Summer Reading 2021: Grade 6 Book List

Roisin hasn't made a single friend since moving from Ireland to Massachusetts. In fact, she is falling apart under constant abuse from a school bully, Zara. Roisin turns to Hailey, her online friend, to escape, but Roisin begins to suspect Hailey isn't who she claims she is after Zara has a painful accident and the police get involved.

During a road trip, thirteen-year-old Olivia, a budding photographer, tries to recreate a Treasure Hunt she once shared with her sixteen-year-old sister, Ruth, while watching for signs that Ruth's depression is back.

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She's spent her whole life learning to hide her weird traits. Until the day when she notices the mysterious man on the bus and finds herself following him, driven to know why he seems so out of place...only to accidentally uncover the location of a Russian spy ring.

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own.

Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. When Reha finds out that her mom is sick. Really sick. Reha, who dreams of becoming a doctor even though she can't stomach the sight of blood, is determined to make her Amma well again.

Returning to Brooklyn, where his magician-father disappeared years before, twelve-year-old Kingston learns that magic is real and that if he enters the Realm, he might get his father back.

Mickey finds a book that promises to erase whatever is written in it, and after filling the page with all the things and people he dislikes, he finds himself in the anti-world where everything familiar is gone.

Thirteen-year-old Frankie is just trying to figure out to get through 7th grade with diagnoses of ADHD, autism, and attention processing disorders. Then, just weeks before the end of the school year, her ex-best friend, Colette vanishes. Frankie is determined to find her before it is too late.

Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.

Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted. To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw. Their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.

Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. But when humans appeared, the sprites' magical talents soon were gone. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she begins to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her newly honed skills might not be the welcome surprise she intends them to be.

Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food

Princess Noa, aged eleven, Prince Julian, sixteen, and Princess Mite, five, flee their palace when a coup leads to their mother's death, and unlock a long-forgotten magic to reclaim the stolen throne.

In this adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, the huntsman follows the queen's order to kill Sophie, but the princess is brought back to life by the seven men of the woods, who, along with other brave friends, help Sophie overcome the story's true villain and reclaim her throne.

Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.

ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career

Brian has always been anxious but after he and his brother are placed into foster care, he starts having panic attacks. Ezra has always been friends with most of the kids on his basketball team--even Brian, who keeps to himself. When Brian and his brother run away, Ezra has no choice but to reach out and help, even if that means his his friends will realize that he has a crush on him. Both boys have to decide if they're willing to risk sharing parts of themselves they'd rather hide.

After losing his dad unexpectedly three years ago, Drew knows a lot about things not going right- this summer is no different. First, it’s the new girl Audrey taking over the library, Drew’s sacred space. Then it’s his best friend, Filipe, pulling away from him. But most upsetting is the mysterious man who is suddenly staying with Drew’s family. With an unlikely ally in Audrey, he’s determined to get to the bottom of who this man really is.

Fonda, Drew, and Ruthie have been besties forever, but seventh grade is going to be their year! The three girls can't wait to do everything together and have an amazing time doing it. But you know what they say about the best laid plans...

Welcome to Pity Party, where the social anxieties that plague us all are twisted into funny, deeply resonant, and ultimately reassuring psychological thrills. Come to the party for a grab bag of delightfully dark stories that ultimately offers a life-affirming reminder that there is hope and humor to be found amid our misery.

When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, is bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made the list but their journey doesn't lead them where they expect.

The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Talin Kanami, part of Mara's elite fighting force called Strikers, refuses to give up hope since she knows firsthand the brutality of the Federation. When Mara is on the brink of falling a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front, Talin senses there's more to him than meets the eye. Is he a spy from the Federation? Or could he be the weapon that will save them all?

When otherworldly forces descend on their town of Whispering Pines, conspiracy theorist Rae, who's searching for her lost father, and Caden, who's haunted by the ghost of his brother, must band together to save their home

Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the Sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is-he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding

Charm House isn't like any other school. Charm stands for Center for Human-Animal Reform and Manners. Every girl who boards there has an animal light inside her that is wild and needs to be tamed. New girl Sadie just wants to blend in, but when she learns she has the fiercest animal light of all, she is invited to join the Pack, led by Lindsey, the school's queen of the jungle. Soon Sadie is consumed by social drama and her secret feelings for an off-limits private-school boy.

There's a new afterschool club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when an one player takes the game too far.

When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But Sol already has a name. Doesn't he? At least he did before he walked through those gates.

Three young friends—Leo, Elsa, and Max—spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness and that they will soon be cruelly ripped apart from one another. With their lives taking them across Europe—to Germany, England, Prague, and Poland—will they ever find their way back to one another? Will they want to? Inspired by a true story.

A boy named Khosrou (everyone just calls him "Daniel") tries to tell his class in Oklahoma a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are funny, beautiful, and terrifying.

Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event.