Sixth Grade Recommended ReadingChicago Public Schools picks for recommended reading
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| Title* | Information link | Author | Comments | | Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World | Amazon link | Arielle North Olson | 1999, Viking | | Can You Guess My Name? Traditional Tales Around the World | | Judy Sierra | 2002, Clarion Books | | How Animals Saved the People: Animal Tales from the South | Review | J.J. Reneaux | | | Airplanes | | Arlene Bourgeois Molzahn | | | Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright | Wikipedia on the Wright Bros. | Mary Collins | 2003, National Geog... † | | More True Lies: 18 Tales for You to Judge | | George Shannon | 2001, Greenwillow B... † | | Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes | | Nina Simonds | | | Noodlehead Stories: World Tales Kids Can Read & Tell | | Martha Hamilton | 2000, August House | | Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls | Search Library | Jane Yolen | 2000, Harcourt Brace | | Princesses are People, Too: Two Modern Fairy Tales | | Susie Morgenstern | 2002, Viking | | The Seven Dwarfs | | Etienne Delessert | 2001, Creative Edit... † | | The Art of Keeping Cool | | Janey Taylor Lisle | 2000, Atheneum | | Coraline | | Neil Gaiman | 2002, HarperCollins | | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | | Avi | 2002, Hyperion Books | | Dancing in Cadillac Light | | Kimberly Willis Holt | 2002, Puffin Books | | The Doll People | | Ann M. Martin | 2000, Hyperion | | Double Fudge | | Judy Blume | 2002, Dutton Childr... † | | Everything on a Waffle | | Polly Horvath | 2001 Farrar, Straus... † | | Fair Weather: A Novel | | Richard Peck | 2001, Dial Books | | Firewing | | Kenneth Oppel | 2003, Simon & Schus... † | | Flipped | | Wendeli Van Draanen | 2001, Knopf | | Francie | | Karen English | 1999, Farrar, Strau... † | | The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn | | Dorothy Hoobler | 1999, Puffin | | The Ghost Sitter | | Peni R. Griffin | 2001, Puffin | | Harriet Spies Again | | Helen Ericson | 2002, Delacorte Pre... † | | Jim Ugly | | Sid Fleischman | 1992, Dell Books | | Joey Pigza Loses Control | | Jack Gantos | 2000, Farrar, Strau... † | | The Kite Rider | | Geraldine McCaughrean | 2002, HarperCollins | | Lost in the Labyrinth | | Patrice Kindl | 2002, Houghton Miff... † | | Mississippi Trial, 1955 | | Chris Crowe | 2002, P. Fogelman B... † | | The Red Rose Box | | Brenda A. Woods | 2002, Putnam | | Salsa Stories | | Lulu Delacre | 2000, Scholastic | | Samir and Yonatan | | Daniella Carmi | 2000, Levine Books | | The Sands of Time | | Michael Hoeye | 2002, Putnam | | See You Later, Gladiator | | Jon Scieszka | 2000, Viking | | Stand Tall | | Joan Bauer | 2002, Putnam | | Surviving the Applewhites | | Stephanie S. Tolan | 2002, HarperCollins | | The Thief Lord | | Cornelia Caroline Funke | 2002, Scholastic | | Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure | | Michael Hoeye | 2002, Putnam | | Trouble Don't Last | | Shelley Pearsall | 2002, Knopf | | Tulsa Burning | | Anna Myers | 2002, Walker | | What Would Joey Do? | | Jack Gantos | 2002, Farrar, Strau... † | | When the Circus Came to Town | | Laurence Yep | 2002, HarperCollins | | Carver, A Life in Poems | | Marilyn Nelson | 2001, Front Street | | A Dime a Dozen | | Nikki Grimes | 1998, Dial Books | | Fearless Fernie: Hanging Out with Fernie and Me: Poems | | Gary Soto | 2002, Putnam | | Freedom Like Sunlight: Praisesongs for Black Americans | | J. Patrick Lewis | 2000, Creative Edit... † | | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art | | Jan Greenberg | 2001, H. N. Abrams | | Hoofbeats, Claws & Rippled Fins: Creature Poems | | Lee Bennett Hopkins | 2002, HarperCollins | | Loose Threads | | Lorie Ann Grover | 2002, M.K. McElderr... † | | Movin’: Teen Poets Take Voice | | Dave Johnson | 2000, Orchard Books | | Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem | | Charles R. Smith, Jr. | 2002, Hyperion Press | | Splash! Poems of Our Watery World | | Constance Levy | 2002, Orchard Books | | Things Will Never Be the Same | | Tomie De Paola | 2003, Putnam | | Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize | | Patrice Vecchione | 2002, Cricket Books | | Amazing Flights – The Golden Age | | Ole Steen Hansen | 2003, Crabtree | | Bessie Coleman: First Black Woman Pilot | | Connie Plantz | 2001, Enslow | | Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation | | Jim Haskins | 1995, Scholastic | | Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul: 101 Stories of Courage, Hope and Laughter | | Jack Canfield | 1998, Health Commun... † | | Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States | | Pat McKissack | 2003, Scholastic | | Earth Care: World Folktales to Talk About | | Margaret Read MacDonald | 1999, Linnet Books | | Feed the Children First: Irish Memories of the Great Hunger | | Mary E. Lyons | 2002, Atheneum | | Fields of Fury: The American Civil War | | James M. McPherson | 2002, Atheneum | | First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane | | Peter Busby | 2002, Crown | | Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women | | Catherine Thimmesh | 2000, Houghton Miff... † | | The Gymnastics Book: The Young Performer's Guide to Gymnastics | | Elfi Schlegel | 2001, Firefly Books | | Human Body Revealed | | Sue Davidson | 2002, DK Publishing | | Jenny: The Airplane That Taught America to Fly | | David Weitzman | 2002, Roaring Brook... † | | Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela | | Yona Zeldis McDonough | 2002, Walker | | Popcorn! | | Elaine Landau | 2003, Charlesbridge | | Project UltraSwan | | Elinor Osborn | 2002, Houghton Miff... † | | The Revolutionary John Adams | | Cheryl Harness | 2003, National Geog... † | | Science Fair Success Secrets: How to Win Prizes, Have Fun, and Think Like a Scientist | | Bill Haduch | 2002, Dutton Books | | Secrets from the Rocks: Dinosaur Hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews | | Albert Marrin | 2002, Dutton Books | | Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays | | Peg Kehret | 1999, Whitman | | The Signers: The Fifty-Six Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence | | Dennis B. Fradin | 2002, Walker & Co | | Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart | | Corrine Szabo | 1997, National Geog... † | | The Story of Flight | | Judith E. Rinard | 2002, Firefly Books | | Supercroc: And the Origin of Crocodiles | | Christopher Sloan | 2002, National Geog... † | | To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | | Wendie C. Old | 2002, Clarion Books | | Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott | | Julie Cummins | 2001, HarperCollins | | Comments about this List? |
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