Sixth Grade Literature List
Revised July 29, 2011
  
Read in class or assigned for outside reading:
Adams, Richard Watership Down
Bishop, Claire Twenty and Ten
Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
Doyle, Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes (excerpts)
Lewis, C.S. The Magician’s Nephew
Lewis, C.S. The Last Battle
Orwell, George Animal Farm
ten Boom, Corrie The Hiding Place
  
Outside Reading: Adopted titles are divided into three levels in an attempt to provide options for all readers. Teachers and parents may use a list of titles above or below grade level when appropriate for a student. Books with a “+” denote that any title in that series would be acceptable.  In addition to the books assigned by the teacher, students are to read one book per quarter independently from the books listed below outside of class.  Instructions for a related project will be provided by the teacher.
   
Level 1
Alexander, Lloyd The Prydain Chronicles +
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Kjelgaard, James Big Red +
Lester, Julius The Tales of Uncle Remus
Rawlings, Marjorie The Yearling
Sorensen, Virginia Miracles on Maple Hill
Speare, Elizabeth The Bronze Bow
Van Leeuwen, Jean Bound for Oregon

Level 2
Baum, Frank L. The Wizard of Oz
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
Eareckson, Joni Joni
Fisher, Dorothy Understood Betsy
Irving, Washington Rip Van Winkle
Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jacques, Brian Marlfox +
London, Jack White Fang
Marshall, Catherine Christy
O’Hara, Mary My Friend Flicka
Sterling, Dorothy Freedom Train
Taylor, Theodore The Cay
Trapp, Maria Augusta    Story of Trapp Family Singers
Twain, Mark Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 
 
Level 3
Field, Rachel Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
Henty, G. H. By Right of Conquest
Henty, G. H. In the Reign of Terror
Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Orczy, Emmuska The Scarlet Pimpernel
Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped
Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Tunnell, Michael Candy Bomber
Twain, Mark The Prince and the Pauper
Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days
Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds
Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man