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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