Grade 6 Novels

Unit 1

Childhood

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson online from Project Gutenberg

The Secret Garden Audio online from Project Gutenberg

The Secret Garden Type the Classics

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers

Unit 2

Animal Allies

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling online from Project Gutenberg

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell online from Project Gutenberg

Black Beauty Audio online from Project Gutenberg

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Modern Technology

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (6th & 7th grade lists)

Unit 4

Imagination (Not Required)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Sword and the Circle by Rosemary Sutcliffe

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Unit 5

Exploration

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne online from Project Gutenberg

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

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