Top 10 Trending Books For 6th Graders

Featuring The Maze Runner, Out of the Dust and The Fault in Our Stars! For other grades, be sure to check out what kids are reading.

1. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)

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Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and, as they fall in love, they both wonder how they will be remembered. The plot contains profanity and sexual references.

2. I Survived: The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (Lauren Tarshis)

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In 1863, the Civil War is raging throughout the country. Eleven-year-old Thomas has been on the sidelines so far, but the events of a hot July week in Pennsylvania are about to change his life forever.

3. Insurgent (Veronica Roth)

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As war surges in the societies around her, Tris must continue trying to save those she loves and herself while grappling with questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. The plot contains graphic violence.

4. Divergent (Veronica Roth)

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In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice must choose one faction among five, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group. The plot contains graphic violence.

5. I Funny: A Middle School Story (James Patterson)

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Jamie loves to tell jokes, but will he choke in the spotlight of a comedy contest, or worse, get the sympathy vote because of his wheelchair?

6. Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

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Ten-year-old Auggie, born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school, where he endures taunts and bullying and struggles to be seen as just another student.

7. I Survived: The Shark Attacks of 1916 (Lauren Tarshis)

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A great white shark has been attacking swimmers not far from Elm Hills. Everyone in town is talking about it, so when ten-year-old Chet sees something in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination, until he comes face-to-face with the shark.

8. I Survived: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Lauren Tarshis)

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Eleven-year-old Danny is alone in Hawaii when the world is torn apart and World War II officially hits the United States.

9. The Maze Runner (James Dashner)

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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

10. Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)

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In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm.