5th grade Great Stone Face Book Award reading list
Books referenced by Great Stone Face Book Award at the 5th grade level. Source: www.librarything.com.
About the 5th grade Great Stone Face Book Award reading list
Great Stone Face Book Award is the Great Stone Face Book Award framework. ReadingList tracks 54 titles referenced by Great Stone Face Book Award at the 5th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 420L–990L. The framework is published at librarything.com.
At the 5th grade level — the 3-5grade band — students are transitional readers, with the curriculum focused on moving from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn across longer chapter books. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 400L to 800L. Measured against that 740–1010L range, of the 24 titles here with a Lexile score 12 are grade-level, 12 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Great Stone Face Book Award classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Great Stone Face Book Award list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 5th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Great Stone Face Book Award expects.
How to use this list: treat the Great Stone Face Book Award titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 5th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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A Long Walk to WaterLinda Sue Park · 720L- A Mango-Shaped SpaceWendy Mass
A Night DividedJennifer A. Nielsen
A Rover's StoryJasmine Warga
A Tale Dark and GrimmAdam Gidwitz
A Work in ProgressJarrett Lerner
AlliesAlan Gratz
Amal UnboundAisha Saeed
Among the HiddenMargaret Peterson Haddix
Because of Winn-DixieKate DiCamillo · 610L
Before the Ever AfterJacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson · 990L
Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff Kinney · 950L
El DeafoCece Bell · 420L
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's LibraryChris Grabenstein
Esperanza RisingPam Muñoz Ryan · 750L
Fish in a TreeLynda Mullaly Hunt · 550L
FrindleAndrew Clements · 830L
GhostJason Reynolds · 730L
Gregor the OverlanderSuzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneJ.K. Rowling · 880L
HootCarl Hiaasen · 760L
Impossible CreaturesKatherine Rundell
MatildaRoald Dahl · 840L
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- Not Nothing · Gayle Forman
- Number the Stars · Lois Lowry
- Odder · Katherine Applegate
- Other Words for Home · Jasmine Warga
- Out of My Mind · Sharon M. Draper
- Pax · Sara Pennypacker
- Roller Girl · Victoria Jamieson
- Ruby Holler · Sharon Creech
- Rules · Cynthia Lord
- Shiloh · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Small Spaces · Katherine Arden
- Superfudge · Judy Blume
- Surviving the Applewhites · Stephanie S. Tolan
- Swim Team · Johnnie Christmas
- Swindle · Gordon Korman
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing · Judy Blume
- The City of Ember · Jeanne DuPrau
- The Graveyard Book · Neil Gaiman
- The Honest Truth · Dan Gemeinhart
- The Labors of Hercules Beal · Gary D. Schmidt
- The One and Only Ivan · Katherine Applegate
- The Penderwicks · Jeanne Birdsall
- The War That Saved My Life · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Ungifted · Gordon Korman
- When Stars Are Scattered · Victoria Jamieson
- Where the Red Fern Grows · Wilson Rawls
- Wildfire · Rodman Philbrick
- Wonder · R.J. Palacio
- Wonderstruck · Brian Selznick