SIXTH GRADE 2010-11

*Don’t miss it!

-Challenging, but worth it.

Adventure

Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey

Haddix, Margaret Running Out of Time
Paulsen, Gary Hatchet
Stevenson, Robert Louis *Treasure Island

Biographies

Burgess, Alan (B AYL) The Small Woman

Moody, Ralph (B MOO) Little Britches and sequels
Muir, John (B MUI) Wild Muir

Classics

Alcott, Louisa May -*Little Women

Little Men
Jo’s Boys and more
Krumgold, Joseph And Now, Miguel
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling
Twain, Mark -*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Fantasy

Aiken, Joan *The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Babbitt, Natalie *Tuck Everlasting
Barron, T.A. The Heartlight series
The Lost Years of Merlin series
The Great tree of Avalon series
Furlong, Monica Wise Child series
L’Engle, Madeleine *A Wrinkle in Time trilogy
Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wangerin, Walter The Book of the Dun Cow

Folktales

Coolidge, Olivia The King of Men

Pyle, Howard (398.242 PYL) The story of King Arthur and His Knights of the
Round Table
(398.242 PYL) The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions
Sutcliff, Rosemary (398.242 SUT) *The Sword and the Circle
*The Light beyond the Forest
*The Road to Camlann
Historical Fiction

Blackwood, Gary Shakespeare’s Stealer and sequels

Gard, Joyce Talargain
Giff, Patricia Reilly All the Way Home
House of Tailors
Nory Ryan’s Song
Maggie’s Door
Gray, Elizabeth Adam of the Road
Greene, Constance Beat the Turtle Drum
Hendry, Frances M. Quest for a Maid
Holm, Anne North to Freedom
Hunter, Mollie A Stranger Came Ashore
Kelly, Eric The Trumpeter of Krakow
Park, Linda Sue *A Single Shard
When My Name was Keoko
Pyle, Howard Men of Iron
Otto of the Silver Hand
Speare, Elizabeth George *The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Sutcliff, Rosemary -Dragon Slayer
-Outcast
-Warrior Scarlet
Van Stockum, Hilda The Borrowed house
The winged Watchman

Humorous

McKay, Hilary The Exiles and sequels

Saffy’s Angel and sequels
Peck, Richard *A Long Way from Chicago
*A Year Down Yonder
*A Season of Gifts
Blossom Culp series

Miscellaneous

Armstrong, William Sounder

Bagnold, Enid National Velvet
Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons
Field, Rachel -Hitty; Her First Hundred Years
Giff, Patricia Reilly Pictures of Hollis Woods
Gipson, Fred *Old Yeller
Kadohata, Cynthia Kira-Kira
Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
A View from Saturday
L’Engle, Madeleine Meet the Austins
Merrill, Jean *The Pushcart War
O’Dell, Scott * Island of the Blue Dolphin
Paterson, Katherine The Bridge to Terabithia
Rawls, Wilson *Summer of the Monkeys
*Where the Red Fern Grows
Taylor, Mildred *Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Woodson, Jacqueline Locomotion
Mystery and Suspense

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes stories

Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Non-Fiction

Lindbergh, Charles The Spirit of St. Louis

Murphy, Jim (977 MUR) The Great Fire and others
The Landmark books—History and Historical fiction.