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Books for 5th & 6th Graders Favorite Series of 2025 |
Door of No Return: Black Star
by Kwame Alexander
A Black girl in the American South, 12-year-old Charley Cuffey is determined to become the first female pitcher to play professional ball and challenges a neighborhood bully to a game that leads to a fateful decision with far-reaching consequences.
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Plotting the Stars: Ashgarden
by Michelle A. Barry
Crash landing on Earth where they discover the Old World is inhabited by many generations of Botans, Myra, Hannah and Bernard uncover centuries-old secrets and lies, while on Venus, Canter and Lila work to expose Melfin's treachery.
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Life of a Cactus: The Beat I Drum
by Dusti Bowling
Connor Bradley is dreading the first day of high school. Not just because he is new, or because he misses his best friends, but because he knows the other kids won't understand his barking and tics. Connor has Tourette Syndrome, and every day has been a challenge. It turns out school isn't quite as bad as he expected. Connor forms a fast friendship with a girl who also has Tourette's and is welcomed into her accepting circle of friends. He also meets a special music teacher who encourages him to take up the drums to manage his stress and maybe get a break from his tics. But Connor's world continues to be turned upside down by his father, who left the family a couple of years ago and is now trying to rekindle a relationship with them, and a school bully starts to escalate at school. All these problems - with family, with friends, and within himself - build and build until Connor feels ready to explode. Will a surprising revelation save him?
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Serwa Boateng's Guide to Saving the World
by Roseanne A Brown
Twelve-year-old half-vampire, half-Slayer Serwa and her friends journey across the United States to end the ancient magical conflict between her two worlds.
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Team Chu and the Wild Ghost Chase
by Julie C. Dao
When his cat, Tuba, becomes a social media sensation, scoring him an invite to a star-studded pet fashion show at Spooky World, Iggy and his friends find themselves on a mysterious, action-packed scavenger hunt to uncover the truth behind this haunted Halloween carnival.
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Marius Grey Stories: Darkness and Demon Song
by M. R. Fournet
When his recently resurrected mother starts turning into something else, 12-year-old monster hunter Marius sets out to save her with the help of his flesh-eating mermaid best friend and a classmate with extra-strong magic, while following mysterious clues for new hunts.
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Inkworld: The Color of Revenge
by Cornelia Funke
Five years after the events of Inkdeath, peace reigns in Ombra, where Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger and others are happy, but Orpheus, who fled north, lives a deprived existence fueled by his thirst for revenge against those who betrayed him.
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Spy School Goes Wild
by Stuart Gibbs
On another harrowing mission, survival training comes in handy when Ben Ripley is stranded in the wilderness with his nemesis, Murray Hill.
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Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Colin has spent all summer solving mysteries with his friend Nevaeh. But they've only ever dealt with other people's mysteries - ones that are safe for Colin to think about. He's still stuck on the mystery surrounding his own father, who his mother refuses to talk about and he can't remember meeting. Then one morning Colin finds a shoebox on his porch with a note on top: 'Your father wanted you to have this.' Inside the box is a key. This new clue makes Colin even more determined to find out the truth about his dad and why his parents split up when he was a baby. Colin and Nevaeh begin investigating Colin's father in a quest that takes them from eerie storage units to lock-lined bridges to, strangely, secrets in Nevaeh's family.
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Futureland: The Architect Games
by H. D. Hunter
A group called the Architects challenge Cam Walker and his family to a series of challenges with the winner taking Futureland, a flying theme park, and if Cam can lead his team to victory, his family and friends will be free.
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Quest Kids and the Mystery of the Goblin Gazebo
by Mark Leiknes
It's the showdown between the forces of good (consisting of the Quest Kids) and the forces of Doug (consisting of Doug and a zombified army of his fans). There's just one way for the Quest Kids to thwart Doug's world conquest: breaching the walls of the Goblin city of Dunglemire! Can the kids get inside and find the spell to neutralize Doug in time to save the world? And how does this involve a gazebo?
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Keeper of the Lost Cities: Unraveled
by Shannon Messenger
Please be careful. Please be happy. And PLEASE forget all about me. It'll be better for everyone that way. Those were the last words Keefe Sencen wrote to Sophie Foster before he ran away to the Forbidden Cities. He didn't want to leave, but it was the only way to keep his friends safe while he figured out how to control his scary new powers and searched for answers about his past. What he found was so much more than adventures in Humanland. Where did he go? What did he do? And who did he meet while the rest of his friends worked to solve the mystery of Stellarlune? The answers go far beyond anything anyone could have ever imagined and give Keefe the power to change his destiny.
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Fablehaven: The Gorgon's Fury
by Brandon Mull
Satyrs Newel and Doren travel from Fablehaven to Key West to seek counsel from the Listening Doll on how to stop a dangerous gorgon - and win the annual Satyrs Games.
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City Spies: London Calling
by James Ponti
The City Spies search for Cairo's missing sister in Rome before returning to London to stop an attack at a royal wedding.
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Heroes of Havensong: The Fifth Mage
by Megan Reyes
Wren, River, Blue and Shenli have struggled to face what the Fates have in store for them since learning they are heroes foretold to save their world, meanwhile someone is out there who believes her purpose is to stop them.
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Skandar and the Skeleton Curse
by A. F. Steadman
As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island's unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the spirit element for good and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is safe for Skandar. As more unicorns are affected by the curse, the clock is ticking for Skandar and his quartet, who find themselves racing for their lives. Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost forever?--
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The Legendary Scarlett & Browne
by Jonathan Stroud
Albert Browne returns to the terrifying Stonemoor prison, Scarlett McCain searches for her long-lost brother, and a town is besieged by the cannibal Tainted, in a story where rebellious anti-heroes face secrets of their past to shape a better future.
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Momo Arashima Duels the Queen of Death
by Misa Sugiura
Momo Arashima is half goddess and half human - torn between two worlds. But with her friends Danny, Ryleigh, Jin, and Niko by her side, she's finally starting to find a place where she belongs. Too bad none of that matters when Izanami, the treacherous goddess of death, threatens the life of someone Momo loves and forces her into a terrible bargain.
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Sir Callie and the Witch's War
by Esme Symes-Smith
In the third book of this thrilling fantasy series a twelve-year-old nonbinary knight-in-training, a reluctant crown prince, a fierce young witch, and her troubled twin brother fight for the heart of their kingdom in a medieval world of dragons and magic.
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