Fifth & Sixth Grade Recommended Reads

Desperate to return home while staying with her aunt, Laura finds a puppy and decides that if she can train it to become a therapy dog, she might be allowed to visit her parents-- and then maybe things will go back to the way they should be.

When her village is attacked by warriors, capturing everyone she's ever loved, Abeni escapes in the clutches of an old witch who spirits her away to begin her unwanted magical apprenticeship-- and her impossible mission to bring her people home.

When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.

Going undercover at Petey Thunkle's world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies, twins Wiki and Leen Ellison must discover who is tampering with the company's upcoming big-deal rocket launch before it’s too late.

As 12-year-old Brooklyn goes head-to-head against her rival to win her school's cookie-selling competition, her friends help her cope with her mother's death and try to clinch the Cookie Queen title.

While trying to make a life-changing decision, 12-year-old Adela Ramirez searches for her birth father, which leads her to the legendary Bravos, professional wrestlers who teach her what it really means to be part of a family.

While the kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with, the stories are really about how the kids come to "own" a power that contributes to their individuality and allows them to find their place in the world.

Felix, an 11-year-old boy with Growth Hormone Deficiency and a love for forensic science, finds out his biological father is also short and decides to use his blooming investigation skills to try and find him.

Built to explore Mars, Resilience begins to develop human-like feelings as he learns from the NASA scientists who assembled him, and as he blasts off and explores Mars, Resilience must overcome different obstacles as he explores the red planet.

When she starts losing her hair, Sparkle, a 12-year-old budding superstar, hides her condition from her friends until she realizes she must come to terms with the changes in her life and show her classmates and her family what she can do with or without hair.

While attending a new school that'll help him control his powers, Bobby Beacon finds his temper landing him in hot water until an understanding teacher gives him ways to calm himself and shows him that caring for others is its own kind of superpower.

Feeling out of place at home with her mom and stepfather and at her Jewish day school, Mia makes a secret plan to use her bat mitzvah gifts to take a bus to Oklahoma to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side.

When Rex finds out he needs glasses, he's beyond miserable. Dealing with the bullies at school, his family being broke and an embarrassing lack of friends, he has way too much on his plate already.

Brothers Lincoln and Hudson Dupré go on imaginary adventures that often wreak havoc in the real world and conspire to undermine their newest babysitter.

A young Dominican girl navigates middle school, her strict mother, shifting friendships and her dream of being an artist.

This illustrated tour of the body, led by Wisdom Tooth and Disappearing Kidney, reveals body parts once essential to our ancestors but no longer useful to us, showing how our bodies are constantly changing along with the environment in which we live.

This middle-grade adaptation of Tallamy's book is an essential introduction to conservation, ecology, biodiversity and the importance of native plants.