Entering 6th Grade: Fiction
* The Underneath - Appelt, Kathi
A calico cat and a lonely hound dog form an unlikely alliance.
* The Calder Game - Balliett, Blue
Petra and Tommy fly to England to find their friend who disappeared along with a famous sculpture.
* + Penderwicks on Gardam Street - Birdsall, Jeanne
The sisters hatch a plot to keep their widowed father from dating.
* Half-Moon investigations - Colfer, Eoin
An investigator is wrongfully charged with a crime.
* + Victory - Cooper, Susan
Two different battles — 200 years and 2000 miles apart — converge in this time-shifting tale.
* The 7 professors of the Far North - Fardell, John
Intrepid friends rescue kidnapped science professors.
Football Genius - Green, Tim
Troy can predict football plays before they occur.
* + The road to Paris - Grimes, Nikki
Should Paris choose her foster family or her mother?
* + Princess Academy - Hale, Shannon
Miri discovers her hidden talents at princess school.
* All the lovely bad ones : a ghost story - Hahn, Mary Downing
Travis and Corey’s supernatural “pranks” awaken something dangerous at their grandmother’s inn.
* Into the firestorm : a novel of San Francisco, 1906 - Hopkinson, Deborah
Nick saves his friends from an inferno...
* + Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam - Kadohata, Cynthia
A German shepherd sniffs for landmines.
* The mysterious edge of the heroic world - Konigsburg, E. L.
Two friends discover a story and a treasure as they sort the belongings of their eccentric elderly neighbor.
* + A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle, Madeleine
Can unearthly strangers help Meg find her father?
* + Heat - Lupica, Mike
A pitching prodigy has trouble with the Little League .
Camel rider - Mason, Prue
Walid and Adam are stranded in the desert when war breaks out in the Middle East.
* Bella at midnight - Stanley, Diane
Raised by peasants, Bella discovers her true heritage.
* + Surviving the Applewhites - Tolan, Stephanie S
Can the Applewhites’ special school tame Jake?
* + Red moon at Sharpsburg : a novel - Wells, Rosemary
Intelligent and courageous India survives the Civil War as it destroys her Virginia home.
Entering 6th Grade: Nonfiction
Go figure! A Totally Cool Book About Numbers - Ball, Johnny
Call Number: J 510 BAL
Math puzzles, number theory, pi and much more.
An elephant in the backyard - Sobol, Richard
Call Number: J 599.67 SOB
Elephants are special in the village of Kleng, Thailand.
* + Mosque - Macaulay, David
Call Number: J 726.2 MAC
Learn how mosques were built in 16th century Turkey.
Poles apart : why penguins and polar bears will never be neighbors - Scott, Elaine
Call Number: J 919.8 SCO
The habitats and history of two icy places on opposite sides of the Earth.
+ The American story : 100 true tales from American history - Armstrong, Jennifer
Call Number: J 973 ARM
The individuals and incidents that formed the U.S.
+ Blizzard! - Murphy, Jim
Call Number: J 974.71 MUR
In 1888, a massive snowstorm hits the East Coast.
Surfer of the century : the life of Duke Kahanamoku - Crowe, Ellie
Call Number: J B KAHANAMOKU
Duke was a champion swimmer and the father of modern surfing.
+ Facing the lion : growing up Maasai on the African savanna - Lekuton, Joseph
Call Number: J B LEKUTON
A cattle herder leaves Kenya for college in the U.S.
The adventures of Marco Polo - Freedman, Russell
Call Number: J B POLO
He traveled the Silk Road to meet Kublai Khan.
+ The journey that saved Curious George : the true wartime escape of Margret and H.A. Rey - Borden, Louise
Call Number: J B REY
They fled Nazi-occupied Paris on their bicycles!
To dance : a memoir - Siegel, Siena Cherson
Call Number: J B SIEGEL
A ballerina’s story presented through graphics.
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