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Many of the Grade 6 titles are available as FREE ebooks - Click here for log in instructions for the SORA reading app. 6th graders will not have access until added to the Middle High School system. This should be in mid-July.
Students in Grade 6 must fill out the Reading Log. It would be preferable to print out the log if you can. But you may also make a copy of it in Google Drive and fill it out in the Google Doc if you need to.
Students in Grade 6 must fill out the Reading Log. It would be preferable to print out the log if you can. But you may also make a copy of it in Google Drive and fill it out in the Google Doc if you need to.
Science Fiction / Fantasy
Science Fiction / Fantasy
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
Adventure/Survival
Adventure/Survival
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
Mystery
Mystery
The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
What makes you you?
The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best—acting silly and being adored. They’ve been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.
But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they’re shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers.
The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn
Told in two voices, Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house, and a girl who lived there a century before begin to communicate and slowly, the girl's tragic story is revealed.
Sports
Sports
The Academy by T. Z Layton
Born and raised in a small town, twelve-year-old Leo K. Doyle has never seen the ocean or stepped foot on a plane. But Leo is a star soccer player with big dreams in life.: Rock star, Olympic gold, dragon-slaying dreams.
While Leo longs to make the pros one day, he has no idea how to achieve this goal-until a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo's games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as the Academy.
Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn't just any old soccer team. It's a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Only eleven players can make the team.
Realistic Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Eleven by Tom Rogers
Eleven by Tom Rogers
This is Eleven: the journey of a boy turning eleven on 9/11
Alex Douglas always wanted to be a hero. But nothing heroic ever happened to Alex. Nothing, that is, until his eleventh birthday. When Alex rescues a stray dog as a birthday gift to himself, he doesn't think his life can get much better. This is a story about bullies and heroes. About tragedy and hope. About enemies with two legs and friends with four, and pesky little sisters and cranky old men, and an unexpected lesson in kindness delivered with a slice of pizza.
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Bradley
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Bradley
Ada has never left her one room apartment -- Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her be seen outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute. She sneaks out to join him.
Ada’s adventure to escape her cruel mother begins!
Graphic Novel
Graphic Novel
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (adapted and illustrated by K. Woodman-Maynard)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (adapted and illustrated by K. Woodman-Maynard)
What if you could live forever?
In this timeless story about immortality, friendship, and growing up, young Winnie Foster learns of a hidden spring in a nearby wood and meets the Tuck family, whose members reveal their astonishing discovery of the spring's life-changing power. Now Winnie must decide what to do with her newfound knowledge--and the Tucks must decide what to do with her. But it's not just the curious girl who is interested in their remarkable tale. A suspicious stranger is also searching for the Tucks, and he will stop at nothing until he finds them and uncovers their secret.
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