RecommendedReads: Grade6
GrowUp,LuchyZapata
AlexandraAlessandri
JALES, A
A funny, relatable middle school drama about two Colombian American girls who have always been BFFsuntil sixth grade turns everything upside down.
ImpossibleCreatures KatherineRundell
JRUND, K
Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.
TheNightWar
KimberlyBrubakerBradley
JBRAD, K
During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding.
TheSecretDeadClub KarenStrong
JSTRO
, K
Wednesday Thomas sees ghosts. After a terrifying experience with a wicked ghost, Wednesday and her mother move back south to the family home in Georgia. Wednesday is determined not to use her gift anymore, until she meets a group of girls who also know about the spirit realm.
Lifeboat5 SusanHood
JHOOD
, S
Based on the lives, rescue, and continuing friendship of British evacuees Bess Walder, 15, and Beth Cummings, 14, who spent fourteen hours in the North Atlantic with their hands grasped across their overturned lifeboat after the Nazis torpedoed the SS City of Benares on route to Canada in 1940.
TheTruthAboutTriangles MichaelLeali
JLEAL
, M
A heartfelt contemporary middle grade novel following Luca Salvatore, a young gay Italian American trying to save his family's pizza restaurant and a life that feels like it's falling apart after he learns that his parents may be separating and his first crush and best friend might be into each other.
TheMysteryofLockedRooms
LindsayCurrie
JCURR, L
From the author of Scritch Scratch comes an actionpacked mystery novel about three friends who team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1950's funhouse.
Boy2.0 TraceyBaptiste
JBAPT, T
When thirteen-year-old African American Coal discovers he can turn invisible, he searches for answers about his past with the help of his friends and his new foster family.
NotQuiteaGhost AnneUrsu
JURSU, A
Violet’s new attic bedroom is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill—and does not get better, leading her to believe she may not be alone in the room at all.
Curveball PabloCartaya
JGNCART, P
Baseball is Elena Rueda's entire life: She may be the only girl on her team, but she's the best player and everyone knows it. Except Elena has stopped having fun, and it's time to leave the sport behind. The problem is, Elena has no idea who she is without a bat in her hand.
TheMonaLisaVanishes NicholasDay
J 364.16 DAY, N
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.
JessicaStremer
A timely middle grade book exploring the incredible ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature.
From Popsicles and swim fins to robots and glitter-shooting prosthetics, this middle grade nonfiction debut is full of fun and inspiring stories about real kid inventors and some of their most amazing inventions. J 609.2 PEW, K
From Shore to Ocean Floor is the story of how humans went from building the first boats to discovering the secrets of the deep. J 910.9 BIRM, M
The story follows Jane from her first realization of the unfairness that limited the lives, livelihoods, and health of disadvantaged people in the late 1800s to her becoming one of the most beloved-and most dislikedwomen of her day.