6th Grade Recommended Reading (*click on underlined authors or titles to link to the author's webpage) Abbott, Tony - The Postcard Dixon, Franklin - The Hardy Boys series Avi - Crispin : the Cross of Lead D'Lacey, Chris - The Fire Within series Avi - Seer of Shadows Avi- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Eager, Edward - The Time Garden Balliett, Blue - Chasing Vermeer Erdrich, Louise - The Birchbark House series Balliett, Blue - The Wright 3 Balliett, Blue - That Calder Game Estes, Eleanor - Ginger Pye Barron, T. A. - The Lost Years of Merlin series Fleischman, Sid - The Whipping Boy Barry, Dave - Peter and the Starcatchers series Fox, Paula - The Slave Dancer Blackwood, Gary L. - The Shakespeare Stealer Flanagan, John - Ranger's Apprentice series Bunting, Eve - SOS Titanic Funke, Cornelia - Dragon Rider Funke, Cornelia - The Thief Lord Byars, Betsy - Bingo Brown series Byars, Betsy - The Summer of the Swans Gantos, Jack - Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Christopher, John - The Tripods series Hiaasen, Carl - Hoot Cleary, Beverly - Dear Mr. Henshaw Holm, Jennifer L. - Boston Jane : an adventure Clements, Andrew - Lost and Found (and Holt, Kimberly Willis - When Zachary Beaver others) Came to Town Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl series Ibbotson, Eva - The Secret of Platform 13 Cooper, Susan - The Dark is Rising (and others) Keene, Carolyn - Nancy Drew series Creech, Sharon - Walk Two Moons Kerr, Philip - Children of the Lamp series Curtis, Christopher Paul - The Watsons Go to Konigsburg, E. L - The View From Saturday Birmingham-1963 Lasky, Kathryn - Guardians of Ga'hoole series Cushman, Karen - Catherine, Called Birdy Lawrence, Lain - The Wreckers Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory L"Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time Danziger, Paula - There's a Bat in Bunk Five (and others) Levine, Gail Carson - Ella Enchanted De Angeli, Marguerite - The Door in the Wall Lowry, Lois - The Giver DeFelice, Cynthia - Devil's Bridge series Lupica, Mike - Travel Team (and other sports DeFelice, Cynthia - The Ghost of Fossil Glen books) series DeFelice, Cynthia - The Light on Hogback Hill Madden, Kerry - Jessie's Mountain (and others) DiCamillo, Kate - The Tale of Despereaux McKay, Hilary - Indigo's Star McKay, Hilary - Permanent Rose series Stroud, Jonathan - The Bartimaeus Triliogy McNamee, Eoin - City of Time (and others) Taylor, Mildred D. - Roll of Thunder, Hear My McKinley, Robin - The Hero and the Crown Cry Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) - Anne of Van Draanen, Wendelin - Sammy Keyes and the Green Gables series Art of Deception (and others) O"Dell, Scott - Sarah Bishop Whelan, Gloria - Homeless Bird Paolini, Christopher - Eragon series White, Ruth - Belle Prater"s Boy (and others) Paterson, Katherine - Jacob Have I Loved Williams, Barbara - Titanic Crossing (and Paterson, Katherine - Lyddie others) Paulsen, Gary - Canyons Williams, Mark London - Danger Boy series Paulsen, Gary - Dogsong Yee, Lisa - Millicent Min, Girl Genius Peck, Richard - A Long Way from Chicago Yee, Lisa - So Totally Emily Ebers Peck, Richard - A Year Down Yonder Yee, Lisa - Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time Peck, Richard - The River Between Us Yep, Laurence - Dragon War (and others) Perkins, Lynne Rae - Criss Cross Yep, Laurence - Dream Soul Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows Yolen, Jane - Armageddon Summer Yolen, Jane - Merlin trilogy Raskin, Ellen - The Westing Game (and other books by these authors) Rinaldi, Ann - Amelia's War Taylor, Theodore - The Cay Rodda, Emily - Rowan of Rin series Wallace, Bill - Blackwater Swamp. Rowling, J. K. - Harry Potter series Wallace, Rich - Winning Season sports series Royal Diaries books (various authors) Weston, Elise - Coastwatcher Ryan, Brittney - The Legend of Holly Claus Whelan, Gloria - Homeless Bird Rylant, Cynthia - Missing May White, E. B. - Charlotte's Web Sachar, Louis - Wayside School is Falling Down Winthrop, Elizabeth - Battle for the Castle Sage, Angie - Physik ( and others) Wilder, Laura Ingalls - The Long Winter Selznick, Brian - The Invention of Hugo Cabret Wright, Betty Ren - Christina's Ghost Skelton, Matt - Endymion Spring (and other books by these authors) Snicket, Lemony - The Bad Beginning Snyder, Zilpha - The Egypt Game Speare, Elizabeth - The Bronze Bow Speare, Elizabeth - The Witch of Blackbird Pond Spence, Steven Mark - The Round Table Cycle Spinelli, Jerry - Stargirl .