6th Grade
Recommended Books
Newbery Book Awards
RI Childrens Book Award
Suggested quality books to help
students and their families
select interesting books to fullfill
literacy standards required reading.
Avi. Midnight Magic.
Bawden, Nina. Granny the Pag.
Bellairs, John. The House with a Clock in Its Walls.*
Bennett, Cherie. Zink.
Billingsley, Franny. The Folk Keeper.
Byars, Betsy. The Pinballs.
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl.
Cowley, Joy. Starbright and the Dream Eater.
Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer.
Curtis, Christopher. Bud, Not Buddy.
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice.
Dowell, Frances. Dovey Coe.
Fine, Anne. The Tulip Touch.
Fletcher, Susan. Shadow Spinner.
Griffin, Adele. The Other Shepards.
Hesse, Karen. The Music of Dolphins.
Hobbs, Will. Jason's Gold.*
Holm, Jennifer. Our Only May Amelia.
Jones, Diana Wynne. The Lives of Christopher Chant.*
Karr, Kathleen. Skullduggery.
Konigsburg, E.L. Silent to the Bone.
Korman, Gordon. The Sixth Grade Nickname Game.
Koss, Amy Goldman. The Ashwater Experiment.
Lawrence, Iain. Ghost Boy.
Levine, Gail Carson. The Two Princesses of Bamarre.
Mills, Claudia. Standing Up to Mr. O.
Morgenstern, Susie. Secret Letters from 0 to 10.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Crazy Jack.
Paterson, Katherine. Jip: His Story.*
Pattison, Darcy. The Wayfinder.
Roberts, Willo Davis. Pawns.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.*
Sachar, Louis. Holes.
Sturtevant, Katherine. At the Sign of the Star.
Thesman, Jean. In the House of the Queen's Beasts.
Vande Velde, Vivian. There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary.*
Williams, Carol Lynch. The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6.
* Books with the * are part of a series.
Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. (G 850 S53 A76 1998)
Calabro, Marian. The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party. (F 868 N5 C33 1999)
Duffy, Trent. The Clock. (QB 209 D83 2000)
Freedman, Russell. Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence. (E 221 F84 2000)
Giblin, James. When Plague Strikes. (RA 644 P7 G53 1995)
Krull, Kathleen. V is for Victory: America Remembers World War II (D 769 K78 1995)
Lasky, Kathryn. A Brilliant Streak: the Making of Mark Twain. (PS 1331 L37 - Biography)
Lobel, Anita. No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. (DS 135 P63 L63 1998 - Biography)
Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. (F 548.42 M87 1995)
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Who Were They Really? The True Stories Behind Famous Characters. (PR 830 C513 P44)
St. George, Judith. In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake. (E 176.1 S698 1999 - Biography)
Taylor, Maureen. Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors: A Step by Step Guide to Uncovering Your Family's History (CS 15.5 T39 1999
Thomas, Jane Resh. Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth. (DA 355 T48 - Biography)
Tillage, Leon. Leon's Story. (F 264 F86 T55 1997 - Biography)
Todd, Susan. Boredom Blasters: Hours and Miles of Games & Activities to Make Time Fly. (GV 1203 T53 2000)
Collier, James. The Bloody Country.
DeFoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables.*
Pullman, Philip. The Golden Compass.*
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling.
White, T.H. The Sword in the Stone.
Newbery Medal Winners, 1922 - Present
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion Books for Children)
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial)
2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte)
1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster)
1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
1997: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg (Jean Karl/Atheneum)
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins)
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry(Houghton)
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant (Jackson/Orchard)
1992: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum)
1991: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little, Brown)
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman (Harper)
1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (Harper)
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Greenwillow)
1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1983: Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Atheneum)
1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard (Harcourt)
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1980: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832 by Joan W. Blos (Scribner)
1979: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Dutton)
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Crowell)
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Dial)
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper (McElderry/Atheneum)
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (Macmillan)
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (Bradbury)
1973: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Harper)
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars (Viking)
1970: Sounder by William H. Armstrong (Harper)
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander (Holt)
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (Atheneum)
1967: Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Follett)
1966: I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Farrar)
1965: Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Atheneum)
1964: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville (Harper)
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar)
1962: The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Houghton)
1960: Onion John by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Houghton)
1958: Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (Crowell)
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorenson (Harcourt)
1956: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Houghton)
1955: The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper)
1954: ...And Now Miguel by Joseph Krumgold (Crowell)
1953: Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Viking)
1952: Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes (Harcourt)
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Dutton)
1950: The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (Doubleday)
1949: King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand McNally)
1948: The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois (Viking)
1947: Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Viking)
1946: Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Lippincott)
1945: Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson (Viking)
1944: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Houghton)
1943: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Viking)
1942: The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds (Dodd)
1941: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Macmillan)
1940: Daniel Boone by James Daugherty (Viking)
1939: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Rinehart)
1938: The White Stag by Kate Seredy (Viking)
1937: Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer (Viking)
1936: Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Macmillan)
1935: Dobry by Monica Shannon (Viking)
1934: Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown)
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Lewis (Winston)
1932: Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer (Longmans)
1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth (Macmillan)
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Macmillan)
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Macmillan)
1928: Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton)
1927: Smoky, the Cowhorse by Will James (Scribner)
1926: Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman (Dutton)
1925: Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger (Doubleday)
1924: The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes (Little, Brown)
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (Lippincott)
1922: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (Liveright)
The Rhode Island Children's Book Award
- This award is given annually. Students in Grades 3-6 select the winner by voting for a book on an annual list. Students may submit comments about the titles they have read.