6th Grade
The Extraordinary Adventures of Aldfred Kropp by Rick Yancy - Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur from forces of evil.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Aldfred Kropp by Rick Yancy - Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur from forces of evil.
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins - When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger and epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby - When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who uses sign language, her world blooms with possibilities, but that of the chimp begins to narrow.
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke - Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Listen! by Stephanie Tolan - During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother’s death two years earlier. 
The Merchant of Death by D.J. MacHale - Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby. He is going to save the world. Before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh - After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Peru has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York’s Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris - A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leaves the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
Rules by Cynthia Lord - Frustrated by her life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKernan - A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the newly two-year journey across the sea and ice.
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