1. Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Award Grades 3-5

2. The Forgiveness Garden

3. by Lauren Thompson

4. Each Kindness

5. Jacqueline Woodson

6. Wonder

7. by R.J. Palacio

8. The One and Only Ivan

9. by Katherine Applegate

10. Words Set Me Free: the Story of Young Frederick Douglass

11. by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrations by James E. Ransome

12. Double Dog Dare

13. by Lisa Graff

14. The Ghost Tree

15. by Yvette Landry

16. Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams, illustrations by Craig Phillips

17. The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir and Our National Parks

18. by Barb Rosenstock

19. Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School

20. By Kim Baker

21. The Humming Room

22. by Ellen Potter

23. Hocus Pocus Hotel

24. by Michael Dahl

25. Bully

26. by Patricia Polacco

27. The World’s Greatest Lion by Ralph Helfer, illustrated by Ted Lewin

28. Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

29. by Ann Malaspina, illustrations by Eric Velasquez