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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Realistic Fiction [Grades 3-5]
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Realistic Fiction [Grades 3-5]
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When his Chinese grandmother comes to live with his family in England, an eleven-year-old aspiring comic book artist has to share his bedroom with Nai Nai, who does not speak English, but they soon share a bond through math and art.
Author
Series
Frankie Pickle volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Worried that he won't pass his math quiz on Monday, Frankie can't find any time to study over the weekend. Comic strip illustrations are interspersed throughout the text.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 3
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Members of the Critter Club are all excited about their summer plans until Liz learns that, instead of taking an art class, she will have to be in summer school to improve her math skills, but a fun teacher, a classroom pet, support from her friends, and advice from her brother might get her through.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Violet has two great loves in her life: math and pie. And she loves her parents, even though her mom never stops nagging and her dad can be unreliable. Mom plus Dad doesn't equal perfection. Still, Violet knows her parents could solve their problems if they just applied simple math. #1: Adjust the ratio of Mom's nagging to her compliments. #2: Multiply Dad's funny stories by a factor of three. #3: Add in romantic stuff wherever possible....
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Series
Franklin School friends volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
Author
Series
Great Mathemachicken volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A chicken hops a ride to school to see what the humans do there all day and unlocks the superpowers of math and science, which she uses to save the coop"--
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old painter Esther can't wait to attend Camp Vermeer, the most prestigious art camp around. But when her stepdad accidentally drives up the wrong mountain, she lands at Camp Archimedes -- a math camp! Determined to prove herself to the other campers, she tackles a brain-teaser that's supposed to be impossible, and solves it in a single day. But not everyone is happy about it... someone wants her out of camp at any cost, and starts leaving...
11) Have a slice day
Author
Series
Great Mathemachicken volume 2
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a trip to school, a chick and duckling learn about fractions, tally marks, and pizza, and share what they have learned back at the coop. Includes recipe for pizza muffin treats.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her Puerto Rican identity, her grandfather's memory loss and transfer to a nursing home, and her sister's depression, seventh-grader Cassie joins the Mathletes at school, finding comfort in numbers and in her new friendship with Aaron.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Henri has attended a special school for her learning disability, dyscalculia, but when she is mainstreamed, she finds herself struggling to balance other parts of her life, and not just in math class--a family feud, drama on the soccer team, and a passion for poetry.
Author
Series
Gregory K. (Greg Pincus) volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Gregory Korenstein-Jasperton is an eleven-year-old boy who likes to write stories and poems and is not excited by math, but he has a problem--he is the middle child in a family of math geniuses and his father expects him to participate in the City Math contest.
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Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in nineteenth century London, England, Ada is curious about absolutely everything. She is obsessed with machines and with creatures that fly. She even designs her own flying laboratory! According to her mother, Ada is a bit too wild, so she encourages Ada to study math. At first Ada thinks: Bleh! Who can get excited about a subject without pictures? But she soon falls in love with it. One day she encounters a mysterious machine, and from...
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Series
Publisher
Yonder, Restless Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She's about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern--which she steps into and disappears. Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility--a loopily illogical place where...
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