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Guided Reading Levels T-V Book List

Enhance your Guided Reading library with these Level T-V titles for grades 5-6.

Level T-V titles cover a breadth of topics with more difficult themes and require readers to employ a wider range of reading strategies. They offer varied text structures, advanced vocabulary, and often ask students to step out of their comfort zones and look past their own experiences. Use this book list to build your advanced Guided Reading library and introduce students to award-winners and iconic classics from authors like J.K. Rowling, Gary Paulsen, Lois Lowry, Roald Dahl, and more.

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The Tiger Rising

Grades 6 - 7
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Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage.

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Number the Stars

Grades 5 - 6
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As German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her by pretending she's part of the family.

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Holes

Grades 6 - 8
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This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats.

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Wonder

Grades 5 - 7
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This brilliant, sensitive story takes an insightful look at how one person's differences can affect the lives of so many others.

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Lawn Boy

Grades 5 - 7
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Gary Paulsen's comic story about a summer job becomes a slapstick lesson in business as one boy turns a mountain of grass into a mountain of cash.

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Love that Dog

Grades 5 - 8
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Jack hates poetry, but his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments. But then he discovers the more he writes, the more he learns he does have something to say.

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Grades 4 - 5
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A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, which honors the enduring power of love.

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Bud, Not Buddy

Grades 5 - 7
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but he's on a mission to hit the road and find his father, and nothing can stop him.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

Grades 6 - 7
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Enter the world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family. When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons head South to Birmingham, Alabama... toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.

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Foster's War

Grades 7 - 9
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Set in San Diego in 1941-42, this novel vividly evokes life on the home front during World War II. As the U.S. battles tyranny overseas, 11-year-old Foster Simmons finds a way to make peace at home.

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The BFG

Grades 5 - 6
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Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts a plan with him to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Grades 5 - 7
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This first installment of C.S. Lewis' renowned series, first published in 1950, has been enchanting the hearts and imaginations of millions for generations with its story of four siblings who, with the help of a lion named Aslan, must overcome their own failings to become heroes of a better world.

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It's 1776 and the Revolutionary War is raging as the colonists fight for freedom from Great Britain. Will eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox find his father and get out alive?

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The Cay

Grades 6 - 8
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A powerful story of love, prejudice, and survival.

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My Side of the Mountain

Grades 5 - 7
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This Newberry Honor Book combines recipes, drawings, diary entries, and narration to create an enthralling portrait of a boy's self-sufficiency.

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Tracker

Grades 7 - 9
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As John Borne closes in on the doe he's been tracking for two days, he comes to believe she has the mysterious power to cheat death and save the life of his beloved grandfather, who is dying of cancer.

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Becoming Naomi León

Grades 7
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Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. But according to Gram, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking...until their mother reappears after seven years of being gone, stirring up all sorts of questions and challenging Naomi to discover and proclaim who she really is.

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Pay It Forward

Grades 5 - 8
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Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney accepts his teacher's challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. Trevor's idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and, instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to "pay it forward" to three others who need help.

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Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere

Grades 4 - 6
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Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday.

Thirty years after the publication of her Newbery Honor Book My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George gives young readers a worthy sequel to add to their collection.

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Two-Minute Mysteries

Grades 5 - 6
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Whether testing their own sleuthing abilities by working against the clock, or enjoying the intrigue of unraveling each case, readers get lots of spine-tingling mystery with these thrilling puzzlers.

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Inside Out & Back Again

Grades 5 - 7
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Inspired by the author's own childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam as a refugee and immigrating to Alabama, this Newbery Honor Book and National Book Award winner told in verse is sure to capture young readers' hearts and open their eyes.

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One Crazy Summer

Grades 5 - 7
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Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Grades 4 - 6
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The book that started it all... Full of sympathetic characters, wildly imaginative situations, and countless exciting details, the first installment in the Harry Potter series assembles an unforgettable magical world and sets the stage for many high-stakes adventures to come.