Grade 6 Suggested Reading List
JUVENILE FICTION
A spoonful of time
by
Flora Ahn
Raymie nightingale
by
Kate DiCamillo
Starry River of the Sky
by
Grace Lin
Number the stars
by
Lois Lowry
Call it courage
by
Armstrong Sperry
MIDDLE SCHOOL FICTION
The Night Gardener
by
Jonathan Auxier
Artemis Fowl
by
Eoin Colfer
The truth as told by Mason Buttle
by
Leslie Connor
Catherine, called Birdy
by
Karen Cushman
Louisa June and the Nazis in the waves
by
Laura Elliott
The inquisitor's tale, or, The three magical children and their holy dog
by
Adam Gidwitz
Two degrees
by
Alan Gratz
Scary stories for young foxes
by
Christian McKay Heidicker
Hoot
by
Carl Hiaasen
The night diary
by
Veera Hiranandani
Lifeboat 12
by
Susan Hood
Song for a whale
by
Lynne Kelly
The superteacher project
by
Gordon Korman
Pie in the Sky
by
Remy Lai
A wrinkle in time
by
Madeleine L'Engle
The season of Styx Malone
by
Kekla Magoon
Merci Suárez changes gears
by
Meg Medina
Finding Junie Kim
by
Ellen Oh
Northwind
by
Gary Paulsen
The first rule of punk
by
Celia C. Pérez
Look both ways : a tale told in ten blocks
by
Jason Reynolds
Holes
by
Louis Sachar
The last mapmaker
by
Christina Soontornvat
A rover's story
by
Jasmine Warga
Beyond the bright sea
by
Lauren Wolk
Harbor me
by
Jacqueline Woodson
Front desk
by
Kelly Yang
JUVENILE NONFICTION
While I was away
by
Waka T Brown
Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life and work
by
Victoria Ortiz
All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
by
Lori Alexander
The genius under the table : growing up behind the Iron Curtain
by
Eugene Yelchin
This land is our land : A history of American immigration
by
Linda Barrett Osborne
Full of life : exploring Earth's biodiversity
by
Isabel Thomas
The poison eaters : fighting danger and fraud in our food and drugs
by
Gail Jarrow
Shackles from the deep : tracing the path of a sunken slave ship, a bitter past, and a rich legacy
by
Michael H Cottman
A field guide to mermaids
by
Emily B. Martin
Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
by
Margot Lee Shetterly
Amazing night sky atlas
by
Nancy Dickmann
Oceanarium
by
Loveday Trinick
Crow smarts : inside the brain of the world's brightest bird
by
Pamela S Turner
Running with wolves : our story of life with the Sawtooth pack
by
Jim Dutcher
It takes guts : how your body turns food into fuel (and poop)
by
Jennifer Gardy
Bubonic panic : when plague invaded America
by
Gail Jarrow
Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon
by
Steve Sheinkin
Game on! : video game history from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft, and more
by
Dustin Hansen
Alias Anna : Zhanna Arshanskaya: a biography in verse : a true story of outwitting the Nazis
by
Susan Hood
Titanic : voices from the disaster
by
Deborah Hopkinson
MIDDLE SCHOOL NONFICTION
Sisters
by
Raina Telgemeier
This was our pact
by
Ryan Andrews
Swim team
by
Johnnie Christmas
Mighty Jack. Book one
by
Ben Hatke
Roller girl
by
Victoria Jamieson
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