Fifth Grade Reading Workshop: Historical Fiction Book Club Unit

Best Historical Fiction For 5th Graders on March 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com

  • President of the Whole Fifth Grade (President Series)

    • ASIN: 0316114332
    • ISBN: 0545541514
    • Brand: Little Brown Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    Start counting your votes . . . and your friends.When Brianna Justice's hero, the famous celebrity chef Miss Delicious, speaks at her school and traces her own success back to being president of her fifth grade class, Brianna determines she must do the same. She just knows that becoming president of her class is the first step toward her own cupcak... [Read More]

  • The Secret Lake: A children's mystery adventure

    • ASIN: 0956932304
    • ISBN: 0956932304
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Well Said Press

    A lost dog, a hidden time tunnel and a secret lake... A page-turning time travel adventure for children aged 8-11. Now enjoyed by thousands of young readers!When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home,they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their elderly neighbor's small dog. Where does he go? And why does... [Read More]

  • The One and Only Ivan

    • ASIN: B005DIB6GG
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

  • The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)

    • ASIN: 1250044235
    • ISBN: 1250044235
    • Brand: Tougias Michael J
    • Manufacturer: Square Fish

    This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. N... [Read More]

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

    • ASIN: 0547577311
    • ISBN: 0547577311
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]

  • The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School

    • ASIN: 037587187X
    • ISBN: 037587187X
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    In the sequel to The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by award-winning author Candace Fleming, Mr. Jupiter's rambunctious students are fifth graders now . . . and they rule the school! Bernadette Braggadoccio stirs things up when her investigative reporting for the school's TV station reveals some scandalous stuff. But . . . don't b... [Read More]

  • I Was a Third Grade Spy

    • ASIN: 0440418712
    • ISBN: 0440418712
    • Brand: Auch, Mary Jane/ Auch, Herm (ILT)
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    Believe it or not–and you better believe it–Josh’s dog Arful can talk! This is very useful to Josh and his pals who want to win the school talent contest. First the boys have to find out what the girls are planning for the contest. That’s when they send Arful to get an earful by spying on the girls. Just wait until show time to see what Arf... [Read More]

  • Inside Out and Back Again

    • UPC: 884539314490
    • ASIN: 0061962791
    • ISBN: 0061962791
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye v... [Read More]

  • The Indian in the Cupboard

    • ASIN: 0375847537
    • ISBN: 0375847537
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    Full of magic and appealing characters, this classic novel takes readers on a remarkable adventure.It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic Indian toy. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts the Indian in a metal cupboard and locks the door with a mysterious skeleton key that once belonged to h... [Read More]

  • Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

    • ASIN: 0142413496
    • ISBN: 0142413496
    • Brand: Declements, Barthe
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

  • My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian

    • ASIN: 0064407233
    • ISBN: 0064407233
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    Bobby is the class clown. He can always be counted on to crack up his friends and sometimes even the teachers. But he can't always be counted on to stay out of trouble'and that's no joke when you're in danger of being shipped off to a special school for kids with ‘behavioral problems.' Bobby's got one last chance to prove to his teachers, his pri... [Read More]

  • Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

    • ASIN: 1554533635
    • ISBN: 1554533635
    • Manufacturer: Kids Can Press

    Egypt's first female pharaoh disappears around 1457 BCE --- was she murdered? Find out how DNA closes the case. The ancient Arabian Peninsula city of Ubar vanishes, seemingly without trace. Find out how old maps and modern space shuttles help solve the mystery. Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage is never heard from ag... [Read More]

  • Mistakes That Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be

    • ASIN: 0385320434
    • ISBN: 9780385320436
    • Brand: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

    Popsicles, potato chips, Silly Putty, Velcro, and many other familiar things have fascinating stories behind them. In fact, dozens of products and everyday items had surprisingly haphazard beginnings. Mistakes That Worked offers forty of these unusual tales, along with hilarious cartoons and weird and amazing facts. Readers will be surprised and in... [Read More]

  • Rosie Revere, Engineer

    • UPC: 001419708457
    • ASIN: 1419708457
    • ISBN: 1419708457
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    The beloved New York Times bestselling picture book about pursuing one’s passion with persistence and learning to celebrate each failure on the road to achieving one’s dreams. And now you can follow Rosie’s further adventures—with her friends Iggy Peck and Ada Twist—in the instant New York Times bestseller Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riv... [Read More]

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins

    • ASIN: 0547328613
    • ISBN: 0545289599
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

  • One Crazy Summer

    • ASIN: 0060760907
    • ISBN: 0060760907
    • Brand: Amistad Press
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

    In this Newbery Honor novel, New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. "This vibrant and moving award-winning novel has heart to spare."*Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fer... [Read More]

  • Holes (Holes Series)

    • UPC: 042516291046
    • ASIN: 0440414806
    • ISBN: 0440414806
    • Brand: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award! This #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look.Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed g... [Read More]

  • Where the Red Fern Grows

    • ASIN: 0440412676
    • ISBN: 0440412676
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Yearling

    Where the Red Fern Grows is a beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man’s best friend. This edition also includes a special note to readers from Newbery Medal winner and Printz Honor winner Clare Vanderpool.    Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money ... [Read More]

  • Number the Stars

    • UPC: 978054757709
    • ASIN: 0547577095
    • ISBN: 0547577095
    • Brand: HMH Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

    As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven tho... [Read More]

  • The War that Saved My Life

    • ASIN: B00KWG65L0
    • Manufacturer: Dial Books

    #1 New York Times BestsellerNewbery Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School)Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2015New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson’s Sons and ... [Read More]

  • Fifth Grade Reading Workshop: Historical Fiction Book Club Unit

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