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Classroom Set: Grades 5-6

We have a large collection of classroom sets each including twelve copies of a book that can be used in reading groups or book discussions. To check out a set, please fill out the request form.

  • Among the Hidden

    1998 by Margaret Peterson Haddix

    In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

  • Crush : The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Love

    2012 by Gary Paulsen

    Afraid to actually ask Tina Zabinski for a date, eighth-grader Kevin spends most of his time theorizing about love and romance and observing and analyzing male/female interaction.

  • A Diamond In the Desert

    2012 by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

    After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

  • The Emerald Atlas

    2011 by John Stephens

    Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.

  • Flying Solo

    1998 by Ralph J Fletcher

    Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.

  • The Graveyard Book

    2008 by Neil Gaiman

    Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

  • Hoot

    2002 by Carl Hiaasen

    Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

  • Inside Out & Back Again

    2011 by Thanhha Lai

    Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

  • The Lions of Little Rock

    2012 by Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims), 1974-

    In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.

  • Milo : Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze

    2010 by Alan Silberberg

    In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.

  • Three Times Lucky

    2012 by Sheila Turnage

    Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.

  • Wild Wings

    2011 by Gill Lewis

    Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.

  • Wonder

    2012 by R. J. Palacio

    Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

  • Yes! We Are Latinos : poems and prose about the Latino experience

    2013 by Alma Flor Ada

    A collection of stories about young Latino's immigrant experiences in the United States.