Sixth Grade Reading Suggestions

The following are suggestions for sixth graders. Clicking on a book title will take you to the library catalog, where you can request the book or learn more information about it. Want even more reading suggestions? Ask a librarian.

Location	Title/Author	Synopsis
YA / Ali	Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator Allison, Jennifer	During the summer before ninth grade, Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
J & Pbk / And	Fever 1793 Anderson, Laurie Halse	In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
YA / Cle	Things Not Seen Clements, Andrew	When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
J & Pbk / Cre	Bloomability Creech, Sharon	When Dinnie goes to an International School in Switzerland, she discovers her world expanding.
J & Pbk / Coo	The Dark is Rising Cooper, Susan	On his birthday Will discovers that he is the last of the old ones and is destined to seek the six magical sights that enable the old ones to triumph over dark. (series)
J & Pbk / Cus	Catherine Called Birdy Cushman, Karen	The 13-yr-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal of her life, particularly of her longing of adventure and her efforts to avoid being married.
YA & Pbk / Far	House of the Scorpion Farmer, Nancy	In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
YA & Pbk / Fla	The Ruins of Gorlan Flanagan, John	When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
J / Had	Double Identity Haddix, Margaret Peterson	Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
YA Pbk / Hau	Snatched Hautman, Pete	Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate. (series)
J & Pbk / Hes	Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen	In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
J Pbk / Hol	When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Holt, Kimberly Willis	During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
YA / Key	Alabama Moon Key, Watt	After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.
J & Pbk / Low	The Giver Lowry, Lois	Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
YA & Pbk / Lup	Travel Team Lupica, Mike	After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
J & Pbk / Pat	Jacob Have I Loved Paterson, Katherine	Feeling deprived all of her life of schooling, friends, mother and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
YA & Pbk / Pfe	Life As We Knew It Pfeffer, Susan Beth	Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
YA / Run	The Mystery of the Third Lucretia Runholt, Susan	While traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery.
YA / Shu	Everlost Shusterman, Neal	When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
YA & Pbk / Son	Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Sonnenblick, Jordan	When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.
J & Pbk / Sta	Shabanu Staples, Suzanne Fisher	When Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
J / Tay	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor, Mildred D.	A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
J & Pbk / Tol	Surviving the Applewhites Tolan, Stephanie	Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.

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Sixth Grade Reading Suggestions