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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).

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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.
 

 

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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. 4-7
One Small Square series -- nonfiction
One 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. 6-8
Two Are Better Than One (Brinker) -- gr. 5-7
Case of the Double Trouble Detective (Prellar) -- gr. 3-4 reader; a Jigsaw Jones mystery
Two 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-aloud
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney) -- gr. 4-6
The Five Chinese Brothers (Bishop) -- picture book
Five Little Monkeys series (Christelow) -- picture book series
Five Minute Stories: Over 50 Tales and Fables (Cottage Door Press)
Stories to Tell a 5-Year-Old (Low)

Now We Are Six (Milne) -- gr. 3-7
Six 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. 7-9
Seven 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 Buddha
8 Animals on the Town (Elya) -- picture book
8 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 book

Ten Little Ladybugs (Gerth) -- picture book; counting book
Ten Twinkly Stars (Julian) -- picture book; counting book
Ten in the Bed (Dale) -- picture book; counting book
Ten on the Sled (Norman) -- picture book; counting book

Eleven 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; nonfiction

Twelve Dancing Princesses -- by (Mayer) or (Sanderson) or other author -- picture book of the fairy tale
12 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 book

39 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. 3-7
One 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

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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)

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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!)

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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.

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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! 😄 )

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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

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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".

 

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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".

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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