Books we recommend for 6th graders

J Fiction – alphabetical by author

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
• The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
• All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
• Victory by Susan Cooper
• City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
• Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Closed For the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
• The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to his Death and Lands in California by Mary Hershey
• Stormbreaker (first book in Alex Rider series) by Anthony Horowitz
• Abduction by Peg Kehret
• The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
• Ashes by Kathryn Lasky
• Savvy by Ingrid Law

• Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley
• Bloody Jack (series) by L.A. Meyer
• Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by W. R. Philbrick
• Golden Compass (1st in a trilogy) by Philip Pullman
• The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
• Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
• Peak by Roland Smith
• The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes series) by Nancy Springer
• The Thief (Queen's Thief series) by Megan Whalen Turner

YA Fiction – alphabetical by author

• Graceling by Kristin Cashore
• Artemis Fowl (series) by Eoin Colfer
• Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
• In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
• Ranger's Apprentice (series) by John Flanagan