6th Grade Reading

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.

Certain that his brother Khalid has transformed into a dragonfly after passing away, King often steals down to the bayou to search for him among the hundreds of dragonflies there. Khalid also visits King in his dreams, still, a secret King knows he has to keep--that, and the fact that he thinks he might be gay. Grief transforms King's family, but King learns how to use grief and pain to find beauty and redemption as his true self.

Aru Shah attends a private middle school where she is desperate to fit in with her jet-setting classmates. But while they vacation, Aru is stuck spending break at the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture where her mother is the curator. So Aru makes her life seem more interesting with a few lies. But when three of her classmates come to the museum and catch her in her lies, Aru attempts to appease them by taking their dare to light the supposedly...

Surfer Alberta has been the only black girl in her small California town for years. When she finds out that the new owners of the bed-and-breakfast across the street are black and that they have a daughter her age, Alberta is convinced that she and Edie will be best friends. But Edie misses her life in Brooklyn and is finding it hard to adapt to California life. When the girls find a box of old journals in Edie's attic, they team up to find out why...

Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.

Iranian American Zomorod "Cindy" Yousefzadeh hopes that California's Newport Beach can be her last time being the new kid, at least for awhile. Unfortunately it is the 1970s, and with Iran bad in the headlines of American newspapers, being the new kid is the least of her worries.

Zenobia moves from Arizona, where she lived with her father, to Maine to live with her aunts, in order to start a new life. Instead of improving her coding and hacking skills on the computer, she works at making new friends and living openly as a girl for the first time. Then hateful memes are posted on the school's website. Zenobia knows she has the skills to locate and identify the culprit, but is worried how her new community will react.

Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.

Wes Henderson would much rather be playing video games than going protests with his parents. But when a real estate developer makes an offer to buy Kensington Oaks, the neighborhood Wes has grown up in, the anti-gentrification protests his mom makes him march in take on a whole new meaning. Now, all the adults seem to do is argue, and the residents of the neighborhood are divided. Even Wes's friends are fighting, and some of them may be moving away....

Author Shannon Hale writes about her experiences trying to make and be a friend from kindergarten through fifth grade and how difficult it was for her.