Grade 6 Recommended Reading List

• Fiction • Fantasy/Sci Fi•
Historical Fiction • Non-fiction and Biography

 

Fiction

  • Adams, R. Watership Down
  • Alcott, L. M. Little Women
  • Almond, D. Kit's Wilderness: Skellig; Heaven Eyes; The Fire Eaters
  • Bauer, J. Rules of the Road ; Hope Was Here; Stand Tall
  • Bloor, E. Tangerine
  • Bruchae, J. Code Talker
  • Bunting, E. Blackwater
  • Cabot, M. The Princess Diaries; Princess in the Spotlight
  • Chase, M. The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden
  • Clement-Davies Firebringer; The Sight
  • Cole, B. The Goats
  • Cooper, S. Seaward; The Grey King; Dawn of Fear; Green Boy
  • Codell, E Sahara Special
  • Creech, S. The Wanderer; Walk Two Moons; Ruby Holler; Heartbeat
  • Curtis, P. Bud, Not Buddy ; The Watsons Go To Birmingham
  • Danziger, P. P.S. Longer Letter Later; Snail Mail No More
  • DeFelice, C. Death at Devil's Bridge
  • Defoe, D. Robinson Crusoe
  • Deuker, C. Painting the Black
  • DiCamillo, K. Tale of Despereaux; Because of Winn Dixie; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
  • Dorris, M Window; Morning Girl
  • Dowell, F. Dovey Coe; Chicken Boy
  • Durrell, G. The Mockery Bird (and others...try his hilarious nonfiction!)
  • Dygard, T.J. Tournament Upstart
  • Ellis, D. The Breadwinner; Parvana's Journey
  • Farmer, N. A Girl Named Disaster
  • Fleischman, P. Seedfolks; Whirlgig; Seek
  • Fox, P. The One-Eyed Cat; Blowfish Live in the Sea; Western Wind
  • Freeman, S. The Cuckoo's Child
  • Fuqua, J. The Reappearance of Sam Webber
  • Garland, S. The Silent Storm
  • Gee, M. The Champion; The Fat Man
  • George, J. The Talking Earth; Water Sky; Julie's Wolf Pack
  • Giff, P. Pictures of Hollis Woods
  • Gipson, F. Old Yeller; Savage Sam
  • Godden, R. Thursday's Children
  • Greene, B. Summer of My German Soldier
  • Hahn, M. Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story; Stepping on the Cracks
  • Hamilton, V. The House of Dies Drear; M.C. Higgins, the Great
  • Hanley, V. The Seer and the Sword
  • Henkes, K. Olive's Ocean
  • Hewett, L. Dancer
  • Hesse, K. Music of Dolphins; Stowaway
  • Hiaasen, C. Hoot; Flush
  • Hobbs, W. Downriver; The Maze
  • Hoeye, M. Time Stops For No Mouse
  • Horowitz, A. Ark Angel; Raven's Gate; Alex Rider Series
  • Hunter, M. A Stranger Came Ashore; The Sound of Chariots
  • Holt, K. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
  • Joseph, L. The Color of My Words
  • Kehret, P. I'm Not Who You Think I Am ; Don't Tell Anyone
  • Kennedy, R. Collected Stories
  • Kerr, M.E. Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
  • Konigsburg, E.L. The View From Saturday; Silent to the Bone, Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place
  • Koss, A. The Ashwater Experiment; The Girls
  • Levitin, S. Silver Days (series); Dream Freedom
  • Lynch, C. Extremely Elvin; Shadow Boxer
  • London, J. The Call of the Wild (and others)
  • Lowry, L. A Summer to Die
  • MacLachlan, P. Unclaimed Treasures; The Facts and Fictions of Mina Pratt
  • Magorian, M. Good Night, Mr. Tom
  • Mah, A. The Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
  • Mahy, M. Dangerous Spaces; The Other Side of Silence
  • Martin, A. A Corner of the Universe
  • McGraw, E The Moorchild
  • Merrill, J. The Pushcart War
  • Meyer, C. White Lilacs; Jubilee Journey
  • Mikaelsen, B. Petey
  • Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables (series)
  • Morris, W. My Cat Spit McGee
  • Myers, W. D. The Glory Field; Scorpions; Fallen Angels (others)
  • Naidoo, B. No Turning Back; The Other Side of Truth
  • Naylor, P. Alice (Series)
  • O'Dell, S. Island of the Blue Dolphins; Zia
  • Paterson, K. Jip; The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (others)
  • Paulsen, G Nightjohn; Sarny; Harris and Me; Alida's Song
  • Peck, R.N. A Long Way From Chicago; A Year Down Yonder
  • People, M. The Other Side of the Family
  • Perkins Criss Cross
  • Philbrick, R. Freak the Mighty
  • Phipson, J. Hit and Run; The Haunted Night
  • Pierce, T. Wild Magic; Squire
  • Rabinowitz, A. Knight on Horseback
  • Raskin, E. The Westing Game (and others)
  • Ross, R. Harper and Moon
  • Rostkowski, M. Moon Dancer
  • Roos, S. The Gypsies Never Came
  • Russell, B. The Taker's Stone
  • Sacher, L. Holes
  • Salisbury, G. Blue Skin of the Sea; Jungle Dogs
  • Schnur, Steven Beyond Providence
  • Sheldon, D. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
  • Sebestyen, O. Words by Heart (others)
  • Snyder, Z. Cat Running; Gib Rides Home (and others)
  • Spinelli, J. Milkweed; Maniac Magee; Crash; Wringer; Stargirl
  • Stanley, D. A Time Apart
  • Staples, S.F. Dangerous Skies; Under the Persimmon Tree
  • Stevenson, R. L. Kidnapped; Treasure Island
  • Tate, S. Secret of Gumbo Grove; Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King
  • Taylor, T. The Weirdo (others)
  • Temple, F. Grab Hands and Run; The Taste of Sea
  • Tolan, S. Surviving the Applewhites
  • Ullman, J. R. Banner in the Sky
  • Voigt, C. The Homecoming; Dicey's Song; (others)
  • Weis, M. The Darksword Trilogy (and others)
  • Westall, R. The Kingdom by the Sea
  • Whelan, G. Angel on the Square; Homeless Bird
  • White, R. Belle Prater's Boy; Memories of Summer
  • Woodson, J. Miracle's Boys
  • Wynne-Jones, T. The Maestro
  • Yep, P. The Star Giver (and others)
  • Yolen, J. The Devil's Arithmetic
  • Yolen, J.and Coville, B. Armageddon Summer
  • Yumoto, K. The Friends; The Spring Tone

 

Historical Fiction

  • Adler, E. The King's Shadow
  • Armstrong, W.H. Sounder
  • Avi Crispin, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
  • Bagdasarian, A. Forgotten Fire
  • Barrett, T. Anne of Bysantium
  • Beach, E. Run Silent, Run Deep
  • Beatty, P. Jayhawker ; Who Comes With Cannons (others)
  • Blos, J. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girls Journal 1830-1832
  • Bradbury, R. Dandelion Wine
  • Bruchae, J. Code Talker
  • Cadnum, M. In a Dark Wood; The Leopard Sword
  • Cheaney, J.B. The Playmaker
  • Collier, J.and C. My Brother Sam is Dead (and others)
  • Conrad, P. Praire Song
  • Cooper, S. Dawn of Fear; King of Shadows
  • Crossley-Holland, K. The Seeing Stone (Arthur trilogy)
  • Curtis, C.P. The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963
  • Cushman, K. The Midwife's Apprentice: Catherine Called Birdy ; Matilda Bone
  • De Angeli The Door in the Wall; Black Fox of Lorne
  • Doyle, D. Knight's Wyrd
  • Fletcher, S. Shadow Spinners
  • Forbes, E. Johnny Tremain
  • Fox, P. The Slave Dancer
  • Garfield, L. The December Rose; The Empty Sleeve
  • Garrigue, S. The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito
  • Goodman, J. The Winter Hare; Peregrine
  • Gray, E. Adam of the Road
  • Greene, B. Summer of My German Soldier
  • Hahn, M.D. Hear the Wind Blow
  • Hartline, Peter Crutches
  • Hautzig, E. The Endless Steppe
  • Hearn, J. The Minister's Daughter
  • Hesse, K. Out of the Dust; Letters from Rifka; Stowaway; Witness
  • Holm, J. Our Only May Amelia
  • Hoobler, D. Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (historical mystery)
  • Hunt, I. No Promises in the Wind
  • Jordan, S. The Raging Quiet
  • Kerr, M.E. Slap Your Sides
  • Lasky, K. Pageant
  • Lawrence, I. The Wreckers ; The Smugglers; (others)
  • Levine, G. Dave at Night
  • Levitin, S. The Return
  • Lyons, E. The Poison Place
  • McCaffrey, A. Black Horses for the King
  • McCaughrean, G. The Kite Rider; Stop the Train!
  • McKinley, R. The Outlaws of Sherwood
  • Meigs, E. The Crusader and the Cup
  • Melinkoff, P. The Star and the Sword
  • Meyer, Carolyn Doomed Queen Anne
  • Morris, Gerald The Squire's Tale; Squire His Knight and His Lady; Savage Damsel
  • Napoli, D.J. Stones in the Water; Daughter of Venice
  • Orlev, U. Island on Bird Street; The Lady with the Hat; Lydia; Run Boy Run
  • Paterson, K. Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knght
  • Park, L. A Single Shard; When My Name Was Keoko; The Kite Fighters
  • Paulsen, G. Sarny: A Life Remembered; The Rifle; Soldier's Heart
  • Peck, R. River Betweeen Us
  • Penman, S. The Queen's man: A Medieval Mystery
  • Petry, A. Tituba of Salem Village
  • Pyle, H. Otto of the Silver Hand (and others)
  • Reiss, J. The Upstairs Room
  • Rinaldi, A The Last Silk Dress; The Staircase
  • Rostkowski, M. After the Dancing Days
  • Salassi, O.R. And Nobody Knew They Were There
  • Siegal, A. Upon the Head of a Goat
  • Speare, E. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • Springer, N. Rowan Hood; Lionclaw
  • Stevenson, R. L. Black Arrow; Treasure Island
  • Sutcliff, R. The Sword in the Circle: The Light Beyond the Forest (others)
  • Taylor, M. The Land (others)
  • Taylor, T. The Cay (others)
  • Temple, F. The Ramsay Scallop; The Beduins' Gazelle (others)
  • Uchida, Y. Journey to Topaz
  • Watkins, Y.K. So Far From the Bamboo Grove; My Brother, My Sister, and I
  • White, T. The Once and Future King
  • Williams, L. The Executioner's Daughter
  • Wolff, V. E. Bat 6
  • Yep, L. The Star Fisher; Hiroshima; Dragon's Gate
  • Yolen, J. Queen's Own Fool: a Novel of Mary Queen of Scots; Sword of the Rightful King

 

Non-Fiction and Biography

  • Bartoletti, S. Black Potatoes: Story of the Great Irish Famine
  • Brooks, B. Boys Will Be (Essays for Boys)
  • Bruchac, J, Tell Me a Tale (Storytelling)
  • Capuzzo, M. Close to Shore (shark attacks)
  • Carson, B. Gifted Hands (Autobiography)
  • Cleary, B A Girl from Yamhill (Autobiography)
  • Dahl, R. Boy; Going Solo (Autobiography)
  • Deem, J. Bodies from the Ash
  • Duggleby, J. Grant Wood: Story Painter: Jacob Lawrence (Biography)
  • Durrell, G. The New Noah (others) (Animals)
  • Dyer, D. Jack London: A Biography
  • Earle, S. Window on the Deep (Oceanography)
  • Farrell, J. Invisible Allies: Microbes
  • Finkelstein, N. The Other 1492: Jewish Settlement in the New World
  • Fradin, D. Samuel Adams: The Planet Hunters (Biography)
  • Frank, A Diary of a Young Girl (WWII)
  • Fritz, J. The Great Little Madison; Stonewall;The World in 1492
  • Fradon, DennisB. The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds (Astronomy)
  • Freedman, R. Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life ; Confucius (biographies); Children of the Great Depression
  • Gherman, B. Ansel Adams: American's Photographer (biography)
  • Giblin, J. The Life and Death of Adolph Hitler (biography)
  • Gilbreth, F Cheaper by the Dozen (Family Biography)
  • Greenberg, J. Frank O. Gehry: Outside In; Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories
  • Greenfield, E Childtimes (Autobiography)
  • Greenfield, H. The Hidden Children (Jewish Children, WWII)
  • Hamilton, V. W.E.B. DuBois; Many Thousand Gone (biography)
  • Hoffman, M. Women of Camelot (collected biography)
  • Huxley, E. The Flame Trees of Thika; Memories of an African Childhood
  • Jiang, Ji-li Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (biography)
  • Krull. K. Lives of the Musicians; Lives of the Writers
  • Lauber, P. Lost Star: the Story of Amelia Earhart (Biography)
  • Lawlor, L. Daniel Boone (Biography)
  • Lawson, T. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (WWII)
  • Macaulay, David Mosque, Cathedral (others)
  • McCaughrean,G. The Golden Hoard: Myths and Legends of the World
  • McKissack, P. Sojourner Truth; The Long Hard Journey (Pullman Porters)
  • Murphy, J. An American Plague; Blizzard; The Great Fire (true disasters)
  • Myers, W.D. At Her Majesty's Request (African Princess - Victorian England); The Greatest (biography of Muhammad Ali)
  • Opdyke, I. In My Hands (Holocaust -- autobiography)
  • Partridge The Land Was Made for You and Me (biography of Woody Guthrie)
  • Paulsen, G. My Life in Dog Years (autobiography)
  • Reef,C. Sigmund Freud (biography)
  • Rogasky, B. Smoke and Ashes (Holocaust)
  • Severance, J. Skyscrapers: How America Grew Up
  • Spinelli, J. Knots in my Yo-yo String (Autobiobraphy)
  • Stanley, D. Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam (biography)
  • Winter, J. The Librarian of Basra
  • Yep, L. The Lost Garden (Autobiography)

 

Science Fiction/Fantasy

  • Corder, Z. Lion Boy (series)
  • Coville, B. Song of the Wanderer
  • Dickinson, P. Merlin Dreams (others)
  • Dirakaruni, C.B. The Conch Bearer
  • Furlong, Monica Wise Child; Coleman Juniper
  • Funke, Cornelia Thief Lord; Inkheart; Inkspell
  • Haddix, M.P. Among the Hidden; Among the Imposters; Among the Betrayed
  • Hoffman, M. Stravaganza (series)
  • King, S. The Eyes of the Dragon
  • La Ferers, R.L. The Falconmaster
  • L'Engle, M. A Wrinkle in Time (series)
  • Le Guin, U. The Wizard of Earthsea (series)
  • Nix, G . Sabriel (trilogy)
  • Oppel, K. Airborn, Skybreaker
  • Pattou, Edith East
  • Paolini Eragon; Eldest
  • Pierce, M.A. Treasures from the Heart of Tanglewood
  • Pullman, P. The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, Lyra's Oxford
  • Reeve, P. ( Hungry City Chronicles) Mortal Engines; Predator's Gold
  • Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (series)
  • Stroud, J. The Amulet of Samarkand; Golem's Eye; Ptolemy's Gate
  • Shan, D. Cirque Du Freak (series)
  • Slator, W. Boy Who Reversed Himself; The Beasties
  • Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings (series)
  • Verne, J. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (others)
  • Weis, M. The Darksword Trilogy (series)
  • Westall, R. The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral
  • Wrede, P. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
  • Yolen, J. Dragon's Blood
  • Zindel, P. Night of the Bat