Skip to Main Content

Youth Services Summer 2023 Reading Lists: 4th Grade-5th Grade

4th-5th Summer Reading LIsts

Realistic Fiction
Link to Anybody Here Seen Frenchie by Leslie Connor in the Catalog
Link to Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King in the catalog
Link to The Best Liars in Riverview by Lin Thompson in the catalog
Link to Dear Brother by Alison McGhee in the catalog
Link to Dear Sister by Allison McGhee in the catalog
Link to Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson in the catalog
Link to Frizzy by Claribel Ortega in the catalog
Link to Golden Ticket by Kate Egan in the catalog
Link to The Greatest Kid in the World by John David Anderson in the catalog
Link to the Marcus Stroman series in the catalog
Link to The Kids Under the Stairs series by K.A. Holt in the catalog
Link to Looking for True by Tricia Springstubb in the catalog
Link to Stealing Home by J. Torres in the catalog
Link to Time to Roll and Roll with It by Jamie Sumner in the catalog
Link to The Tryout by Christina Soontornvat in the catalog
Link to The Vanderbeekers series by Karina Glaser in the catalog
Link to The View from the Very Best House in Town by Meera Trehan in the catalog
Link to Whispering Alaska by Brendan Jones in the catalog
Speculative Fiction
Link to Duet by Elise Broach in the catalog
Link to The Ghoul of Windydown Vale by Jake Burt in the catalog
Link to The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie
Link to Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd in the catalog
Link to The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton in the catalog
Link to Nic Blake and the Remarkables: the Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas in the catalog
Link to A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga in the catalog
Link to The Sisters of Luna Island by Stacy Hackney in the catalog
Link to The Tragical Tale of Birdie Bloom by Temre Beltz in the catalog
Link to Unseen Magic by Emily Lloyd-Jones in the catalog
Mystery & Adventure
Link to City Spies series by James Ponti in the catalog
Link to A Few Bicycles More by Christina Uss in the catalog
Link to the Friday Barnes series in the catalog
Link to The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon
Link to Harriet series by Elana K. Arnold in the catalog
Link to The Hayley Mysteries by Hayley LeBlanc in the catalog
Link to Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker in the catalog
Link to The Secret Letters by Margaret Peterson Haddix in the Catalog
Link to The Sisters of Luna Island by Stacy Hackney in the catalog
Link to Superworld: Save Noah by Cheney in the catalog
Link to Tangled Mysteries series by Merrill Wyatt in the catalog
Nonfiction
Link to Action!: How Movies Began by Megan McCarthy in the catalog
Link to Action Presidents #4: John F. Kennedy! by Fred Van Lente in the catalog
Link to Wait! What? series by Dan Gutman
Link to Big Ideas that Changed the World series by Don Brown
Link to A Day in the Life series by Mike Barfield in the catalog
Link to The Greatest Song of All by Megan Hoyt
Link to the Unsolved Case Files by Tom Sullivan in the catalog
Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees Grades 4-6
Link to Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie in the Catalog

2024 Winner

Link to The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody in the Catalog
Link to American As Paneer Pie by Supiya Kelkar in the Catalog
Link to The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips in the Catalog
Link to Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom by Matthew Swanson & Robbi Behr in the Catalog
Link to Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! by Sarah Kapit in the Catalog
Link to Leonard (my life as a cat) by Charlie Sorosiak in the Catalog
Link to The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm in the Catalog
Link to Raising Lumie by Joan Bauer in the Catalog
Link to Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse in the Catalog