Hi! I’m looking for book recommendations for a 6th grader? We’re looking for clean reads with no sexual content and no self-harm themes. A little innocent romance/crushes is fine. We’re open to different genres.
Books she’s read and loved:
• A Girl Called Owl
• A Long Walk to Water
Any recommendations? Thank you! 😊
by justagirlgirls
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As long as clean can involve age appropriate violence; Rick Riordan/the Riordanverse is a gold mine (start with Percy Jackson and the Olympians and move on from there, the later series do have a little more relationship stuff but nothing/all very age appropriate). PJO and Artemis Fowl (kinda similar to PJO, action adventure with big cast of characters/minimal to no romance) were my absolute favorite series at that age.
– Might skew a little younger than sixth grade but The Tail of Emily Windsnap and its sequels are great if she likes fantasy
– Old school classic, the yellow hardback cover Nancy drew books (starts with the secret of the old clock) though there are a million versions of Nancy drew for her to get into nowadays
– also might be a little young but I still had my Disney fairies books at her age, and the ones by Gail Carson Levine are for a slightly older audience
– speaking of, Ella Enchanted (does have some romance but nothing explicit or sexual. Might be a little too depressing though? There’s definitely some themes of hopelessness/abuse though there’s a happy ending)
– Meg Cabot wrote a middle school centered Princess Diaries spinoff series (have not read so can’t personally attest to it but Meg Cabot rarely misses)
– the 39 clues series (also Riordan)
– Out of my mind, Sharon Draper
– the westing game
– from the mixed up files of basil e. Frankwiler
– the wayside school books
– everything by Andrew Clements (frindle, no talking, the report card, the school story)
– the homework machine (might want to review first, I think there’s a pretty heavy theme of a kid’s dad being deployed and not making it home)
What a lovely little walk through my kindle 🙂 what a great age for reading