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Books Every Sixth Grader Should Know

Books recommended by Daniel Boone Regional Library staff for sixth graders.

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21 items

  • BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. — YA SAC
  • BookNew York : Yearling, 1993, c1991. — YA PAU
  • PaperbackNew York : Yearling, [2005], c2002. — YA HIA
  • BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2002. — J GAI
  • Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1996. — J KON
  • In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order that she’s given.
    BookNew York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997. — J LEV
  • BookBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014] — YA LOW
  • Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
    PaperbackNew York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1986, c1971. — J OBR
  • As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new…
    BookNew York : Dell Yearling, 2000, c1998. — YA SAC