barnwife Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 Can you please list books (picture books through chapter books appropriate for 6ish grade) that have a number in the title? Numbery (yes, I made that up) words are fine too (like single double, half). Thanks! 1 Quote
8filltheheart Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 Tough one. All I can think of.... 12 Dancing Princesses 12 Swans 1001 Arabian Nights 7 Daughters and 7 Sons A Single Shard 2 Quote
ScoutTN Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 (edited) The Tale of Two Bad Mice Now We Are Six The 24 Days Before Christmas The Tale of Three Trees Goldilocks and the Three Bears The Three Little Pigs The Three Billy Goats Gruff Five Children and It The Book of Three Eagle of the Ninth Across Five Aprils* Nonfiction: One Small Square series * Civil war era setting, but no battles. Edited March 22, 2022 by ScoutTN 2 Quote
SilverMoon Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 (edited) . Edited June 11 by SilverMoon 2 Quote
Lori D. Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 (edited) Very fun idea! Compiling from the above posters' super ideas, and adding a few more:Half Magic (Eager) -- gr. 5-8 A Single Shard (Park) -- gr. 4-7One Small Square series -- nonfictionOne Grain of Rice (Demi) -- picture book McBroom's Wonderful One Acre Farm (Fleischman) -- gr. 2-4 Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery (Adler) -- gr. 3-4; a Cam Jansen mystery The Tale of Two Bad Mice (Potter) Walk Two Moons (Creech) -- gr. 6-8Two Are Better Than One (Brinker) -- gr. 5-7 Case of the Double Trouble Detective (Prellar) -- gr. 3-4 reader; a Jigsaw Jones mysteryTwo Minute Mysteries (Solo) -- gr. 4-8 The Tale of Three Trees -- picture book Goldilocks and the Three Bears The Three Little Pigs The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Book of Three (Alexander) -- gr. 4-6 The Three Musketeers (Classics Illustrated abridged/adapted version) -- gr. 3-5 The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Scieszka) -- picture Book The Sign of Four (Doyle) -- Sherlock Holmes short story; may be doable for 6th grade; otherwise, a read-aloud All Four Stars (Dalrman) -- gr. 4-7 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Blume) -- gr. 4-7 Across Five Aprils -- gr. 7-8+ Five Children and It -- may be doable for 6th grade; otherwise, a read-aloudFive Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney) -- gr. 4-6 The Five Chinese Brothers (Bishop) -- picture bookFive Little Monkeys series (Christelow) -- picture book seriesFive Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables (Cottage Door Press) Stories to Tell a 5-Year-Old (Low) Now We Are Six (Milne) -- gr. 3-7Six Crows (Lionni) -- picture book Six By Seuss: A Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics (Seuss)Sixth Grade Secrets (Sachar) -- gr. 5-8 Stories to Tell a 6-Year-Old (Low) Seven Daughters and Seven Sons (Cohen) -- gr. 7-9Seven Day Magic (Eager) -- gr. 5-8 The Seven Treasure Hunts (Byers) -- gr. 2-5 The Adventures of Tintin: The Seven Crystal Balls (Hergé) Stories for 7-Year-Olds (Knight)Eight Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles (Terban) -- gr. 1-5 The Eight-Year-Old Legend Book (Wyatt) -- gr. 3-4 -- tales of Buddha8 Animals on the Town (Elya) -- picture book8 Under 8 For 8's: 8 Short Stories Under 8 Minutes for 8-year-olds (Cossey) Best Stories for Eight-Year-Olds (Blyton) Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliffe) -- may be doable for 6th grade; otherwise, a read-aloud Comet's Nine Lives (Brett) -- picture book The Nine Days Wonder (Hollinshead) -- picture bookTen Little Ladybugs (Gerth) -- picture book; counting bookTen Twinkly Stars (Julian) -- picture book; counting bookTen in the Bed (Dale) -- picture book; counting bookTen on the Sled (Norman) -- picture book; counting bookEleven Birthdays (Mass) -- gr. 4-7 -- [the 12th birthday sequel is called Finally] Santa's Eleven Months Off (Reiss) -- picture book Turn of the Century: Eleven Centuries of Children and Change (Jackson) -- picture book; nonfictionTwelve Dancing Princesses -- by (Mayer) or (Sanderson) or other author -- picture book of the fairy tale12 Swans Cheaper by the Dozen (Galbraith) -- may be doable for 6th grade; otherwise, a read-aloud The Thirteen Days of Christmas (Overton) -- gr. 5 and up The 13-Story Treehouse (Griffiths) -- gr. 4-6 [sequels include 26, 39, 52, 65, 78, 91, 117 stories in the treehouse]13 Gifts (Mass) -- gr. 4-7 -- [the 14th birthday sequel is called The Last Gift] The Thirteen Clocks (Thurber) -- gr. 5/6 and up The Seventeenth Swap (McGraw) -- gr. 5-8 The Twenty-One Balloons (Pene du Bois) -- gr. 4-8 The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (L'Engle) -- gr. 5-8 The Rabbi and the Twenty-Nine Witches (Hirsh) -- picture book39 Clues (Riordan) -- gr. 4-7 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Five Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables (Cottage Door Press) Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54 (Adler) -- gr. 3-4; a Cam Jansen mystery The House of Sixty Fathers (de Jong) -- gr. 3-6 Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) -- may be doable for 6th grade; otherwise, a read-aloud Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Ninety-Nine Steps (Keene) -- gr. 4-8 The Hundred Dresses (Estes) -- gr. 3-5 100 Cupboards (Wilson) -- gr. 3-7One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Smith) -- gr 5-8 Hardy Boys: The Secret Agent on Flight 101 (Dixon) -- gr. 4-8 The Bedtime Book of 365 Stories: A Story for Every Day of the Year (Jackson and Scarry)1001 Arabian Nights -- tricky; none of the great children's versions have "1001" in the title -- just "Arabian Nights"1001 Things to Spot series -- search and find books Time Warp Trio: 2095 (Scieszka) -- gr. 3-6 Cam Jansen and the Millionaire Mystery (Adler) -- gr. 3-4; a Cam Jansen mystery The Toothpaste Millionaire (Merrill) -- gr. 3-6 Edited March 25, 2022 by Lori D. 1 Quote
SilverMoon Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 The Twenty-one Balloons Number the Stars The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland 1607 A New Look at Jamestown 1621 A New Look at Thanksgiving (I think there's more in this series) 2 Quote
8filltheheart Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 Can't believe that 21 Balloons didn't pop into my head. That has been a fav with my kids. So has Book of 3. (And we read Around the World in 80 Days and 20,000 Leagues this yr!! Obviously I need better spontaneous recall skills!) 2 Quote
Lori D. Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 1 minute ago, 8filltheheart said: Can't believe that 21 Balloons didn't pop into my head. That has been a fav with my kids. So has Book of 3. (And we read Around the World in 80 Days and 20,000 Leagues this yr!! Obviously I need better spontaneous recall skills!) lol -- And I had my smack forehead moment when it suddenly popped into my head that several of our favorite chapter books had numbers in the title like -- Half Magic and Seven-Day Magic (Edward Eager's magic book series), and, One Hundred and One Dalmatians which is such a fun book. 1 Quote
ScoutTN Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 My kids, ages 14 and 16, can still quote from Half Magic at length. Hilarious book! Good memories of many favorite read alouds in these lists! 1 Quote
8filltheheart Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 Oh, that reminded me of another that my kids laughed through: McBroom's Wonderful One Acre Farm. 2 Quote
Lori D. Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 2 hours ago, 8filltheheart said: Oh, that reminded me of another that my kids laughed through: McBroom's Wonderful One Acre Farm. THAT's the one that I couldn't remember! Yes, another beloved book here. 😄 2 hours ago, ScoutTN said: My kids, ages 14 and 16, can still quote from Half Magic at length. Hilarious book! Good memories of many favorite read alouds in these lists! LOL! Absolutely! For us, it was Eager's Knight's Castle that got quoted a lot (and still does occasionally, even now with DSs in their late 20s! 😄 ) 1 Quote
gck21 Posted March 22, 2022 Posted March 22, 2022 The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes popped into my mind because that is one of my all time favorites! My children like Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven series. 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson 2 Quote
jboo Posted March 23, 2022 Posted March 23, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, gck21 said: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes popped into my mind because that is one of my all time favorites! My children like Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven series. 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson Those Enid Blytons in turn reminded me of her Five Find-Outers series, as well a few series by other authors: "Three Investigators" (aka "Alfred HItchcock and the Three Investigators"), "Bobbsy Twins", "Sweet Valley Twins". Also the slightly more adult "Two-Minute Mysteries". Edited March 23, 2022 by jboo Quote
jboo Posted March 23, 2022 Posted March 23, 2022 Hardy Boys "The Four-Headed Dragon" Agatha Christie's "Thirteen at Dinner" "The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" , which I've never read. Not sure if it's suitable for 6th graders, but I'm including it anyway because we're low on fractions. "Life of Pi", same as the above, except for irrational numbers. I was very disappointed to find out that the H. Rider Haggard book is "Allan Quatermain", not "Allan Quartermain". Quote
wisdomandtreasures Posted March 24, 2022 Posted March 24, 2022 The First Four Years How Much is a Million? Can You Count to a Googol? 1 Quote
Servant4Christ Posted March 25, 2022 Posted March 25, 2022 Books I don't see listed above unless I missed them: Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule The Stout-Hearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail Quote
Lori D. Posted March 25, 2022 Posted March 25, 2022 Wondering if OP ever came back to her thread to see all the awesome suggestions that everyone has provided! 😄 Quote
amiesmom Posted March 25, 2022 Posted March 25, 2022 Picture books: Ten Flashing Fireflies, by Philemon Sturges One Odd Day, by Doris Fisher Less Than Zero (MathStart 3), by Stuart J. Murphy On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey, by David M. Schwartz Millions, Billions, & Trillions: Understanding Big Numbers, by David A. Adler Only One, by Marc Harshman Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews The Power of 10, by Judy Newhoff 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo: A Counting Book, by Eric Carle 100 Snowmen, by Jen Arena 12 Ways to Get to 11, by Eve Merriam 2 x 2 = Boo!: A Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories, by Loreen Leedy Bean Thirteen, by Matthew McElligott Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13, by Helaine Becker Quote
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