Sixth Grade Suggested Reading List
Sixth Grade Suggested Reading List
Note: the bullet mark means the book is available at Ridge Rd. Library
These titles are NOT required reading, just some suggestions for 6th graders to accomplish their reading goal of 25 books.
Time Warp Trio series by Scieszka
Fun, lots of up-beat dialog, about 3 boys who travel through time using a Magic Book. These are short and easy to read.
➢ The Good, the Bad and the Goofy Knights of the Kitchen Table
Not-So-Jolly Roger Tut, Tut
➢ 2095 Your Mother Was a Neanderthal
➢ Summer Reading Is Killing Me It’s All Greek to Me
Gary Paulsen
This author has written many titles about survival.
(The first 3 titles are about a teen who must learn how to survive in the Alaskan wilderness with only a hatchet)
Hatchet
➢ Brian’s Winter
➢ Brian’s Return
➢ Voyage of the Frog (a teen is in a struggle to survive on the ocean in a sailboat with a storm coming)
➢ Haymeadow (a 14-year old boy gains self reliance as he cares for his father’s sheep herd in the Wyoming mountains)
(The following 5 titles are about a young teen boy in 1845. In the first book, he is separated from his family’s wagon train, captured by Indians, and then rescued by a mountain man. The books are fast moving and about 100 pages)
➢ Mr. Tucket
➢ Call Me Francis Tucket
Tucket’s Gold
➢ Tucket’s Ride
Tucket’s Home
Mary Downing Hahn (this author writes stories with girls as her main characters)
➢ Time for Andrew (Drew is drawn 80 years into the past to trade places with a relative who is dying of diphtheria)
➢ Dead Man in Indian Creek
➢ Following the Mystery Man
➢ Stepping on the Cracks
➢ Tallahassee Higgins
➢ Wait Till Helen Comes
Time of the Witch (Laura tells an old woman of her wish that her parents were together again without realizing that she is actually talking to a witch)
Betsy Byars
Summer of the Swans (a teenage girl gains new insight into herself when her mentally retarded brother gets lost)
House of Wings ( left with his grandfather until his parents are settled in Detroit, Sammy learns to respect and love the old man as they care for an injured crane)
Trouble River (a thrilling historical adventure about young Dewey and his feisty grandmother fighting for their lives on a river raft)
Anything by this author is quality literature.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Alice series is written for teenage girls about their worries and troubles of growing up.
➢ Agony of Alice Alice in Rapture, Sort of
➢ Reluctantly Alice All But Alice
➢ Alice In Between
Claudia Mills
The Dinah series is also for girls about dealing with relationships and middle school.
➢ Dinah in Love
➢ Dynamite Dinah
➢ Dinah Forever
John D. Fitzgerald
The Great Brain series is about brothers living in the early 20th century in Utah. The older brother (the Brain) is always thinking up schemes and crazy ideas.
➢ The Great Brain
➢ The Great Brain Reforms
Great Brain at the Academy
Great Brain Is Back
Great Brain Does It Again
Madeline L’Engle
➢ A Wrinkle in Time (a classic science fiction)
Nancy Farmer
➢ The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm (a thriller set in the future in Africa)
Sally Keehn
➢ I Am Regina (It is 1755 and 10 year old Regina is captured by Indians in central PA. Her name is changed, and she grows up in an Indian family. Based on a true story.)
Gloria Houston
➢ Mountain Valor (An historical novel set in the Civil War. Valor disguises herself as a southern boy so she can fight in the war.)
Karen Cushman
➢ Ballad of Lucy Whipple (An historical novel set in the California Gold Rush)
Lynne Reid Banks
The Indian in the Cupboard series where a young boy discovers that a magic cupboard and a key can turn toys into live people and animals.
➢ Indian in the Cupboard
➢ Secret of the Indian
➢ Mystery of the Cupboard
Margaret Peterson Haddix
➢ Running Out of Time (fantasy historical novel set in the 1840’s frontier and the 1990’s as a young girl finds that her town is the subject of a strange experiment.)
Ellen Raskin
➢ The Westing Game (16 game players, heirs to Sam Westing’s fabulous fortune, are all suspects in his murder. This is part mystery, part play-along game, and part do-it-yourself puzzle)
AVI
The Poppy series are animal fables about a deer mouse and forest friends. Although they sound like they are for young children, they are excellent for 5th or 6th graders.
➢ Poppy Ragweed Poppy and Rye
➢ True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (An historical novel of a young woman on a ship, who has to disguise herself as a boy to survive.)
Elizabeth Speare
➢ The Witch of Blackbird Pond (An historical novel set in the times of the Salem witch trials.)
Wilson Rawls
➢ Where the Red Fern Grows (a great boy-and-his-dog story)
➢ Summer of the Monkeys
Lucy Maude Montgomery This is the classic series of Anne Shirley and her life on Prince Edwards Island (Nova Scotia). It was written in 1908, but was recently a series on PBS.
➢ Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea Anne of the Island
Anne of Ingleside Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne’s House of Dreams
Katherine Paterson
➢ Bridge to Terabithia
➢ Jacob Have I Loved
Jerry Spinelli
➢ Maniac Magee
Library Card
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock
Crash
Lois Lowry
➢ Number the Stars (about the Danish Resistance during WWII)
➢ The Anastasia series is a humorous series about a young teenage girl.
➢ Anastasia Krupnik Anastasia at Your Service
➢ Anastasia Has the Answers Anastasia Ask Your Analyst
➢ Anastasia On Her Own Anastasia Again
➢ Anastasia’s Chosen Career Anastasia at This Address
Will Hobbs
Stories that take place in the Southwest and Northwest. Themes in his books are survival, conservation, and coming-of-age.
Bearstone Ghost Canoe
Jason’s Gold Maze
River Thunder
Ruth Williams
➢ The Silver Tree (Micki Silver goes back in time to stop a wish from coming true.. a wish that could destroy her family.)
Willo Davis Roberts
➢ Babysitting Is a Dangerous Job
➢ Scared Stiff
Bruce Coville
➢ Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
➢ I Was a 6th Grade Alien
➢ Jennifer Murdley’s Toad
My Teacher Flunked the Planet My Teacher Fried My Brains
My Teacher Glows in the Dark My Teacher Is an Alien
Skull of Truth Ghost Wore Gray
Dear America and My Name Is America series published by Scholastic
Betty Ren Wright
She writes pretty scary ghost stories.
➢ Dollhouse Murders A Ghost in the House
➢ A Ghost in the Window The Ghost Witch
➢ The Ghosts of Mercy Manor The Pike River Phantom
➢ The Secret Window
Joan Lowery Nixon (the Orphan Train series)
Caught in the Act Circle of Love
Dangerous Promise Place to Belong
In the Face of Danger Keeping Secrets
A Family Apart
Jean Craighead George
Many of her books are survival stories.
➢ My Side of the Mountain
➢ On the Far Side of the Mountain
➢ Julie of the Wolves
➢ Julie
Eloise McGraw
➢ The Moorchild
Marguerite Henry (award winning horse stories)
➢ Misty of Chincoteague Stormy, Misty’s Foal
➢ King of the Wind Sea Star
➢ Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Brian Jacques
The Redwall series
Louis Sachar
➢ Holes (strange but fascinating reading!)
Philip Pullman
➢ Firework Maker’s Daughter
Golden Compass
Subtle Knife
Amber Spyglass
Web sites that contain recommended books for children:
American Library Association’s web site for parents/families:
Children’s Book Council
Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Children’s Books, 2000
Children’s Book Awards (Canada, U.S., England)
St. Charles Public Library Youth Recommended Reading List
The Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) awards page includes major book awards and best books lists in children's literature and young adult literature. The ISLMC is a meta site where teachers, librarians and students can browse selected links.
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