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THEMATIC UNITS and Ever-Growing Digital Library Listing for Grades 6-12 THEMATIC UNITS GRADE 6 AUTHOR GENRE StudySync®TV UNIT 1 | Testing Our Limits: What do we do when life gets hard? Eleven Sandra Cisneros Fiction The Mighty Miss Malone Christopher Paul Curtis Fiction Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution Ji-li Jiang Informational Text Hatchet Gary Paulsen Fiction The Magic Marker Mystery René Saldaña, Jr. Drama Scout’s Honor Avi Fiction The Good Samaritan René Saldaña, Jr. Fiction Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll Poetry Gathering Blue Lois Lowry Fiction A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Fiction UNIT 2 | You and Me: How do relationships shape us? Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Fiction Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Fiction Teenagers Pat Mora Poetry Tableau Countee Cullen Poetry The Voice in My Head Holly Warlick Informational Text We’re On the Same Team Jacki Jing Informational Text The Treasure of Lemon Brown Walter Dean Myers Fiction The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child Francisco Jiménez Fiction That Day David Kherdian Poetry A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long Nikki Giovanni Poetry UNIT 3 | In The Dark: How do you know what to do when there are no instructions? Heroes Every Child Should Know: Perseus Hamilton Wright Mabie Fiction The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan Fiction Elena Pat Mora Poetry Hatshepsut: His Majesty, Herself Catherine M. Andronik Informational Text I, Too Langston Hughes Poetry Everybody Jump (from 'What If) Randall Munroe Informational Text Hoot Carl Hiaasen Fiction Donna O’Meara: The Volcano Lady StudySync Informational Text Dare to be Creative! Madeleine L’Engle Informational Text Margaret Bourke-White: Fearless Photographer StudySync Informational Text GRADE 6 AUTHOR GENRE StudySync®TV AUTHOR GENRE StudySync®TV UNIT 4 | Personal Best: Which qualities of character matter most? I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai Informational Text Malala Yousafzai - Nobel Lecture Malala Yousafzai Informational Text Priscilla and the Wimps Richard Peck Fiction All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury Fiction Bullying in Schools StudySync Argumentative Text Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Russell Freedman Informational Text Letter to Xavier High School Kurt Vonnegut Informational Text Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 Lynne Olson Informational Text Celebrities as Heroes StudySync Argumentative Text Famous Naomi Shihab Nye Poetry UNIT 5 | Making Your Mark: What’s your story? 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