Sixth Grade Required Reading List for 2015-2016

Grace's 6th Grade Required Reading List

I've been working on a required reading list for Grace for 2015-2016 school year.

We already do the Drawn Into the Heart of Reading program that covers many genres and she gets to choose the specific books within the genre. I LOVE that set up and feel like she reads lots of great types of books she might not otherwise choose. However, there are SO many classic and award winning novels that are often read around this age and I want her exposed to them also. SOOOO, after hours of searching the web, talking to our librarian and pinning like a crazy person, here is what she will be doing next year for the required books. (She will still pick the 9 genre books (but only do one of each) on her choice for a total of 20 books read for school.) She will still read for fun too of course, but no assessment or reports will be required on those! ;-)

Grace’s 6^th Grade Required Reading List – 2015-2016 school year:

Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
IBSN:  9780140341584

Across Five Aprils 

by Irene Hunt
ISBN  978-0425182789

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

ISBN: 9781508482765 / 1508482764

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

 by Baum

ISBN: 9780060293239 

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Taylor

ISBN: 9780140384512 

Crispin: The Cross of Lead

by Avi
 (ISBN: 978-0439120425)

The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate

Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry

Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia Maclachlan

Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

ISBN: 9780689840920

Whipping Boy

 by Sid Fleischman

ISBN: 9780688062163