BUCKINGHAM, BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL
Brick Building Library
Recommended Reading 2025 Grade 6 and older
(Librarian Heather Lee)
New and Noteworthy
Gow Gooseberry
Haeden Warrior on the Mound
Lapera Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
Morrison Keeping Pace
Reintgen The Last Dragon on Mars
Salazar Ultra Violet
Wendell Light and Air
Williams Mid-Air
Winston Shark Teeth
Kraft School Trip (3rd in series)
Little Badger A Snake Falls to Earth
Soontornvat The Tryout (graphic)
Yang Finally Heard (series)
Fantasy, Dystopian & Science Fiction
Adams Watership Down
Adams, D Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (series)
Almond Skellig
Barron Maya and the Rising Dark
Barry Peter and the Starcatchers (series)
Black The Cruel Prince
Bloor London Calling
Cayne Ink and Bone (series)
Cervantes Storm Runner (series)
Chainani The School for Good & Evil (series)
Chari Interplanetary Expedition of Mars Patel (series)
Chokshi Aru Shah and the End of Time (series)
Colfer The Fowl Twins (series)
Supernaturalists
Airman
The Reluctant Assassin
Collins The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Hunger Games (series)
Condie Matched (series)
The Darkdeep
Cooper The Dark is Rising (series)
Dasgupta The Serpent’s Secret (series)
Delaney Revenge of the Witch (series)
DuPrau The City of Ember (series)
Emerson Last Day on Mars (series)
Farmer The Sea of Trolls (series)
Fisher Incarceron (series)
The Dark City (series)
Funke Inkheart (series)
Reckless (series)
Gidwitz The Inquisitor’s Tale
A Tale Dark & Grim (series)
Gaiman The Graveyard Book
Interworld (series)
Haddix Among the Hidden (series)
The Strangers (series)
Found(series)
Hale Princess Academy (series)
Healy The Heroes Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
Heilig The Girl From Everywhere (series)
Higuera The Last Cuentista*
Higson The Enemy (series)
Horowitz Ravensgate (series)
Jacques Redwall (series)
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (series)
Johnson Secrets of Solace (series)
Jones Conrad’s Fate
Howl’s Moving Castle (series)
Jrejie Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria
Korman Hypnotists (series)
Masterminds (series)
Lee Dragon Pearl
LeGuin A Wizard of Earthsea (series)
Levine Fairest
Two Princesses of Bemare (series)
Ever
Ella Enchanted
LeZott Show Me a Sign
Lin Before the Sword
Lowry The Giver (series)
Gossamer
Lu Warcross (series)
Legend (series)
Mass Pi in the Sky
Mbalia Tristan Strong (series)
Meyer Cinder (series)
Morris Legend of the King (series)
Nix Sabriel (series)
Odyssey Wizard of Dark Street (series)
Oliver Liesel & Po
Pierce Alana (series)
Wild Magic (series)
Ponti Dead City (series)
Pratchett The Wee Free Men (series)
Discworld (series)
Pullman La Belle Sauvage (series)
The Golden Compass (series)
Reeve Fever Crumb (series)
Mortal Engines (series)
Ridley Larklight (series)
Riordan Percy Jackson (series)
Magnus Chase (series)
Trials of Apollo (series)
Roth Divergent (series)
Rowling Harry Potter (series) and The Cursed Child (play)
Ruby Shadow Cypher (series)
Scott The Alchemist (series)
Salerni The 8th Day (series)
Shaw Outwalkers
Shusterman Gleanings (Short Stories in the Scythe world)
Stead When You Reach Me
Stroud Amulet of Samarkand (series)
The Screaming Staircase (series)
Tanner Icebreaker (series)
Tolkien The Lord of the Rings (series)
Townsend Nevermoor (series)
Westerfield Leviathan (series)
Uglies (series)
Zeroes (series)
Wilce Flora Segunda (series)
Wooding Malice (series)
Zhao Dragon Warrior (series)
Mystery, Action, Suspense
Almond Kit’s Wilderness
Raven Summer
Ballorini The Babysitters Guide to Monster Hunting
Beasley Tumble and Blue
Bloor Tangerine
Carter All Fall Down (series)
Dowd The London Eye Mystery
Ellis I Am a Taxi (series)
Flannagan Ranger’s Apprentice (series)
Red Fox Clan (series)
Fombelle Vango, Between Sky & Earth (series)
Gaiman Coraline
Garber Caraval (series)
Gavin Knightly & Son (series)
Gutterson Winterhouse (series)
Haddix The Strangers (series)
Hahn One for Sorrow
Girl in the Locked Room
Hamilton Rebel of the Sands (series)
Haydu Rules for Stealing Stars
Horowitz Alex Rider (series)
Hubbard Watch the Sky
Race the Night
Ibbotson Journey to the Riversea
Dragonfly Pool
Star of Kazan
One Dog & His Boy
Jacques Pearls of Lutra
Kerr Girl with the Glass Bird
Korman Restart
Lai Fly on the Wall
Levy It Wasn't Me
Lupica Hero
Mass The Candymakers (series)
McKay A Time of Green Magic
Messner Breakout*
Milford Greenglass House (series)
Mulligan Trash
Ponti City Spies (series)
T.O.A.S.T (series)
Pearson The Initiation (series)
Preus Village of Scoundrels
Pullman Clockwork
Ruby in the Smoke (series)
Ghost Ship
Rundle Rooftoppers
Explorer
Sacher Holes
Schwab City of Ghosts (series)
Archive (series)
Soontornvat A Wish in the Dark
Stevens Murder is Bad Manners (series)
Stewart The Secret Keepers
Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
Stroud The Screaming Staircase (series)
Turner The Thief (series)
Ursu One Safe Place
Lost Girl
Breadcrumbs
Umansky Montmorency (series)
Watson Loot (series)
Whelan Listening for Lions
Wooding The Unmapped Sea (series)
Historical Fiction
Alexander The Door of No Return
Almond The Fire-Eater
Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead (series)
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Bailie Little Brother
Barrett Anna of Byzantium
Bawden Carrie’s War
Blackwood Second Sight
Shakespeare Stealer
Bradley The War that Saved My Life (series)
Bryan Freedom Over Me
Burg Unbound
Cao Bronze and Sunflower
Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts (series)
Curtis Elijah of Buxton, Bud not Buddy
Ellis My Name Is Parvana
Mud City
Luqman-Dawson Freewater
Florres-Gabrilles 90 Miles from Havana
Hughes Whistling in the Dark
Gratz Refugees
Hesse Witness
Jacobson Paper Things
Kaduhata A Place to Belong
Weedflower
Kira-Kira
Kelly We Dream of Space
Evolutions of Calpurnia Tate (series)
Kelkar Ahimsa
Lasky Night Witches
Lee Downstairs Girl*
Martin Belle Teal
Mattas In My Enemies House
Lisa’s War
Mazer Goodnight Maman
McManis Indian No More*
Meyer Black Radishes
Napoli Daughters of Venice
Oh Finding Junie Kim*
Park Prairie Lotus
A Single Shard
My Name is Keiko
Paterson Bread and Roses too
Pinkney Loretta Little Looks Back
Smith My Brother’s Secret
Soontornvat The Last Mapmaker
Sonnichsen The Red Butterfly
Spinelli Milkweed
Staples Shabanu
Daughter of the Wind
Shiva’s Fire
Persimmon Tree
Uchida Journey to Topaz
Yep Dragon Gate
The Serpent’s Child
Zhang The Memory of Forgotten Things
Realistic Fiction
Abawe A Land of Permanent Goodbyes
Alexander Swing
Rebound
Crossover
Booked
Alvarez Return to Sender
Anderson Posted
One Last Shot
Ms. Bixby’s Last Day
Applegate Odder
The One and Only Ivan
Home of the Brave
Birdsal The Penderwicks (series)
Blake Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
Bloor Tangerine
Bruchac Two Roads
Talking Leaves
Colbert The Only Black Girls in Town
Dowd Sound of Your Voice Only Really Far Away
Creech Chasing Redbird
Bloomability
Walk Two Moons
Dinerstein Circle of Elephants
What Elephants Know
Ellis Sit
My Name is Parvana
Gantos Dead End in Norvelt (series)
Hashimi One Half From the East
Sky at Our Feet
Hirandani Night Diary
Holt Knockout
House Arrest
Rhyme Schemer
Horvath My One Hundred Adventures (series)
Kaduhata Half a World Away
The Thing About Luck
Inside Beauty
Kelly Land of Forgotten Girls, We Dream of Space
Khan Amina’s Voice
King Attack of the Black Rectangles
Korman Unplugged
Slacker (series)
Krishnawani The Grand Plan to Fix Everything (series)
De Leon Undercover Latina
Levy It Wasn't Me
Lukoff Different Kinds of Fruit*
Lupica Underdogs, Summer Ball
Marks From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Martin A Corner of the Universe
Summer Before
McKay Cadie Ever After
Permanent Rose (series)
Moulton Chasing the Milky Way
Oshiro The Insiders
Peck Best Man
Pennypacker Pax
Here in the Real World
Perkins Bamboo People
Pinkney The Red Pencil
Polansky Threads
Pung Lucy and Linh
Ramee A Good Kind of Trouble
Reynolds As Brave as You
Rosenberg Not Your All-American Girl
Rose Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco
Saeed Amal Unbound
Senzai Escape From Aleppo
Sheth Boys without Names
Smith Another Kind of Hurricane
Soontornvat The Tryout (graphic)
Stead The List of Things that Will Not Change
Stone Clean Getaway
Strong Just South of Home
Vanderpool Moon over Manifest
Venkatraman Born Behind Bars
Warga Other Words for Home
Woodson Harbor Me
Brown Girl Dreaming
Yeh The Way to Bea
Nonfiction
Andraka Breakthrough
Barnard New Ocean: The Fate of Life in a Changing Sea
Chanani Pashmina (graphic)
Dionne Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
Ellis Looks Like Daylight (Voices of Indigenous Kids)
Kids of Kabul
Enzenberger The Number Devil
Fackham Who Harnessed the Horse?
Farrell Invisible Enemies
Flynn This Book Stinks, The Science of Trash
Freedman Lincoln: a Photobiography
Kids At Work
Indian chiefs
Roosevelt
Fritz Traitor: Story of Benedict Arnold
China’s Long March
Fyvie Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle
Gantos Writing Radar, Using Your Journal…
Grady Write to Me, letters from Children
Hagler The Technology of Ancient India
Hamilton Her Stories
The Dark Way
Household The Exploits of Xenophon
Huyne The Land I Lost
Water Buffalo Days
Jaffrey Seasons of Splendor (Tales from India)
Jacobs Taino (the People Who Welcomed Columbus)
Lobel Not a Pretty Picture, a memoir
Macauley The New Way Things Work
Underground
Rome-antics
Unbuilding
Marrin The Secret Armies
Unconditional Surrender
Markle Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bat
Murphy American Plague
Blizzard
Nye Voices in the Air (Poems for Listeners)
Orr Polar Vortex and Climate Change
Peters Patient Zero
Pullman Adventures of John Blake (graphic)
Rowell Malala Yousafzai
St. John Outcasts United (story of a team)
Sarsour We're in this Together: for Young readers
Schmalzer Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean
Severence Gandhi, Great Soul
Spinelli Knots in the String, an Autobiography
Stanley I am an American, the True Story
Strauss One Well: Story of Water on Earth
Tan The Arrival (graphic)
Thompson Guts & Glory:
American Revolution
World War II
The Vikings
Turner Dorothea Lange
Walker Why War is Never a Good Idea
Williams If Sharks Disappeared