My Best Book List

As part of our end-of-year wrap up in 5th grade, I asked my students to compile their own #BestBookList. They could choose an overall theme or not. You can see all of their recommendations at #BestBookList. For individual book recommendations, check out our  #iLoveMG posts. If you are looking for younger readers, #3rdfor3rd features recommendations from when I taught third grade.

My Best Book List

Recommended by Joshy

Sugar and Spite is a good book about to kids that one has more money and is mean to the other kid so does something with potion and end up having a bad luck until her dog save her from keeping that bad luck. 

Super Boba Cafe is an interesting book about a rumble that keeps happening under the city and they have to fix it.

Percy Jackson (The Lightning Thief) is a great book about a teenager that has to find Zeus’s Master Bolt and stop a war between the gods. 

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a good book about a kid named Minli going to try and bring fortune to her family. 

Masterminds is a book where they are in a peaceful town but something is suspicious so they do something about it. There are 3 books in the series.

[A note from Katie: both Sugar and Spite and Super Boba Cafe were all-class read alouds where we were able to do Zoom visits with the authors afterwards. It's been so rewarding to see how often those two books appear on these end-of-year favorite lists. Author visits make such a difference!]

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Best Books

As part of our end-of-year wrap up in 5th grade, I asked my students to compile their own #BestBookList. They could choose an overall theme or not. You can see all of their recommendations at #BestBookList. For individual book recommendations, check out our  #iLoveMG posts. If you are looking for younger readers, #3rdfor3rd features recommendations from when I taught third grade.

Best Books

Recommended by Hope

Fighting Words is a really important book about a really important topic (abuse).  

Maybe He Just Likes You is about a girl who was getting attention that she did not appreciate. The basketball boys decided to make a game about her. 

The Girl from the Sea is about how a girl called Morgan is ready to escape the big world into her own little one she was dealing with too much and just kept bottling up her feelings. One night when Morgan was drowning she was saved by and girl named Keltie. After a while Morgan starts to fall in love. Keltie wanted everything that had been hidden to find a way to open. 

Unstuck and My Life in the Fish Tank are about a girl who is dealing with anxiety and a bunch of other challenges and this is about how she deals with them.

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The Best 5 Books that You Will Read

Fifth grader Elliot smartly snuck 31 -- THIRTY-ONE -- books into his Best Book list by sharing his top five favorite book series. 

As part of our end-of-year wrap up in 5th grade, I asked my students to compile their own #BestBookList. They could choose an overall theme or not. You can see all of their recommendations at #BestBookList. For individual book recommendations, check out our  #iLoveMG posts. If you are looking for younger readers, #3rdfor3rd features recommendations from when I taught third grade.

The Best 5 Books that You Will Read

Recommended by Elliot

Alex Rider Stormbreaker is about a boy named Alex, and after his uncle dies he is drafted in by MI6, where his uncle worked, and sent on a mission of his own. (14 book series) 

The False Prince is about a orphan named Sage who has to compete against three other orphans to rule the kingdom. (5 book series) 

Eragon is about a boy named Eragon who finds a mysterious stone… Or maybe it’s a dragon egg (4 book series) 

The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss who is forced to compete in a battle to the death between 24 children. (3 book series) 

Gregor the Overlander is about a boy named Gregor and his baby sister when they fall into a mysterious underland miles beneath New York City (5 book series) 

Click here for all of our #BestBooks posts. What is your favorite middle grade book for 5th graders?