5th Grade Reading List
Reading suggestions for 5th Graders from the Weber County Library

Is Origami Yoda more than a simple finger puppet? That is the question Tommy and his friends attempt to answer.

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.


A handbook for the budding cryptographer including codes and ciphers, invisible inks, concealment techniques, spy stories, and more.

Ten-year-old Winnie discovers the magic spring that has given the Tuck family eternal life. Will she drink the water too?

Readers are introduced to a variety of near-alien life-forms from a wide diversity of habitats.

A young girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II.


Minli buys a magical goldfish and joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon.
