SIXTH GRADE RECOMMENDED READS J HIAS, C
WRECKER
J SUMN, J
MAID FOR IT
Carl Hiaasen
Jamie Sumner Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his 5x great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West. And now they want more than his silence--they want a lookout.
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THE CURSED MOON Angela Cervantes Rafael Fuentes loves writing ghost stories, reading scary books, and entertaining his friends with terrifying tales he creates on the spot. To take his mind off his mom being released from jail and coming home, Rafa spends an evening crafting the scariest ghost story he's ever told. Rafa is really proud of his latest creation, until strange things start to happen around him.
Now that Franny and her newly sober mom have moved to a cozy apartment above a laundromat, Franny's looking forward to a life where her biggest excitement is getting top grades in math class. But when her mother is injured in a car accident, Franny tries to keep their fragile world intact by taking over her mom's cleaning jobs.
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THE CHAOS MONSTER Sayantani DasGupta When Kinjal’s dog disappears before his eyes, he can’t imagine things will get stranger until two enormous flying horses appear to take him and his twin sister to the Sky Kingdom. They have come to this dimension to seek help--bees are disappearing, along with the nectar the horses need to survive. Once there, they discover that the disappearance of the bees is more nefarious than they thought, and the plot goes all the way to the top.