An awesome list of favorite books for 6th graders from Mary Ann at Great Kid books … straight from the kids’ mouth! At the end of the year, she gathers up the books kids say they liked the best. Since my TBR list is a mile-long already, I forced myself to pick two from each category to put on the hot list to be evaluated by Ink Spells sometime in the future. Note that many on her list venture into YA (young adult) territory, but there are still many great MG and upper MG reads on the list. The rest I will try to work into my recommended reads list soon.
Action & Suspense
o Alex Rider series, by Anthony Horowitz RL 5.1 CSM: 11+
o Young James Bond series (starting with SilverFin), by Charlie Higson RL: 5.9 CSM: n/a (MG+)
Fantasy
o Pendragon series, by D.J. MacHale RL: 6.4 CSM: 10+
o White Giraffe, Lauren St. John RL: 6.2 CSM: n/a
Realistic Fiction
o Wednesday Wars, by Gary Schmidt RL: 5.9 CSM: 10+
o The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, by Erin Dionne RL: 5.0 CSM: n/a
Humor
o Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney RL: 5.2 CSM: 9+<– I’m the only person in America left that hasn’t read this, I think
o The Schwa Was Here, by Neal Shusterman RL: 5.0 CSM: 10+
Friendship
o When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead RL: 4.5 CSM: 9+
o Indigo Blue, by Cathy Cassidy RL: 4.6 CSM: n/a
Also, over on the lovely In Need of Chocolate blog, is a promising review of How to Think Like a Scientist: RL: 4.6 CSM: n/a
Because a little more logical thinking in the world would be a good thing!
This list is golden! Thanks!! 🙂
Amy's son, Austin just reviewed the Pendragon series today! He really liked them! Great suggestions!
@Shannon Thanks!
@Andye Do you have a link I can post? 🙂
I have not read Diary of a Wimpy Kid yet either. Will get to it someday…maybe when my son reaches the right age.
Great list!
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid books are hilarious. My son read them to us from the back seat while we were driving around on vacation and half the time he was laughing so hard he could barely talk 🙂