Books for Sixth Graders

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Sixth Grade Books

Adventure
Fantasy & Sci-Fi
Historical Fiction
Horror
Humor
Mystery
Realistic Fiction
Graphic Novels
Nonfiction

Adventure Books for sixth graders

6th Grade Adventure Books

Two sisters set out on a wild west adventure after the death of the stern aunt who raised them.	While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a 13-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost in Alaska and befriends a wolf pack.	Sam spends a year living alone in the Catskill Mountains and shares his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and the need for human companionship.
A family dog is stolen and sold to become a sled dog in the harsh Alaskan wilderness where he must learn the ways of his wolf ancestors in order to survive.	The greatest train ever built is on its maiden voyage across the country and Will has a first class seat, but sinister figures learn that he holds the key to a train car of priceless treasures.	Otto is kidnapped and forced to enroll in a super villain training school.

Fantasy & Sci-Fi books for sixth graders

6th Grade Fantasy & Sci Fi

Historical Fiction for sixth graders

6th Grade Historical Fiction

Blind orphan Peter Nimble, steals three pairs of magical eyes that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or stay a thief.	Clay no longer believes in magic, after being sent to a camp for troublemakers on a volcanic island he discovers a ghost and a dangerous force threatening to erupt.	After falling into the Underland through a grate in his apartment building, Gregor embarks on a dangerous quest to fulfill his destiny.
It is always night in the city of Ember, but there is no moon and no stars. Lina and Doon worry what will happen when the generator dies and the storerooms are empty of food.	Learning to be a princess is every girl’s dream, but the knowledge you gain along the way may make protecting your mountain village more appealing.	Tanya can see fairies, but not the fairies we imagine. Evil fairies who cast spells and get her into trouble.
Ellie’s mother brings home a boy who looks to be about 13, but is really her scientist grandfather who has discovered a way to reverse aging.	Steven Lee discovers a plot to control the twelve magical super powers of the Chinese Zodiac.	After discovering his mythological heritage, Percy Jackson sets out on a quest to prevent a war between gods.

Horror Books for sixth graders

6th Grade Horror Books

When Ada's little brother is shipped out of London to escape World War II, Ada decides it may be an opportunity to escape their abusive mother too.	A boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 with his autistic sister after his dad gets a job as a prison guard.	In 1859, Elijah is the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada and uses his wits and skills to bring a lying preacher to justice.
Omakayas, a seven-year-old girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.	Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.	Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their wealthy life in Mexico to work labor camps in Southern California during the Great Depression.
In 1967, when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew class on Wednesday afternoons, Holling stays alone with Mrs. Baker and learns what makes a person a hero.	In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit feels out of place in her Puritan household and befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community.	In the summer of 1936, Abilene’s father sends her to stay in Manifest, Kansas with one of his childhood friends where she discovers her own past, a local mystery, and a community impacted by prejudice.

Orphans Molly and Kip travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling and cursed manor house.	The brave and unusual Serafina must solve the dark and dangerous mystery behind disappearing children at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.	Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, but disturbingly different from her own.
Two best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider leads them to life-changing choices.

Humor Books for sixth graders

6th Grade Humor Books

Twelve-year-old Jack spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various reasons, helping a feisty, old neighbor, learning about the eccentric people who founded his town, with lots of bloody noses, and investigating a murder.	Jamie Grimm wants to become the world’s best standup comedian, but he’s stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie.	Joey and his sister spend the summer in rural Illinois during the Great Depression with their larger-than-life grandmother.
Augie lives in a fairy tale themed amusement park run by his father, but his life is turning into a nightmare. He must take summer school, the girl he has a crush on won’t acknowledge him, and he might be turning into a werewolf.

mystery books for sixth graders

6th Grade Mysteries

6th Grade Realistic Fiction

Gilda visits the mansion of her distant cousin to solve the mystery of the mansion’s boarded-up tower.	Petra and Calder combine talents to solve the international mystery of the missing Vermeer painting, a case that has even stumped the FBI.	Lenny Norbeck and his friends The Mikes set out to investigate the suspicious death of a young pitcher at a Phillies game.
Teddy believes hippopotamus homicide occurred at the new local zoo, despite the zoo’s claim that Henry the hippo died of natural causes.	Theo is challenged to prove is amateur attorney chops when pulled into a sensational murder trial in his small town.	The much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes must travel London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
After passing a series of tests, four children are selected for a secret mission to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened.

Realistic Fiction for sixth graders

Graphic Novels for sixth graders

6th Grade Graphic Novels

Twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with high and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.	Rose is forced to go outside of her comfort zone when her beloved dog goes missing during a storm.	A future homecoming queen, a simple girl, and a loner boy cross paths and find unlikely friendships amidst a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun.
After his mother’s death, Skiff takes it upon himself to support his father and undertakes a dangerous trip out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to catch a giant bluefin tuna.	Genie and his big brother leave Brooklyn for the summer to stay with their southern grandparents in the country while their parents "work things out." Great coming-of-age story filled with life lessons and humor.	After her parents are killed in a car accident, the extremely analytical and idiosyncratic Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself.
Bridge makes her way through seventh grade in Manhattan with her best friends and finds the answer to the question, “What is my purpose?”

Nonfiction for sixth graders

6th Grade Nonfiction

Mirka isn’t interested in knitting lesson from her stepmother or how-to-find-husband advice from her sister, she just wants to fight dragons.	A graphic novel memoir of a five-year-old who was kidnapped by rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo while playing soccer at school.	Astrid plans to spend her summer learning the awesome sport of Roller Derby at camp, but her best friend chooses ballet camp instead which may pull their friendship apart.
Can Rex survive 6th grade bullies, losing friends AND needing glasses his family can't afford?	A human baby mysteriously arrived in the realm of the trolls and Bera seems to be the only person who doesn't want it dead. When the supposed troll heroes are no help in returning the baby to the humans, Bera finds herself on a quest.	Dark forces are conspiring against the three Bone cousins who have been run out of Boneville.
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi.

In 2018, twelve Thai soccer players and their coach entered a cave to do some exploring, but were soon trapped.	Learn about the oldest human mummy preserved in ice ever found and the secrets given up by glaciers over the years.	The tragic story of the Titanic through the voices of real survivors.
Leyson was 10 years old when his family was forced into the Krakow ghetto during WWII. He describes the brutal treatment, struggle to survive, and his time working in Oskar Schindler’s factory.	Six of the world’s most bewildering disappearances, including an Alcatraz prison break and the ghost ship Mary Celeste.	Story of the 1871 Chicago fire told through the eyes of several survivors plus archival photos and maps.
Thirteen women proved they were as tough as men and brave enough to go where no woman had gone before.

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