As part of our end-of-year wrap up in 5th grade, I asked my students to compile their own #BestBookList. They could choose an overall theme or not. You can see all of their recommendations at #BestBookList. For individual book recommendations, check out our #iLoveMG posts. If you are looking for younger readers, #3rdfor3rd features recommendations from when I taught third grade.
Books You Must Read (in my opinion)
Recommended by Katherine
- Wings of Fire is about 5 dragonets born to fulfill a prophecy and stop a war between tribes. It's also available as a graphic novel.
- Keeper of the Lost Cities is about a girl named Sophie who finds out she’s an elf, not a human. She moves to the Lost Cities, where the elves live, and she learns more about herself.
- Percy Jackson is about a young demigod named Percy Jackson who goes to Camp Half-Blood and goes on many quests to save camp, himself, his friends, and the gods.
- Spy School is about math genius Ben Ripley who gets into Spy School to train to be a spy. During his training, he is targeted by an enemy group whose mission is to get rich and cause chaos.
- Harry Potter is about a boy who is a famous wizard for surviving Voldemort, a powerful evil wizard, when no one else had survived. Harry Potter goes to Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches, and tries to stop Voldemort from coming back and ruling the world.
- The Serpent’s Secret is about Kiranmala, a princess from another dimension, who finds out she is a princess and has to stop her evil father from his evil plans.
- Battle Dragons is about a boy, Abel, and his 2 friends who try to stop the gang-like kins who terrorize the whole city while freeing dragons from the humans. Along his journey, he meets many amazing dragons who are hurt because of humans and some who lead the others to the wild.
- Myth of Monsters: Medusa is about a girl, Ava, who tries to control her anger but fails, freezing her bully. She doesn’t know what happened, but soon her parents send her to a school for descendents of monsters. She learns she is a descendant of Medusa, who was locked up and misunderstood. Once Ava knows this, she goes on a quest to free Medusa from her prison.
- Witchlings is about 3 girls, Seven, Thorn, and valley, who are placed in a second-rate group and are shunned. There is evil, though. And misunderstood. Seven and her friends have to fix things once and for all.
- Amari and the Night Brothers is about a girl, Amari, who has “lost” her brother. Amari is soon accepted into a school for kids like her, and she gets a power, but an “evil” one. She meets someone else, but he betrays Amari by revealing her works for an ancient evil person, one of the night brothers, whose goal is to bring his twin back from the dead. The boy also reveals he has the same power as Amari. The forbidden one. Amari needs to stop her ex-friend and the one remaining night brother from ruling the world.
What do you think Katherine should read next?
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