6th Grade Booklist

Favorite picks and great reads for 6th grade readers selected by our teen librarians. Some titles will be in Juvenile Fiction and others in the Young Adult Fiction. The Young Adult Collection is made up of books for a wide age range (12-18 years old) and includes a variety of different topics and interests. Not all titles will be appropriate for all readers.

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Star rating for Allergic
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with the new baby they're expecting, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie thinks a new puppy is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and rashes. She's severely allergic to anything with fur!"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Amari and the night brothers"
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Series:
Amari volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
Book cover for "Everything sad is untrue"
Star rating for Everything sad is untrue
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family...
Book cover for "The fire, the water, and Maudie McGinn"
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Follows thirteen-year-old neurodivergent Maudie during an eventful summer in California with her father, where she struggles with whether to share a terrible secret about life with her mom and stepdad.
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Star rating for The jumbies
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces.
Book cover for "A spoonful of time"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Maya discovers stories and secrets from her family's past in Korea as her grandmother teaches her to cook and about their family's ability to time travel into memories via food."--