The Acton Memorial Library Grade 6 Recommended Reading List

Summer 2010
Acton Public Schools Suggested Reading List       Entering Grade 6

Please do not place reserves on items that show as AVAILABLE at Acton.
To reserve these items please call the library (978-929-6655, option 4), and we will be happy to hold them at the Circulation Desk.

Little Women  Little Women  Little Women by Louisa Alcott (the library owns several copies of this title)

The Rope Trick by Lloyd Alexander

Skellig by David Almond

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Sounder by William Armstrong

Crispin by Avi

Summerland by Michael Chabon

The Landry News and School Story by Andrew Clements

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney

Any Book by Susan Cooper  Over Sea, Under Stone  The Dark Is Rising  Greenwitch  The Grey King  Silver On The Tree  Seaward  The Boggart  The Boggart And The Monster  King Of Shadows  Green Boy  The Magician's Boy

Bub Not Buddy and The Watsons Go To Birmigham...1963 by Christopher Curtis

Any Book by Cynthia DeFelice  Weasel Weasel (paperback) Lostman's River  The Apprenticeship Of Lucas Whitaker  Nowhere To Call Home  Devil’s Bridge  Death At Devil's Bridge  The Ghost Of Fossil Glen  The Ghost And Mrs. Hobbs  Ghost of Poplar Point  The Light On Hogback Hill Under The Same Sky The Missing Manatee

A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

Great Brain Books by John Fitzgerald  The Great Brain  More Adventures Of The Great Brain  Me And My Little Brain  The Great Brain At The Academy  The Great Brain Reforms  The Return Of The Great Brain   The Great Brain Is Back  The Great Brain Does It Again

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Thief Lord and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Any Book by Russell Freedman   The Voice That Challenged A Nation : Marian Anderson And The Struggle For Equal Rights   Out Of Darkness : The Story Of Louis Braille  Confucius: The Golden Rule  The Life And Death Of Crazy Horse  Martha Graham, A Dancer's Life  Lincoln : A Photobiography  Eleanor Roosevelt : A Life Of Discovery  Franklin Delanor Roosevelt  Babe Didrikson Zaharias : The Making Of A Champion  Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott  Immigrant Kids  Kids At Work : Lewis Hine And The Crusade Against Child Labor  Sharks  Killer Snakes  The Wright Brothers : How They Invented The Airplane  Adventures of Marco Polo  Who Was First: Discovering the Americas  Indian Chiefs  An Indian Winter  Buffalo Hunt  Give Me Liberty! : The Story Of The Declaration Of Independence  Washington At Valley Forge  

Children Of The Wild West  In The Days Of The Vaqueros : America's First True Cowboys

Lily's Crossing and Pictures Of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Among the Hidden and Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes

Any Book by Karen Hesse  Wish on a Unicorn  Sable  Out of the Dust  Stowaway  Letters From Rifka  A Time of Angels  Just Juice  Phoenix Rising  The Music of Dolphins  A Light in the Storm  Witness  Aleutian Sparrow  Brooklyn Bridge   or Brooklyn Bridge (Book on CD)

Hoot or Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

The Boston Janes Series by Jennifer Holm

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Any Book by Madeleine L'Engle  A Wrinkle in Time  A Wind in the Door  A Swiftly Tilting Planet  Many Waters  An Acceptable Time  Young Unicorns

The Wreckers or The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence

The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis  The Magician's Nephew  The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe  The Horse and His Boy  Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader  The Silver Chair  The Last Battle

The Hamlet Chronicles by Gregory Maguire  Three Rotten Eggs  Four Stupid Cupids  Five Alien Elves  Six Haunted Hairdos  Seven Spiders Spinning  A Couple Of April Fools  One Final Firecracker

A Long Way from Chicago and Fair Weather by Richard Peck

Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Loser  or Loser  and Maniac Magee and Crash and Crash by Jerry Spinelli

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan

Lord of the Ring Series by J. R. R. Tolkien     There are numerous editions of this series
Fellowship of the Ring and Fellowship of the Ring and Fellowship of the Ring and Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers and The Two Towers and The Two Towers and The Return Of The King and The Return Of The King and The Return Of The King