Skip to Main Content

Youth Services Summer 2022 Reading Lists: 4th Grade-5th Grade

4th-5th Summer Reading LIsts

Fantasy
Link to Graystone Secrets series by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Link to Houdini and me by Dan Gutman in the Catalog
Link to How to Save a Superhero by Ruth Freeman in the Catalog
Link to Lost Tide Warriors by Catherine Doyle.
Link to The Midnight Brigade by Adam Borba in the catalog
Link to Spy School: a graphic novel by Stuart Gibbs in the Catalog
Link to Strangeworlds Travel Agency series by L.D. Lapinski in the Catalog
Realistic Fiction
Link to 365 Days to Alaska by Cathy Carr.
Link to Anne of West Philly : a modern graphic retelling of Anne of Green Gables by Ivy Noelle Weir in the Catalog
Link to Birdie's billions by Edith Cohn in the Catalog
Link to Living with Viola by Rosena Fung in the Catalog
Link to Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee in the Catalog
Link to a Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus in the catalog.
A Soft Place to Land by Janae Marks in the catalog.
Link to Stuntboy, in the meantime by Jason Reynolds in the Catalog
...And Don't Miss These!
Link to The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo in the Catalog
Link to A Black Hole is not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano in the Catalog
Link to The Great Pet Heist by Emily Eckton in the Catalog
Link to Hide and Geek by T.P Jagger in the catalog.
Link to Anne Frank : witness to history! by Mark Shulman in the Catalog
Link to Babe Ruth : baseball's all-time best! by James Buckley, Jr. in the Catalog
Link to Neil Armstrong : first man on the moon! by James Buckley, Jr. in the Catalog
Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees Grades 4-6
Link to When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed in the Catalog

2023 Winner

Link to Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome in the Catalog
Link to From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks in the Catalog
Link to A Galaxy of Sea Stars by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo in the Catalog
Link to Just Like Jackie by Lindsey Stoddard in the Catalog
Link to Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable in the Catalog
Link to Nightbooks by J. A. White in the Catalog
Link to Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech in the Catalog
Link to The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman in the Catalog
Link toThe Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas in the Catalog