Sunshine State Readers 2025-2026 for 3rd-5th GradesLike this list

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• Trex

  Morrell, Christyne

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  Follows the adventures of a boy with an experimental brain implant, and a reclusive girl training to be a spy, as they're pitted against school bullies, their own parents, and an evil, brain-hacking corporation.

• The Adventures of Invisible Boy!!!(!)

  Horner, Doogie,

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  Stanley accidentally turns invisible at the school science fair. Determined to use his powers for good, he squares off against an evil boy genius in an epic showdown for a cure to their shared invisibility before it becomes permanent.

• Always, Clementine

  Sorosiak, Carlie,

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  A humor-filled, heart-tugging tale of a genius mouse, secretly freed from a lab, who's in search of a real home—and a way to free her old friends.

• The Amazon

  Smith, Roland

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  Ring and Asia Wilde accompany their parents on adventures around the world. But when their mom goes missing in the Amazon rainforest they must try to rescue her.

• Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed

  Iriarte, José Pablo,

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  Benny is not talented like the rest of his family but the ghost of his famous musician abuelo (which only Benny can see) is going to help him, one way or another.

• The Callers

  Thomas, Kiah,

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  The Octavius family is notable for producing Callers -- people with the ability to summon objects seemingly out of thin air. Quintus Octavius, however, has never been successful at Calling anything. When he is suddenly and mysteriously transported…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure

  Luna, Leigh,

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  Clementine is supposed to be on her way to school but instead she and her friends hitch a ride to a mysterious island where her great aunt lives. What could go wrong?

• Dogtown

  Applegate, Katherine,

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  Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs. Chance, a real dog, and Metal Head, a robot dog, leave the shelter on an adventure to find their forever homes.

• The Guardian Test

  Soontornvat, Christina,

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  Plum is accepted to the Guardian Academy where children learn how to transform into Guardians, protectors of the natural world. But when she can't learn to transform, she is worried she'll be kicked out of the school and lose the first group of real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Futureland

  Battle for the Park

  Hunter, H. D.,

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  When an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a sinister force from stealing the park's tech and taking over the world.

• Lightningborn

  Kagawa, Julie,

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  In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby dragon—believed to be extinct—and becomes the focus of an evil pirate's vengeance.

• The Lost Library

  Stead, Rebecca,

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  When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change.

• The Mystery of Locked Rooms

  Currie, Lindsay,

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  An action-packed adventure novel about three friends who team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1950's funhouse.

• Peril at Price Manor

  Parnum, Laura,

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  A tween aspiring horror movie actress pairs up with the twin children of her favorite director to defeat zombifying octopus-like creatures.

• The Wild Journey of Juniper Berry

  Morris, Chad,

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  Eleven-year-old Juniper Berry has lived her entire life happily off the grid with her family. But an emergency thrusts Juniper into contemporary civilization, a world she’s only imagined and never longed for that’s brimming with seemingly magical…Read moreRead more of this annotation