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6th Grade Picks
Historical Fiction
A
Girl Named Disaster – Farmer
A
Stone in my Hand – Clinton
Anson’s
Way – Schmidt
Before
We Were Free – Alvarez
Bud,
Not Buddy – Curtis
Good
Night, Maman – Mazer
Letters
from Rifka – Hesse
Lyddie
– Patterson
My
Brother Sam is Dead – Lincoln and Collier
Number
the Stars – Lowry
Our
Only May Amelia – Holm
Riding
Freedom – Ryan
The
Land –Taylor
The
Sign of the Beaver – Speare
The
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi
The
Witch of Blackbird Pond – Speare
Unbroken
– Haas
Walk
Across the Sea – Fletcher
When
My Name Was Keoko – Park
Where
the Ground Meets the Sky – Davies
Witness
– Hesse
Realistic YA Fiction
A
Corner of the Universe – Martin
A
Day No Pigs Would Die – Peck
Bridge
to Terabithia – Paterson
Hatchet
– Paulsen
Hoot
– Hiasson
Island
of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell
Julie
of the Wolves – George
Locomotion
– Woodson
Loser
– Spinelli
My
Side of the Mountain – George
Olive’s
Ocean – Henkes
Racing
the Past – Deans
Shiloh
– Naylor
Sounder
– Armstrong
The
Gold-Threaded Dress – Marsden
The
Midwife’s Apprentice – Cushman
Mystery/Suspense
City
of Ember – DuPrau
Crispin
– Avi
From
the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – Konigsburg
Holes
– Sacher
Jacob
Have I Loved – Patterson
Silent
to the Bone – Konigsburg
Someone
is Hiding on Alcatraz Island – Bunting
Staying
Fat for Sarah Byrnes – Crutcher
Stonewords
– Conrad
Tangerine
– Bloor
The
House with a Clock in Its Walls – Bellairs
Science Fiction/Fantasy
A
Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle
Heir
Apparent – Vande Velde
House
of the Scorpion – Farmer
The
Book of Three – Alexander
The
Borrowers – Norton
The
Dark is Rising – Cooper
The
Giver – Lowry
The
Golden Compass – Pullman
The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Lewis
Classics
Anne
of Green Gables – Montgomery
Jo’s
Boys – Alcott
Johnny
Tremain – Forbes
Little
Women – Alcott
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain
The
Call of the Wild – London
The
Secret Garden – Burnett
The
Wind in the Willows – Graham
Treasure
Island – Stevenson
Watership
Down – Adams
Biography
A
Strong Right Arm – Green
Babe
Didrikson Zaharias – Freedman
Eleanor
Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery – Freedman
Guts
– Paulsen
I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Angelou
Lincoln
– A Photobiography – Freedman
Small
Steps: The Year I got Polio – Kehret
The
Diary of a Young Girl – Frank