Sixth Grade Reading List

Mt. Lebanon Middle Schools

Department of English

This is the reading list used for summer reading suggestions and for required outside reading assignments for the sixth grade.

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***There may be additional copies available. Ask a librarian for help in finding them.***
Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek - Robin Moore
Fourteen-year-old Maggie Callahan, who has a special talent for baking bread, struggles to survive on the Pennsylvania frontier in the late 1700s.

Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Call It Courage - Armstrong Sperry
Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means "Stout Heart" overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.

The Cay - Theodore Taylor
A young white boy who has been recently blinded learns about vision, courage, and race with the help of a wise black man.

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.

Every Living Thing: Stories - Cynthia Rylant
Twelve stories in which animals change people's lives for the better.

A Family Apart - Joan Lowery
When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York city to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.

From the Mixed-Up File of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg
Eleven-year-old Claudia Kincaid wants to run away from home, but she insists on doing it with style.

The Girl With the Silver Eyes - Willo Davis Roberts
A ten-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her.

The House With a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs
Lewis moves in with his uncle, a white magician, then discovers that the former tenant, a black magician, has devised a plan for the end of the world.

The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.

Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

A Long Way From Chicago: a Novel in Stories - Richard Peck
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
This is the story of how Aslan created Narnia and gave them the gift of speech to its animals. It is Book One of the Chronicals of Narnia.

M.C. Higgins, the Great - Virginia Hamilton
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman
In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most desires: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
During the German occupation of Denmark in 1943, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

Shiloh - Phyllis Naylor
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth Speare
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Sounder - William Armstrong
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of his devoted dog Sounder.

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: a Novel of Sacagawea - Scott O'Dell
A young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clarke Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Tucket's Ride - Gary Paulson
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside -- Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

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