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- Sixth Grade Selections
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- The Door in the Wall
- by Marguerite De Angeli, 1990
reissue, 121 pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Set in the fourteenth century,
the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses
the use of his legs.
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- MC Higgins the Great
- by Virginia Hamilton, 1993,
278 pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- M.C. Higgins dreams of saving
his family's home from strip miners. It is not until two strangers
enter his life that he learns the answer to his dreams lies in
coming to terms with his family heritage and his own identity.
A Newbery Medal Book
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- The Year My Parents Ruined My Life
- by Martha Freeman, 1999, 192
pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Kate hates moving from southern
California to Pennsylvania, and her first months there are made
worse by unceasing snowstorms and a group of equally cold classmates.
A trip back home helps her realize that she and her old friends
are changing and that she must begin to make a new life for herself.
Freeman tempers Kate's realistic resistance with plenty of humor,
including the exaggerated portrayals of both the West Coast and
the East.
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- Going Through the Gate
- by Janet Anderson, 2000, 144pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- As the five sixth graders in
a one-room schoolhouse prepare for mysterious Miss Clough's legendary
graduation ceremony--oing through the gate-the students relate
their hopes and fears about the upcoming experience, and the
reader gradually learns that each will turn into a different
animal for a few hours. An initially intriguing concept deteriorates
into heavy-handed moralism at the end.
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- A Jar of Dreams
- by Yoshiko Uchida, 1981, 131
pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- ...the first person telling
of the story of an eleven year old girl living with her Japanese
family in Berkeley, California. Times are hard in 1935, but being
Japanese is an added burden to eleven year old Rinko. She is
forced to endure the taunts from her peers who always call her
"jap". Then a visit from her Aunt Waka changes Rinko's
life forever.
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- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- by Avi, 1992, 232 pp., Reading
Level: ages 9-12
- In 1832, thirteen year old
Charlotte finds herself the only passenger and female aboard
a sailing ship bound from England to Rhode Island. She is drawn
to the maelstrom of evil and danger when she joins the crew in
revolt against the captain. She undergoes a remarkable change
after her adventures.
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- Baby
- by Patricia MacLachlan, 1995,
132 pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- The note left on the doorstep
of twelve-year-old Larkin's home along with the infant Sophie
indicates that Sophie's mother will return for her. Despite warnings
not to love her because her stay is temporary, Larkin's family
cannot avoid giving Sophie their hearts; in so doing, they gain
the ability to speak of the recent loss of their baby boy. Short,
spare, and powerful, the story lingers in the heart.
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- The Secret Garden
- by Tasha Tudor, 1987 reprint,
358 pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- When orphaned Mary Lennox,
lonely and sad, comes to live at her uncle's great house on the
Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she
hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside,
she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can charm and talk to animals.
Then, one day, with the help of a friendly robin, Mary discovers
the most mysterious wonder of all--a secret garden, walled and
locked, which has been completely forgotten for years and years.
Is everything in the graden dead, or can Mary bring it back to
life?
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- Running Out of Time
- by Margaret Peterson Haddix,
1997, 184 pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Believing herself to be a frontier
child in 1840, Jessie is shocked when her mother reveals a secret--it's
really 1996. After a diphtheria outbreak strikes the village
children, Jessie must venture out into the modern world where
she faces a wealth of confusing 20th century innovations and
the sinister man who will stop at nothing to make sure the village
residents remain locked in their 19th century world.
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- The Acorn People
- by Patricia MacLachlan, 1996,
79 pp., Reading Level: Young Adult
- The author's experiences as
a camp counselor for severely handicapped children.
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- Alan and Naomi
- by Myron Levoy, 1987, 192pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- When Naomi, a refugee child
from Nazi-occupied Paris who acts 'crazy,' moves into Alan Silverman's
building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. They slowly
develop a deep and touching friendship which]is a joy in this
warming story with its heart-wrenching ending. One of the more
honest approaches to the repercussions of WW II.
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- The Sixth Grade Nickname Game
- by Gordon Korman, 2000, 160
pp., Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Eleven-year-old best friends
Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates,
try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting
to the football coach who has become their new teacher.
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- The Great Green Notebook
of Katie Roberts: Who Just Turned Twelve on Monday
- by Amy Hest, 1998, 112pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- Told in diary format, her observations
on her mother, stepfather, twin brothers, teachers, friends,
and boys strike familiar chords, bridging the distance between
Katie's 1948 life and that of contemporary children. Who, for
example, can't sympathize with unfair injunctions against wearing
lipstick? Or dancing with the wrong boy when one's real heartthrob
is attracted to someone else? Or having the teacher ignore one's
best poetic efforts, particularly when one is used to being first?
Katie is a believable, dauntless character, with just the right
mix of sass and sympathy
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- Music of Dolphins
- by Karen Hesse, 1996, 180pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- This is a moving story of a
"wild" child, found apparently to have been raised
among dolphins, trying to adjust to life in the human world.
Kila, the main character, speaks through diary entries. The question
is: can a person who was raised in the wild adapt to the way
society would like them to be and...should we even try?
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- Dear Mr. Henshaw
- by Beverly Cleary, 1984, 134pp.,
Reading Level: ages 9-12
- In his letters to his favorite
author, 10 year old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with
his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally
finding his own place in the world.
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