RosieCotton Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 I'm putting together a list of great books to read this next year. Our favorite part of the day! Please join in and share your favorites for this age. We are reading LOTR aloud as a family taking our time thru the best story ever written. Complete with different voices, my husband does the perfect Gollum. We have made it thru the first 2 books of Narnia, and will finish the series this year. Thinking of Incredible Journey Mixed up files of Mrs. B Lassie Sign of Beaver Robinson Crusoe I'd like to pick a few titles to go with our history study period of 1700 thru 1850. I need to research what else I can pair up here. I'm looking at the Landmark Books too to supplement history. Thought please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 (edited) You might like to slowly start including some short stories, too. A number of good titles suggested for 6th grade in this past thread: "Short Stories for an 11-year-old". Book title ideas -- all but about 6 have male protagonists, and a few have joint male/female protagonists: 5th/6th grade From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsberg) The Incredible Journey (Burnford) The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Aiken) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (O'Brien) Gregor the Overlander (Collins) Below the Root (Snyder) The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) Holes (Sacher) A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle) The Cay (Taylor) My Side of the Mountain (George) Call It Courage (Armstrong) Island of the Blue Dolphins (o'Dell) The Black Stallion (Farley) Rascal (North) Shiloh (Naylor) Sounder (Armstrong) Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls) Summer of the Monkeys (Rawls) Shakespeare Stealer (Blackwood) Case of the Baker Street Irregular (Newman) The Great Wheel (Lawson) 6th/7th grade The Master Puppeteer (Paterson) Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt) The Pushcart War (Merrill) The Westing Game (Rankin) Enchantress from the Stars (Engdahl) Knight's Castle (Eager) -- pair it with Ivanhoe and/or a Robin Hood read for extra fun Maniac Magee (Spinnelli) The Great Brain (Fitzgerald) The Seventeenth Swap (McGraw) Gentle Ben (Morey) The Twenty-One Balloons (duBois) Hittite Warrior (Williamson) The King's Fifth (O'Dell) I Am David (Holm) The Fighting Prince of Donegal (Reilly) -- original title: Red Hugh The Thirteen Clocks (Thurber) Call of the Wild -- or, White Fang (London) ideas for your 1700-1850 time frame: 1700-1770 USA The Winter People (Bruchac) The Light in the Forest (Conrad) Calico Captive (Speare) The Broken Blade (Durbin) World Treasure Island (Stevenson) The Whipping Boy (Fleischman) The Ghost of Tokaido Inn (Hoobler) Stowaway (Hesse) Beyond the Western Sea series (Avi) Prince Across the Water (Yolen) -- gr. 6-10, so preview first as the battles may be more graphic than you want US Revolutionary War Arrow Over The Door (Bruchac) Johnny Tremain (Forbes) Early Thunder (Fritz) Guns For General Washington (Reit) My Brother Sam is Dead (Collier) Forge (Anderson) 1770-1800 USA Carry On Mr. Bowditch (Latham) Justin Morgan Had a Horse (Henry) Fever 1793 (Anderson) World The Master Puppeteer (Paterson) Kidnapped Prince: Life of Olaudah Equiano (Cameron) 1800-1850 USA The Journeyman (Yates) Only the Names Remain: THe Cherokees and the Trail of Tears (Bealer) Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) By the Great Horn Spook (Fleischman) The Great Turkey Walk (Karr) Moccasin Trail (McGraw) Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail (Woodruff) The True Adventures of Charley Darwin (Meyer) World Midshipman Quinn (Styles) The Fantastic Journey of Pieter Bruegel (Shafer) Heart of a Samurai (Preus) Edited August 17, 2017 by Lori D. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKT Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 Hatchet by Gary Paulson is my favorite, off the top of my head. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieCotton Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 Wow thanks for such a great list!! We've read maybe of third of these already so there are still tons to pick from . You rock it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Mostly we will be following the Build Your Library sugggestions but I also like some of these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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