Hit>Grade 6 Ecology Read Alouds

[Debra Logan <jd3logan@bright.net>]

Hi!  Thanks for the great response to my request for books
with an ecology theme for sixth graders.

RECOMMENDED AUTHORS:
Jean Craighead George's
Gary Paulsen
Walt Morey.

RECOMMENDED TITLES:
The Day They Left the Bay by Mick Blackistone
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
Bats, Bugs and Biodiversity  (nonfiction )
Who killed cock robin? by William Stobbs (?)
California Blue by David Klass =85 "It may be just a tiny bit old for 6th
grade,
    but please have your team staff read it before they decide."
Deep Dream of the Rainforest by Malcolm Bosse
Spud Sweetgrass by Brian Doyle
Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
Panther Glade by Helen Cavanagh
Home Free by Kathryn Lasky
The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George
Lostman's River by Cynthia DeFelice
The Place of Lions by Eric Campbell
The Legend of Jimmy Spoon by Kristiana Gregory
Wolf at the Door by Barbara Corcoran
The Green Machine and the Frog Crusade by Stephen Tchudi
Beardance by Will Hobbs
Circle Within a Circle by Monte Killingsworth
Downwind by Louise Moeri
California Blue by David Klass
The Ancient Ones by T. A. Barron
Thunder Cave by Roland Smith
Unicorns in the Rain by Barbara Cohen
THE MISSING 'GATOR OF GUMBO LIMBO
  by Jean Craighead George
Blackwater Swamp by (I think) Bill Wallace?
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
COME BACK SALMON:=85 by Mollly Cone
 SIMPLE THINGS KIDS CAN DO TO SAVE THE EARTH
by(?) Earth Works Group's 50
The Green Book, by Jill Paton Walsh
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
There's an owl in the shower  by Jean Craighead George.
MY TEACHER FLUNKED THE PLANET  &
 MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN by Bruce Coville
 There's a Mastodon In My Living Room by Elaine Moore

Judy Freeman's book MORE BOOKS KIDS WILL SIT STILL FOR is a great
resource.

Deb Logan
Librarian/Media Specialist
Marion City Schools
Marion, OH
jd3logan@bright.net

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