Dear LM_NETTERS:
Many thanks to all who responded. I knew that many of the books I have for
the 7-8th grade would also work with 6th and that was confirmed. You also
provided me with good recommendations of authors not represented in my
collection. Non-fiction topics and magazines were also suggested. Here are
the recommentations:
"my body" books
animals
baseball teams
Basketball teams
Bikes
BMX Plus
cars, trucks
Cartoons
Chess
Dirt Bike
dog books
Drawing
Drawing
Extreme Sports
Fishing and Hunting books
Hardy Boys
Hot Rod
jokes
My Name Is America series
Mythology
Newbery books
non-fiction history
Pro Football teams
Rats of NIMH
science-fiction, fantasy
small pets such as Hamsters, mice, snakes
sports
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Applegate, Katherine A. - Animorphs series, Remnants series
Avi =96 Crispin, Fighting Ground, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Bellairs, John =96 mysteries
Christopher, John - White Mountain Trilogy, etc.
Christopher, Matt (Some of the lower level readers)
Clements, Andrew - Clements, Andrew
Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl books
Dahl, Roald
Dygard, Thomas
Erickson, John R. =96 Hank the Cowdog series
Gantos, Jack - Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Joey Pigza Loses Control
Garfield books
Greenburg, Dan - Zach's Lie
Hobbs, Will
Horowitz, Anthony - Point Blanc, Stormbreaker
Jacques, Brian - Redwall series, Mossflower series
Korman, Gordon - 6th Grade Nickname Game, Everest series, Island series
Lewis, C.S. - Chronicles of Narnia
Lowry, Lois =96 Giver
Mikaelson, Ben - especially Touching Spirit Bear
Naylor, Phyllis - Shiloh series, Besseldorf Hotel
Odean, Kathleen - Great books for boys: more than 600 books for boys 2-14
Paulsen, Gary
Peck, Richard
Peck, Robert - Soup books for lower readers
Pilkey, Dave - (Some of the lower level readers)
Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials trilogy
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter books
Sachar, Louis =96 Holes
Sleator, William
Snicket, Lemony - Series of Unfortunate Events
Speare, Elizabeth - Sign of the Beaver
Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee and other books
Stine, R. L. - Goosebumps, etc.
Strasser, Todd - Help! I=92m Trapped in my Teacher=92s body (& others)
Taylor, Theodore
Tolkien, J.R.R. - Lord of the Rings
Turner, Megan Whalen =96 Thief
Wrede, Patricia - Dragon series
Zindel, Paul =96 Raptor, Rats (and others)
I'm also including this list as an attached file. It's in MS Word 2000. Now
I get to go on a buying binge! Mary
Mary Huebscher
Library Media Specialist
Holy Cross of San Antonio
426 N. San Felipe
San Antonio, TX 78228
mhuebscher@holycross.echalk.com
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