Radio Fifth Grade

Radio Fifth Grade
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1991-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0590419277

Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program.

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
Author: Laura Shovan
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0553521403

An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class’s poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli. Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill’s fifth-grade class has plans for you. They’re going to speak up and work together to save their school. Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear it. Honors and Praise: Winner of a Cybils Award in Poetry Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year An ILA-CBC Children’s Choice Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List “This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut.” —School Library Journal “Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.” —Mark Goldblatt, author of Twerp

The Toilet Paper Tigers

The Toilet Paper Tigers
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995-05
Genre: Baseball stories
ISBN: 9780785772248

When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.

Listening to Crickets

Listening to Crickets
Author: Candice Ransom
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822589095

From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she spent hours exploring meadows and woods, dreaming of seeing the ocean. As Rachel grew older, she combined her gift for writing with her love of nature, producing award-winning books about the sea. But her best-known achievement was the publication of Silent Spring, an account of the dangerous effects of pesticides on plants and animals. With Silent Spring, Rachel helped create a movement to ban these harmful chemicals. Her findings helped to assure that future generations would be able to dream about the ocean and listen to crickets.

Yuckers!

Yuckers!
Author: Mel Gilden
Publisher: Ibooks for Young Readers
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2020-12-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781596877856

YUCKERS! WHAT SMELLS LIKE COTTON CANDY AND GOES THUMP, THUMP, THUMP? Stevie Brickwald is so gross. He even eats Yuckers! cereal, and everyone knows it's full of weird chemicals. Then Stevie mixes Yuckers! with a secret ingredient, and very strange things start happening at school. All the lunch milk disappears. A small pink dog is seen diving into the drinking fountain. A mysterious thumping interrupts Ms. Cosgrove's math class. Could there really be another monster loose at P.S. 13? Danny Keegan knows that all monsters aren't bad. After all, some of his best friends are monsters. WELCOME TO P.S. 13 and the Crazy classroom of THE FIFTH GRADE MONSTERS!

5th Grade American History: American Presidents

5th Grade American History: American Presidents
Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-12-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1682809358

How many American presidents do you know of? Memorizing names is easy but recognizing the faces associated with those names, as well as their contributions to the country can be quite challenging. The good thing is, you don't have to stick to volumes of text to get this information! You can use this pretty and educational book of Presidents instead. Grab a copy today!

Whatshisface

Whatshisface
Author: Gordon Korman
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338200178

Gordon Korman's next stand-alone novel, a fun, funny ghost story about a nobody kid who becomes a somebody while helping a ghost right a wrong from the past. Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford - where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just . . . whatshisface.Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much, so they get him a fancy new phone. Almost immediately, it starts to malfunction. First there's a buzzing. Then there's a weird glare on the screen. Then that glare starts to take on the form of . . . a person?It's not just any person trapped inside Cooper's phone. It's a boy named Roderick, who says he lived in the time of William Shakespeare - and had a very tangled history with the famous playwright. Cooper thinks his phone has gone haywire, but there's nothing he can do to get rid of Roderick. Then, even stranger, Roderick starts helping him. Even though his seventeenth-century advice isn't always the best for a twenty-first century middle school.

The Complete Year in Reading and Writing

The Complete Year in Reading and Writing
Author: Patty Vitale-Reilly
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Provides a detailed curriculum uniquely designed for second graders and their growing command of literacy.

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
Author: Barthe DeClements
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008-09-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101077662

A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

Marconi and Tesla

Marconi and Tesla
Author: Tim O'Shei
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781598450767

Introduces readers to the inventors of wireless communication equipment and the Tesla coil used in today's radios and television sets through an examination of their childhood years, education, inspirations, and groundbreaking discoveries.