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Horizons Language Arts Supplemental Reading Lists HLA Grade 6
HLA 6 Supplemental Reading List Curriculum-linked reading: Westward Expansion Ballad of Lucy Whipple Black Storm Comin’ Crooked River A Gathering of Days Seaman Slave Dancer Streams to the River, River to the Sea Civil War A Friendly Persuasion I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly The Killer Angels Lincoln: A Photobiography Nightjohn Soldier’s Heart When Will This Cruel War Be Over? With Every Drop of Blood Roaring Twenties Darby The Grape Thief Great Depression Bud, Not Buddy Macaroni Boy Treasures in the Dust Saving Grace World War II and Holocaust Bat 6 Behind the Bedroom Wall Code Talker Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Journey to Topaz Kensuke’s Kingdom Maus Milkweed Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Under the Blood Red Sun When My Name was Keoko Civil Rights Movement Getting Away With Murder Jericho Walls Legend of Buddy Bush Mississippi Trial, 1955 Red Rose Box Rosa Parks: My Story Modern Classics for HLA 6 Titles you should read, know, and maybe love Anne of Green Gables Betsy-Tacy The Book of Three The Borrowers Bridge to Terabithia Call it Courage Charlotte’s Web Children of Green Knowe Daddy-Long-Legs Homer Price Incredible Journey Island of the Blue Dolphins Johnny Tremain Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH My Side of the Mountain Pippi Longstocking The Railway Children Sarah, Plain and Tall Stuart Little Sword in the Stone Tuck Everlasting The Witch of Blackbird Pond A Wrinkle in Time Fiction for HLA 6 Airball Alanna Among the Hidden Anybodies Artemis Fowl Baby Chasing Redbird Chasing Vermeer Coyote’s in the House The Dark Portal Defiance Each Little Bird That Sings The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Flipped Following Fake Man Frindle Gentle’s Holler Getting Near to Baby Gregor the Overlander Hoot How I Became a Writer and Oggie Learned to Drive I, Jack Letters from Camp Listening for Lions The Liberation of Gabriel King The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Maniac Magee Mick Harte Was Here Millions Our Only May Amelia Olive’s Ocean The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place The Penderwicks Peter and the Starcatchers Pictures of Hollis Woods Phantom Tollbooth Ruby Holler Saffy’s Angel School Story Sea Legs Secret of Platform 13 Supernaturalist Taking Wing Thief Lord The View from Saturday Voyage of Ice Wanderer Wenny Has Wings When the Tripods Came Wrinkle in Time Assorted Nonfiction for HLA 6 How Angel Peterson Got His Name Phineas Gage HLA 7-8 Supplemental Reading Lists Remember, not all titles are appropriate for or suited to all students. Read the descriptions on our library catalog, on Novelist, or on Amazon.com, and talk to Mrs. Foss or Mrs. Friesland before you make your choices. HLA 7-8 Multicultural Titles Before We Were Free Black Like Me Born Confused Crocodile Burning Cuba 15 A Day No Pigs Would Die Dragonwings Face Relations Habibi Homeless Bird The House on Mango Street Iqbal Kensuke’s Kingdom Kira-Kira Kiss the Dust The Kitchen God’s Wife Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Monster Necessary Roughness The Other Side of Truth The Pack Shabanu Shizuko’s Daughter A Step From Heaven Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Touching Spirit Bear Under the Persimmon Tree When My Name Was Keoko HLA 7-8 Realistic Fiction 3 NBs of Julian Drew Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Birdland Black-Eyed Susie The Boy in the Basement Breathing Underwater Child X Cloud Chamber Criss Cross Crooked Define Normal Drowning Anna Fault Line Feeling Sorry for Celia The Goats The Gospel According to Larry Jacob Have I Loved Kissing Tennessee Last Chance Texaco Letters from the Inside Looking for Alibrandi Loser Meely La Bauve The Monument Much Ado About Prom Night Murphy’s Boy The Only Alien on the Planet Rats Saw God The Secret Life of Bees Silent to the Bone So B. It So Long at the Fair Speak Stargirl Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Stop Pretending Stuck in Neutral Swallowing Stones Tangerine The Tiger Orchard Welcome to the Ark Whirligig You Don’t Know Me Outstanding realistic fiction authors: Sarah Dessen Chris Crutcher Robert Cormier HLA 7-8 Nonfiction 1776 Alive All Creatures Great and Small Anne Frank Remembered Bones Rock! Day of Infamy Eiger Eyes on the Prize Gettysburg: Voices of the Civil War Go Ask Alice Hitler Youth Hoop Dreams Kindertransport In Kindling Flame Kon-tiki Lasting Echoes Let Me Play The Lobster Wars Material World Modoc Never Cry Wolf Night Ophelia Speaks The Perfect Storm Phineas Gage Rascal The Right Stuff Reviving Ophelia Seed of Sarah Silent Spring Tales from Shakespeare Trails of Tears The Way Things Work We Were There, Too Within Reach Nonfiction authors to read: David McCullough, Temple Grandin HLA 7-8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Airborn Andromeda Strain The Bomb Born Into Light City of Ember City of the Beasts Dandelion Wine Downsiders Ender’s Game Eva Fallout Fish The Gift Moves Gifts House of Stairs The House of the Scorpion How I Live Now I, Coriander The Iowa Baseball Confederacy Ishmael The Last Book in the Universe The Last Unicorn The Lightning Thief Maximum Ride Mimus Peter and the Starcatchers The Postman The Princess Academy River Rats Sabriel The Secret Under My Skin The Shamer’s Daughter The Sterkarm Handshake Summerland The Supernaturalist Tomorrow When the War Began The Wind Singer The Winter of Magic’s Return The Wizard of Earthsea Other Sci/Fi and Fantasy Authors for whom to look: Orson Scott Card Ursula LeGuin Ray Bradbury (Please don’t read Fahrenheit 451!) Stephen Donaldson David Eddings Terry Brooks Terry Pratchett HLA 7-8 Poetry 19 Varieties of Gazelle Brickyard Summer Cool Salsa FEG The Invisible Ladder Kick in the Head Maya Angelou (collected poems) Remember the Bridge Split Image What Have You Lost? What Is Goodbye? HLA 7-8 Essays 911: The Book of Help Authortalk Gift From the Sea Guys Write for Guys Read Open Door Powerful Words Zena Sutherland Lectures The Panda’s Thumb and other books by John Gould HLA 7-8 Short Stories One Man’s Meat Who Do You Think You Are? Writings from the New Yorker: E. B. White HLA 7-8 Adventure and Mystery And Then There Were None Chasing Vermeer Claws Double Helix Down the Rabbit Hole The Eagle Has Landed The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred E. Kropp The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray The House of Dies Drear Martyn Pig Running with the Reservoir Pups Star of Kazan Twilight HLA 7-8 Biographies & Autobiographies Bad Boy Boy Cheaper by the Dozen Chinese Cinderella Days of Grace Death Be Not Proud Going Solo Growing Up I Have Lived a Thousand Years I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Into the Wild It’s Not About the Bike John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth King of the Mild Frontier The Longitude Prize A Measure of My Days No Language But A Cry No Pretty Pictures Of Beetles and Angels Red Scarf Girl Stick Figure They Cage the Animals at Night This Land Was Made for You and Me Wasted We Beat the Street HLA 7-8 Classics, Old and New 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Adventures of Robin Hood The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Animal Dreams The Bean Trees Black Beauty The Call of the Wild The Catcher in the Rye Cheaper by the Dozen The Chocolate War The Chosen A Christmas Carol Cold Sassy Tree A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Count of Monte Cristo Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Frankenstein Goodbye, Mr. Chips Gulliver's Travels Heidi The Hunchback of Notre Dame The Incredible Journey The Invisible Man The Island of Dr. Moreau Jane Eyre Johnny Tremain The Journey to the Centre of the Earth Joy Luck Club The Jungle Book Kidnapped Kim King Solomon's Mines The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Lilies of the Field The Little House on the Prairie The Little Prince A Little Princess Little Women The Man in the Iron Mask A Member of the Wedding The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood My Antonia My Name is Asher Lev Northwest Passage Old Man and the Sea Oliver Twist One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Pearl The Phantom Tollbooth Pride and Prejudice The Prisoner of Zenda The Red Pony The Secret Garden Sense and Sensibility A Separate Peace The Three Musketeers The Time Machine To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure Island A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The War of the Worlds Where the Red Fern Grows The Wind in the Willows Wuthering Heights |
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