Book Report List Sixth Grade Target 800-1100 *The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Newberry) 570 The Black Stallion by Walter Farley 680 Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 700 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne 710 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 740 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 750 *The Giver by Lois Lowry 760 *Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit 770 *The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare (Newberry Honor) 770 *Crispin: the Cross of Lead bu Avi (Newberry) 780 *Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert O’brien 790 *Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix 800 Tales from Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey 820 *The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas 830 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 830 The Great Brain by John Fitzgerald 840 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle 850 *Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (Newberry) 860 Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter 870 *Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Newberry) 880 *Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth 890 White Fang by Jack London 900 Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Newberry) 910 Old Yeller by Fred Gibson 910 War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 930 *The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 940 Tales of King Arthur 950 The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas 960 The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett 970 The Black Pearl by Scott O’dell 980 *The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli (Newberry ) 990 *Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery 990 Island of the Blue Dolpins bu Scott O’dell (Newberry) 1000 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster 1000 *The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein 1000 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 1010 Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 1020 The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Newberry Honor) 1030 The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur Roth 1060 The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain 1080 *The Adventures of Sherlock Homes by Arthur Conan Doyle 1080 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 1100 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 1110 The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Newberry) 1120 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling 1140 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 1160 *The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Newberry) 1240 ***Sixth grade reading goals include the ability to read and understand books with lexile scores of 800-1100, however, the lexile score does not take into account many literary elements such as theme or figurative language so a lower lexile score does not necessarily equal an easier read.