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Youth Services Summer 2025 Reading Lists: 4th Grade-5th Grade

4th-5th Grade Reading Lists

Realistic Fiction
Link to Curveball by Cartaya in the catalog.
Link to Ferris by Kate DiCamillo in the catalotg.
Link to Finally Heard by Kelly Yang in the catalog.
Link to The Frindle Files by Andrew Clements in the catalog.
Link to The Hike to Home by Jess Rinker in the catalog.
Link to Hummingbird Season by Stephanie Lucianovic in the catalog.
Link to Keep It Like a Secret by John David Anderson in the catalog.
Link to Not the Worst Friend in the World by Ann Rellihan in the catalog.
Link to Nowhere Better than Here by Sarah Guillory in the catalog.
Link to the Penny Draws series by Sara Shepard in the catalog.
Speculative Fiction
Link to Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood in the catalog.
Link to the Best Wishes series by Sarah Mlynowski in the catalog.
Link to the Bliss series by Kathryn Littlewood in the catalog.
he Color of Sound by Emily Barth Isler in the catalog.
Link to Einstein the Penguin series by Iona Rangeley in the catalog.
Link to the Kingdoms and Empires series by Moriarty in the catalog.
Link to The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly in the catalog.
Link to Forever Glimmer Creek by Hackney in the catalog.
Link to Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko in the catalog.
Link to Growing Home by Beth Ferry in the catalog.
Link to Impossible Creatures series by Katherine Rundell in the series.
Link to Jazzy the Witch in Broom Doom by Jessixa Bagley in the catalog.
Link to The Marvellers series in the catalog by Dhonielle Clayton
Link to Oddity Woods by Kay Davault in the catalog.
Link to Paige Not Found by Jen Wilde in the catalog.
Link to the Ravenfall series by Kalyn Josephson in the catalog.
Link to The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon in the catalog.
Link to A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga.
Link to the Park Row Magic Academy series by J. Elle in the catalog.
Link to When Wishes Were Horses by Cynthia Voigt in the catalog.
Link to Witching Wind by Natalie Lloyd in the catalog.
Mystery & Adventure
Link to The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys in the catalog.
Link to Heroes Like Us by Rauf in the catalog.
Link to Minerva Keen Detective Club series by James Patterson in the catalog.
Link to Mystery at the Biltmore series by Nelson in the catalog.
Link to the Montgomery Bonbon series by Beckett-King in the catalog.
Link to My Mom is a Spy by McNab in the catalog.
Link to the National Archive Hunter series by Matthew Landis in the catalog.
Link to the Fairday Morrow series by Haight in the catalog.
Link to the Swifts series by Betn Lincoln in the catalog.
Link to Tangled Mysteries series by Merrill Wyatt in the catalog.
Link to Trouble at the Tangerine by McDunn in the catalog.
Nonfiction
Link to Aliens by Joalda Morancy in the catalog.
Link to Ballpark by Lynn Curlee in the catalog
Link to Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
Link to Innovative Octopuses by Couch in the catalog.
Link to Lady of the Lines by Michaela MacColl in the catalog.
Link to Liberty by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
Link to Mythological Creatures by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
Link to Parthenon by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
Link to Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
Link to Skyscraper by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
Link to Trains by Lynn Curlee in the catalog.
2026 Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees Grades 4-6
Link to Air by Monica Roe in the catalog.
Link to The Carrefour Curse by Salerni in the catalog.
Link to The Dog Knight by Whitley in the catalog.
Link to the Dogtown series by Katherine Applegate in the catalog.
Link to Frizzy by Ortega in the catalog.
Link to Grounded by Saeed in the catalog.
Link to It Found Us by Currie in the catalog.
Link to the Plotting the Stars series by Barry in the catalog.
Link to Speak Up! by Burgess in the catalog.
Link to Trex by Morrell in the catalog.