Sixth Grade Reading List
Sixth Grade is a time to encourage your children to read more literary works during their free time. It is also a good time to focus on poetry, biographies, and historical fiction.
Here is the recommended sixth grade reading list.
1. Beowulf, Ian Serraillier
2. Book of Virtues, William Bennett
3. McGuffey’s Third Reader, William McGuffey
4. Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
5. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
6. Zeely, Virginia Hamilton
7. The Black Pearl, Scott O’Dell
8. Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
9. Sounder, William Armstrong
10. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
11. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
12. Blubber, Judy Blume
13. Chasing Redbird, Sharon Creech
14. Willis the Pilot, Johann Wyss
15. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
16. Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Howard Pyle
17. The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
18. Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates, Howard Pyle
19. Bridge to Teribithia, Katherine Paterson
20. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
21. Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
22. Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates
23. Sing Down the Moon, Scott O’Dell
24. Rascal, Sterling North
25. Secret at Pheasant Cottage, Patricia St. John
26. Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary
27. Dobry, Monica Shannon
28. Behind Rebel Lines, Seymour V. Reit
29. The Double Life of Zoe Flynn, Janet Lee Carey
30. The Pistachio Prescription, Paula Danziger
31. Lyddie, Katherine Paterson
32. Z is for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien
33. The Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars
34. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
35. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
36. Best Loved Poems of the American People, Hazel Fellerman
37. Book of Americans, Rosemary and Stephen V. Benet
38. Child’s Geography of the World, V.M. Hillyer
39. Child’s History of Art, V.M. Hillyer
40. Child’s History of the World, V.M. Hillyer