Sixth Grade Reading List
Books on the reading list are arranged alphabetically by category.
The requirements are 1 poetry book, 1 free choice book and the following required-reading title:
- The View from Saturday
by E.L.Konigsburg
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Most books on the list are available through the Montgomery County Public Library system. You can search online and place books on hold at your local branch. Bookmarked with an asterisk (*) are recommended, but are not available through the county's library system.
Specific instructions on completing these requirements are available from the office.
Chapter Books
Absolutely normal chaos
Sharon Creech
Bandit's moon
Sid Fleischman
Beyond the western sea
Avi
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Black stallion
Walter Farley
Book of three and sequels
Lloyd Alexander
Borrowers
Mary Norton
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Patterson
Bud, not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Call it courage
Armstrong Sperry
Call of the wild
Jack London
Castaways of the flying dutchman
Brian Jacques
Corner of the universe
Ann Martin
Dicey's Song
Cynthia Voigt
Fair Weather
Richard Peck
Far north
Will Hobbs
Girls of Many Lands series
Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Patterson
Harriet the spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Hatchet and sequels
Gary Paulsen
Homecoming
Cynthia Voigt
Kensuke's Kingdom
Michael Morpugo
Julie of the wolves
Jean Craighead George
Mania McGee
Jerry Spinelli
My side of the mountain
Jean Craighead George
Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton L. Stewart
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Patricia R. Giff
Princess and the goblin
George McDonald
Railway children
Edith Nesbitt
Running out of time
Margaret Haddix
So B. It
Sarah Weeks
Song of the gargoyle
Zilpha Snyder
Sounder
William Armstrong
Summer of the swans
Betsy Byars
Trolls
Polly Horvath
Tuck everlasting
Natalie Babbit
Walk two moons
Sharon Creech
Watsons go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
When Zachary Beaver came to town
Holt
Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth Speare
Year down yonder
Richard Peck
Historical Fiction
Adam of the Road
Elizabeth Gray
Beware, Pricess Elizabeth
Carolyn Meyer
Birchbark House
Louise Erdich
Bronze Bow
Elizabeth Speare
Catherine, called Birdy
Karen Cushman
Detectives in togas
Henry Winterfeld
Door in the wall
Marguerite D'Angeli
Eagle of the ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff
Elijah of Buxton
Christopher Paul Curtis
Girl in a cage
Jane Yolen
Golden goblet
Eloise McGraw
Hawk that dare not hunt by day
Scott O'Dell
King of Shadows
Susan Cooper
Queen's own fool
Jane Yolen
Ravenmaster's secret
Elvira Woodruff
Rope Trick
Lloyd Alexander
Roman Mysteries
Caroline Lawrence
Shakespeare stealer
Gary Blackwood
Single Shard
Linda Sue Park
Squire's tale
Gerald Morris
The Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
History
Castle diary
Richard Platt
Knights and castles
Judy Hindley
Leonardo and the Renaissance
Nathaniel Harris
Vendela in Venice
Christina Bjork
William Shakespeare and the Globe
Aliki
Biography
Abracadabra kid
Sid Fleischman
At Her Majesty's request
Walter Dean Myers
Carry on , Mr. Bowditch
Jean Latham
Shakespeare
Peter Chrisp
Elizabeth I and Tudor England
Miriam Greenblatt
Martin Luther
Edwin Prince Booth
Outrageous women of the Renaissance
Vicki Leon
Childhood of Famous Americans series
Folktale/Mythology
Arabian Nights
Philip Neil
Beowulf (adapted)
Rosemary Sutcliff
Black ships before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff
Children's Homer
Padraic Colum
Favorite Medieval tales
Mary Osborne
Golden mare, firebird and the magic ring
R. Sanderson
Macmillan book of Greek gods and goddesses
Alice Low
Poetry
20th Century chlidren's poetry
Jack Prelutsky
Book of Narnians
James Riordan
Book of nonsense
Edward Lear
Cat poems
Myra Livingston
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Jump back, honey
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Pass it on
Wade Hudson
Old Possum's book of practical cats
T. S. Eliot
We the people
Bobbi Katz
Words with wings
Belinda Rochelle