Anonymous
Post 09/16/2020 22:55     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks so much again for all of these great suggestions. I really need them now that school is online. When he was going to school he could visit the school library and read stuff in the classroom library.

He finished the Hunger Games and really liked it. I put a lot of the other recommendations on hold at the library for curbside pickup. So far the first book in Alex Horowitz / Stormbreaker series was available and the first Ranger's apprentice. He read both of those and asked me to get the rest of the books in both of those series.

I actually want to read Divergent myself, too, haha.

I read the Hunger Games myself (years ago) - I haven't read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes yet - has anyone read it? Do you recommend to both of us?


I haven't read it yet, but DD (age 13) read it this summer and liked it a lot, though not as much as the orginal three books.
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2020 17:40     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Ranger's Apprentice, Brotherband, Red Rising
Anonymous
Post 09/12/2020 10:33     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
OP here. Thanks so much again for all of these great suggestions. I really need them now that school is online. When he was going to school he could visit the school library and read stuff in the classroom library.

He finished the Hunger Games and really liked it. I put a lot of the other recommendations on hold at the library for curbside pickup. So far the first book in Alex Horowitz / Stormbreaker series was available and the first Ranger's apprentice. He read both of those and asked me to get the rest of the books in both of those series.

I actually want to read Divergent myself, too, haha.

I read the Hunger Games myself (years ago) - I haven't read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes yet - has anyone read it? Do you recommend to both of us?
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2020 20:51     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
Both my kids have read most of the books you listed. They recommended: Ender's Game, Divergent Series, Hunger Games Series, in that order.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2020 19:15     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
The Promise of the Wolves trilogy
Wings of Fire series
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2020 18:51     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Another vote for Keeper of the Lost Cities.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2020 18:13     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
The Three Investigators series by Robert Arthur, Jr.
Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Green Knowe series by Lucy M. Boston
Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and/or Miss Marple books
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2020 17:54     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Anonymous wrote:Has he tried the Alex Rider books by Horowitz?


Second the Alex Rider series! I legit enjoyed reading these myself and when I taught 7th grade, my students devoured them!!!
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2020 17:06     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Unwanteds! Sounds right up his alley.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2020 22:16     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has been tearing through Keeper of Lost Cities series.


Yes!! My DD loved them so much last year (6th grade) she actually read them again a second time this summer!

She also loved the series listed by OP, but surprised me by branching out a bit, too. Here are some other series she's liked:

Chasing Vermeer
Hunger Games
Divergent
Spy in the Silver Palace, by Jordan Rivet (and another of Jordan Rivet's series - not sure which one)

Just an FYI, I haven't read any of these except Hunger Games, so I'm not sure how violent they are or whether they include any overt romance/sex or other more YA themes . . . .
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2020 22:04     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Chronicles of Chrestomanci and anything else by Diana Wynne Jones
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2020 11:35     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
My 5th grader has read and loved a lot of the same series and he has loved several series by Margaret Peterson Haddix — Shadow Children, The Missing, and Children of Exile.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2020 11:13     Subject: Re:Book series recs for 6th grader
Thanks so much for all of these great suggestions!! I just put a bunch on hold for curbside pickup at the library.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2020 11:12     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Anonymous wrote:Storm Runner series. There are 2, another coming soon.


Thanks! He read the first one but we didn’t know there were more.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2020 11:04     Subject: Book series recs for 6th grader
Another vote for Ranger's Apprentice. It's made for kids like him and there are a TON of super-long books in the series so he can read and re-read to his heart's content.