Grade 6 Recommended Reading

Literature

Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard
Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers (and series) by Ralph Moody
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
The Yearling by Marjorie Rowlings
Shane by Jack Schaefer
The Lone Hunt by William O. Steele
Trail Through Danger by William O. Steele
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
A Man for Others (St. M. Kolbe) by Patricia Treese
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

History

Drums by James Boyd
Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness by John Mason Brown
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone
The Boy in the Alamo by Margaret Cousins
The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis by Louis de Wohl
Duel in the Wilderness by Karin Clafford Farley
Ben Franklin: Inventing America by Thomas Fleming
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
Edmund Campion: Hero of God’s Underground by Harold Gardiner
Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor
Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody
Captured by the Mohawks by Sterling North
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
We Were There on the Oregon Trail by William Steele