6th Grade Summer Reading List

Lions & Liars (Jun 2018)

By: Beasley, Kate

Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.

Ages 9-12   Fiction   

The Sherlock Society. Book 1 (Sep 2024)

Author: Ponti, James

Series: Sherlock Society, 1

Twelve-year-old Alex Sherlock, his thirteen-year-old sister Zoe, and their friends Lina and Yadi decide to spend their summer in Miami investigating the many "cold cases" their grandfather accumulated during his years as a reporter--first up, Al Capone and a buried treasure.

Ages 9-12 Fiction

Baseball Genius (Mar 2017)

By: Green, Tim

An everyday kid with a talent for predicting baseball pitches is caught stealing baseballs from his favorite New York Yankees player, who agrees not to press charges if the boy will help him recover from a difficult batting slump. 

Ages 9-12   Fiction   

Aru Shah and The End of Time (Mar 2018)

By: Chokshi, Roshani

Telling fibs in order to fit in better with her wealthier peers, 12-year-old Aru Shah spends her school break at the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, where her decision to light a cursed lamp unwittingly releases an ancient demon. 

 Ages 9-12 Fiction

Inside Out & Back Again (Feb 2011)
By: Lai, Thanhha

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.

Ages 9-12   Fiction      

Old School (Jan 2025)

Author: Korman, Gordon

Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb. 

Ages 9-12 Fiction

The War That Saved My Life (Jan 2015)
By: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

Ages 9-12   Fiction