Entering Grade 5
Realistic Fiction
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Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T. Frazier
sequel: Brendan Buckley’s Sixth-Grade Experiment When at a rock club meeting, Brendan runs into his mom’s dad, a grandfather he’s never met. It’s awesome to hang out and talk rocks, but Brendan needs to discover why his mom and grandfather refuse to talk. |
The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin van Draanen
Lincoln keeps to himself at school, constantly turning his less than ideal life into fantastic superhero stories, until a nosy girl invades his life, demanding to know what he’s writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never talks to anybody. |