Class V-VI

June befriends Tyrell after finding herself in Huey House, a family shelter in the Bronx. Together, they work to oppose the government plan to force families out of Huey House before they are ready. 

Since she was a pup, Zima has been taught to fear humans—especially witches—but when her family is threatened, she has no choice but to seek help from the witch Baba Yaga. 

In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope.

Jacqueline Woodson was raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In this memoir, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. 

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year old orphan in medieval Karea, lives under a bridge near a potter's village and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no matter how awful.

But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all.

In the spring of 1776, thirteen-year-old Elsbeth Culpepper wakes to the sound of cannons. It’s the Siege of Boston, the Patriots’ massive drive to push the Loyalists out that turns the city into a chaotic war zone. Elsbeth’s father—her only living relative—has gone missing, leaving her alone and adrift in a broken town while desperately seeking employment to avoid the orphanage. Just when things couldn’t feel worse, the smallpox epidemic sweeps across Boston. 

An incredible memoir from Sharon Robinson about one of the most important years of the civil rights movement. In January 1963, Sharon Robinson turns thirteen the night before George Wallace declares on national television "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inauguration speech as governor of Alabama. It is the beginning of a year that will change the course of American history.

Grab your hook and dive into a world of fantastic creatures with this whimsical crochet book. Learn about amigurumi, the Japanese art of crocheting stuffed toys, and use it to make a collection of cute, magical creatures. 

Jin is a Stone Lion—one of the guardians of the Old City Gate who is charged to watch over humans and protect the Sacred Sphere. But to Jin, those boring duties feel like a waste of time. What isn’t a waste of time? Perfecting his zuqiu kick. But when Jin’s perfect kick accidentally knocks the Sacred Sphere out through the gate, he has no choice but to run after it, tumbling out of the realm he calls home and into the human world as the gate closes behind him. Stuck outside the gate, Jin must find help from unlikely allies, including a girl who can hear a mysterious voice and a worm who claims he is a dragon.

A young Dominican girl navigates middle school, her strict mother, shifting friendships, and her dream of being an artist in this debut coming-of-age graphic novel inspired by the author's tween years. Eighth grade in New York City means one It’s time to start applying to high schools! While her friends are looking at school catalogs and studying for entrance exams, Steph is doodling in her notebook and waiting for art class to begin. When her art teacher tells her about LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Steph desperately wants to apply.

Shaindy is a twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles in school and has no good friends. She watches with envy as her next-door neighbor, GAYIL, excels socially and academically. They have little to do with each other, and it comes as a surprise when Shaindy looks out her window one September evening and sees Gayil staring out at her from her own window with a sign reading want to know a secret?  

When a boy with a terrible secret moves to town, there is a sudden increase in dust storms, and asthmatic Avalyn theorizes the storms are linked to his emotions and tries to help as she struggles to breathe.

Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever.

While searching for her missing mother, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, suddenly gets involved in the kidnapping of a young Marquess.

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology—written by the best children’s authors—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.

A collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.

July Chen sees ghosts but pretends she doesn't. July saves a boy ghost from being devoured, but discovers he's a wandering soul wavering between life and death. As the new friends embark on an adventure, they unearth a ghastly truth–for William to live, July must die.

Geography-loving Ginny is facing a lonely summer. When her one bright spot, a geography-themed camp, gets canceled at the last minute, a brilliant idea strikes: she'll create her own geography camp. But things don't go as planned.

Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.

Magic is fading, and magical creatures are suddenly dying in the Archipelago. Mal and Christopher embark on a wild adventure, racing from island to island, searching for someone who can help them.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Two unsuspecting heroes work to save the Land of Irpa from an ancient threat. Follow the adventures of Bea and Cad in the first three volumes of this epic graphic novel quest. 

The story of the four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth--and of the courage, humor, and ingenuity they display to survive poverty and the absence of their father during the Civil War.

Jack hates poetry, but his teacher won't stop giving her class poetry assignments. The more he writes, the more he learns that he does have something to say. Recommended by common book author Jason Reynolds.

Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself.

Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to? Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything.

Twelve-year-old Max sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds.

Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.

A highly illustrated, playful field guide for budding natural scientists and curious observers of the world all around us. 

A modern folktale about Great-grandfather Bat’s rematch of the legendary Great Ball Game that shows how friendship and embracing the unexpected can overcome obstacles and solve mysteries.

No passport required, just an open mind and a kitchen. Kids and their parents can see and taste China, Greece, Peru, Mexico, Morocco, England, Italy, Japan, France, Egypt, Trinidad and Tobago, and India with these kid-tested recipes.

While on a school trip to Paris, Jordan, Drew, and Liam find navigating a foreign city almost as tricky as navigating the same friendships, fears and differences they struggle with at home.

Follow Bea, Archie, Trudy, and Spencer (otherwise known as the BATS!) as they crisscross the globe using every type of bridge: beam, arch, truss, and suspension, from ancient low-slung rope bridges to modern hi-tech towers of steel.

Three years after the events of Show Me a Sign (2020), Mary is still recovering from her traumatic kidnapping. When asked, she decides she is willing to teach sign language to another deaf girl. Yet when Mary arrives, she discovers the girl is kept in chains and treated horribly by the staff in a household that has many secrets.

After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces.

The gripping story of America’s first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who busted Nazi spy rings

What will happen to Maya when she finds out her culinary summer camp is a summer camp for vampires? Find out in this quirky and heartwarming graphic novel.

In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance, Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.

Musical prodigy Rosie stops playing the violin, upsetting her ambitious mother but making room in her life for new experiences, including a glitch in space-time that lets her meet her mom as a twelve-year-old.

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

Johannes, a free dog, lives in a park hemmed in on three sides by dense human neighborhoods, and on one side by the ocean. His job is to be the Eyes--to see everything that happens within the park and report to the park's elders, three ancient bison who ensure the Equilibrium. But changes are afoot.

Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.

An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.

How the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre and became the most famous artwork in the world.

When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter: her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call 'journalism.'

A group of turkeys arrives in Milkweed Meadow planning to put on a dazzling stage performance, but Butternut the rabbit has learned that the climax will be the death of the other meadow animals, and she calls on her human friend, Thalia, to help her expose the turkeys' plan.

In an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates, Rosamund adapts to real-world life but starts to consider the possibility of changing her own story.

The first book in a trilogy about a girl who claims she is visiting a parallel universe where a nefarious being called The Riverman is stealing the souls of children and fears her soul may be next.

While trying to escape her dull existence and her exacting mother, Dally discovers a magical library that acts as a portal to different times in her family’s past. Dally starts visiting every day but soon discovers the library has plans of its own.

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.

The adventures of the five Vanderbeeker children and those in their community in a series of six books.

After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.

In 1980s Bosnia, five cousins grow closer than sisters when they are confronted with the harsh realities of the adult world around them.

Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village. Written by a Brearley Spanish teacher.

Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache, and only her menagerie of pets provides her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forever.

Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.