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Sixth Grade Books

The escape from home by Avi

Egg-drop blues by Jacqueline Turner Banks

The lost years of Merlin by T.A. Barron

The ghost in the mirror by John Bellairs ; completed by Brad Strickland

My brother Sam is dead [by] James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier by Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-

Into the land of the unicorns by Bruce Coville

Walk two moons by Sharon Creech

The midwife's apprentice by Karen Cushman

The BFG by Roald Dahl ; pictures by Quentin Blake

My side of the mountain, written and illustrated by Jean George by George, Jean Craighead, 1919-

Up a road slowly by Irene Hunt

Redwall by Brian Jacques ; illustrated by Gary Chalk

The view from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Ella enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The giver by Lois Lowry

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien ; illustrated by Zena Bernstein

Island of the blue dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Jacob have I loved by Katherine Paterson

Where the red fern grows : the story of two dogs and a boy by Wilson Rawls

Holes by Louis Sachar

The witch of Blackbird Pond by Speare, Elizabeth George

Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor ; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney

The hobbit, or, There and back again by J.R.R. Tolkien ; illustrated by Michael Hague

The thief by Megan Whalen Turner