HIT: Sixth Grade Class Novels (long)

[Charlotte Snyder <csnyder@BCPL.NET>]

Dear Friends:
Thank you to everyone who suggested sixth grade class novels. We have a
varied and interesting list; here it is:
Suggested Sixth Grade Class Reading

Adams: Watership Down
Avi: Poppy
Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
Byars: Summer of the Swans
Clark: The Secret of the Andes
Clements: Frindle
Conly: Racso and the Rats of NIMH
Conly: Crazy Lady
Curtis: The Watsons go to Birmingham 1963
Cushman: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Dahl: James and the Giant Peach
DeAngeli: The Door in the Wall
Dorris: Sees Behind Trees
George: Julie of the Wolves
Gibson: The Miracle Worker (play)
Gilbreth: Cheaper by the Dozen
Graham: A Boy and His Bear
Hahn: Stepping on the Cracks
Hesse: The Music of Dolphins
Houston: Frozen Fire
Howe: The New Nick Kramer
Jiang: Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
Konigsburg: The View from Saturday
Konigsburg: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Konigsburg: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Levine: Ella Enchanted
Levitin: Journey to America
Lowry: See You Around, Sam
Lowry: The Giver
Lowry: Number the Stars
McGraw: The Moorchild
McGraw: The Golden Goblet
Mikaelsen: Countdown
Morey: Kavik the Wolf Dog
Myers: The Keeping Room
O'Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Oppel: Silverwing
Paterson: Jip
Paulsen: Hatchet
Paulsen: Cookcamp
Paulsen: The Haymeadow
Paulsen: The River
Paulsen: Tracker
Paulsen: The Winter Room
Paulsen: Dogsong
Peck: A Long Way from Chicago
Pullman: The Golden Compass
Raskin: The Westing Game
Reeder: Shades of Gray
Rowling: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Sachar: Holes
Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince
Spinelli: Maniac Magee
Spinelli: Crash
Spinelli: Wringer
Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor: The Cay
Temple: The Ramsay Scallop
Trevino: I, Juan de Pareja
Voigt: Bad Girls
Winthrop: Castle in the Attic
Yolen: Passager

Charlotte

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