6th Grade Reading List - Nonfiction
Title | Author | Lexile |
Sadako | Eleanor Coerr | 630 |
Zlata's Diary - A Child's Life in Sarajevo | Zlata Filipovic | 640 |
No Pretty Pictures - A Child of War | Anita Lobel | 750 |
Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up | Jon Scieszka | 750 |
The Tarantula in My Purse | Jean Craighead George | 830 |
Kids On Strike! | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | 920 |
Phineas Gage…True Story about Brain Science | John Fleischman | 1030 |
Blizzard | Jim Murphy | 1080 |
Freedom Riders | Ann Bausum | 1090 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | Russell Freedman | 1100 |
Extreme Animals - the Toughest Creatures on Earth | Nicola Davies | 1100 |
An American Plague - Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 | Jim Murphy | 1130 |
Maritcha - Nineteenth-Century American Girl | Tonya Bolden | 1190 |
Bill Peet: an Autobiography | Bill Peet | 1190 |
Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser | 1240 |
World Trivia - The Book of Fascinating Facts | Michael Smith | NP |
Eat This Not That - For Kids | David Zinczenko | NP |
Middle School - the Real Deal | Juliana Farrell & Beth Mayall | NP |
Boy: Tales of Childhood; and Going Solo | Roald Dahl | NP |
So You Want to be President? | Judith St. George | NP |
Star Wars - the Complete Visual Dictionary | David West Reynolds | NP |
Exploratopia | Pat Murphy | NP |
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings | Shel Silverstein | NP |
Strike a Pose - the Planet Girl Guide to Yoga | Karen Birkemoe & Heather Collett | NP |