6th Grade Reading List

Required:

• The Secret Garden
• Tom Sawyer
• Shakespeare: The Twelfth Night

Free Choice (pick 4):

Title and Author	Lexile Level
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg	740
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle	740
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury	740
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton	750
The Bronze Bow, by Elizabeth George Speare	760
Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech	770
War Comes to Willie Freeman, by Christopher and Lincoln Collier	770
The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare	770
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt	770
My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George	810
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes	840
The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkein	860
The Cay, by Theodore Taylor	860
Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep	870
Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson	880
Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson	910
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor	920
The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper	920
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis	940
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis	950
White Fang, by Jack London	970
Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery	990
The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli	990
Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell	1000
Ben and Me, by Robert Lawson	1010
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne	1030
Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle	1090
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt	1100
Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman	1170
War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells	1170
Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss	1260
The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford	1320