B.B. Comer Sixth Grade Reading Requirements:
Pick two books from the list below
Students on reading level lower than Fourth Grade pick two books
from the K-3 list.
|
Title |
Author |
Title |
Author |
| After the First Death | Robert Cormier | Amos Fortune Free Man | Elizabeth Yates |
| Always Running | Luis Rodriguez | Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate Dicamillo |
| Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery | Deborah and James Howe |
| The Cay | Theodore Taylor | The Cat Ate My Gymsuit | Paula Danziger |
| Chicken Soup for Teen Soul: | Jack Canfield | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden |
| Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Beverly Clearly |
| Fallen Angels | Walter Dean Myers | The Egypt Game | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | Freak the Mighty (Also published as the Mighty) | Rodman Philbrick |
| Hiroshima | Laurence Yep | The Girl who Owned a City | O.T. Nelson |
| The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | Last Summer with Maizon | Jacqueline Woodson |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell | Lily's Crossing | Patricia Reilly Giff |
| A Lesson Before Dying | Ernest J. Gaines | Little House on the Praire | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel | Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | My Brother Sam Is Dead | James Lincoln and Christopher Collier |
| The Miracle Worker | William Gibson | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Eleanor B. Coerr |
| My Side of the Mountain | Jean Craighead George | Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
| The Pigman | Paul Zindel | The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare |
| The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories | Stephen Crane | Superfudge | Judy Blume |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred D. Taylor | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume |
| A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | The War With Grandpa | Robert Kimmel Smith |
| The Thief | Megan Whalen Turner | The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman |
| And Now Miguel | Joseph Krumgold | Belle Prater's Boy | Ruth White |
| The Contender | Robert Lipsyte | Brian's Winter | Gary Paulsen |
| The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged) | Alexandre Dumas | Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| A Day No Pigs Would Die | Robert Newton Peck | Canyons | Gary Paulsen |
| Dragonwings | Laurence Yep | Crash | Jerry Spinelli |
| The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm | Nancy Farmer | The Devil's Arithmetic | Jane Yolen |
| Farewell to Manzanar | Jeanne and James Houston | The Fighting Ground | Avi |
| Fever 1793 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling |
| Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story | Ben Carson | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Bette B. Lord |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | Lyddie | Katherine Paterson |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | Mr. Tucket | Gary Paulsen |
| How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | Julia Alvarez | Nightjohn | Gary Paulsen |
| I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Burton De Trevino | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry |
| The Light in the Forest | Conrad Richter | Sorpions | Walter Dean Myers |
| Nothing but the Truth (A Documentary Novel) | Avi | The Slave Dancer | Paula Fox |
| Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | That Was Then, This is Now | S.E. Hinton |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech |
| Sing Down the Moon | Scott O'Dell | The Watson's Go to Birmingham: 1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis |
| The Skin I'm In | Sharon Flake | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| Swallowing Stones | Joyce McDonald | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberely Willis Holt |
| Touching Spirit Bear | Ben Mikaelsen | Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | Whirligig | Paul Fleischman |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic | Witness | Karen Hesse |