Titles that may be of
interest to your child - 6th grade
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Bomb Steve
Sheinkin (NonFiction)
Relates the true story of the creation of the nuclear
bomb, including the espionage involved.
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Brown Girl
Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson (Bio/Verse/Multicultural)
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always
felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to
grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants
of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
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Doll Bones Holly Black (Adventure/Fantasy)
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania
middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls
and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made
from the ashes of a dead girl.
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The
Fourteenth Goldfish Jennifer
L. Holm (Science Fiction)
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to
reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for
complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his
daughter.
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I Funny (and
sequels) James
Patterson (Humor)
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up
comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound
middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited
cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy
contest.
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The Mark of
the Dragonfly Jaleigh Johnson (Fantasy)
Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly
territories, thirteen-year-old Piper has eked out a living as a scrapper in
Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysterious girl sends her on a dangerous
journey to distant lands.
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Rain Reign Ann M. Martin (Realistic)
Autistic fifth-grader, Rose Howard, who is fascinated
by her own set of rules and a passion for homonyms, sets out on a search for
her beloved dog Rain after her father accidentally lets the dog out during a
dangerous storm.
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Sasquatch in
the Paint Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/Raymond Obstfeld
(Sports)
Eighth-grader
Theo Rollins' growth spurt has Coach Mandrake trying to transform him
into a basketball star, but training time is hurting the science club's chances
of winning the "Aca-lympics," and being accused of stealing could
mean Theo is off both teams.
- The Swallow Charis
Cotter (Mystery)
Neighbors Polly, who wants to see a ghost, and Rose, who
can't stop seeing ghosts, discover that their attic hideaways share a wall and
soon they become good friends, and when the girls find a tombstone with Rose's
name on it and encounter an angry spirit in her house, they become determined
to solve the mystery.
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The Thing
about Luck Cynthia Kadohata (Realistic/Multicultural)
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else
can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to
Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her
grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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Treasure
Hunters James
Patterson (Adventure)
Following clues left by their missing father,
twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New
York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their
world-famous treasure-hunting parents.
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Who Could
that be at This Hour? Lemony Snicket (Mystery)
Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his
apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot
of a town called Stain'd-By-The-Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a
statue.
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Zombie
Baseball Beatdown Paolo
Bacigalupi (Science Fiction/Multicultural)
While practicing for their next baseball game,
thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious
activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into
zombies.
