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6th Grade

Description: Appropriate books for both girls and boys in 6th grade.

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

45,504 members

1,039 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

2

Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

35,903 members

630 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

3

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbitt

18,185 members

577 reviews

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

4

The Dark Is Rising

by Susan Cooper

9,575 members

243 reviews

4.1

4 Members: merrystar, cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

5

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

42,180 members

612 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

6

by Louis Sachar

30,653 members

1,053 reviews

4.1

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

7

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

26,345 members

652 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

8

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

14,517 members

162 reviews

4

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

9

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

13,552 members

245 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, ahef1963, ta.hamilton

10

The Graveyard Book

24,914 members

1,313 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ta.hamilton

11

The Call of the Wild

22,810 members

346 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ta.hamilton

12

21,378 members

232 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ta.hamilton

13

by Jerry Spinelli

11,915 members

396 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ta.hamilton

14

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

9,798 members

81 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ta.hamilton

15

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

9,085 members

419 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ta.hamilton

16

Princess Academy

by Shannon Hale

7,766 members

199 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ta.hamilton

17

Freak the Mighty

by Rodman Philbrick

5,914 members

154 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ta.hamilton

18

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

5,493 members

416 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ta.hamilton

19

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

by Chris Grabenstein

4,374 members

132 reviews

4

2 Members: merrystar, ta.hamilton

20

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave

by Laban Carrick Hill

1,014 members

137 reviews

4.1

2 Members: cej1027, ta.hamilton

21

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Books 1-3)

by Rick Riordan

856 members

20 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ta.hamilton

22

Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell

21,601 members

325 reviews

3.9

Member: ta.hamilton

23

by R. J. Palacio

17,851 members

1,355 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ta.hamilton

24

by Sharon Creech

11,480 members

320 reviews

4.1

Member: ta.hamilton

25

The Sword of Summer

by Rick Riordan

8,023 members

162 reviews

4.1

Member: ta.hamilton

26

by Brandon Mull

6,398 members

206 reviews

4

Member: ta.hamilton

27

by Sharon M. Draper

6,057 members

485 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ta.hamilton

28

Life as We Knew It

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

5,727 members

413 reviews

4

Member: ta.hamilton

29

by Laurie Halse Anderson

4,856 members

223 reviews

4.2

Member: ta.hamilton

30

The Lemonade War

by Jacqueline Davies

4,688 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ta.hamilton

31

by Jerry Spinelli

4,101 members

60 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ta.hamilton

32

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

by Tom Angleberger

3,363 members

129 reviews

3.8

Member: ta.hamilton

33

by Gary Paulsen

3,325 members

41 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ta.hamilton

34

by Jason Reynolds

3,179 members

147 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

35

Nothing but the Truth

by Avi

2,801 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ta.hamilton

36

2,530 members

141 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ta.hamilton

37

by Victoria Jamieson

2,289 members

126 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

38

Absolutely Normal Chaos

by Sharon Creech

2,114 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ta.hamilton

39

1,917 members

42 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ta.hamilton

40

The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee

by Tom Angleberger

1,714 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ta.hamilton

41

1,670 members

72 reviews

4.2

Member: ta.hamilton

42

The Green Glass Sea

by Ellen Klages

1,348 members

74 reviews

4.1

Member: ta.hamilton

43

Waiting for Normal

by Leslie Connor

1,276 members

77 reviews

4.1

Member: ta.hamilton

44

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

by Barbara Kerley

1,241 members

51 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

45

by Svetlana Chmakova

1,212 members

45 reviews

4.2

Member: ta.hamilton

46

by Stuart Gibbs

922 members

29 reviews

4

Member: ta.hamilton

47

Goodbye Stranger

by Rebecca Stead

819 members

52 reviews

3.9

Member: ta.hamilton

48

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora

by Pablo Cartaya

784 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: ta.hamilton

49

721 members

34 reviews

4.2

Member: ta.hamilton

50

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

by Ying Chang Compestine

571 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: ta.hamilton

51

Gracefully Grayson

by Ami Polonsky

533 members

31 reviews

4

Member: ta.hamilton

52

by Erin Entrada Kelly

346 members

15 reviews

4

Member: ta.hamilton

53

by M. G. Leonard

345 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ta.hamilton

54

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes

341 members

16 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ta.hamilton

55

As the Crow Flies

by Melanie Gillman

290 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: ta.hamilton

56

The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles

by Michelle Cuevas

280 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

57

266 members

29 reviews

4.1

Member: ta.hamilton

58

The Someday Birds

by Sally J. Pla

257 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

59

Midnight Without a Moon

by Linda Williams Jackson

239 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: ta.hamilton

60

To Catch a Cheat: A Jackson Greene Novel

by Varian Johnson

199 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ta.hamilton

61

Bronze and Sunflower

174 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

62

The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade

by Jordan Sonnenblick

140 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ta.hamilton

63

Ashes to Asheville

by Sarah Dooley

113 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ta.hamilton

64

Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

by Kathryn Erskine

112 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

65

Older Than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth

107 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ta.hamilton

66

Every Shiny Thing

by Cordelia Jensen

69 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: ta.hamilton

67

A Possibility of Whales

by Karen Rivers

61 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: ta.hamilton

68

by Jerry Spinelli

Member: ta.hamilton

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July 2020
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