6th Grade Reading List Fiction
Title | Series | Author | Lexile |
Marvin Redpost - Super Fast, Out of Control | Louis Sachar | 410 | |
Quest for the Queen | #10-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 410 |
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse | #1- Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 410 |
Journey to the Volcano Palace | #2-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 420 |
Marvin Redpost - Alone in His Teacher's House | Louis Sachar | 420 | |
The Hawk Bandits of Tarkoom | #11-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 420 |
Marvin Redpost - Class President | Louis Sachar | 430 | |
The Malted Falcon | #7- Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 440 |
Double Fudge | Judy Blume | 450 | |
The Mask of Maliban | #13-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 450 |
The Moon Scroll | #15-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 450 |
The Mystery of Mr. Nice | #2-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 450 |
Under the Serpent Sea | #12-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 450 |
Marvin Redpost - A Flying Birthday Cake? | Louis Sachar | 460 | |
Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Louis Sachar | 460 | |
The Magic Escapes | #1-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 460 |
The Mysterious Island | #3-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 460 |
Kit's Wilderness | David Almond | 470 | |
The Good Dog | Avi | 480 | |
This Gum for Hire | #6-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 480 |
Search for the Dragon Ship | #18-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 490 |
Skellig | David Almond | 490 | |
Stage Fright | James Howe | 490 | |
The Wish | Gail Carson Levine | 490 | |
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom | Louis Sachar | 490 | |
Three Days | Donna Jo Napoli | 490 | |
Dream Thief | #17-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 500 |
The Knights of Silversnow | #16-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 500 |
Voyage of the Jaffa Wind | #14-The Secrets of Droon | Tony Abbott | 510 |
Farewell, My Lunchbag | #3-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 520 |
S.O.R. Losers | Avi | 520 | |
The Hamster of the Baskervilles | #5-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 520 |
Trouble Is My Beeswax | #8-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 520 |
A Boy at War | #1-World War II Trilogy | Harry Mazer | 530 |
A Boy No More | #2-World War II Trilogy | Harry Mazer | 530 |
If A Tree Falls at Lunch Period | Gennifer Choldenko | 530 | |
Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last | Avi | 530 | |
The Big Nap | #4-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 530 |
Tarot Says Beware | Betsy Byars | 540 | |
Windcatcher | Avi | 540 | |
Crash | Jerry Spinelli | 560 | |
Finding Stinko | Michael de Guzman | 560 | |
Give My Regrets to Broadway | #9-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 560 |
The Music of Dolphins | Karen Hesse | 560 | |
The Dark Stairs | Betsy Byars | 570 | |
The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman | 570 | |
Waiting for Normal | Leslie Connor | 570 | |
Enemy Spy | #4-Shredderman | Wendelin Van Draanen | 580 |
Fever 1793 | Laurie Halse Anderson | 580 | |
Key Lardo | #12-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 580 |
Meet the Gecko | #3-Shredderman | Wendelin Van Draanen | 580 |
Murder, My Tweet | #10-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 580 |
Secret Identity | #1-Shredderman | Wendelin Van Draanen | 580 |
Spud Murphy | Eoin Colfer | 580 | |
The Magic Circle | Donna Jo Napoli | 580 | |
The Never War | #3-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 580 |
The Possum Always Rings Twice | #11-Chet Gecko Mystery | Bruce Hale | 580 |
The Reality Bug | #4-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 580 |
The Soldiers of Halla | #10-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 580 |
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | 590 | |
Fairest | Gail Carson Levine | 590 | |
Raven Rise | #9-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 590 |
The Battle of the Labyrinth | #4-Percy Jackson & The Olympians | Rick Riordan | 590 |
Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | 600 | |
Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | 600 | |
Attack of the Tagger | #2-Shredderman | Wendelin Van Draanen | 600 |
A Year Down Yonder | Richard Peck | 610 | |
Beekman's Big Deal | Michael de Guzman | 610 | |
No Dogs Allowed | Bill Wallace | 610 | |
Point Blank | #2-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 610 |
Among the Imposters | #2-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 620 |
The Last Olympian | #5-Percy Jackson & The Olympians | Rick Riordan | 620 |
The Pilgrims of Rayne | #8-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 620 |
Ghost Hunter | #5-Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Michelle Paver | 630 |
Midnight for Charlie Bone | Jenny Nimmo | 630 | |
Skeleton Key | #3-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 630 |
The Lacemaker and the Princess | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | 630 | |
The Titan's Curse | #3-Percy Jackson & The Olympians | Rick Riordan | 630 |
Magyk | #1-Septimus Heap | Angie Sage | 640 |
The Thief Lord | Cornelia Funke | 640 | |
Under the Blood-Red Sun | Graham Salisbury | 640 | |
Among the Barons | #4-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 650 |
Heroes Don't Run | #3-World War II Trilogy | Harry Mazer | 650 |
How to Eat Fried Worms | Thomas Rockwell | 650 | |
The Dreamer | Pam Munoz Ryan & Peter Sis | 650 | |
The Lost City of Faar | #2-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 650 |
The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine | Diane Stanley | 650 | |
The Rivers of Zadaa | #6-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 650 |
Miracle's Boys | Jacqueline Woodson | 660 | |
Outcast | #4-Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Michelle Paver | 660 |
Ruby Holler | Sharon Creech | 660 | |
The Boy Who Saved Baseball | John H. Ritter | 660 | |
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm | Nancy Farmer | 660 | |
The Merchant of Death | #1-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 660 |
The Quillan Games | #7-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 660 |
Time Cat | Lloyd Alexander | 660 | |
Wolf Brother | #1-Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Michelle Paver | 660 |
Crossing the Wire | Will Hobbs | 670 | |
Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine | 670 | |
Firegirl | Tony Abbott | 670 | |
Stormbreaker | #1-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 670 |
The Skin I'm In | Sharon G. Flake | 670 | |
The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | 670 | |
Ark Angel | #6-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 680 |
Black Water | #5-Pendragon | D.J. MacHale | 680 |
Brooklyn Bridge | Karen Hesse | 680 | |
Scorpia | #5-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 680 |
Tangerine | Edward Bloor | 680 | |
The Black Stallion | Walter Farley | 680 | |
The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | 680 | |
Alanna | Tamora Pierce | 690 | |
Among the Betrayed | #3-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 690 |
Eagle Strike | #4-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 690 |
Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure | Dan Gutman | 690 | |
Soul Eater | #3-Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Michelle Paver | 690 |
The Duplicate | William Sleator | 690 | |
Things Not Seen | Andrew Clements | 690 | |
Bunnicula | James Howe | 700 | |
Catwings | Ursula Le Guin | 700 | |
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | 700 | |
Julie | #2-Julie | Jean Craighead George | 700 |
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulaine | Kate DiCamillo | 700 | |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt | 700 | |
Where The Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 700 | |
Flight #116 is Down! | Caroline B. Cooney | 710 | |
Spirit Walker | #2-Chronicles of Ancient Darkness | Michelle Paver | 710 |
The Frog Princess | #1-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 710 |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 710 | |
Beyond the Deepwoods | #1-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 720 |
I Was a Rat | Phillip Pullman | 720 | |
Lily's Crossing | Patricia Giff | 720 | |
Maggie's Door | Patricia Giff | 720 | |
The Red Blazer Girls | Michael D. Beil | 720 | |
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam | Cynthia Kadohata | 730 | |
Darkwing | Kenneth Opppel | 730 | |
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Bette Bao Lord | 730 | |
Perloo the Bold | Avi | 730 | |
Ptolemy's Gate | #3-The Bartimaeus Trilogy | Jonathan Stroud | 730 |
Running Out of Time | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 730 | |
The Capture | #1-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 730 |
The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen | 730 | |
A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 740 | |
Crocodile Tears | #8-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 740 |
Gentle Ben | Walt Morey | 740 | |
Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | 740 | |
Snakehead | #7-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 740 |
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn | Dorothy Hoobler | 740 | |
The Lightning Thief | #1-Percy Jackson & The Olympians | Rick Riordan | 740 |
The Sea Of Monsters | #2-Percy Jackson & The Olympians | Rick Riordan | 740 |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | 740 | |
A Corner of the Universe | Ann Martin | 750 | |
A House of Tailors | Patricia Giff | 750 | |
All-Of-A-Kind Family | Sydney Taylor | 750 | |
Among the Brave | #5-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 750 |
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax | #3-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 750 |
Stormchaser | #2-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 750 |
The Journey | #2-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 750 |
The Mother-Daughter Book Club | Heather Vogel Frederick | 750 | |
The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | 750 | |
Wait Till Helen Comes A Ghost Story | Mary Downing Hahn | 750 | |
When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | 750 | |
Among the Enemy | #6-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 760 |
Each Little Bird that Sings | Deborah Wiles | 760 | |
Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh | 760 | |
Hoot | Carl Hiaasen | 760 | |
Sarah Bishop | Scott O'Dell | 760 | |
The Giver | Lois Lowry | 760 | |
Whittington | Alan Armstrong | 760 | |
Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett | 770 | |
Heroes of the Valley | Jonathan Stroud | 770 | |
The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander | 770 | |
The Curse of the Gloamglozer | #4-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 770 |
Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | 770 | |
Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | 770 | |
Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | 780 | |
Inkheart | #1-Inkheart Trilogy | Cornelia Funke | 780 |
Scorpia Rising | #9-Alex Rider | Anthony Horowitz | 780 |
Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children | Arthur Bowie Chrisman | 780 | |
The Borrowers | Mary Norton | 780 | |
The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | 780 | |
Miracle on 49th Street | Mike Lupica | 790 | |
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien | 790 | |
Night of the Twisters | Ivy Ruckman | 790 | |
The Hatchling | #7-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 790 |
The Outcast | #8-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 790 |
The Shattering | #5-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 790 |
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer | John Grisham | 790 | |
12 Again | Sue Corbett | 800 | |
Among the Hidden | #1-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 800 |
Halt's Peril | #9-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 800 |
Homeless Bird | Gloria Whelan | 800 | |
Joey Pigza Looses Control | #3-Joey Pigza | Jack Gantos | 800 |
The Amulet of Samarkand | #1-The Bartimaeus Trilogy | Jonathan Stroud | 800 |
The Burning Bridge | #6-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 800 |
The Doll in the Garden | Mary Downing Hahn | 800 | |
The Golem's Eye | #2-The Bartimaeus Trilogy | Jonathan Stroud | 800 |
The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Patterson | 800 | |
Among the Free | #7-Shadow Children | Margaret Peterson Haddix | 810 |
Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Patterson | 810 | |
Bull Run | Paul Fleischman | 810 | |
My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | 810 | |
Protecting Marie | Kevin Henkes | 810 | |
Scat | Carl Hiaasen | 810 | |
Criss Cross | Lynn Ray Perkins | 820 | |
Far North | Will Hobbs | 820 | |
Maniac McGee | Jerry Spinelli | 820 | |
Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | 820 | |
The Dragon Princess | #6-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 820 |
The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | 820 | |
The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | 820 | |
Adam Canfield of the Slash | Michael Winerip | 830 | |
Flush | Carl Hiaasen | 830 | |
Inkdeath | #3-Inkheart Trilogy | Cornelia Funke | 830 |
King of the Wind | Margurite Henry | 830 | |
The Calder Game | Blue Balliett | 830 | |
The Kings of Clonmel | #8-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 830 |
The Summer of Swans | Betsy Byars | 830 | |
The Wanderer | Sharon Creech | 830 | |
Dragon's Breath | #2-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 840 |
Lunch Money | Andrew Clements | 840 | |
Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers | 840 | |
Once Upon a Marigold | Jean Ferris | 840 | |
The Great Brain | John D. Fitzgerald | 840 | |
The Mysterious Benedict Society | #1-Mysterious Benedict Society | Trenton Lee Stewart | 840 |
The Salamander Spell | #5-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 840 |
The Seige | #4-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 840 |
Year of Impossible Goodbyes | Sook Nyul Choi | 840 | |
A Prince Among Frogs | #8-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 850 |
Bloomability | Sharon Creech | 850 | |
Erak's Ransom | #7-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 850 |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 850 | |
The Last of the Sky Pirates | #5-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 850 |
The Rescue | #3-Guardians of Ga'Hoole | Kathryn Lasky | 850 |
The Seige of Macindaw | #6-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 850 |
The Sorcerer of the North | #5-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 850 |
Journey to the River Sea | Eva Ibbotson | 860 | |
Julie of the Wolves | #1-Julie | Jean Craighead George | 860 |
Shiloh Season | #3-Shiloh | Phyllis Naylor | 860 |
So B. It | Sarah Weeks | 860 | |
The Emperor of Nihon-Ja | #10-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 860 |
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting | 860 | |
A Dog's Life | Ann M. Martin | 870 | |
Dragonwings | Lawrence Yep | 870 | |
James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | 870 | |
No Place for Magic | #4-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 870 |
Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | 870 | |
The Burning Bridge | #2-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 870 |
The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes | 870 | |
The Secret Language of Girls | Francis O'Roark Dowell | 870 | |
The View From Saturday | E.L.Konigsburg | 870 | |
The Star of Kazan | Eva Ibbotson | 880 | |
The Trouble With Tuck | Theodore Taylor | 880 | |
Vox | #6-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 880 |
Before We Were Free | Julia Alvarez | 890 | |
Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink | 890 | |
Inkspell | #2-Inkheart Trilogy | Cornelia Funke | 890 |
Once Upon a Curse | #3-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 890 |
Shiloh | #1-Shiloh | Phyllis Naylor | 890 |
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey | #2-Mysterious Benedict Society | Trenton Lee Stewart | 890 |
The Princess Academy | Shannon Hale | 890 | |
Ghost Canoe | Will Hobbs | 900 | |
Sounder | William Howard Armstrong | 900 | |
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemna | #3-Mysterious Benedict Society | Trenton Lee Stewart | 900 |
Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Cleary | 910 | |
Summer Ball | Mike Lupica | 910 | |
The Secret of Platform 13 | Eva Ibbotson | 910 | |
A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | 920 | |
Abel's Island | William Steig | 920 | |
Darke | #6-Septimus Heap | Angie Sage | 920 |
Dragon Kiss | #7-The Tales of the Frog Princess | E.D. Baker | 920 |
The Battle for Skandia | #4-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 920 |
The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper | 920 | |
The Ruins of Gorlan | #1-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 920 |
Bat 6 | Virginia Wolff | 930 | |
Hot Hand | Mike Lupica | 930 | |
Regular Guy | Sarah Weeks | 930 | |
The Grey King | Susan Cooper | 930 | |
Travel Team | Mike Lupica | 930 | |
Heat | Mike Lupica | 940 | |
Queste | #4-Septimus Heap | Angie Sage | 940 |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis | 940 | |
Which Witch? | Eva Ibbotson | 940 | |
Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | 950 | |
Flyte | #2-Septimus Heap | Angie Sage | 950 |
I Am Not Joey Pigza | #1-Joey Pigza | Jack Gantos | 950 |
Julie's Wolfpack | #3-Julie | Jean Craighead George | 950 |
The Icebound Land | #3-Ranger's Apprentice | John Flanagan | 950 |
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 | Joan Blos | 960 | |
Syren | #5-Septimus Heap | Angie Sage | 960 |
The Misfits | James Howe | 960 | |
Ida B. | Katherine Hannigan | 970 | |
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | #3-Joey Pigza | Jack Gantos | 970 |
Journey to Topaz | Yoshiko Uchida | 970 | |
The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 970 | |
Black Pearl | Scott O'Dell | 980 | |
Freeglader | #7-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 980 |
Missing May | Cynthia Rylant | 980 | |
Morning Girl | Michael Doris | 980 | |
My Father's Dragon | Ruth Gannett | 990 | |
The Door in the Wall | Marguerite de Angeli | 990 | |
Dawn of Fear | Susan Cooper | 1000 | |
Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator | Jennifer Allison | 1000 | |
Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | 1000 | |
Sweetgrass Basket | Marlene Carvell | 1000 | |
The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | 1000 | |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Christopher Paul Curtis | 1000 | |
Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic | Ellen Emerson White | 1010 | |
Forest of the Pygmies | #3 City of the Beasts | Isabel Allende | 1010 |
Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1010 | |
The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron | 1010 | |
The Melting of Maggie Bean | Tricia Rayburn | 1010 | |
Saving Shiloh | #2-Shiloh | Phyllis Naylor | 1020 |
The Black Canary | Jane Louise Curry | 1020 | |
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Joan Aiken | 1020 | |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1030 | |
Physik | #3-Septimus Heap | Angie Sage | 1030 |
Stormy | Jim Kjelgaard | 1030 | |
The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley | 1030 | |
City of the Beasts | #1 City of the Beasts | Isabel Allende | 1030 |
Babe the Gallant Pig | Dick King-Smith | 1040 | |
Gay-Neck The Story of a Pigeon | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | 1040 | |
Jade Green | Phyllis Naylor | 1040 | |
The Writing on the Wall | Wendy Lichtman | 1050 | |
Begging for Change | Sharon G. Flake | 1060 | |
Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | 1070 | |
Savvy | Ingrid Law | 1070 | |
The Clash of the Sky Galleons | #9-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 1070 |
Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba | Alma Flor Ada | 1070 | |
The Immortals | #10-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 1080 |
The Once and Future King | T.H. White | 1080 | |
The Winter Knights | #8-The Edge Chronicles | Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell | 1080 |
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon | #2 City of the Beasts | Isabel Allende | 1080 |
Buddha Boy | Kathe Koja | 1090 | |
War Horse | Michael Morpurgo | 1090 | |
The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley | 1120 | |
The Sword in the Stone | T.H. White | 1120 | |
Up A Road Slowly | Irene Hunt | 1130 | |
Rascal | Sterling North | 1140 | |
The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1140 | |
Pieces of Georgia | Jen Bryant | 1160 | |
Incident at Hawk's Hill | Allan Eckert | 1200 | |
The Incredible Journey | Shelia Burnford | 1320 | |
Day Of Tears: A Novel, in Dialogue | Julius Lester | NP | |
Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf | Jennifer L. Holm | NP | |
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | NP |