[LM_NET] HIT: ELEM: Favorite NEW 5th Grade Book

[Toni Buzzeo <tonibuzzeo@TONIBUZZEO.COM>]

ORIGINAL POST: If you have time today, would you send me ONE title of a new
(2008 or 2009 copyright date) novel or new nonfiction book that your fifth
graders love?
I'll post a hit, hoping that it will offer a nice collection development
tool for others.

RESPONSES:

*The Last Olympian* by Rick Riordan

*Zoobreak* by Korman. The sequel to Swindle. 2009 by Scholastic

*Chains* by laurie halse Anderson

*Savvy *by Ingrid Law\

*Schooled *by Gordon Korman

*Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days* by Jeff Kinney (plus all previous titles in
the series)

*Year of the Dog* by Grace Lin (2005)
*Paint the Wind* by Pam Munoz Ryan (2007)

*Gollywhopper Games* by Jody Feldman

*Someone named Eva* by Joan M. Wolf (2007)

*Graveyard Book* by Neil Gaiman
*Thirty-Nine Clues Series* by Rick Riordan

*The Mysterious Benedict Society* and its sequels by Trenton Lee Stewart

*Swindle, *by Gordon Korman

*Oggie Cooder* by Sarah Weeks

*Oggie Cooder*, *Party Animal* by Sarah Weeks

*The Underneath* by Kathi Appelt

*Stolen Children*  by Kehert

*Crocodile Tears* by Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider series)

*Mouse* by Jeff Stone (The Five Ancestors series, Book
6)<http://www.amazon.com/Mouse-Five-Ancestors-Book-6/dp/0375830812/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259623374&sr=1-2>

*Scat* by Carl Hiaasen

*Sents* by Margaret Peterson Haddix (The Missing series)

*Nerds* by Michael Buckley

*London** Eye Mystery *by Siobhan Dowd

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Not one, but a series of similar NF books that our boys can't get enough of:
Inside Men's College Basketball, done by conference:
Basketball in the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference)
Basketball in the Big East Conference
Basketball in the Big Ten Conference
Basketball in the Big 12 Conference
Basketball in the Pac 10 Conference
Basketball in the SEC (Southeastern Conference)
and
Inside College Football, also done by conference:
Football in the ACC
Football in the, Big East Conference
Football in the Big Ten
Football in the Big 12
Football in the Pac-10
Football in the SEC

Different authors, but published by Rosen Central, The Rosen Publishing
Group.
Most are Accelerated Reader books.

Here's one complete title as an example:
Inside Men's College Basketball: Basketball in the Big Ten Conference, by
Gabriel Kaufman, Rosen Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4042-1383-8

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Toni Buzzeo, MA, MLIS <mailto:tonibuzzeo@tonibuzzeo.com>
Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year Emerita
Buxton, ME 04093
http://www.tonibuzzeo.com
ABC Read to Me: Teaching Letter of the Week in the Library (Upstart 2009)
JUST PUBLISHED!ecret (Dial) FORTHCOMING

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