6th Grade Common Core – English Language Arts



6th Grade Common Core – English Language Arts304.8 MAE Maestro, Betsy. Coming to America: the story of immigration.Summary:? Traces the history of immigration to the United States and examines the reasons why people chose to move to America. 305.23 FRE Freedman, Russell. Immigrant Kids. Summary:? Text and photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's. 325 LEV Levine, Ellen. --if your name was changed at Ellis Island. Summary:? Describes, in question and answer format, the great migration of immigrants to New York's Ellis Island, from the 1880s to 1914. Features quotes from children and adults who passed through the station. 398.2 DEL Delacre, Lulu. Golden Tales: myths, legends, and folktales from Latin America. Summary:? Collection of twelve myths, legends, and folktales reflecting the history of Latin America before and after the arrival of the Spaniards in 1492, drawing from the traditions of thirteen countries and four native cultures. 398.2 HAM Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black folktales. Summary:? Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope. 398.21 SAN San Souci, Robert D. Cut from the Same Cloth: American women of myth, legend, and tall tale. Summary:? A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawing from folktales, popular stories, and ballads. 510 SCH Schwartz, David M. G IS FOR GOOGOL. Summary:? Explains the meaning of mathematical terms which begin with the different letters of the alphabet from abacus, binary, and cubit to zillion.510 TAN Tang, Greg. Math-terpieces: the art of problem-solving. Summary:? A series of rhymes about artists and their works introduces counting and grouping numbers, as well as such artistic styles as cubism. 629.133 PAL Pallotta, Jerry. The Airplane Alphabet Book. Summary:? An alphabet book that presents interesting facts about different kinds of airplanes. 793.7 TAN Tang, Greg. The Grapes of Math: mind stretching math riddles. Summary:? Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems by using visual clues. 883 SUT Sutcliff, Rosemary. Black ships before Troy: the story of the Iliad. Summary:? Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy. 919.8 ARM Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance. Summary:? Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition. 921 Dahl Dahl, Roald. Boy: tales of childhood. Summary:? Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school. 973.7 HAM Hamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from slavery to freedom. Summary:? Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways. FIC BAL Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer. Summary:? When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. FIC BAR Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan. Summary:? Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up, brings Wendy Darling and her brothers to Neverland for the adventure of a lifetime. FIC BAR Barry, Dave. Peter and the Starcatchers. Summary:? Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin. FIC BOS Bosch, Pseudonymous. The Name of this Book is Secret. Summary:? Two eleven-year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais, who are searching for the secret of immortality. FIC BUN Bunting, Eve. SOS Titanic. Summary:? Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. FIC CAR Carman, Patrick. The Black Circle. Summary:? A strange telegram lures fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, deep into Russia and away from the only trustworthy adult they know. Signed with the initials NRR, the telegram launches a race to uncover a treasure stolen by the Nazis and the truth behind the murder of the last Russian royal family. All too soon, the treasure hunt starts to smell like a Lucian trap. But the bait might just be irresistible--what will Amy and Dan risk to find out what really happened on the night their parents died?FIC COL Collier, James Lincoln. War Comes to Willy Freeman. Summary:? A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears. FIC DAH Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Summary:? Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way. FIC DAH Dahl, Roald. James and the giant peach: a children's story. Summary:? After the untimely death of his parents, little James finds life with Aunts Sponge and Spiker miserable until a magic potion produces an enormous peach which becomes his new and exciting home. FIC HAD Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Into the Gauntlet. Summary: Amy and Dan Cahill face their greatest challenge on their quest to find the thirty-nine clues, but in order to discover the secrets of their lineage they will have to make a choice that could impact the world's future.FIC KAD Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-Kira. Summary:? Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. FIC KAS Kass, Mallory. The Black Book of Buried Secrets. Summary:? Explores the hidden facts, dangerous missions, top agents, and secret hideaways of the Cahill family's desperate hunt for the thirty-nine clues that will lead them to the secret of world domination. FIC KIP Kipling, Rudyard. Just so Stories. Summary:? An absolutely incredible collection of tales which explain how and why some things came to be. FIC KOR Korman, Gordon. The Emperor's Code.Summary:? Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their hunt for the 39 clues but a shocking discovery about their parents shatters everything Amy and Dan think they know, dividing the two siblings for the first time ever. FIC KOR Korman, Gordon. One False Note. Summary:? Amy and Dan Cahill are in the lead to find thirty-nine clues that safeguard a great power, and are in possession of a coded sheet of Mozart's music that will help them find the next clue while their relatives follow in close pursuit. FIC LER Lerangis, Peter. The Viper's Nest.Summary:? Amy and Dan travel to a distant land to follow in the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet, a military leader who teaches them the art of ancient warfare. FIC LER Lerangis, Peter. The Sword Thief. Summary:? Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill, continuing their worldwide quest to track down the thirty-nine clues that will reveal the secret of the Cahill family's power, follow a link to one of the planet's strongest fighters, and have a run-in with the unreliable Alistair. FIC PAR Park, Linda Sue. Storm warning. Summary:? Amy and Dan Cahill continue to hunt for clues while reeling from the knowledge of what happened the night their parents died, and they wonder if the end is near as they try to learn the secret behind Grace Cahill's alternate will. FIC PAT Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. Summary:? Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. FIC RAS Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game.Summary:? The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. FIC RIO Riordan, Rick. The Maze of Bones. Summary:? Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents. FIC SAL Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood-red Sun. Summary:? Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. FIC STE Stewart, Trenton Lee. The Mysterious Benedict Society. Summary:? After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. FIC WAT Watson, Jude. Beyond the Grave. Summary:? A clue takes Amy and Dan Cahill to Egypt, where they investigate the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family and try to figure out if they can trust a message from their dead grandmother Grace. FIC WAT Watson, Jude. In Too Deep. Summary: Amy and Dan continue their search for the clues and cross oceans amid ruthless enemies and dangerous truths while following the trail of a famous aviator.FIC YEP Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings. Summary:? In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. ................
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