Favorite Children's Chapter Books

Read any of these before you leave 6th grade:
  • Firegirl by Tony Abbott
  • How Tia Lola came to visit (stay) by Julie Alvarez
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
  • Peter and the starcatchers(series) by Dave Barry
  • The heart of a chief by Joseph Bruchac
  • Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
  • Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
  • Everything written by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • No talking by Andrew Clements
  • The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Clooney (HF) (wonderful)
  • The missing manatee by Cynthia Defelice
  • The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
  • Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
  • The Adventures of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
  • The City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau (Loved) Fantasy
  • The breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (Afghanistan)
  • Umbrella Summer by Lisa Graff
  • Nory Ryan’s Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (HF)
  • Baseball card/time travel adventures by Dan Gutman
  • The Homework machine by Dan Gutman
  • Among the Hidden series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Found and Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Escape from memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Ida B. by Katherine Harrigan
  • Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
  • Bird by Angela Johnson
  • Rules by Cynthia Lord
  • Anything by E.L. Konigsburg
  • Schooled by Gordon Korman
  • Drita; my homegirl by Jenny Lombard
  • The Giver, Messenger and Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (HF)
  • 11 Birthdays trilogy by Wendy Mass
  • A dog’s life by Ann M. Martin
  • The Snows by Sharelle Byers Moranville
  • Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo
  • Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh by Robert O’Brien
  • Island of the blue dolphins by Scott O’Dell
  • Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
  • Hatchet series by Gary Paulsen
  • The Golden Compass series by Phillip Pullman
  • Everything by Rick Riordan
  • Singing hands by Delia Ray (great story)
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy (HF)
  • Esperanza Rising by Pamela Munoz Ryan (HF)
  • Becoming Naomi Leon by Pamela Munoz Ryan
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • The invention of Hugo Cabret  and Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events  (series) by Lemony Snicket
  • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
  • Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
  • That girl Lucy Moon by Amy Timberlake ( loved this one)
  • Sammy Keyes mysteries by Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Elvis and Olive by Stephanie Watson
  • So B. It; a novel by Sarah Weeks
  • Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
  • What I call life by Jill Wolfson
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (HF)
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