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Riveting Sixth Grade Books

Many of these titles address the issues of adolescence and are for mature readers. Click on the title to see if the book is available.

Adventure & Survival

Arkin, Anthony	Captain Hawaii.
Avi	Beyond the Western Sea.
Blackwood, Gary	Wild Timothy.
Carter, Alden	Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Cooney, Caroline	Flash Fire.
Cottonwood, Joe	Quake!
Creech, Sharon	Ruby Holler.
Dekkers, Midas	Arctic Adventure.
French, Michael	Pursuit.
George, Jean	Julie of the Wolves.
Harrison, Michael	It's My Life.
Hobbs, Will	Downriver.
Horowitz, Anthony	Point Blank.
Korman, Gordon	Shipwreck.
Levin, Betty	Fire in the Wind.
Myers, Edward	Climb or Die.
O'Dell, Scott	Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Paulsen, Gary	Brian's Winter.
Petersen, P.J.	White Water.
Smith, Roland	Zach's Lie.
Southall, Ivan	Ash Road.
Stevenson, Robert	Treasure Island.
Thesman, Jean	When the Road Ends.
Ullman, James	Banner in the Sky.
Voigt, Cynthia	Homecoming.

Animal Stories

Blatchford, Claire	Nick's Secret.
Campbell, Eric	Papa Tembo.
Corbin, William	A Dog Worth Stealing.
Gipson, Fred	Old Yeller.
Hall, Lynn	Danger Dog.
Kehret, Peg	Cages.
Kelleher, Victor	Rescue!
Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book.
Mikaelsen, Ben	Rescue Josh McGuire.
Morey, Walt	Gentle Ben.
Mowat, Farley	Never Cry Wolf.
Peyton, K.M.	Blind Beauty.
Platt, Chris	Willow King.
Rawls, Wilson	Where the Red Fern Grows.
Wallace, Bill	Red Dog.
Westall, Robert	Blitzcat.

Biography

Aldrich, Dale	The Belly Gunner.
Andronik, Catherine M.	Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself.
Armstrong, Jennifer	Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton's Amazing Voyage.
Buchignani, Walter	Tell No One Who You Are: The Hidden Childhood of Regine Miller.
Drimmer, Frederick	The Elephant Man.
Fradin, Dennis	My Family Shall Be Free! The Life of Peter Still.
Freedman, Russell	The Life and Death of Crazy Horse.
Gilbreth, Frank	Cheaper by the Dozen.
Lauber, Patricia	Lost Star, the Story of Amelia Earhart.
Lawlor, Laurie	Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit.
Lu, Chi Fa	Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan.
Myers, Walter Dean	Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary.
Partridge, Elizabeth	This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie.
Paulsen, Gary	Woodsong.
Robinson, Sharon	Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By: Courage, Determination, Teamwork, Persistence, Integrity, Citizenship, Justice, Commitment, Excellence.
Severance, John	Gandhi, Great Soul.
Spinelli, Jerry	Knots in My Yo-yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid.
Stine, R.L.	It Came from Ohio! My Life as a Writer.
Ungerer, Tomi	Tomi: A Childhood Under the Nazis.
Warren, Andrea	Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.

Fantasy

Barron, T. A.	The Lost Years of Merlin.
Colfer, Eoin	Artemis Fowl.
Crossley-Holland, Kevin	The Seeing Stone.
Hanley, Victoria	The Seer and the Sword.
Jacques, Brian	Mossflower.
Jones, Diana Wynne	Dark Lord of Derkholm.
Kindl, Patrice	Owl in Love.
Lally, Soinbhe	A Hive for the Honeybee.
Lee, Tanith	Wolf Tower.
Levine, Gail Carson	Ella Enchanted.
McCaffrey, Anne	Dragonsong.
McDonald, Janet	Spellbound.
McKinley, Robin	The Hero and the Crown.
Murphy, Shirley	Nightpool.
Napoli, Donna Jo	Zel.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds	Sang Spell.
Peck, Richard	The Ghost Belonged to Me.
Pierce, Tamora	Wild Magic.
Pratchett, Terry	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents.
Pullman, Philip	The Golden Compass.
Turner, Megan	The Thief.
Voigt, Cynthia	On Fortune's Wheel.
Wrede, Patricia	Dealing with Dragons.
Yolen, Jane	Boots and the Seven Leaguers: A Rock-and-Troll Novel.

Historical Fiction

Barrett, Tracy	Anna of Byzantium.
Cadnum, Michael	Raven of the Waves.
Clements, Bruce	I Tell a Lie Every So Often.
Collier, James	Chipper.
Cross, Gillian	The Great American Elephant Chase.
Cushman, Karen	Catherine, Called Birdy.
DeFelice, Cynthia	The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker.
Dillon, Eilis	Children of Bach.
Elliott, Laura	Under a War-Torn Sky.
Fleischman, Paul	Saturnalia.
Fox, Paula	The Slave Dancer.
Hahn, Mary Downing	Stepping on the Cracks.
Hesse, Karen	Stowaway.
Hunter, Mollie	The King's Swift Rider: A Novel on Robert the Bruce.
Lewin, Waldtraut	Freedom Beyond the Sea.
Lyon, George Ella	Borrowed Children.
Lyons, Mary E.	Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs.
Matas, Carol	Lisa's War.
McCaughrean, Geraldine	The Pirate's Son.
Napoli, Donna Jo	Stones in Water.
Orlev, Uri	Lydia, Queen of Palestine.
Park, Linda Sue	When My Name was Keoko.
Ray, Karen	To Cross a Line.
Rinaldi, Ann	In My Father's House.
Rostkowski, Margaret	After the Dancing Days.
Speare, Elizabeth	The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Talbert, Marc	Heart of a Jaguar.
Taylor, Mildred	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Wilson, Diane	I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade.
Yep, Laurence	Dragonwings.

Humor

Avi	Romeo and Juliet -- Together (and Alive!) at Last.
Conford, Ellen	A Royal Pain.
Danziger, Paula	Make Like a Tree and Leave.
Gleitzman, Morris	Misery Guts.
Howe, Norma	The Adventures of Blue Avenger.
Korman, Gordon	No More Dead Dogs.
Lowry, Lois	Anastasia at this Address.
Mowat, Farley	Owls in the Family.
Olsson, Soren	In Ned's Head.
Peck, Richard	A Long Way from Chicago.
Pinkwater, Jill	Buffalo Brenda.
Strasser, Todd	How I Spent My Last Night on Earth.
Taylor, William	Agnes the Sheep.

In Other Lands

Ellis, Deborah	The Breadwinner.
Gilmore, Rachna	A Group of One.
Laird, Elizabeth	Kiss the Dust.
Levitin, Sonia	Dream Freedom.
Mikaelsen, Ben	Countdown.
Moeri, Louise	The Forty-Third War.
Mosher, Richard	Zazoo.
Naidoo, Beverley	The Other Side of Truth.
Nye, Naomi Shihab	Habibi.
Quintana, Anton	The Baboon King.
Staples, Suzanne	Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind.
Whelan, Gloria	Goodbye, Vietnam.
Yumoto, Kazumi	The Friends.

Misfits & Outcasts

Anderson, Rachel	The Bus People.
Brown, Susan	You're Dead, David Borelli.
Cole, Brock	The Goats.
Coleman, Michael	Weirdo's War.
Koss, Amy	The Girls.
Lubar, David	Hidden Talents.
Mikaelsen, Ben	Petey.
Philbrick, W. R.	Freak the Mighty.
Sebestyen, Ouida	Out of Nowhere.
Thesman, Jean	When the Road Ends.
Vail, Rachel	Wonder.
Woods, Ron	The Hero.

Mysteries & Thrillers

Avi	Something Upstairs.
Apone, Claudio	My Grandfather Jack the Ripper.
Bellairs, John	The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb.
Cooney, Caroline	The Terrorist.
Cray, Jordan	Most Wanted.
Cross, Gillian	On the Edge.
Dahl, Michael	The Horizontal Man: A Finnegan Zwake Mystery.
Dexter, Catherine	I Dream of Murder.
Duncan, Lois	Don't Look Behind You.
Ehrlich, Amy	Where it Stops, Nobody Knows.
Garfield, Leon	Smith.
Glenn, Mel	Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems.
Griffin, Adele	The Other Shepards.
Hahn, Mary	The Dead Man in Indian Creek.
Hilgartner, Beth	A Murder for Her Majesty.
Hoeye, Michael	Time Stops for No Mouse.
Hoobler, Dorothy	The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn.
Johnson, Rodney	The Secret of Dead Man's Mine: A Rinnah Two Feathers Mystery.
Lawrence, Caroline	The Thieves of Ostia: A Roman Mystery.
Nickerson, Sara	How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.
Nixon, Joan	The Other Side of Dark.
Qualey, Marsha	Thin Ice.
Roberts, Willo	The View from the Cherry Tree.
Shusterman, Neal	The Shadow Club.
Vande Velde, Vivian	Never Trust a Dead Man.
Westall, Robert	Ghost Abbey.
Wynne-Jones, Tim	The Boy in the Burning House.
Yep, Laurence	The Case of the Lion Dance.

School, Friends & Family

Alcock, Vivien	A Kind of Thief.
Baskin, Nora Raleigh	What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows.
Bloor, Edward	Tangerine.
Blume, Judy	Just as Long as We're Together.
Bradley, Kimberly	Halfway to the Sky.
Bunting, Eve	Blackwater.
Byars, Betsy	Cracker Jackson.
Cappo, Nan Willard	Cheating Lessons.
Couloumbis, Audrey	Say Yes.
Fine, Anne	Flour Babies.
Fleischman, Paul	Seek.
Gantos, Jack	Jack's Black Book.
Goldman, E. M.	Money to Burn.
Gray, Dianne	Holding Up the Earth.
Hopper, Nancy J.	What Happened in Mr. Fisher's Room.
James, Mary	Frankenlouse.
Kehret, Peg	I'm Not Who You Think I Am.
Mazer, Norma Fox	Girlhearts.
Myers, Walter Dean	Scorpions.
Naylor, Phyllis	Reluctantly Alice.
Paterson, Katherine	Bridge to Terabithia.
Peters, Julie Anne	Define "Normal."
Pevsner, Stella	Sister of the Quints.
Pfeffer, Susan	The Year Without Michael.
Sachar, Louis	Holes.
Saldana, Rene	The Jumping Tree.
Salisbury, Graham	Lord of the Deep.
Sebestyen, Ouida	Out of Nowhere.
Tashjian, Janet	Multiple Choice.
Townsend, Sue	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4.
Trueman, Terry	Stuck in Neutral.
Vail, Rachel	Daring to be Abigail.
Van Draanen, Wendelin	Flipped.
Williams, Lori Aurelia	When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune.
Wood, June Rae	The Man Who Loved Clowns.
Woodson, Jacqueline	I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.

Science Fiction

Butts, Nancy	The Door in the Lake.
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Game.
Clements, Andrew	Things Not Seen.
Farmer, Nancy	The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm.
Gilmore, Kate	The Exchange Student.
Hautman, Pete	Hole in the Sky.
Hoover, H.M.	The Winds of Mars.
Hughes, Monica	Invitation to the Game.
Klause, Annette	Alien Secrets.
Lowry, Lois	Gathering Blue.
Mackel, Kathy	Eggs in One Basket.
Nelson, O. T.	The Girl Who Owned a City.
Nix, Garth	Shade's Children.
O'Brien, Robert	Z for Zachariah.
Peck, Richard	The Great Interactive Dream Machine.
Philbrick, W. R.	The Last Book in the Universe.
Riding, Julia	Space Traders Unlimited.
Rubinstein, Gillian	Galax-arena.
Sheffield, Charles	The Billion Dollar Boy.
Sleator, William	House of Stairs.
Star Wars	Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Tolan, Stephanie	Welcome to the Ark.
Ure, Jean	Plague.
Weaver, Will	Memory Boy.

Short Stories

Almond, David	Counting Stars.
	The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope.
	Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets.
	Girls Got Game.
Gordon, Ruth	It Takes a Dog to Raise a Village: True Stories of Remarkable Canine Vagabonds.
Murphy, Jim	Night Terrors.
Poe, Edgar Allan	Tales of Terror.
	The Random House Book of Sports Stories.
Saki	The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales by Saki.
Stine, R. L.	The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night.
	Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns.
	2041 A.D.: Twelve Stories About the Future by Today's Top Science Fiction Writers.
Vande Velde, Vivian	Curses, Inc. and Other Stories.
	A Wizard's Dozen: Stories of the Fantastic.
Wynne-Jones, Tim	Lord of the Fries and Other Stories.

Sports

Adler, C. S.	Winning.
Avi	S.O.R. Losers.
Crutcher, Chris	Ironman.
Deuker, Carl	On the Devil's Court.
Dygard, Thomas	Backfield Package.
Glenn, Mel	Play-by-Play.
Ritter, John	Over the Wall.
Russo, Marisabina	House of Sports.
Spinelli, Jerry	There's a Girl in My Hammerlock.
	Sports Stories.
Wunderli, Stephen	The Heartbeat of Halftime.

8/02
SJS

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