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5th Grade

Naperville Public Library

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  • FANTASY- Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking…
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023] — J EGGERS
  • FANTASY-Eleven-year-old Fin has never felt safe until she and her mother move to the magic-infused town of Aldermere in the Pacific Northwest, but when the town is suddenly overrun with disturbances Fin is the only one who knows why--and…
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — J LLOYD
  • FANTASY-An outsider in her village above the cloud sea, 12-year-old orphan Yeung Zhi Ging's only hope of escape is to win the single invitation to train as a Silhouette: an apprentice to the immortals. After her ill-fated attempt to…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2024] — J MCDERMOT
  • FANTASY-In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. He has long seen the sanctuaries as prisons, and he wants nothing more than to overthrow his captors and return the world to…
    BookSalt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain, [2017] — J MULL
  • FANTASY-Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four other dragonets are destined to end, according to the mysterious…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, [2012] — J SUTHERLA
  • FANTASY-When her dad, a great Manifestor, is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, twelve-year-old Nic Blake, along with her hellhound and two friends, hunts for a powerful magical tool that could save him.
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — J THOMAS
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL-Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like…
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, ; 2024. — J GN HOLM v.5
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL-Eleven-year-old Avery Lee loves living in Hickory Valley, Maryland. She loves her neighborhood, school, and the end-of-summer fair she always goes to with her two best friends. But she's tired of feeling squished by her six…
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2023. — J GN LLOYD
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL-With her life recently turned upside down, 12-year-old Addie is uncomfortable in her own skin until the world of virtual reality sparks her imagination and leads to an exciting new project, a new friend, and to reconnecting…
    Graphic NovelNew York : Random House Children's Books, [2023] — J GN MASS v. 1
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL-The Tea Dragon Society is the two-time Eisner Award-winning gentle fantasy that follows the story of a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons.
    Graphic Novel[Portland, Oregon] : Oni Press, 2017. — J GN ONEILL
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL-Summer camp just became a whole lot more interesting when five curious kids accept a mysterious project: work together as a team to uncover a series of strange clues, reveal a secret path -- and follow its twists and turns to…
    Graphic NovelNew York : Viking, 2020 — J GN SEDITA
  • GRAPHIC NOVEL-Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel about the ongoing battle of women striving for equality in sports follows the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team in 1975 Indiana, as they push through to…
    Graphic NovelSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — J GN TAVARES
  • HISTORICAL FICTION-Max Bretzfeld doesn’t want to move to London. Leaving home is hard and Max is alone for the first time in his life. But not for long. Max is surprised to discover that he’s been joined by two unexpected traveling…
    BookNew York : Dutton Children's Books, 2024. — J GIDWITZ
  • HISTORICAL FICTION-Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship--and dreams--in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the "enemy"…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — J GRATZ
  • HISTORICAL FICTION-In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the…
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2019. — J NIELSEN
  • HISTORICAL FICTION-Halle and her mother find unexpected solace on a tuberculosis ward in 1930s upstate New York.
    BookNew York : Holiday House, [2024] — J WENDELL
  • The Mona Lisa Vanishes

    a Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

    Day, Nick (Nicholas),
    HISTORICAL FICTION-A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2023] — J 364.162 DAY
  • HUMOROUS-Seventh-grader Jack Reynolds loves making people laugh but he needs help to make his wacky MyTube channel take off, and making friends is not exactly his strong suit.
    BookNew York : Random House, [2022] — J COSTNER
  • HUMOUROUS-With no knightly experience but plenty of pluck and an impressive vocabulary, a twelve-year-old peasant, hoping to improve his station in life, volunteers to help a cowardly prince and his not very powerful wizard rescue a…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022] — J GIBBS
  • HUMOROUS-When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his…
    BookNew York : Random House, [2020] — J GRABENST