Late Elementary

Fourth and fifth grade, all in one place. This is the stretch where the work gets long enough to need a plan, and where a child either becomes a reader or decides they are not one. Both of those are on this shelf: the workbooks that carry the basics, and the novels and series that make a kid forget they are doing school.

How to use it: ninety minutes of real work, four days a week, and use the fifth for a project or a long read. Pick one math book and finish it. If math is the fight in your house, the problem is almost always one missing piece underneath, not a child who is bad at math.

Prefer a single shelf per grade? 4th, 5th. Or take five questions.

Shop our Late Elementary products below

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Kidnapped

Penguin Classics
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The Wind in the Willows

Penguin Classics
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The Gift of the Magi

Penguin Classics
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James and the Giant Peach

Penguin Classics
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Penguin Classics
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The Wizard of Oz And Other Wonderful Books of Oz (The Emerald City of Oz and Glinda of Oz)

Penguin Classics
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The Secret Garden

Penguin Classics
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Eyewitness Ocean (Revised)

DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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Great Migrations Collection (Paperback)

National Geographic Kids
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What's Inside a Flower? (Hardcover)

Crown Books for Young Readers
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Ibn Al-Haytham (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3): The Man Who Discovered How We See

  • Physics & Energy
  • Human Body & Health
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Ibn Al-Haytham follows a scholar in the Muslim golden age whose questions about light and sight changed how people understood vision. His experiments and reasoning make optics and the emerging scientific process the milestones of the biography.

Libby Romero National Geographic Kids
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Maker Comics: Build a Robot!

  • Engineering & Technology
  • Physics & Energy
  • Comics / Graphic Narrative

Why it works: An evil-toaster comedy assigns the reader six increasingly varied robots to build while the comic plot promises world domination. Motors, alarms, lights, sensors, and remote control become the mechanisms of both the projects and the joke, so engineering is learned by making.

Colleen AF Venable
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Legends of Zita the Spacegirl

Ben Hatke
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The Space Cat: A Graphic Novel

Nnedi Okorafor
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Little Robot

Ben Hatke
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Secret Coders: Robots & Repeats

Gene Luen Yang
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Wildfires (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)

Kathy Furgang National Geographic Kids
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Albert Einstein (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)

  • Physics & Energy
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Albert Einstein places the physicist's achievements and challenges along the arc of his life in a photo-rich National Geographic reader. Timelines, unusual facts, and a developing life story give young readers a human route into how major scientific work emerges.

Libby Romero National Geographic Kids
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