6th grade reading list

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6th grade students in US schools are commonly assigned 1015 books across Common Core Appendix B, AP, IB, Cambridge, and state ELA curricula. Each title links to its grade citations.

Reading difficulty: the typical 6th grade text-complexity band is 925–1185L (Common Core Appendix A). Of the 82 titles here with a Lexile score, 13 are grade-level, 69 are more accessible (often chosen for theme over reading challenge), and 0 are stretch texts. Match a book to your reader’s measured Lexile rather than to the grade alone.

1015 books with a 6th grade citation

Titles whose grade range covers 6th grade in a state ELA curriculum or a national reference (Common Core Appendix B, AP, IB).

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A Racecourse for Andy · Patricia Wrightson
A Ray of Light · Walter Wick
A Room on Lorelei Street · Mary E. Pearson
A Royal Conundrum · Lisa Yee
A Scar like a River · Lisa Graff
A Sea of Lemon Trees · María Dolores Águila
A Season of Gifts · Richard Peck
A Single Shard · Linda Sue Park
A Sitting in St. James · Rita Williams-Garcia
A Snake Falls to Earth · Darcie Little Badger
A Snicker of Magic (Scholastic Gold) · Natalie Lloyd
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall · Jasmine Warga
A Tale Dark and Grimm · Adam Gidwitz
A Week in the Woods · Andrew Clements
A Wizard of Earthsea · Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wolf Called Wander · Rosanne Parry
A Work in Progress · Jarrett Lerner
A World Without Summer · Nicholas Day
A Wrinkle in Time · Madeleine L'Engle
A Year Down Yonder · Richard Peck
Abduction · Peg Kehret
Abigail Adams · Natalie S. Bober
Abigail Adams · Natalie S. Bober
Above · Leah Bobet
Above World · Jenn Reese
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass · Russell Freedman
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass · Russell Freedman
Absolutely Positively Not · David LaRochelle
Absurd Words · Tara Lazar
Adam of the Road Novel Units Student Packet · Elizabeth Gray Vining
Adopted by an Owl · Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen
After Ever After · Jordan Sonnenblick
After the Dancing Days · Margaret Rostkowski
Ajeemah and His Son · James Berry
Akata Witch · Nnedi Okorafor
Al Capone Does My Shirts · Gennifer Choldenko
Alchemy and Meggy Swann · Karen Cushman
Aliens Ate My Homework · Bruce Coville
All About Sam · Lois Lowry
All He Knew · Helen Frost
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team · Christina Soontornvat
All the Blues in the Sky · Renée Watson
All the Lovely Bad Ones · Mary Downing Hahn
All the Money in the World · Bill Brittain
Allergic · Megan Wagner Lloyd
Allies · Alan Gratz
Almost Astronauts · Tanya Lee Stone
Alone · Megan E. Freeman
Alvin's Swap Shop · Clifford B. Hicks
Amal Unbound · Aisha Saeed
Amari and the Night Brothers · B. B. Alston
Amelia Lost · Candace Fleming
Amir and the Jinn Princess · M. T. Khan
Among the Hidden · Margaret Peterson Haddix
Amos Fortune, Free Man · Elizabeth Yates
An American Plague · Jim Murphy
An American Plague · Jim Murphy
Ancestory: The Mystery and Majesty of Ancient Cave Art · Hannah Salyer
And Now Miguel · Joseph Krumgold
Anna and the Swallow Man · Gavriel Savit
Anthony Burns · Virginia Hamilton
Anything But Typical · Nora Raleigh Baskin
Arabella of Mars · David D. Levine
Archivist Wasp · Nicole Kornher-Stace
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret · Judy Blume
Arnie, the Doughnut · Laurie Keller
Artemis Fowl · Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian · Eoin Colfer
Arthur, For the Very First Time · Patricia MacLachlan
Aru Shah and the End of Time · Roshani Chokshi
As Brave As You · Jason Reynolds
As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running for President! · Donna Gephart
Ash · Malinda Lo
Ashley Bryan · Ashley Bryan
Attaboy, Sam! · Lois Lowry
Ava and Pip · Carol Weston
Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job · Willo Davis Roberts
Backlash · Sarah Darer Littman
Bad News for Outlaws · Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Ban This Book · Alan Gratz
Banana Twist · Florence Parry Heide
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days · Stephen Manes
Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold) · Pam Muñoz Ryan
Before the Ever After · Jacqueline Woodson
Behave Yourself, Bethany Brant · Patricia Beatty
Behind Barbed Wire · Daniel S. Davis
Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed · José Pablo Iriarte
Better Nate Than Ever · Tim Federle
Between Shades Of Gray · Ruta Sepetys
Between Two Brothers · Crystal Allen
Beyond the Bright Sea · Lauren Wolk
Big Ben · David Harry Walker
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself · Lincoln Peirce
Bink & Gollie · Kate DiCamillo
Black Brother, Black Brother · Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Enough · Ibi Zoboi
Black Girl You Are Atlas · Renée Watson
Black Heart · Holly Black
Black Potatoes · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Black Potatoes · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Blended · Sharon M. Draper
Blink and Caution · Tim Wynne-Jones
Bloody Jack Series · L. A. Meyer
Blubber · Judy Blume
Bo at Ballard Creek · Kirkpatrick Hill
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon · Steve Sheinkin
Bone · Jeff Smith
Booked · Kwame Alexander
Boots on the Ground · Elizabeth Partridge
Borrowed Children · George Lyon
Boy 2.0 · Tracey Baptiste
Boy at War · Harry Mazer
Braided · Leah Cypess
Breathing Room · Marsha Hayles
Brick Dust and Bones · M.R. Fournet
Bridge to Terabithia · Katherine Paterson
Brown Girl Dreaming · Jacqueline Woodson
Bucking the Sarge · Christopher Paul Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy · Christopher Paul Curtis
Buddy · M. H. Herlong
Bull Run · Paul Fleischman
Bunnicula · Deborah Howe
Caddie Woodlawn's Family · Carol Ryrie Brink
Call It Courage Teacher Guide · Armstrong Sperry
Call of the Klondike · David Meissner
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch · Jean Lee Latham
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms · Katherine Rundell
Carver · Marilyn Nelson
Catfishing on CatNet · Naomi Kritzer
Catherine, Called Birdy · Karen Cushman
Chains · Laurie Halse Anderson
Chance · Uri Shulevitz
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory · Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator · Roald Dahl
Chickadee · Louise Erdrich
Child of the Owl · Laurence Yep
Children of Blood and Bone · Tomi Adeyemi
Children of the Great Depression · Russell Freedman
Chime · Franny Billingsley
Chimney Sweeps · James Cross Giblin
Chinese Menu · Grace Lin
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody · Patrick Ness
City of Ghosts · Victoria Schwab
Clap When You Land · Elizabeth Acevedo
Class Act · Jerry Craft
Claudette Colvin · Phillip Hoose
Clementine · Sara Pennypacker
Close to Famous · Joan Bauer
Closed for the Season · Mary Downing Hahn
Code Name Kingfisher · Liz Kessler
Cog · Greg van Eekhout
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun · Rhoda Blumberg
Confessions of a Class Clown · Arianne Costner
Confetti Girl · Diana López
Conrad's War · Andrew Davies
Control Freaks · J.E. Thomas
Countdown to Yesterday · Shirley Marr
Counting by 7s · Holly Goldberg Sloan
Court of Fives · Kate Elliott
Cracker The Best Dog in Vietnam · Cynthia Kadohata
Crash · Jerry Spinelli
Creepy Carrots! · Aaron Reynolds
Crenshaw · Katherine Applegate
Crispin: The Cross of Lead · Avi
Criss Cross · Lynne Rae Perkins
Cryptid Hunters · Roland Smith
Cuckoo Song · Frances Hardinge
Curlfriends: New in Town (a Graphic Novel) · Sharee Miller
Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner [Dyslexic Edition] · Tim Tingle
Darkness Over Denmark · Ellen Levine
Dash (Dogs of World War II) · Kirby Larson
Daughter of Smoke and Bone · Laini Taylor
Daydreamer · Rob Cameron
Dead End in Norvelt · Jack Gantos
Dear Mr. Henshaw · Beverly Cleary
Dearest · Alethea Kontis
Death in the Jungle · Candace Fleming
Deep and Dark and Dangerous · Mary Downing Hahn
Demon in the Wood Graphic Novel · Leigh Bardugo
Devilish · Maureen Johnson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid · Jeff Kinney
Dicey's Song · Cynthia Voigt
Dirty Wings · Sarah McCarry
Do Bananas Chew Gum? · Jamie Gilson
Dog Breath · Dav Pilkey
Dog Man Unleashed · Dav Pilkey
Dog Trouble: A Graphic Novel · Kristin Varner
Dogtown · Katherine Applegate & Gennifer Choldenko
Dooby Dooby Moo · Doreen Cronin
Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life · Rachel Renée Russell
Double Fudge · Judy Blume
Down Sand Mountain · Steve Watkins
Down the Rabbit Hole · Peter Abrahams
Doña Quixote: Rise of the Knight · Rey Terciero
Dragon Pearl · Yoon Ha Lee
Dragonwings · Laurence Yep
Drama · Raina Telgemeier
Dread Nation · Justina Ireland
Dream on Amber · Emma Shevah
Drive-By · Lynne Ewing
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie · Jordan Sonnenblick
Du Iz Tak? · Carson Ellis
Duel · Jessixa Bagley
Dust to Eat · Michael L. Cooper
Eagle Drums · NASUGRAQ RAINEY. HOPSON
Echo · Pam Muñoz Ryan
Efren Divided · Ernesto Cisneros
Eight Keys · Suzanne M. LaFleur
El Deafo · Cece Bell
Elatsoe · Darcie Little Badger
Eleanor & Park · Rainbow Rowell
Electric Ben · Robert Byrd
Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold) · Christopher Paul Curtis
Ella Enchanted · Gail Carson Levine
Ellie's Story · W. Bruce Cameron
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah · Laurie Ann Thompson
Enchanted Air · Margarita Engle
Enchanted Air · Margarita Engle
Ender's Game · Orson Scott Card
Eragon · Christopher Paolini
Ernö Rubik and His Magic Cube · Kerry Aradhya
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library · Chris Grabenstein
Escaping the Giant Wave · Peg Kehret
Esperanza Rising · Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist · Susan Wood
Every Bird a Prince · Jenn Reese
Every Day · David Levithan
Everybody Sees the Ants · A.S. King
Evidence! How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera · Deborah Hopkinson
Evil Librarian · Michelle Knudsen
Exo · Fonda Lee
Eyes Like Stars · Lisa Mantchev
FIREBOAT · Maira Kalman
Fablehaven · Brandon Mull
Fair Coin · E.C. Myers
Farther Than the Moon · Lindsay Lackey
Ferris · Kate DiCamillo
Fever 1793 · Laurie Halse Anderson
Fighting Words · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Final Word (The Winterton Deception #1) · Janet Sumner Johnson
Finding Langston · Lesa Cline-Ransome
Firegirl · Tony Abbott
Fish in a Tree · Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! · Tim Federle
Flight #116 Is Down! · Caroline B. Cooney
Flipped · Wendelin Van Draanen
Flora Segunda · Ysabeau S. Wilce
Flora and Ulysses · Kate DiCamillo
Flora's Dare · Ysabeau S. Wilce
Flying Solo · Ralph J. Fletcher
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have · Allen Zadoff
Forty Acres And Maybe A Mule · Harriette Robinet
Found · Margaret Peterson Haddix
Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel · Rex Ogle
Fourth Grade Rats · Jerry Spinelli
Fowl Play · Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
Framed! · James Ponti
Frankenstein Takes the Cake · Adam Rex
Franklin Delano Roosevelt · Russell Freedman
Franklin Delano Roosevelt · Russell Freedman
Freaky Friday · Mary Rodgers
Freddie vs. the Family Curse · Tracy Badua
Freewater · Amina Luqman-Dawson
Frindle · Andrew Clements
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry · Paula Yoo
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler · E.L. Konigsburg
Front Desk · Kelly Yang
Fudge · Charlotte Towner Graeber
Fudge-a-Mania · Judy Blume
Full of Beans · Jennifer L. Holm
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Collection · Rita Williams-Garcia
Game Changer · Tommy Greenwald
Gay Neck, The Story of a Pigeon & Ghond The Hunter · Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Gemini Rising · Jonathan Brazee
Genesis Begins Again · Alicia D. Williams
Ghetto Cowboy · G. Neri
Ghost · Jason Reynolds
Ghost Boys · Jewell Parker Rhodes
Ghost Dog Secrets · Peg Kehret
Ghost Knight · Cornelia Funke
Ginger Pye · Eleanor Estes
Giraffes, the Sentinels of the Savannas · Helen Roney Sattler
Girl in a Cage · Jane Yolen
Girls Like Her · Melanie Sumrow
Global · Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future · A.S. King
Goblin Girl · K a Mielke
Goblin Secrets · William Alexander
Goldengrove ; Unleaving · Jill Paton Walsh
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs · Mo Willems
Good Different · Meg Eden Kuyatt
Good Masters Sweet Ladies · Laura Amy Schlitz
Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House · R.L. Stine
Graceling · Kristin Cashore
Grasshopper Jungle · Andrew Smith
Greenglass House · Kate Milford
Gregor the Overlander · Suzanne Collins
Ground Zero · Alan Gratz
Grounded · Aisha Saeed, S.K. Ali, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Huda Al-Marashi
Guts · Raina Telgemeier
H.O.R.S.E. · Christopher Myers
Haiku, Ew! Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature · Lynn Brunelle
Hand in Hand · Andrea Davis Pinkney
Handbook for Dragon Slayers · Merrie Haskell
Hands · Torrey Maldonado
Hannah Sharpe, Cartoon Detective · Janet Tashjian
Harriet the Spy · Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone · J.K. Rowling
Hatchet · Gary Paulsen
Healer of the Water Monster · Brian Young
Heart and Soul · Kadir Nelson
Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2) · Xiran Jay Zhao
Hello, Universe · Erin Entrada Kelly
Henry Reed's Babysitting Service · Keith Robertson
Here Comes the Garbage Barge · Jonah Winter
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword · Barry Deutsch
Heroes · Alan Gratz
Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Hidden · Helen Frost
Hitty Her First Hundred Years · Rachel Field
Holes · Louis Sachar
Home of the Brave · Katherine Applegate
Hoot · Carl Hiaasen
Hope in the Valley · Mitali Perkins
Hostage · Willo Davis Roberts
How I Became A Ghost · Tim Tingle
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet · Tony Keith Jr.
How to Eat Fried Worms · Thomas Rockwell
Humbug Mountain · Sid Fleischman
I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) · Malala Yousafzai
I Lived on Butterfly Hill · Marjorie Agosín
I Shall Wear Midnight · Terry Pratchett
I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 · Lauren Tarshis
I'm Dirty! · Kate McMullan
I, Juan de Pareja · Elizabeth Borton de Treviño
Ice · Sarah Beth Durst
Iceberg · Jennifer A. Nielsen
Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World · Katherine Hannigan
Impossible Creatures · Katherine Rundell
In the Beautiful Country · Jane Kuo
In the Belly of the Bloodhound · L. A. Meyer
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse · Joseph Marshall
Indian No More · Charlene Willing
Infinite Hope · Ashley Bryan
Inheritance · Elizabeth Acevedo
Inside Out & Back Again · Thanhha Lai
Into the Wild · Sarah Beth Durst
Into the Wild Magic · Michelle Knudsen
Invisible Isabel · Sally J. Pla
Iron Hearted Violet · Kelly Barnhill
Island of the Blue Dolphins · Scott O'Dell
It Came from the Trees · Ally Russell
It's Like This Cat · Emily Neville
Jackie and Me · Dan Gutman
Jacob Have I Loved · Katherine Paterson
James and the Giant Peach · Roald Dahl
Jawbreaker · Christina Wyman
Jelly Belly · Robert Kimmel Smith
Jenny of the Tetons · Kristiana Gregory
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher · Bruce Coville
Jip · Katherine Paterson
Johnny Tremain · Esther Hoskins Forbes
Jonathan Livingston Seagull · Richard Bach
Jordin Tootoo · Melanie Florence
Joyful Noise · Paul Fleischman
Julie of the Wolves · Jean Craighead George
Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth · Barbara Park
Just Keep Walking · Erin Soderberg Downing
Just a Pinch of Magic · Alechia Dow
Kakapo Rescue · Sy Montgomery
Kareem Between · Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser · Eve Bunting
Keeper of the Lost Cities · Shannon Messenger
Kent State · Deborah Wiles
Kids at Work · Russell Freedman
Kin · Carole Boston Weatherford
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold) · Kacen Callender
King of the Wind · Marguerite Henry
Kira-Kira · Cynthia Kadohata
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One · Philip Pullman
Laura Ingalls Wilder · Tanya Lee Stone
Lawn Boy · Gary Paulsen
Legend · Marie Lu
Legendarios: Wrath of the Rain God · Karla Arenas Valenti
Legendary Frybread Drive-In · Cynthia Leitich Smith
Leon's Story · Leon Walter Tillage
Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer · Robert Byrd
Letters from a Slave Girl · Mary E. Lyons
Life as We Knew It · Susan Beth Pfeffer
Lifeboat 12 · Susan Hood
Little Little · M. E. Kerr
Loch · Paul Zindel
Locomotive · Brian Floca
Lola · Karla Arenas Valenti
Look Both Ways · Jason Reynolds
Loot · Jude Watson
Lord of the Deep · Graham Salisbury
Loser · Jerry Spinelli
Love Is the Drug · Alaya Dawn Johnson
Love That Dog · Sharon Creech
Lucky Broken Girl · Ruth Behar
Lulu's Mysterious Mission · Judith Viorst
Lupe Wong Won't Dance · Donna Barba Higuera
M.C. Higgins, the Great · Virginia Hamilton
Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess · Shari Green
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All · Chanel Miller
Magyk · Angie Sage
Make Lemonade · Virginia Euwer Wolff
Maniac Magee · Jerry Spinelli
Marching For Freedom · Elizabeth Partridge
Martha Graham · Russell Freedman
Martina una cucarachita muy linda · Carmen Agra Deedy
Mary Poppins · Pamela L. Travers
Matched · Ally Condie
Math Curse · Jon Scieszka
Matilda · Roald Dahl
Max and the Midknights · Lincoln Peirce
Me, My Goat, and My Sister's Wedding · Stella Pevsner
Merci Suárez Changes Gears · Meg Medina
Mexikid · Pedro Martín
Mexikid · Pedro Martín
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 · Richard Paul Evans
Mick Harte Was Here · Barbara Park
Mid-Air · Alicia D. Williams
Midnighters #2: Touching Darkness · Scott Westerfeld
Milkweed · Jerry Spinelli
Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1) · Lisa Yee
Million-Dollar Throw · Mike Lupica
Millionaires for the Month · Stacy McAnulty
Milo · Alan Silberberg
Miracles on Maple Hill · Virginia Sorensen
Miss Hickory · Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Missing May · Cynthia Rylant
Mockingbird · Kathryn Erskine
Mockingjay (Deluxe Edition) (Hunger Games, Book Three) · Suzanne Collins
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism · Georgia Byng
Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter · D. M. Cornish
Monstrous Beauty · Elizabeth Fama
Moon Over Manifest · Clare Vanderpool
Moonstorm · Yoon Ha Lee
Morning Girl · Michael Dorris
Most Dangerous · Steve Sheinkin
Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens · Rebecca E. Barone
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH · Robert C. O'Brien
Muckrackers · Ann Bausum
My Explosive Diary · Emily Gale
My Horrible Secret · Stephen Roos
My Robot Buddy · Alfred Slote
My Teacher Is an Alien · Bruce Coville
Mystery Fish · Sally M. Walker
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic · Candace Fleming
Nation · Terry Pratchett
Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane · K. E. LEWIS
New Kid · Jerry Craft
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy · Angie Thomas
Night of the Twisters · Ivy Ruckman
Nightmare Mountain · Peg Kehret
Nightmare at the Book Fair · Dan Gutman
Nimbus · Jan Eldredge
Nimona · ND Stevenson
No Crystal Stair · Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
No More Dead Dogs · Gordon Korman
No Talking · Andrew Clements
Noah Webster and His Words · Jeri Ferris
Not Nothing · Gayle Forman
Not an Easy Win · Chrystal Giles
Nothing Else But Miracles · Kate Albus
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade · Barthe DeClements
Nova's Ark · Kirk, David
Number the Stars · Lois Lowry
Okay for Now · Gary D. Schmidt
Old Yeller · Fred Gipson
Oliver's Great Big Universe · Jorge Cham
Once They See You: 13 Stories to Shiver and Shock · Josh Allen
Once for Yes · Allie Millington
One Candle · Eve Bunting
One Crazy Summer · Rita Williams-Garcia
One for Sorrow · Mary Downing Hahn
One for the Murphys · Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Onion John · Joseph Krumgold
Onyx & Beyond · Amber McBride
Openly, Honestly · Bill Konigsberg
Operation Final Notice · Matthew Landis
Ophie's Ghosts · Justina Ireland
Orphan Train Rider · Andrea Warren
Other Words for Home · Jasmine Warga
Out of My Mind · Sharon M. Draper
Out of the Dust · Karen Hesse
P.S. Be Eleven · Rita Williams-Garcia
Panama Canal · Judith St. George
Parachute Kids · Betty C. Tang
Pax · Sara Pennypacker
Peace, Locomotion · Jacqueline Woodson
Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword · Henry Lien
Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions · Henry Lien
Pedro's Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys · Rob Peñas
Peeps · Scott Westerfeld
Perfectly Parvin · Olivia Abtahi
Peter and the Starcatchers · Dave Barry
Photographic · Isabel Quintero
Pie · Sarah Weeks
Pie in the Sky · Remy Lai
Pink and Say · Patricia Polacco
Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet · Zanib Mian
Playing Beatie Bow · Ruth Park
Popcorn · Rob Harrell
Popcorn: A hilarious and moving story about coping with anxiety · Rob Harrell
Poppy · Avi
Posted · John David Anderson
Poverty in America · Milton Meltzer
Powerless · Matthew Cody
Primer · Jennifer Muro
Prisoner B-3087 · Alan Gratz
Project Mulberry · Linda Sue Park
Projekt 1065 · Alan Gratz
Promise Boys · Nick Brooks
Puzzleheart · Jenn Reese
Rabbit Hill · Robert Lawson
Race for the Ruby Turtle · Stephen Bramucci
Railhead · Philip Reeve
Railsea · China Miéville
Ralph S. Mouse · Beverly Cleary
Ramona Forever · Beverly Cleary
Ramona and Her Father · Beverly Cleary
Ramona's World · Beverly Cleary
Rascal · Sterling North
Raybearer · Jordan Ifueko
Real Friends · Shannon Hale
Rebound · Kwame Alexander
Red Midnight · Ben Mikaelsen
Red, White, and Whole · Rajani LaRocca
Redemptor (Raybearer Book 2) · Jordan Ifueko
Redwood and Ponytail · K.A. Holt
Refugee · Alan Gratz
Remember · Toni Morrison
Remember Us · Jacqueline Woodson
Resistance · Jennifer A. Nielsen
Restart · Gordon Korman
Revolution · Deborah Wiles
Rewind · Lisa Graff
Ribsy · Beverly Cleary
Riding Freedom · Pam Muñoz Ryan
Riverland · Fran Wilde
Rocks Fall Everyone Dies · Lindsay Ribar
Rodrick Rules · Jeff Kinney
Roll for Initiative · Jaime Formato
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry · Mildred D. Taylor
Roller Girl · Victoria Jamieson
Root Magic · Eden Royce
Rotters · Daniel Kraus
Ruby Finley Vs. the Interstellar Invasion · K. Tempest Bradford
Ruby Lost and Found · Christina Li
Rules · Cynthia Lord
Rules · Cynthia Lord
Rules of the Road #1 · Joan Bauer
Runaway Ralph · Beverly Cleary
Runaway Twin · Peg Kehret
Running Out of Time · Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sadie · Courtney Summers
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe · Carlos Hernandez
Salvage · Alexandra Duncan
Samira Surfs · Rukhsanna Guidroz
Save Me a Seat · Sarah Weeks
Saving Shiloh · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Saving Winslow · Sharon Creech
Saving Zasha · Randi G. Barrow
Savvy · Ingrid Law
Say What? · Margaret Peterson Haddix
Scare School Diaries: Welcome to Scare School · Jarrett Lerner
Scat · Carl Hiaasen
Schooled · Gordon Korman
Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy · Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy · Scott Westerfeld
Scowler · Daniel Kraus
Sea of the Dead · Julia Durango
Secret of the Andes · Ann Nolan Clark
See You in the Cosmos · Jack Cheng
Seen and Unseen · Elizabeth Partridge
September Girls · Bennett Madison
Seriously Wicked · Tina Connolly
Shades of Gray · Carolyn Reeder
Shadow of a Bull · Maia Wojciechowska
Shadowshaper · Daniel José Older
Shape-Changer · Bill Brittain
Sharing Susan · Eve Bunting
Shen of the Sea · Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Shiloh · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shiloh Season · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl · Julie Kagawa
Shoeshine Girl · Clyde Robert Bulla
Show Me a Sign (Show Me a Sign, Book 1) · Ann Clare LeZotte
Siberia · Ann Halam
Simon Sort of Says · Erin Bow
Sister Mine · Nalo Hopkinson
Sisters of the Lost Marsh · Lucy Strange
Six Feet Below Zero · Ena Jones
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You · Barthe DeClements
Skeleton Creek · Patrick Carman
Skeleton Man · Joseph Bruchac
Skulduggery Pleasant – Skulduggery Pleasant: Books 1 - 12 · Derek Landy
Skyriders · Polly Holyoke
Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe · Jo Watson Hackl
Small Steps · Louis Sachar
Small Steps · Peg Kehret
Smile · Raina Telgemeier
Smoky the Cowhorse · Will James
So B. It · Sarah Weeks
Sojourner Truth · Pat McKissack
Some of the Kinder Planets · Tim Wynne-Jones
Something Like Home · Andrea Beatriz Arango
Song for A Whale · Lynne Kelly
Song of a Blackbird · Maria van Lieshout
Sounder · William H. Armstrong
Soundtrack: A Novel · Jason Reynolds
Space Station Science · Marianne J. Dyson
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet · Geo Rutherford
Stand Up, Yumi Chung · Jessica Kim
Star Daughter · Shveta Thakrar
Star in the Storm · Joan Hiatt Harlow
Stargirl · Jerry Spinelli
Stateless · Elizabeth Wein
Stella Díaz Has Something to Say · Angela Dominguez
Stepping Up · Mark Fink
Stepping on the Cracks · Mary Downing Hahn
Stolen Children · Peg Kehret
Stones in Water · Donna Jo Napoli
Stormbreaker · Anthony Horowitz
Stormwitch · Susan Vaught
Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender · Leslye Jo Anne Walton
Strawberry Girl · Lois Lenski
Streams to the River, River to the Sea · Scott O'Dell
Striped Ice Cream · Joan M. Lexau
Stuntboy, In-Between Time · Jason Reynolds
Stuntboy, In-Between Time · Jason Reynolds
Summer of My German Soldier · Bette Greene
Summer of the Mariposas · Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Summer of the Monkeys · Wilson Rawls
Sunshine: A Graphic Novel · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Superfudge · Judy Blume
Surviving the Applewhites · Stephanie S. Tolan
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush · Virginia Hamilton
Swim Team · Johnnie Christmas
Swindle · Gordon Korman
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex · Justina Ireland
Tales from Silver Lands · Charles J. Finger
Tancy · Belinda Hurmence
Tangerine · Edward Bloor
Tarot Says Beware · Betsy Cromer Byars
Team Moon · Catherine Thimmesh
Teddy Mars Book #3: Almost an Outlaw · Molly B. Burnham
Tending to Grace · Kimberly Newton Fusco
Terror at the Zoo · Peg Kehret
Tess of the Road · Rachel Hartman
The Adoration of Jenna Fox · Mary E. Pearson
The Adventures of Team Pom: Squid Happens · Isabel Roxas
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer · Mark Twain
The Amethyst Road · Louise Spiegler
The Apothecary · Maile Meloy
The Art of Keeping Cool · Janet Taylor Lisle
The Art of Starving · Sam J. Miller
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I · M. T. Anderson
The BFG · Roald Dahl
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) · Lemony Snicket
The Best School Year Ever · Barbara Robinson
The Bird House · Cynthia Rylant
The Boxer · Kathleen Karr
The Boy Who Dared · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Boy and the Samurai · Erik Christian Haugaard
The Boy at the Back of the Class · Onjali Q. Raúf
The Boy at the End of the World · Greg van Eekhout
The Boy from Ilysies · Pearl North
The Boy's War · Jim Murphy
The Boys Start the War · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Bridge Home · Padma Venkatraman
The Bronze Bow · Elizabeth George Speare
The Call of the Wild · Jack London
The Cardboard Kingdom · Chad Sell
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit · Paula Danziger
The Cat Who Went to Heaven · Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Cay · Theodore Taylor
The Circuit Graphic Novel · Francisco Jiménez
The City of Ember · Jeanne DuPrau
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy · Michael Leali
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown · Holly Black
The Computer Nut · Betsy Cromer Byars
The Crossover · Kwame Alexander
The Cursed Moon · Angela Cervantes
The Cybil War · Betsy Byars
The Dark Frigate · Hawes C.
The Dark Is Rising · Susan Cooper
The Dark!: Wild Life in the Mysterious World of Caves · Lindsey Leigh
The Dead of Summer (Book 1) · Ryan La Sala
The Detective's Assistant - FREE PREVIEW EDITION (The First 8 Chapters) · Kate Hannigan
The Devil Walks · Anne Fine
The Devil's Arithmetic · Jane Yolen
The Diviners Free Preview Edition (The First 11 Chapters) · Libba Bray
The Dollhouse Murders · Betty Ren Wright
The Doom Stone · Paul Zindel
The Door in the Wall · Marguerite de Angeli
The Door of No Return · Kwame Alexander
The Double Life of Pocahontas · Jean Fritz
The Downstairs Girl · Stacey Lee
The Dragonet Prophecy · Tui T. Sutherland
The Dreamer · Pam Muñoz Ryan
The End of the Beginning · Avi
The Evil Wizard Smallbone · Delia Sherman
The Eyes and the Impossible · Dave Eggers
The False Prince · Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia · Candace Fleming
The Fire Eaters · David Almond
The Fire of Stars · Kirsten W. Larson
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn · Sally J. Pla
The Firefly Summer · Morgan Matson
The First Helping (Lunch Lady Books 1 & 2) · Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The First State of Being · Erin Entrada Kelly
The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook · Joanne Rocklin
The Folk Keeper · Franny Billingsley
The Forbidden Library · Django Wexler
The Fort · Gordon Korman
The Fourteenth Goldfish · Jennifer L. Holm
The Fourth Stall Part III · Chris Rylander
The Freedom Maze · Delia Sherman
The Friends · Kazumi Yumoto
The Friendship · Mildred D. Taylor
The Game of Silence · Louise Erdrich
The Game of Silence · Louise Erdrich
The Ghost Inside the Monitor · Margaret Jean Anderson
The Ghost Job · Greg van Eekhout
The Ghost of Fossil Glen · Cynthia C. DeFelice
The Ghost of Graylock · Dan Poblocki
The Ghost on Saturday Night · Sid Fleischman
The Ghost's Grave · Peg Kehret
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making · Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Could Fly · Victoria Forester
The Girl Who Drank the Moon · Kelly Barnhill
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies · Joyce Sidman
The Girl Who Figured It Out · Minda Dentler
The Girl in the Lake · India Hill Brown
The Girl who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales · Jane Yolen
The Girl with the Ghost Machine · Lauren DeStefano
The Giver · Lois Lowry
The Gollywhopper Games · Jody Feldman
The Graveyard Book · Neil Gaiman
The Great Gilly Hopkins · Katherine Paterson
The Great Little Madison · Jean Fritz
The Great Pet Escape · Victoria Jamieson
The Green Glass Sea · Ellen Klages
The Grey King · Susan Cooper
The Haunting of Falcon House · Eugene Yelchin
The Hero and the Crown · Robin McKinley
The Hidden Kingdom · Tui T. Sutherland
The High King · Lloyd Alexander
The Higher Power of Lucky · Susan Patron
The Honest Truth · Dan Gemeinhart
The Honeys · Ryan La Sala
The Hotel Under the Sand · Kage Baker
The Hunger Games · Suzanne Collins
The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark · Rhoda Blumberg
The Indian in the Cupboard · Lynne Reid Banks
The Intruder · John Rowe Townsend
The Invention of Hugo Cabret · Brian Selznick
The King of Attolia · Megan Whalen Turner
The Knife of Never Letting Go · Patrick Ness
The Labors of Hercules Beal · Gary D. Schmidt
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell · Chris Colfer
The Last Cuentista · Donna Barba Higuera
The Last Dragon on Mars · Scott Reintgen
The Last Hope in Hopetown · Maria Tureaud
The Last Musketeer · Stuart Gibbs
The Last Straw · Jeff Kinney
The Legend of Mackinac Island · Kathy-jo Wargin
The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors · Drew Daywalt
The Lemonade War · Davies, Jacqueline
The Liars Society · Alyson Gerber
The Lie Tree · Frances Hardinge
The Lifters · Dave Eggers
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) · Rick Riordan
The Lincolns · Candace Fleming
The Lion Hunters Novels · Elizabeth Wein
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe · C.S. Lewis
The Long Road to Gettysburg · Jim Murphy
The Longest Shot: How Larry Kwong Changed the Face of Hockey · Chad Soon & Amy Maranville
The Longitude Prize · Joan Dash
The Lost Heir · Tui T. Sutherland
The Lost Hero · Rick Riordan
The Lost Library · Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
The Lost Year · Katherine Marsh
The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines · Mo Netz
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs: The Wall of Fame Game · Crystal Allen
The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester · Maya MacGregor
The Mark of Athena · Rick Riordan
The Matchlock Gun · Walter Dumaux Edmonds
The Maze of Bones · Rick Riordan
The Midwife's Apprentice · Karen Cushman
The Million Dollar Kick · Dan Gutman
The Million Dollar Shot · Dan Gutman
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane · Kate DiCamillo
The Mirrorwood · Deva Fagan
The Mona Lisa Vanishes · Nicholas Day
The Mona Lisa Vanishes · Nicholas Day
The Moorchild · Eloise McGraw
The Mysterious Benedict Society · Trenton Lee Stewart
The Mystery of the Monarchs · Barb Rosenstock
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien · John Hendrix
The Name of the Game Was Murder · Joan Lowery Nixon
The Night Train · Lorelei Savaryn
The Notorious Benedict Arnold · Steve Sheinkin
The Old Willis Place · Mary Downing Hahn
The One and Only Ivan · Katherine Applegate
The Parker Inheritance · Varian Johnson
The Partition Project · Saadia Faruqi
The Pearl · John Steinbeck
The Penderwicks · Jeanne Birdsall
The Perfect Score · Rob Buyea
The Phantom Tollbooth · Norton Juster
The Pilgrims of Plimoth · Marcia Sewall
The Pinballs · Betsy Cromer Byars
The Port Chicago 50 · Steve Sheinkin
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird · Phillip Hoose
The Rain Catchers · Jean Thesman
The Red Pyramid · Rick Riordan
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise · Dan Gemeinhart
The River · Gary Paulsen
The Road from Home · David Kherdian
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place · Julie Berry
The Schwa was Here · Neal Shusterman
The Scorpio Races · Maggie Stiefvater
The Scratch Daughters · H.A. Clarke
The Screaming Staircase · Jonathan Stroud
The Sea of Monsters · Rick Riordan
The Season of Styx Malone · Kekla Magoon
The Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake · Elvira Woodruff
The Secret of the Sapphire Sentinel · J. Dianne Dotson
The Sherlock Society · James Ponti
The Sign of the Beaver · Elizabeth George Speare
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game · Gordon Korman
The Slave Dancer · Paula Fox
The Spring Rider · John Shults Lawson
The Star-Touched Queen · Roshani Chokshi
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales · Jon Scieszka
The Storm in the Barn · Matt Phelan
The Story of Mankind · Hendrik Willem van Loon
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda · Tom Angleberger
The Stranger Next Door · Peg Kehret
The Strongest Man in the World · Nicolas Debon
The Summer Prince · Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Summer of the Swans Novel Units Teacher Guide · Betsy Cromer Byars
The Superteacher Project · Gordon Korman
The Sword of Summer · Rick Riordan
The Tale of Despereaux · Kate DiCamillo
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman · Gennifer Choldenko
The Thief · Megan Whalen Turner
The Thief Lord · Cornelia Funke
The Thing About Leftovers · C.C. Payne
The Thing About Luck · Cynthia Kadohata
The Three Billy Goats Gruff · Mac Barnett
The Top of the World · Steve Jenkins
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle · Avi
The True Meaning of Smekday · Adam Rex
The Trumpet of the Swan · E.B. White
The Trumpeter of Krakow · Eric P (Eric Philbrook) Kelly
The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle · Leslie Connor
The Twenty-One · Elizabeth Rusch
The Twenty-One Balloons · William Pene du Bois
The Undefeated · Kwame Alexander
The Unwanteds · Lisa McMann
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street · Karina Yan Glaser
The View from Saturday · E. L. Konigsburg
The Village by the Sea · Paula Fox
The Voice That Challenged a Nation · Russell Freedman
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle · Hugh Lofting
The Wall · Peter Sís
The Wall · Peter Sís
The War I Finally Won · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The War That Saved My Life · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 · Christopher Paul Curtis
The Way Things Work Now · David Macaulay
The Weaver's Gift · Kathryn Lasky
The Westing Game · Ellen Raskin
The Wheel on the School · Meindert De Jong
The Whipping Boy · Sid Fleischman
The Wild Journey of Juniper Berry · Chad Morris
The Wild Robot · Peter Brown
The Wild Robot Escapes · Peter Brown
The Wishing Spell · Chris Colfer
The Witch of Blackbird Pond · Elizabeth George Speare
The Witching Wind · Natalie Lloyd
The Wizards of Once · Cressida Cowell
The World According to Humphrey · Betty G. Birney
The Wrong Way Home · Kate O'Shaughnessy
The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts · Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer · John Grisham
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom · Louis Sachar
Thimble Summer · Elizabeth Enright
Things Not Seen · Andrew Clements
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon · Marc Tyler Nobleman
This Promise of Change · Jo Ann Allen Boyce
Thornwood · Leah Cypess
Those who Love the Game · Glenn Rivers
Three Times Lucky · Sheila Turnage
To Shape a Dragon's Breath · Moniquill Blackgoose
Togo · Robert J. Blake
Took · Mary Downing Hahn
Torpedoed · Deborah Heiligman
Touching Spirit Bear · Ben Mikaelsen
Trading Places with Tank Talbott · Dori Hillestad Butler
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day · Alex L. Combs
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson · Robert Louis Stevenson
Tristan And Iseult · Rosemary Sutcliff
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky · Kwame Mbalia
Trouble Don't Last · Shelley Pearsall
True Believer · Virginia Euwer Wolff
Tuck Everlasting · Natalie Babbitt
Turtle in Paradise · Jennifer L. Holm
Twelve Days in May · Larry Dane Brimner
Twins · Varian Johnson
Two Degrees · Alan Gratz
Two Tribes · Emily Bowen Cohen
Ultraviolet · R.J. Anderson
Una niña llamada Rose / Rain Reign · Ann M. Martin
Under the Blood-Red Sun · Graham Salisbury
Ungifted · Gordon Korman
Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3) · Sarah Rees Brennan
Unplugged · Gordon Korman
Unspeakable · Carole Boston Weatherford
Up a Road Slowly · Irene Hunt
Updraft · Fran Wilde
Upon the Head of the Goat · Aranka Siegal
Valiant · Holly Black
Vessel · Sarah Beth Durst
Victories Greater Than Death · Charlie Jane Anders
Vincent and Theo · Deborah Heiligman
Vintage · Steve Berman
Virtually Perfect · Dan Gutman
Volcanoes · Nell Cross Beckerman
Voyaging to Cathay · Alfred H. Tamarin
Wait Till Helen Comes · Mary Downing Hahn
Waiting for Normal · Leslie Connor
Walk Two Moons · Sharon Creech
Want · Cindy Pon
Waterless Mountain · Laura Adams Armer
Ways to Make Sunshine · Renée Watson
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger · Louis Sachar
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga · Traci Sorell
We Are the Ship · Kadir Nelson
We Are the Ship · Kadir Nelson
We Still Belong · Christine Day
We Will Not Be Silent · Russell Freedman
We're Not from Here · Geoff Rodkey
Weave a Circle Round · Kari Maaren
Welcome to Wonderland #1: Home Sweet Motel · Chris Grabenstein
Wenny Has Wings · Janet Lee Carey
Weslandia · Paul Fleischman
Whale Eyes · James Robinson
What Happened to Rachel Riley? · Claire Swinarski
When Sea Becomes Sky · Gillian McDunn
When Stars Are Scattered · Victoria Jamieson
When We Wake · Karen Healey
When You Reach Me · Rebecca Stead
When You Trap a Tiger · Tae Keller
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town · Kimberly Willis Holt
When the Boys Ran the House · Joan Davenport Carris
When the Wolves Returned · Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon · Grace Lin
Where the Red Fern Grows · Wilson Rawls
White Bird · R.J. Palacio
White Cat · Holly Black
White Lies · Ann Bausum
Wild Wings · Gill Lewis
Wildful · Kengo Kurimoto
Wildoak · C.C. Harrington
Will Grayson, Will Grayson · John Green
Willa of the Wood · Robert Beatty
Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy · Tui T. Sutherland
Wishtree · Katherine Applegate
Wonder · R.J. Palacio
Wonderstruck · Brian Selznick
Word Eater · Mary Amato
You Are Brave: A Book About Trying New Things · Margaret O'Hair
You Are Here: Connecting Flights · Ellen Oh
You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye · Patricia Hermes
Young Fredle · Cynthia Voigt
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze · Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Zach's Lie · Roland Smith
Zen and the Art of Faking It · Jordan Sonnenblick
Zeroboxer · Fonda Lee
Zoe's Tale · John Scalzi
Zoobreak · Gordon Korman
¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat · Raúl the Third III

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