6th Grade Reading List

Reading Suggestions for 6th Graders from the Weber County Library

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Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
Artist/Author/Cast:
Atkins, Laura; Yogi, Stan
Call Number:
J341.67 A8732k
Description:
Full Cicada Moon
Artist/Author/Cast:
Hilton, Marilyn
Call Number:
JF Hilton
Description:
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Artist/Author/Cast:
Murphy, Jim
Call Number:
J974.765 M9785g
Description:

Learn about the Cardiff Giant mystery in which a ten-foot-tall model of a man was uncovered in upstate New York.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Artist/Author/Cast:
Barnhill, Kelly
Call Number:
JF Barnhill
Description:
The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
Artist/Author/Cast:
Sidman, Joyce (Contribution by)
Call Number:
J92 Merian
Description:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village
Artist/Author/Cast:
Schlitz, Laura Amy; Byrd, Robert (Illustrator)
Call Number:
J812.6 S3442g
Description:

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters between ten and fifteen years old who live around a thirteenth-century English manor.

Greenglass House
Artist/Author/Cast:
Milford, Kate; Zollars, Jaime (Illustrator)
Call Number:
JF Milford
Description:
Hello, Universe
Artist/Author/Cast:
Kelly, Erin Entrada; Roxas, Isabel (Illustrator)
Call Number:
JF Kelly
Description:
How Tía Lola Came to Visit (Stay)
Artist/Author/Cast:
Alvarez, Julia; Cascardi, Andrea (Editor)
Call Number:
JF Alvarez
Description:
A Long Way from Chicago
Artist/Author/Cast:
Peck, Richard
Call Number:
JF Peck
Description:

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to Illinois with his sister to visit their grandmother during the Great Depression.

Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
Artist/Author/Cast:
Watson, Jude
Call Number:
JF Watson
Description:
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Artist/Author/Cast:
Cartaya, Pablo
Call Number:
JF Cartaya
Description:

In searching for his absentee father, a biracial boy gets closer to his Puerto Rican roots.

Masterminds
Artist/Author/Cast:
Korman, Gordon
Call Number:
JF Korman
Description:
The Night Diary
Artist/Author/Cast:
Hiranandani, Veera
Call Number:
JF Hiranandani
Description:
One Crazy Summer
Artist/Author/Cast:
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Call Number:
JF Williams-Garcia
Description:

Eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters spend the summer of 1968 in Oakland visiting their mother.

Operation Yes
Artist/Author/Cast:
Holmes, Sara Lewis
Call Number:
JF Holmes
Description:
In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
Artist/Author/Cast:
Johnson, Varian
Call Number:
JF/YP F Johnson
Description:

When Candice finds a letter in her grandmother’s attic in Lambert, South Carolina, it sets her off on a treasure hunt.

Perseus
Artist/Author/Cast:
McCaughrean, Geraldine
Call Number:
J398.20938 M1235p
Description:

An exciting retelling of the well-known Greek myth.

The Search For Delicious
Artist/Author/Cast:
Babbitt, Natalie (Author, Illustrator)
Call Number:
JF Babbitt
Description:

The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary, and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country.

The Search for Wondla
Artist/Author/Cast:
DiTerlizzi, Tony (Author, Illustrator)
Call Number:
JF DiTerlizzi
Description:

Eva Nine has never left Sanctuary until it is destroyed and she must survive on the surface of her planet.

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