolds

Atheneum Books730L

Amazon

Fiction

It All Comes Down to This

Karen English

Clarion Books680L

Amazon

Fiction

Stella by Starlight

Sharon M. Draper

Atheneum Books740L

Amazon

Fiction

The First Rule of Punk

Celia C. Pérez

Puffin Books670L

Amazon

Fiction

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

Yearling920L

Amazon

Unit 8Sci-Fi, Technology & the Future

Fiction

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Madeleine L'Engle

Square Fish850L

Amazon

Fiction

A Wind in the Door

Madeleine L'Engle

Square Fish790L

Amazon

Fiction

An Acceptable Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Square Fish710L

Amazon

Fiction

Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle

Square Fish700L

Amazon

Informational

Endurance Young Readers Edition

Scott Kelly

Crown Books1070L

Amazon

Informational

Racing the Moon

Alan Armstrong

Yearling780L

Amazon

Informational

T-Minus

Jim Ottaviani

Aladdin Paperbacks740L

Amazon

Fiction

Among the Hidden

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Simon & Schuster800L

Amazon

Fiction

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

Disney-Hyperion660L

Amazon

Fiction

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Tor Books780L

Amazon

Fiction

George's Secret Key

Stephen Hawking

Simon & Schuster860L

Amazon

Fiction

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Broadway BooksN/A

Amazon

Fiction

The Fourteenth Goldfish

Jennifer L. Holm

Yearling550L

Amazon

Fiction

The Jupiter Pirates

Jason Fry

HarperCollins860L

Amazon

Fiction

The Stonekeeper

Kazu Kibuishi

Graphix310L

Amazon

Fiction

The White Mountains

John Christopher

Simon & Schuster890L

Amazon

Fiction

When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead

Wendy Lamb Books750L

Amazon

Fiction

Zita the Spacegirl

Ben Hatke

First Second310L

Amazon