2010s books assigned in 6th grade
US schools assign 404 books written in the 2010s to 6th grade students, across 44 states, spanning 360L–990L. Every title below is cited from a state ELA standard, district reading list, or AP/IB syllabus.
Most widely assigned from the 2010s
Wonder
R.J. Palacio · on 31 reading lists
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- Titles
- 404
- Written
- 2010–2019
- Lexile range
- 360L–990L
- States assigning
- 44
The list — 2010s, 6th grade
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A Boy Called ChristmasMatt Haig
A Boy Named QueenSara Cassidy
A Conspiracy of KingsMegan Whalen Turner
A Corner of WhiteJaclyn Moriarty
A Dog Called HomelessSarah Lean
A Few Red DropsClaire Hartfield
A Handful of StarsCynthia Lord
A Light in the Dark (Dark Stars Book 2)A. K. Duboff
A Long Walk to WaterLinda Sue Park · 720L
A Million Ways HomeDianna Dorisi-Winget
A Night DividedJennifer A. Nielsen
A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic Gold)Natalie Lloyd
A Tale Dark and GrimmAdam Gidwitz
A Wolf Called WanderRosanne Parry
Abigail AdamsNatalie S. Bober
Abigail AdamsNatalie S. Bober
AboveLeah Bobet
Above WorldJenn Reese
After Ever AfterJordan Sonnenblick
Airball: My Life in BriefsL.D. Harkrader
Akata WitchNnedi Okorafor
Alchemy and Meggy SwannKaren Cushman
Aliens Are Coming!Megan McCarthy
All the Impossible ThingsLindsay Lackey
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- All's Faire in Middle School
- Allies
- Amal Unbound
- Amelia Lost
- Anna and the Swallow Man
- Anything But Typical
- Arabella of Mars
- Archivist Wasp
- Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
- Arthur, For the Very First Time
- Aru Shah and the End of Time
- As Brave As You
- Ava and Pip
- Awkward
- Backlash
- Ban This Book
- Barbed Wire Baseball
- Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold)
- Behemoth
- Belly Up
- Best Friends
- Better Nate Than Ever
- Between Shades Of Gray
- Beyond the Bright Sea
- Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
- Bink & Gollie
- Black Enough
- Black Heart
- Black Potatoes
- Black Potatoes
- Blended
- Blink and Caution
- Bloody Jack Series
- Bo at Ballard Creek
- Boots on the Ground
- Borrowed Children
- Breakout
- Breathing Room
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Buddy
- Call of the Klondike
- Cardboard
- Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
- Carver
- Catfishing on CatNet
- Chickadee
- Children of Blood and Bone
- Chime
- Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang
- Chomp
- City of Ghosts
- Cliff-Hanger
- Close to Famous
- Cog
- Counting by 7s
- Court of Fives
- Creepy Carrots!
- Crush
- Cuckoo Song
- Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine
- Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor
- Dash (Dogs of World War II)
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Dead End in Norvelt
- Dirty Wings
- Dogtag Summer
- Down Sand Mountain
- Dragon Pearl
- Drama
- Dread Nation
- Dream on Amber
- Driver's Ed
- Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
- Each Kindness
- Eagle Drums
- Echo
- Eight Keys
- El Chupacabras
- El Deafo
- Eleanor & Park
- Electric Ben
- Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold)
- Ellie's Story
- Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Enchanted
- Enchanted Air
- Enchanted Air
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- Escaping the Giant Wave
- Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
- Every Day
- Everybody Sees the Ants
- Evil Librarian
- Exo
- Eyes Like Stars
- Fair Coin
- Fish in a Tree
- Five, Six, Seven, Nate!
- Flora's Dare
- Found
- Framed!
- Front Desk
- Full of Beans
- Game Changer
- Genesis Begins Again
- Ghetto Cowboy
- Ghost
- Ghost Boys
- Ghost Dog Secrets
- Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma
- Ghost Knight
- Ghost Soldier
- Ghosts
- Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
- Goblin Secrets
- Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
- Gone Crazy in Alabama
- Grasshopper Jungle
- Greenglass House
- Greetings from Witness Protection!
- Guts
- H.O.R.S.E.
- Hand in Hand
- Handbook for Dragon Slayers
- Heart and Soul
- Heart and Soul
- Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
- Hello, Universe
- Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
- Her Right Foot
- Here Comes the Garbage Barge
- Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
- Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel
- Hidden
- House Arrest
- Humbug Mountain
- I Lived on Butterfly Hill
- I Shall Wear Midnight
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
- I'm Dirty!
- If I Built a School
- In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
- Infinite Hope
- Inside Out & Back Again
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
- Iron Hearted Violet
- Jake and Lily
- John F. Kennedy and PT-109
- Jordin Tootoo
- Kakapo Rescue
- La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
- Last Stop on Market Street
- Legend
- Lifeboat 12
- Lily and Dunkin
- Little Little
- Locomotive
- Loot
- Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness
- Love Is the Drug
- Lucky Broken Girl
- Lulu's Mysterious Mission
- Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess
- Magisterium: The Iron Trial
- Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer (Book 1)
- March Book Three
- Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
- Matched
- Max and the Midknights
- Maxi’s Secrets: (Or, What You Can Learn from a Dog)
- Merci Suárez Changes Gears
- Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
- Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1)
- Milo
- Mockingbird
- Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter
- Monstrous Beauty
- Moon Over Manifest
- Most Dangerous
- Muckrackers
- My Explosive Diary
- New Kid
- Nimona
- Noah Webster and His Words
- Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
- Okay for Now
- On the Day I Died: Stories from the Grave
- One Crazy Summer
- One for Sorrow
- One for the Murphys
- Openly, Honestly
- Operation: Dump the Chump
- Orbiting Jupiter
- Other Words for Home
- Out of My Mind
- P.S. Be Eleven
- Pax
- Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
- Pie
- Pie in the Sky
- Piecing Me Together
- Planet Earth Is Blue
- Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum
- Postcards from Camp
- Posted
- Prisoner B-3087
- Projekt 1065
- Queen of the Falls
- Railhead
- Railsea
- Real Friends
- Rebound
- Red Queen
- Redwood and Ponytail
- Refugee
- Resistance
- Restart
- Revolution
- Rocks Fall Everyone Dies
- Roller Girl
- Rotters
- Run, Hide, Fight Back
- Runaway Twin
- Sadie
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
- Salvage
- Saving Winslow
- Saving Zasha
- Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy
- Scowler
- See You in the Cosmos
- September Girls
- Seraphina
- Sergeant Reckless
- Seriously Wicked
- Shadowshaper
- Siberia
- Sidekicks
- Sister Mine
- Sisters
- Skulduggery Pleasant
- Smile
- Song for A Whale
- Sparks!
- Stella Díaz Has Something to Say
- Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- Stung
- Summer of the Mariposas
- Sunny Side Up
- Teddy Mars Book #3: Almost an Outlaw
- Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus
- Tess of the Road
- The 5th Wave
- The Apothecary
- The Art of Starving
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I
- The Best School Year Ever
- The Black Stallion Adventures
- The Black Stallion Challenged
- The Blackbird Girls
- The Boy at the Back of the Class
- The Boy at the End of the World
- The Boy from Ilysies
- The Bridge Home
- The Cardboard Kingdom
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- The Crossover
- The Day the Crayons Quit
- The Detective's Assistant
- The Diviners
- The Doom Stone
- The Downstairs Girl
- The Dreamer
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone
- The False Prince
- The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- The Fault in Our Stars
- The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
- The Forbidden Library
- The Fourteenth Goldfish
- The Fourth Stall Part III
- The Freedom Maze
- The Ghost of Graylock
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns Stories
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- The Girl Who Drew Butterflies
- The Girl with the Ghost Machine
- The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
- The Great Brain Does It Again
- The Great Pet Escape
- The Haunting of Falcon House
- The Hidden Oracle
- The Honest Truth
- The Incredible Journey
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- The Jigsaw Jungle
- The Last Kids on Earth
- The Last Straw
- The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors
- The Library of Ever
- The Lie Tree
- The Lifters
- The Lion Hunters Novels
- The Lost Hero
- The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: The Wall of Fame Game
- The Mark of Athena
- The Neptune Project
- The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- The One and Only Ivan
- The Parker Inheritance
- The Perfect Score
- The Pilgrims of Plimoth
- The Port Chicago 50
- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
- The Red Pyramid
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
- The Scorpio Races
- The Screaming Staircase
- The Season of Styx Malone
- The Skydiving Beavers
- The Son of Neptune
- The Star-Touched Queen
- The Stonekeeper: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #1)
- The Storm in the Barn
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
- The Summer Prince
- The Sword of Summer
- The Thing About Leftovers
- The Thing About Luck
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre
- The Undefeated
- The Unwanteds
- The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
- The Village by the Sea
- The War That Saved My Life
- The Way Things Work Now
- The Wild Robot
- The Witch Boy
- The Wizards of Once
- Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
- Thirty Minutes Over Oregon
- This Promise of Change
- Took
- Torpedoed
- Turtle in Paradise
- Twelve Days in May
- Ultraviolet
- Una niña llamada Rose / Rain Reign
- Unbreakable
- Ungifted
- Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)
- Updraft
- Valiant
- Variant
- Vessel
- Vincent and Theo
- Want
- We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
- We Will Not Be Silent
- We're Not from Here
- Weave a Circle Round
- Wedgie & Gizmo
- Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel
- When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
- When We Wake
- White Bird
- White Cat
- Wild Wings
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- Will Rogers Immortal Cowboy
- Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy
- Winterhouse
- Wishtree
- Wonder
- Wonderstruck
- Young Fredle
- Zeroboxer
Most-assigned 2010s authors in 6th grade
Rick Riordan (7) · Alan Gratz (5) · Raina Telgemeier (5) · Holly Black (4) · Jennifer L. Holm (4) · Jennifer A. Nielsen (3)
Common questions
- How many 2010s books are assigned in 6th grade?
- 404 books written between 2010 and 2019 appear on 6th grade reading lists tracked by ReadingList. Each one is cited from a state department of education, district list, or AP/IB syllabus.
- What Lexile range do these 2010s books cover?
- Lexile measures for the 2010s titles assigned in 6th grade run from 360L to 990L. Poetry, drama, and graphic novels without a published Lexile measure are not counted in that range.
- Are these assigned nationally or in a few states?
- 44 states assign at least one 2010s title at 6th grade in the lists tracked here, so this is a broad pattern rather than a single state's canon. Per-state lists are on each state page.