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6th6th Grade

Before each book description is the book's location in the library:

J - children's fiction
J M - children's mystery
J SF - children's science fiction
Y - young adult fiction

J Almond - SKELLIG
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
J Bauer - ON MY HONOR
When his friend drowns while they are swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the consequences of their disobedience.
J Cohn - THE STEPS
Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Australia.
J Collins - GREGOR THE OVERLANDER
While on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy, Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world where they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders.
J Coville - SKULL OF TRUTH
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
J Couloumbis - SAY YES
In her efforts to survive following the disappearance of her stepmother, Casey resorts to anything — including robbery.
J Creech - BLOOMABILITY
When her aunt and uncle take her to Switzerland to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
J Cushman - MATILDA BONE
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the spiritual and practical aspects of her life.
J Danzinger - SNAIL MAIL NO MORE
Now that they live in different cities, Tara and Elizabeth use email to talk about the big changes occuring in their lives and to try to maintain their closeness.
J Gantos - WHAT WOULD JOEY DO?
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, he is sent to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, and his grandmother is dying.
J Giff - PICTURES OF HOLLIS WOODS
A troubled orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers her happiness with a foster family that truly seemed to care about her.
J SF Haddix - AMONG THE HIDDEN
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke lives in isolation and fear on his family's farm until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
J Hiaasen - HOOT
A boy new to a small Florida community becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of owls from a proposed construction site.
J Holt - WHEN ZACHARY BEAVER CAME TO TOWN
During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act — 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world.
J Hoobler - THE GHOST IN THE TOKAIDO INN
Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, attempts to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel in eighteenth-century Japan.
J Horvath - EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE
Primrose learns about the quirks of human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
J Ibbotson - DIAL-A-GHOST
A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.
J Jennings - THE WOLVING TIME
In France during a time of witch-hunts, thirteen-year-old Lazlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.
J Jimenez - BREAKING THROUGH
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
J Kehret - THE STRANGER NEXT DOOR
Two boys become friends after their families, one of which is in a witness protection program, move to neighboring houses.
J Konigsburg - THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY
Four students develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
J Korman - NO MORE DEAD DOGS
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
J Lawrence - THE WRECKERS
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, John attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
J McCaughrean - THE STONES ARE HATCHING
Phelim and his companions, a Maiden, a Fool, and a strange black Horse, journey to the Stoor Worm's lair to destroy the long-forgotten Worm and its Hatchlings, who have been roused from their slumber by the sounds of war.
J McKinley - THE BLUE SWORD
Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a king with mysterious powers.
J Meyer - MARY, BLOODY MARY
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
J Nixon - GHOST TOWN: SEVEN GHOSTLY STORIES
A collection of stories about eerie encounters in ghost towns across the United States.
J Park - WHEN MY NAME WAS KEOKO
A brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
J M Shan - CIRQUE DU FREAK
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
J Shreve - BLISTER
When a family tragedy occurs, Alyssa "Blister" Reed changes schools, moves to an apartment with her depressed mother while her father gets his own place, and tries to believe her grandmother, who tells her she is "elastic" and can handle it all.
J Sleator - REWIND
Not long after learning that he was adopted, Peter is hit by a car and given several chances to alter the events that led to his death.
J Smith - SASQUATCH
Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, which is on the brink of an eruption, in an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters.
J Soto - TAKING SIDES
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, has divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
J Spinelli - MANIAC MAGEE
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Y Staples - SHIVA'S FIRE
A talented dancer in India sacrifices friends and family for her art.
J Stauffacher - DONUTHEAD
Obsessive-compulsive Franklin Delano Donuthead finds an unlikely friend and protector in Sarah Kervick, the tough new student who lives in a dirty trailer, bonds with his mother, and is as "irregular" as he is.
J Taylor - ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
A black family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which they don't understand.
J Van Draanen - FLIPPED
Two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed dramatically over the years.
J Wolff - BAT 6
In small town, post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
J Yep - TIGER'S APPRENTICE
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.

Many of these authors have written other good books that you might enjoy!

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