6th Grade Suggested Reading List

6^th Grade Suggested Reading List

* Newbery Medal or Newbery Honor

BOOK TITLE	AUTHOR	BOOK LEVEL
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	7.9
Old-Fashioned Girl	Louisa May Alcott	8.2
The Barn	Avi	3.9
* Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi	5.0
Nothing But the Truth	Avi	5.3
* True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi	5.3
Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt	5.0
* Hope Was Here	Joan Bauer	5.5
* On My Honor	Marion Dane Bauer	4.7
She Said Yes	Misty Bernall	6.6
The Secret Garden	Frances Burnett	6.3
The Pinballs	Betsy Byars	3.8
* The Family Under the Bridge	Natalie Savage Carlson	4.7
Frindle	Andrew Clements	5.4
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer	5.0
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident	Eoin Colfer	5.0
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code	Eoin Colfer	5.0
* My Brother Sam is Dead	James/Christopher Collier	4.9
War Comes to Willie Freeman	James/Christopher Collier	4.9
The Face on the Milk Carton	Caroline B. Cooney	4.8
Aliens Ate my Homework	Bruce Coville	4.8
Absolutely Normal Chaos	Sharon Creech	4.7
Heartbeat	Sharon Creech	5.0
* The Wanderer	Sharon Creech	5.2
* Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech	5.0
* Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis	5.0
* The Watsons go to Birmingham	Christopher Paul Curtis	5.0
The BFG	Roald Dahl	4.8
Boy	Roald Dahl	6.0
* Because of Winn-Dixie	Kate DiCamillo	5.0
* The Tale of Despereaux: …	Kate DiCamillo	5.0
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	9.2
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	11.3
Don’t Look Behind You	Lois Duncan	6.2
In Know What You Did Last Summer	Lois Duncan	4.7
Locked in Time	Lois Duncan	6.5
Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow…	Lois Duncan	4.6
The Bread Winner	Deborah Ellis	4.5
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm	Nancy Farmer	4.7
Whirligig	Paul Fleischman	4.9
* One-Eyed Cat	Paula Fox	5.4
Hitler’s Daughter	Jackie French	4.5
Julie	Jean Craighead George	5.0
* Julie of the Wolves	Jean Craighead George	5.8
Julie’s Wolf Pack	Jean Craighead George	5.7
* Pictures of Hollis Woods	Patricia Reilly Giff	4.4
Cheaper by the Dozen	Ernestine/Frank Gilbreth	6.0
* Old Yeller	Fred Gipson	5.0
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	8.4
Summer of my German Soldier	Bette Greene	5.2
Among the Barons	Margaret Peterson Haddix	4.8
Among the Betrayed	Margaret Peterson Haddix	4.9
Among the Hidden	Margaret Peterson Haddix	4.8
Among the Impostors	Margaret Peterson Haddix	4.9
The House of Dies Drear	Virginia Hamilton	4.8
* M.C. Higgins the Great	Virginia Hamilton	4.4
Phoenix Rising	Karen Hesse	4.0
Hoot	Carl Hiaasen	6.5
Tex	S.E. Hinton	4.7
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton	4.7
Soldier Boy	Dean Hughes	5.7
* Across Five Aprils	Irene Hunt	6.6
Island of the Aunts	Eva Ibbotson	5.9
The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster	6.7
* Kira Kira	Cynthia Kadohata	6.0
Middle School Blues	Lou Kassem	3.7
* From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil	E.L. Konigsburg	5.5
* The View from Saturday	E.L. Konigsburg	5.9
Dive Book One: The Discovery	Gordon Korman	5.5
Dive Book Two: The Deep	Gordon Korman	5.6
Dive Book Three: The Danger	Gordon Korman	5.3
Island Book One: Shipwreck	Gordon Korman	4.6
Island Book Two: Survival	Gordon Korman	4.8
Island Book Three: Escape	Gordon Korman	4.9
* A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L’Engle	4.7
* Ella Enchanted	Gail Carson Levine	4.6
The Horse and his Boy	C.S. Lewis	5.8
The Last Battle	C.S. Lewis	5.6
The Lion, the Witch , and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	5.7
The Magician’s Nephew	C.S. Lewis	5.4
Prince Caspian	C.S. Lewis	5.7
The Silver Chair	C.S. Lewis	5.7
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	C.S. Lewis	5.9
The Art of Keeping Cool	Janet Taylor Lisle	5.5
Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	4.5
Christy	Catherine Marshall	8.0
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor	Harry Mazer	3.8
A Boy No More	Harry Mazer	3.6
Anne of Avolonea	L.M. Montgomery	8.6
Anne of the Island	L.M. Montgomery	7.3
Anne of the Island	L.M. Montgomery	6.3
Anne of Windy Poplars	L.M. Montgomery	5.9
Murdered, My Sweet	Joan Lowery Nixon	4.6
The Black Pearl	Scott O’Dell	5.4
* Sing Down the Moon	Scott O’Dell	4.9
Animal Farm	George Orwell	7.3
* The Great Gilly Hopkins	Katherine Paterson	4.6
* Jacob Have I Loved	Katherine Paterson	5.7
Brian’s Hunt	Gary Paulsen	5.5
Brian’s Return	Gary Paulsen	5.5
Brian’s Winter	Gary Paulsen	5.9
* Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	5.7
* The Winter Room	Gary Paulsen	5.0
* A Long Way From Chicago	Richard Peck	5.0
A River Between Us	Richard Peck	4.5
* A Year Down Yonder	Richard Peck	4.5
* The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin	5.3
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls	4.9
Esperanza Rising	Pam Munoz Ryan	4.5
Malka	Mirjam Pressler	6.0
The Islander	Cynthia Rylant	5.3
* Missing May	Cynthia Rylant	5.3
* Holes	Louis Sachar	4.6
The Austere Academy	Lemony Snicket	6.7
The Bad Beginning	Lemony Snicket	6.4
The Carnivorous Carnival	Lemony Snicket	6.6
The Ersatz Elevator	Lemony Snicket	6.6
The Hostile Hospital	Lemony Snicket	6.9
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Lemony Snicket	Lemony Snicket	7.3
The Miserable Mill	Lemony Snicket	6.2
The Reptile Room	Lemony Snicket	6.3
The Slippery Slope	Lemony Snicket	7.1
The Vile Villiage	Lemony Snicket	6.7
The Wide Window	Lemony Snicket	6.3
* The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Elizabeth George Speare	5.7
Loser	Jerry Spinelli	4.3
Stargirl	Jerry Spinelli	4.2
* Wringer	Jerry Spinelli	4.5
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	8.3
Dracula	Bram Stoker	6.6
* Surviving the Applewhites	Stephanie S. Tolan	5.5
The Fellowship of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	6.1
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	6.6
The Return of the King	J.R.R. Tolkien	6.2
The Two Towers	J.R.R. Tolkien	6.3
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	8.1
Sammy Keyes and the Sisters Mercy	Wendelin Van Draanen	5.2
Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man	Wendelin Van Draanen	5.1
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief	Wendelin Van Draanen	4.6
Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	9.6
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	10.0
* A Solitary Blue	Cynthia Voight	5.3
So B. It	Sarah Weeks	5.5
The Trumpet of the Swan	E.B. White	4.9
* By the Shores of Silver Lake	Laura Ingalls Wilder	5.3
Little House in the Big Woods	Laura Ingalls Wilder	5.3
Little House on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	4.9
* Little Town on the Prairie	Laura Ingalls Wilder	5.4
* The Long Winter	Laura Ingalls Wilder	5.3
* On the Banks of Sugar Plum Creek	Laura Ingalls Wilder	4.6
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	Kate Douglas Wiggin	8.1
Make Lemonade	Virginia Wolff	5.0
Miracle’s Boys	Jacqueline Woodson	5.0
Soldier X	Don Wulffson	5.7
The Pigman	Paul Zindel	5.5
The Pigman and me	Paul Zindel	5.6
The Pigman’s Legacy	Paul Zindel	5.7