New Sixth Graders: These are suggested books but evaluate your child’s reading ability and interest and read those types of books.

Fiction:

Across Five Aprils  by  Irene Hunt 

Balto & the Great Race  by  Elizabeth Kimmel

Boy With a Pack  by Steven W Meader

Daughter of the Mountains  by Louis Rankin

Single Shard  by  Linda Sue Park 

Whale Talk  by  Chris Crutcher 

Non-fiction:

Rascal   by Sterling North 

Biographies:

Homesteading in the Plains, Daily Life in the Land of Laura Ingalls Wilder  by Mary Wade

George Washington, First US President  by Tara Milto 

Ronald Reagan  by Karen Judson 

Shipwrecked, True Adventures of a Japanese Boy  by Rhoda Blumberg

Albert Einstein  by Frieda Wishinsky

Beverley Cleary, My Own Two Feet  by Beverley Cleary

George W Bush  (Encyclopedia of Presidents) by Matt Donnelly

Laura Bush, American First Lady  by Beatrice Gormley 

Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon  by Barbara Kramer

Series:

Royal Diaries  Series

Eyewitness Series such as Sea Shore, Plants, Insects, Fish, Amphibians, etc

Christianbooks.com / Lifeway Book Store

Newspaper Caper – by Max Elliot Anderson (Christian mystery) ISBN 0-9729256-4-3

Anything by Frank Peretti

Games On Series by Stephen Smith (Standard Publishing)

            Like: Full Court Pressure, Strike Three, Down Hill Challenge

C S Lewis: Magician’s Nephew, Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Silver Chair, Last Battle