6th Grade RECOMMENDED READING LIST Return to RCS Library Home Page

Adams Richard, Watership Down

Alcott, Louisa Mae, Little Women 

Armstrong, William, Sounder

Benedict, Dorothy. Pagan the Black

Bland, Edith. The Railway Children; Five Children and It

Brink, Carol R. Caddie Woodlawn

Burch, Robert. Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain

Burnett, Frances. Little Princess; The Secret Garden

Byars, Betsy. Cracker Jackson; The Eighteenth Emergency

Carson, Ben. Ben Carson

Caufield, Dorothy. Understood Betsy

Clearly, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw

Cohen, Barbara. Thank you, Jackie Robinson

Crane, Steven. Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe

DeJong, Meindert, Wheel on the School; The House of Sixty Fathers

Dickens, Charles. Child’s History of England

Dravecky, Dave. Dave Dravecky

Dumas,  Alexandre. Count of Monte Cristo

Earnhart, Amelia. Courage in the Sky

Edmonds, W.D. Drums Along the Mohawk

Fast. Howard. April Morning

Frank, Anne. Diary of a Young Girl

Forbes, E. Johnny Tremain*

Gates, Doris. Blue Willows

Gibson. Miracle Worker; Old Yeller

Greene, Constance. A Girl Called Al

Hurwitz, Johanna. The Rabbi’s Girls

Jenkins, Peter. Walk Across America

Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous

Knight, Eric Lassie Come Home

Lampman, Evelyn. The Potlatch Family

Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia

London, Jack. Call of the Wild; White Fang

Marshall. Christy

McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure

Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables

Oxford University Press, Knights Fee

Patton, Frances. Good Morning, Miss Dove  

Paulsen. G. River; Hatchet; Soldier’s Heart

Pearce, Philippa. A Dog So Small

Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman

Potok, Chaim. The Chosen

Porter, Eleanor. Pollyanna

Rawlings, W. The Yearling; Where the Red Fern Grows

Schaefer. Shane

Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty

Sorenson, Virginia, Plain Girl

Speare, Elizabeth. Sign of the Beaver, The Bronze Bow*

Steinback, John. The Red Pony

Stolz, Mary. A Dog of Barkham Street

Tada, Joni Eareckson. Joni’s Story

Taylor, Sydney. All of a Kind Family

Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit

Twain, Mark, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Voight, Cynthia. Building Blocks

Walsh, Jill. Gaffor Samson’s Luck

Wilder, L.  Little House on the Prairie

NOTE: The majority of these novels have been read and approved by RCS staff.  However, if you are uncomfortable with any content, please inform the classroom teacher.