Grade 5 Recommended Informational Science Book List

Title
Deserts
Sharks
Stegosaurus: The Plated Dinosaur
Make a Splash! A Kids Guide to
Protecting Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, &
Wetlands
Sea Turtles
A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to
Butterflies, How Climate Change Affects
Wildlife
Discovering New Planets
The Man Who Invented the Ferris Wheel:
The Genius of George Ferris
Tornadoes
Aliens From Earth: When Animals and
Plants Invade Other Ecosystems
Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet
Figuring Out Fossils
Strange But True: Tiny Creatures
The Appolo 13 Mission
Atoms and Molecules
Deep-Sea Anglefish and Other Fearsome
Fish
Engineering: Feats and Failures
Fossils and Rocks
The Secret World of Whales
The Quest to Digest
The Tarantula In My Purse
Transformed: How Everyday Things Are
Made
20th Century: Race to the Moon
Galaxies
Our Footprint on Earth
Science Vs. Animal Extinction
Sharks
The Science of a Rock Concert: Sound in
Action
Terror in the Tropics
Chasing the Worlds Most Dangerous
Storm
Dinosaurs
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An
Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New
Guinea
Prowling the Seas
Title

Author
Peter Benoit
Anita Ganeri
Gary Jeffrey
Cathryn Kaye &
Philippe Cousteau

Genre
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

Reading Level
O
O
O
P

Cindy Rodriguez
Caroline Arnold

Informational Science
Informational Science

P
Q

Mae Jemison & Dana

Meachen Rau
Dani Sneed

Informational Science

Informational Science

William B. Rice
Mary Batten

Informational Science
Informational Science

Q
R

Alexandra Siy
Sally M. Walker
Timothy J. Bradley
Donald B. Lemke
Tracy Nelson Maurer
Lynette Rachel

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

R
R
R
R
S
S

Stephanie Paris
Kimberly Hutmacher
Charles Siebert
Mary K. Corcoran
Jean C. George
Bill Slavin

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

S
S
S

Stephanie Paris
Seymour Simon
Jeanne Sturm
Nick Hunter
Seymour Simon
Kathy Allen

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

T
T
T
T
T
T

Timothy J. Bradley
Clive Gifford

Informational Science
Informational Science

T
U

Dan Green
Sy Montgomery

Informational Science
Informational Science

Pamela S. Turner
Author

Informational Science
Genre

U
Reading Level

S
S

The Seed Vault

Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of
Mount St. Helens
What Colors is my World? The Lost
History of African-American Inventors
Weather: Whipping up a Storm!
Dog
Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists
Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf
Mighty Macros: Little Things, Big Results
The Cutting Edge: Breakthroughs in
Technology
The Life Cycle of Birds
The Whirlwind World of Hurricanes with
Max Axiom, Super Scientist
An Ocean Food Chain
Biodiversity
Emi and the Rhino Scientist
From Cats Eyes to..Reflectors
Plants As Food, Fuel, and Medicine
Sea Otter Rescue
The Frog Scientist
A Black Hole is NOT a Hole
Achoo! The Most Interesting Book Youll
Ever Read About Germs
Fossils
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story
About Brain Science
The Chunnel
The Panama Canal
Anatomy of a Tornado
Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving our
Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed
Appollo 11 On the Moon
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway
The Story of Salt
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House
Authorized Graphic Biography
Breaking Through
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Henry VIII: Royal Beheader
Invincible Louisa
To Be a Slave
The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

Bonnie Juethner
Patricia Lauber

Informational Science
Informational Science

U
U

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
& Raymond Obstfeld
Dan Green
Juliet Clutton-Brock
Stephen R. Swinburne

Informational Science

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

U
V
V

Jennifer Kroll
Jennifer Kroll

Informational Science
Informational Science

V
V

Susan Heinrichs Gray

Katherine Krohn

Informational Science
Informational Science

V
V

A.D. Trabox
Carla Mooney
Mary Kay Carson
Wil Mara
Julie K. Lundgren
Roland Smith
Pamela S. Turner
Carolyn C.
DeCristofano
Trudee Romanek

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

W
W
W
W
W
W
W
X

Informational Science

Rebecca Faulkner
John Fleischman

Informational Science
Informational Science

X
X

Stuart A. Kallen
Heather Miller
Terri Dougherty
Cathryn B. Kaye

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

X
Y
Y
Y

Catherine Thimmesh

Informational Science

Sherri Devaney
Mark Kurlansky
Sid Jacobson

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

Y
Y
Z

Francisco Jimenez
Phillip Hoose
Sean Stewart Price
Cornelia Meigs
Julius Lester
Catherine Reef

Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science
Informational Science

Z
Z
Z
Z
Z
Z

Walter Dean Myers

Informational Science