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Sixth Grade Bibliography

Sixth Grade Bibliography

Fiction

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (J)
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (J)
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
Deliver Us From Normal by Kate Klise (J)
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
Ghost of Cutler Creek by Cynthia C. DeFelice (J)
When Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog, she and Dub investigate the surly new boy at school and his father, who may be running a puppy mill, to see if they are involved.
Harris and Me by Gary Paulson (J)
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world.
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (J)
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
PS: Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger (J)
Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.
Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck (J)
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
The Seeing Stone: First in the King Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland (J)
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.
Thief Lord by Caroline Funke (J)
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."

Non-Fiction

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (910.91634 T53l)
She was called "the ship that God himself couldn't sink," yet on her maiden voyage, the great ship Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later she upended and sank, carrying 1,503 men, women and children to their deaths.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (J614.541 M954a)
What happens to Philadelphia in 1793 when yellow fever strikes? Find out in this exciting and well researched account. (If you like the novel Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, you will love this too!)
Guts by Gary Paulson (JB P285a3)
The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his book Hatchet. A great book for reluctant readers.
Jazz A-B-Z by Wynton Marsalis (J811.6 M35j)
A collection of poems about different jazz performers from A-Z. Wonderful poetry that conveys the rhythm of jazz and the importance of this American art form.
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman (JB G1213f)
A science writer specializing in medicine, Fleischman tells how Gage, foreman of a railroad construction gang, survived an iron rod being blasted through his brain in 1848, and how the subsequent study of him contributed to the modern understanding of the central nervous system.

Websites

Bill Nye the Science Guy
Brain Pop (the more you know, the more you know)
Castles of the World
Kidsreads
Travel for Kids

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