
Novel Knickers
Read Laters:
Grade 6
Each session we present several books to vote on for future meetings. As only one gets chosen, we list the remainders here so that bookclub members who liked a title that did not win have a reference list.
(P.S. This is also a great list for birthday presents within the age group!)
2025/26
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
The October Witches by Jennifer Claessen
A storm Unleashed by Carol Matas
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
A little Peice of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
Refugee by Alan Gratz
2024/25
One of my drams by Sharon M. Draper
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
Three times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
How to find what you're not looking for by Veera Hiranandani
Ending The Last by Katherine Applegate
The World's Worst Children
Ghost Knight by Cornelia Funke
The Bone Collector's Son by Paul Yee
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman
2022/23
Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
The Recruit by Robert Muchamore
Flamingo Boy by Michael Morpurgo
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Borders by Thomas King and Natasha Donovan
Apartment 713 by Kevin Sylvester
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed and Iman Geddy
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
Eight Days by Teresa Toten
I Am a Taxi by Deborah Ellis
Wolf Cry by Julia Golding
Endling #1: The Last Endling by Katherine Applegate
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh
How to Train Your Dad by Gary Paulsen
Sit by Deborah Ellis
Warned: the Astrologer's Prophecy by Mahtab Narsimhan
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
2021/22
The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan
Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
Splendours and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
Spud by John van de Ruit
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Family Tree by Mal Peet
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale
2019/20
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
A Day of Signs and Wonder by Kit Pearson
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
Dragon´s milk by Susan Fletcher
Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
2018/19
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
The Other side of the Truth by Beverly Naidoo
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
The Disappeared by Gloria Whelan
Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan
2017/18
Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Feather Boy by Nicky Singer
2016/17
A Day of Signs and Wonder by Kit Pearson
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2015/16
Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
Money Boy by Paul Yee
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Splendours and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
2014/15
I Am...Hostage Three by Nick Lake
Sky Jumpers by Peggy Edelman
Pirates! by Celia Rees
Montomorency by Eleanor Updale
Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
When the Worst Happens by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Uprooted by Lynne Reid Banks
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Shadow Spinner
The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls
Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
The King of Mulberry St. by Donna Napoli
Mrs. Zephyr’s Notebook by KC Dyer
Ninja Librarians
2013/14
Men of Stone by Gayle Friesen
King of Mulberry St. by Donna Napoli
True North by Marie Force
Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen by Glen Huser
Dust by Arthur Slade
Slave Girl by Sarah Forsyth
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
A Walk Through a Window – KC Dyer
A Little Piece of Ground – Elizabeth Laird
2012/13
Edge of Nowhere by Joh Smelcer
Mrs. Zephyr’s Notebook by KC Dyer
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
Porcupine by Meg Tilly
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
Out of the Box by Michelle Mulder
What I call Life by Jill Wolfson
Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
Pirates! by Celia Rees
Seems – the Glitch In Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Koss
Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson
Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve
2011/12
Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
The Runaway by Glen Huser
Money Boy by Paul Yee
Into the Ravine by Richard Scrimger
Ringmaster by Julia Golding
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Dust by Arthur Slade
Porcupine by Meg Tilly
Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Koss
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Napoli
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
2010/11
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Mac Slater Hunts the Cool by Tristan Bancks
Walking Backward by Catherine Austen
Blackwater by Eve Bunting
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey
Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shadow Bringer by David Calcutt
Star in the Storm by Joan Hiatt Harlow
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
2009/10
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Seance by Iain Lawrence
City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen
Tins by Alex Shearer
Chandra’s Secrets by Allan Stratton
The House of Windjammer by V.A. Richardson
The Edge by Alan Gibbons
Blackwater by Eve Bunting
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
B for Buster by Iain Lawrence
Petey by Ben Mikalesen
I’ll Sing You One-O by Nan Gregory
The Freedom of Jenny by Julie Burtinshaw
One Small Step by P.B. Kerr
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
Irish Chain by Barbara Haworth Attard
2008/9
The Rinaldi Ring by Jenny Nimmo
Lunch with Lenin by Deborah Ellis
Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher
Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
Fire From the Rock by Sharon M. Draper
Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick
Flower by Irene N. Watts
For Now by Gayle Friesen
Janey’s Girl by Gayle Friesen
2007/8
Gatty’s Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
King of Lost and Found by John Leich
Here There Be Dragons by James A. Owen
The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
Indie Girl by Kavita Daswani
Click: One Novel Ten Authors by Various
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Mikaelsen
The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E.L. Konigsburg
The Cry of Icemark by Stuart Hill
Myths and Legends by Anthony Horowitz
The Other Book by Philip Womack
