Curious Picks for Grades 4-6

Top picks for grades 4-6 inspired by the Summer Reading Club 2024 theme: World of Curiosities

Updated July 4, 2024
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Super boba café. 1
Chanani, Nidhi
Paper Book
First in a series,Nidhi Chanani's Super Boba Café isa sweet and magical middle-grade, full-color graphic novel about a secret teashop, an earthquake-causing monster, and an unforgettable summer. In the fog-laden hills of San Francisco sits a sleepy...

Graphic novel

Lightfall. Book one, The girl & the Galdurian
Probert, Tim
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Kazu Kibuishi says of Lightfall: "Beautifully drawn. Tim Probert has created a world readers will want to visit." For fans of Amulet and middle grade readers who love sweeping worlds like Star Wars, the first book of the Lightfall series introduces Bea and...

Graphic novel

Things in the basement
Hatke, Ben.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Ben Hatke comes Things in the Basement, a young readers graphic novel about Milo, a young boy who discovers a portal to a secret world in his basement. It was supposed to just be a normal basement--some storage boxes, dust, you...

Graphic novel

Coraline
Russell, P. Craig.
Paper Book
Neil Gaiman's enchanting, nationally bestselling children's book Coraline is brought to new life by acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation. When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only...
Graphic novel
A royal conundrum
Yee, Lisa 
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER .When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)-who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious illustrated series from Newbery Honoree Lisa Yee and...

Intermediate fiction

The wild robot
Brown, Peter
Paper Book
Soon to be a DreamWorks movie, coming to theaters 9/27/24! This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to...
Intermediate fiction

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