th
6
Grade Research
Project
Authors and Poets
Avi
Historical Fiction
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead
(Newbery)
• The True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle (Newbery)
Graphic Novel
• City of Light, City of Dark:
A Comic Book Novel
Animals Fiction
• Ereth’s Birthday
Contemporary Fiction
• Never Mind: A Twin Novel
(Lone Star)
http://www.avi-writer.com/aboutAvi.html
T.A. Barron
Fantasy
• The Lost Years of
Merlin – epic series
• The Lost Years of Merlin
• The Fires of Merlin
• Great Tree of Avalon –
trilogy
• Child of the Dark
Prophecy, Book 1
http://www.tabarron.com/tabarron/index.cfm?cid=254
Matt Christopher
Sports Fiction /
Contemporary Fiction
•Olympic Dream
•Skateboard Tough
Biography
•On the Ice with Wayne Gretzky
•On the Mound with Greg Maddux
http://goodconversations.com/authors/christopher.html
Andrew Clements
Contemporary
Fiction
• The Landry News
Science Fiction
• Things Not Seen
Survival
• A Week in the Woods
http://www.andrewclements.com/
Sharon Creech
Contemporary
Fiction
• Walk Two Moons
• Chasing Redbird
• Ruby Holler
• Replay
www.audiofilemagazine.com
Verse
• Love That Dog
• Heartbeat
Eoin Colfer
Fantasy
• Artemis Fowl series
Science Fiction
• The Supernaturalist
• The Wish List
(both Lone Star)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin_Colfer
Caroline B. Cooney
Suspense
• Face on the Milk Carton
series
• Code Orange (Lone
Star)
Historical Fiction
• The Ransom of Mercy
Carter
Mythology Fiction
• The Goddess of
Yesterday (Lone Star)
http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-cooney-caroline.asp
Susan Cooper
Fantasy
• The Dark is Rising - series
• Over Sea Under Stone
• The Dark is Rising (Newbery)
• The Magician’s Boy
Science Fiction
• Green Boy
http://www.thelostland.com/biography.htm
Christopher Paul Curtis
Historical Fiction
• The Watsons Go to
Birmingham—1963
(Newbery)
• Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery)
Contemporary Fiction
• Bucking the Sarge
Mystery
• Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money
http://www.hugohouse.org/images/Christopher-Paul-Curtis.gif
Carl Deuker
Sports Fiction
• Painting the Black
• High Heat (Lone Star)
• Night Hoops
http://members.authorsguild.net/carldeuker/bio.htm
Sid Fleischman
Autobiography
• The Abracadabra Kid
Biography
• Escape (about Houdini)
Humor
• The McBroom Stories
Historical
Fiction/Adventure
• The Giant Rat of
Sumatra: or Pirates
Galore
• The Whipping Boy
www.sdsuniverse.info/Upload/Sid%20Fleischman.jpg
Russell Freedman
Non-Fiction Works
• Lincoln: A
Photobiography
• Give Me Liberty: The
Story of the
Declaration of
Independence
• The Wright Brothers:
How They Invented the
Airplane
www.loc.gov/bookfest/2001/bioimages/freed
man.jpg
Cornelia Funke
Fantasy
• Dragon Rider
• Inkheart
• Inkspell
Mystery
• Thief Lord
http://www.wochenpostusa.com/Assets/cornelia%20Funke.jpg
Jean Craighead George
Adventure Fiction
• Julie of the Wolves
(Newbery)
• My Side of the Mountain –
series (Newbery)
Nature Fiction
• There’s An Owl in the
Shower
Mystery
• The Fire Bug Connection:
An Ecological Mystery
http://www.writerscenter.org/images/george.jpg
Patricia Reilly Giff
Historical Fiction
• All the Way Home
• A House of Tailors
• Lily’s Crossing
(Newbery)
Contemporary Fiction
• Pictures of Hollis
Woods (Newbery)
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/ron_morgan/author.html
Shannon Hale
Fantasy
• The Goose Girl
• Enna’s Burn
Contemporary
Fiction
• The Princess
Academy
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-hale-shannon.asp
Kevin Henkes
Contemporary Fiction
• Sun and Spoon
• Olive’s Ocean (Newbery)
• The Birthday Room
http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/lindbergh/lmc/author_websites.htm
James Herriot
Story Collection
• James Herriot’s
Animal Stories
Biography
• All Creatures Great
and Small
http://www.jamesherriot.org/images/yorkshire/jh.jpg
Karen Hesse
Historical Fiction
• Dear America series
• Letters from Rifka
Contemporary Fiction
• The Music of Dolphins
Poetry/Verse
• Out of the Dust
(Newbery)
• Witness
http://www.lcpl.lib.va.us/onebook05/images/KarenHessepix150.jpg
Carl Hiaasen
• Novels
• Flush
• Hoot
The Miami Herald
• Columnist
www.authorsontheweb.com/.../hiaasen-carl.jpg
Kimberly Willis Holt
Contemporary Fiction
• When Zachary Beaver
Came to Town (Newbery)
Historical Fiction
• My Louisiana Sky
• Dancing in Cadillac Light
http://www.kimberlyholt.com/
Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider Adventures
• Skeleton Key
Diamond Brother’s
Mysteries
• The Falcon’s Malteser
http://www.barnensbibliotek.se/forfatt/horowitz.htm
Eva Ibbotson
Fantasy
• Island of the Aunts
• The Secret of Platform 13
Ghost Stories
• Dial-A-Ghost
Historical Fiction
• Journey to the River Sea
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/i/eva-ibbotson/
Brian Jacques
Fantasy
• Marlfox - Redwall
Series
Historical Fiction
• Castaways of the
Flying Dutchmen
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/brian-jacques/
E.L. Konigsburg
Contemporary Fiction
• The View From Saturday
(Newbery)
• The Outcasts of 19
Schuyler Place (Lone Star)
• From the Mixed-up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
(Newbery)
http://www.artspower.org/about-us.htm
Gordon Korman
Adventure/Survival Series
• The Climb : Everest series
• The Discovery : Dive series
• Chasing the Falconers : On
the Run Series
Humor
• Maxx Comedy: The
Funniest Kid in America
• No More Dead Dogs
• The Twinkie Squad
Kathleen Krull
Non-Fiction Works
What Really
Happened in
Roswell: Just the
facts (plus the
rumors) about
UFOs and Aliens
Lives of the Writers:
Comedies
Tragedies and
what the neighbors
thought
www.kathleenkrull.com/kathleenkrull.jpg
Madeleine L’Engle
Fantasy
• A Wrinkle in Time
(Newbery)
Science Fiction
• An Acceptable Time
Mystery
• Troubling a Star
http://www.madeleinelengle.com/multi/photos.htm#
C.S. Lewis
Fantasy
The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Lion, the Witch & the
Wardrobe
• The Last Battle
http://www.doreleiden.nl/boeken/bb2002-07a.asp
Mike Lupica
• Novels
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•
•
•
•
www.sacbee.com/.../232242-MIKE-LUPICA.jpg
Heat
Travel Team
Red Zone
Wild Pitch
Full Court Press
Ann M. Martin
Historical Fiction
• Belle Teal
Fantasy
• The Doll People
Contemporary Fiction
• A Corner of the
Universe (Newbery)
http://www.festival.scholastic.ca/authors/martin_a/
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Historical Fiction
Avonlea Series
• Anne of Green
Gables
• Anne of Avonlea
http://www.canadianheritage.org/images/regular/20821.jpg
Walter Dean Myers
Biography
• The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Historical Fiction
• Journal of Joshua Loper: Black
Cowboy - My Name is America
Series
Contemporary Fiction
• Monster
• Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff
http://www.nationalbook.org/graphics/nba2005/finalist_hs/myers.jpg
Linda Sue Park
Fiction
• A Single Shard
• Project Mulberry
• When My Name
was Keoko
Gary Paulsen
Historical Fiction
• Mr. Tucket : Francis
Tucket books
Adventure
• Hatchet - series
(Newbery)
Autobiography
• My Life in Dog Years
http://bisbeehs.utma.com/images/paulsen.gif
Richard Peck
Historical Fiction
• A Long Way from
Chicago
• A Year Down Yonder
Fiction
• Fairweather
• The Dreadful Future of
Blossom Culp
• Ghosts I Have Been
• Here Lies the Librarian
Robert Newton Peck
Fiction
• A Day no Pigs
Would Die
• Extra Innings
• Bro
Series
• Soup
• Soup and Me
• Soup on Fire
• Soup on Ice
Tamora Pierce
Fantasy
• Alanna: The First
Adventure – Alanna series
• Protector of the Small –
Page series
• Trickster’s Choice
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/fairfaxnetwork/images/video_store/mta/mta_pierce2.jpg
Philip Pullman
Fantasy
• His Dark Materials
Series:
• The Golden Compass
• The Amber Spyglass
• The Ruby in the
Smoke
Adventure
• Count Karlstein
http://www0.mh.bbc.co.uk/oxford/stage/2005/01/images/phillip_pullman_270.jpg
Ann Rinaldi
Historical Fiction
• Dear America series –
• My Heart is On the Ground
• The Journal of Jasper
Jonathan Pierce
• A Break with Charity: A
Story About the Salem
Witch Trials
http://aol.teenreads.com/art/authorphotos/120w/rinaldi-ann.jpg
J.K Rowling
Fantasy
• Harry Potter books
• Sorcerer’s Stone
• Prisoner of Azkaban
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40900000/jpg/_40900922_potter_afp_203.jpg
Pam Munoz Ryan
Fiction
• Esperanza Rising
• Becoming Naomi
Leon
• Riding Freedom
Fictional Stories
• Amelia and Eleanor
Go for a Ride
• When Marian Sang
(Biography)
Louis Sachar
Contemporary Fiction
• Holes (Newbery)
• Small Steps
Humor
• Wayside School series
• Wayside School is Falling Down
• Sideways Arithmetic from
Wayside School
http://mrkellysclass.net/Images/sachar_louis_dog.jpg
Neal Schusterman
Contemporary
Fiction
• The Schwa was
Here
• Full Tilt
Dark Fusion Series
• Dreadlocks
• Duckling Ugly
www.geocities.com/.../neilschusterman.jpg
Jerry Spinelli
Contemporary
Fiction
• Maniac Magee
(Newbery)
• Wringer (Newbery)
• Stargirl
• Loser
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2003/bioimages/jspinelli.jpg
Mildred D. Taylor
Historical Fiction
• Roll of Thunder, Hear
My Cry (Newbery)
• The Well
• The Gold Cadillac
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/taylor_mildred/taylor2.jpg
Theodore Taylor
Historical Fiction
• The Cay
Contemporary Fiction
• The Trouble with Tuck
Adventure
• Ice Drift
http://www.nci.org/04nci/11/TedTaylor.jpg
J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantasy
• The Hobbit
• Lord of the Rings
Trilogy
• The Fellowship of the
Ring
http://www23.thdo.bbc.co.uk/oxford/features/famous_oxfordshire/images/tolkien_270.jpg
Wendelin Van Draanen
Contemporary Fiction
• Flipped
Mystery
• Sammy Keyes and the
Hollywood Mummy
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec01/wendelin.jpg
Laurence Yep
Contemporary Fiction
• Angelfish
• Cockroach Cooties
Historical Fiction
• Dragonwings (Newbery)
• Dragon’s Gate
Mystery
• The Case of the Firecrackers Chinatown series
http://64.172.206.2/Internet/StudentLife/Projects/AuthorWebPages/Schroeter/Ashley/yep.jpg
The End
Agatha Christie
Mystery
• Murder on the Orient
Express
• Death on the Nile
• The Mirror Crack’d
http://www.nndb.com/people/583/000026505/agatha_christie_80.jpg
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
• I’m Nobody, Who
Are You?
• The Complete
Poems of Emily
Dickinson
http://www.literacyrules.com/WebDesign/110webs/thienthanh/Emily%20Dickinson%20picture.jpg
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes
• The Sherlock Holmes
Reader
http://www.avdistrict.org/library/doyle.jpg
Langston Hughes
Poetry
• The Dreamkeeper
and Other Poems
• Selected Poems
http://www.center.k12.mo.us/cmclain/BH/Hughes.jpg
William Shakespeare
Plays
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•
•
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
The Comedies of
Shakespeare: Vol.2
http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/gdumler/Eng%201B%20Folder/Images%20for%201b/shakespearepainting.jpg
Mary Shelley
Horror Fiction
• Frankenstein
http://www.encyclopedia.it/Images/2/200px-maryshelley.jpeg
Robert Louis Stevenson
• Novels
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde
• Treasure Island
Poetry
• A Child’s Garden
of Verse
da.wikipedia.org