Akron Middle School Grade 6
TITLE Author
2011
Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool
Turtle in Paradise Jennifer Holm
Heart of a Samurai Margi Preus
Dark Emperor and Other Poems Joyce Sidman
of the Night
One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia
2010
When You Reach Me Rebecca Stead
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Jacqueline Kelly
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Rodman Philbrick
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin
The Graveyard Book 2009 Neil Gaiman
The Underneath Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree:Poems of
Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom Margarita Engle
Savvy Ingrid Law
After Tupac& D Foster Jacqueline Woodson
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Voices from a Medieval Village 2008 Laura Amy Schlitz
Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers Jacqueline Woodson
The Higher Power of Lucky 2007 Susan Patron
Penny from Heaven Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky Kirby Larson
Rules Cynthia Lord
Criss Cross 2006 Lynne Rae Perkins
Whittington Alan Armstrong
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Princess Academy Shannon Hale
Show Way Jacqueline Woodsen
Kira, Kira 2005 Cynthia Kadohata
Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Gary D. Schmidt
The Voice That Challenged a Nation Russell Freedman
The Tale of Despereaux 2004 Kate DiCamillo
Olive's Ocean Kevin Henkes
An American Plague: The True
and Terrifying Story of the Yellow
Fever Epidemic of 1793 Jim Murphy
Crispin, The Cross of Lead 2003 Avi
Hoot Carl Hiaasen
Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolan
A Corner of the Universe Ann M. Martin
The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer
Pictures of Hollis Woods Patricia Reilly Giff
A Single Shard 2002 Linda Sue Park
Everything On a Waffle Polly Horvath
Carver: “A Life in Poems” Marilyn Nelson
A Year Down Yonder 2001 Richard Peck
Hope Was Here Joan Bauer
Because of Winn Dixie Kate DiCamillo
Joey Pigza Loses Control Jack Gantos
The Wanderer Sharon Creech
Bud, Not Buddy 2000 Christopher Paul Curtis
Getting Near To Baby Audrey Couloumbis
Our Only May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm
26 Fairmont Avenue Tomie dePaola
Holes 1999 Louis Sachar
A Long Way From Chicago Richard Peck
Out of the Dust 1998 Karen Hesse
Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine
Lily’s Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff
Wringer Jerry Spinelli
The View from Saturday 1997 E.L. Konigsburg
A Girl Name Disaster Nancy Farmer
The Moorchild Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Thief Megan Whalen Turner
Belle Prater’s Boy Ruth White
The Midwife’s Apprentice 1996 Karen Cushman
What Jamie Saw Carolyn Coman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—l963 Christopher Paul Curtis
Yoland’s Genius Carol Fenner
The Great Fire Jim Murphy
Walk Two Moons 1995 Sharon Creech
Catherine, Called Birdy Karen Cushman
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Nancy Farmer
The Giver 1994 Lois Lowry
Crazy Lady Jane Leslie Conly
Dragon’s Gate Laurence Yep
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Russell Freedman
Missing May 1993 Cynthia Rylant
What Hearts Bruce Brooks
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Patricia C. McKissack
Somewhere in the Darkness Walter Dean Myers
Shiloh 1992 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel Avi
The Wright Brother: How They Invented Russell Freedman
the Airplane
Maniac Magee 1991 Jerry Spinelli
The True Confessions of Charlotte Avi
Doyle
Number the Stars 1990 Lois Lowry
Afternoon of the Elves Janet Taylor Lisle
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Winter Room Gary Paulsen
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices 1989 Paul Fleischman
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Virginia Hamilton
Around the World
Scorpions Walter Myers
Lincoln: A Photobiography 1988 Russell Freedman
After the Rain Norma Fox Mazer
Hatchet Gary Paulsen
The Whipping Boy 1987 Sid Fleischman
A Fine White Dust Cynthia Rylant
On My Honor Marion Dane Bauer
Volcano: The Eruption and the Healing Patricia Laube
of Mount St. Helens
Sarah, Plain and Tall 1986 Patricia MacLachlan
Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun Rhonda Blumberg
Dogsong Gary Paulsen
The Hero and the Crown 1985 Robin McKinley
Like Jake and Me Mavis Jukes
The Moves Make the Man Bruce Brooks
One-Eyed Cat Paula Fox
Dear Mr. Henshaw 1984 Beverly Cleary
The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare
A Solitary Blue Cynthia Voigt
Sugaring Time Kathryn Lasky
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Bill Brittain
Tree
Dicey’s Song 1983 Cynthia Voigt
The Blue Sword Robin McKinley
Doctor DeSoto William Steig
Graven Images Paul Fleischman
Homesick: My Own Story Jean Fritz
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: 1982 Nancy Willard
Poems for Innocent and Experienced
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Beverly Cleary
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Child- Aranka Siegal
hood in Hungary 1939-1944
Jacob Have I Loved 1981 Katherine Paterson
The Flegling Jane Langron
A Ring of Endless Light Madeline L’Engle
A Gathering of Days: 1980 Joan Blos
A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32
The Road from Home: The Story of An David Kherdian
Armenian Girl
The Westing Game 1979 Ellen Raskin
The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia 1978 Katherin Paterson
Ramona and Her Father Beverly Cleary
Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey Jamake Highwater
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1977 Mildred D. Taylor
Abel’s Island William Steig
A String in the Harp Nancy Bond
The Grey King 1976 Susan Cooper
The Hundred Penny Box Sharon Bell Mathis
Dragonwings Laurence Yep
M.C. Higgins, the Great 1975 Virginia Hamilton
Figgs & Phantoms Ellen Raskin
My Brother Sam Is Dead James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Marie Pope
Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe Bette Green
The Slave Dancer 1974 Paula Fox
The Dark is Rising Susan Cooper
Julie and the Wolves 1973 Jean Craighead George
Frog and Toad Together Arnold Lobel
The Upstairs Room Johanna Weiss
The Witches of Worm Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1972 Robert C. O’Brien
Incident At Hawk’s Hill Allan W. Eckert
The Planet of Junior Brown Virginia Hamilton
The Tombs of Atuan Allan W. Eckert
Annie and the Old One Miska Miles
The Headless Cupid Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Summer of the Swans 1971 Betsy Byars
Kneeknock Rise Natalie Babbitt
Enchantress from the Stars Sylvia Louise Engldahl
Sing Down The Moon Scott O’Dell
Sounder 1970 William H. Armstrong
Our Eddie Sulamith Ish-Kishor
The Many Ways of Seeing: Janet Gaylord Moore
An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art
Journey Outside Mary Q. Steele
The High King 1969 Lloyd Alexander
To Be a Slave Julius Lester
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. 1968 E.L. Konisburg
Basil E. Frankweiler
Jennnifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William E.L. Konisburg
McKinley, and Me
The Black Pearl Scott O’Dell
The Fearsome Inn Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Up a Road Slowly 1967 Irene Hunt
The King’s Fifth Scott O’Dell
Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories Isaac Bashvis Singer
The Jazz Man Mary H. Weik
I, Juan de Pareja 1966 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander
The Animal Family Randall Jarrell
The Noonday Friends Mary Stolz
Shadow of a Bull 1965 Maia Wojciechowska
Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt
It’s Like This, Cat 1964 Emily Cheney Neville
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era Sterling North
The Loner Ester Weir
A Wrinkle in Time 1963 Madeleine L’Engle
Thistle and Thyme: Sorchie Nic Leodhas
Tales and Legends from Scotland
Men of Athens Olivia Coolidge
The Bronze Bow 1962 Elizabeth George Speare
Frontier Living Edwin Tunis
The Golden Goblet Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Island of the Blue Dolphins 1961 Scott O’Dell
America Moves Forward: A History of Peter Gerald W. Johnson
Old Ramon Jack Schaefer
The Cricket in Times Square George Selden
Onion John 1960 Joseph Krumgold
My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George
America is Born: A History for Peter Gerald W. Johnson
The Gammage Cup Carol Kendall
The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1959 Elizabeth George Speare
The Family Under the Bridge Natalie Savage Carlson
Along Came a Dog Meindert Dejong
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa Francis Kalnay
The Perilous Road William O. Steele
Rifles for Watie 1958 Harold V. Keith
The Horsecatcher Mari Sandoz
Gone-Away Lake Elizbeth Enright
The Great Wheel Robert Lawson
Tom Paine, Freedom’s Apostle Leo Gurko
Miracles on Maple Hill 1957 Virginia Sorenson
Old Yeller Fred Gipson
The House of Sixty Fathers Meindert DeJong
Mr. Justice Holmes Clara Ingram Judson
The Corn Grows Ripe Dorothy Rhoads
Black Fox of Lorne Marguerite de Angli
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch 1956 Jean Lee Latham
The Secret River Marjoie Kinnan Rawlings
The Golden Name Day Jennie Linquist
Men, Microscopes, and Living Things Katherine Shippen
The Wheel on the School 1955 Meindert Dejong
The Courage of Sarah Noble Alice Dalgliesh
Banner In the Sky James Ullman
…And Now Miguel 1954 Joseph Krumgold
All Alone Claire Hutchet Bishop
Shadrach Meindert DeJong
Hurry Home, Candy Meindert DeJong
Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot Clara Ingram Judson
Magic Maize Mary and Conrad Buff
Secret of the Andes 1953 Ann Nolan Clark
Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
Moccasin Trail Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Red Sails to Capri Ann Weil
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain Alice Dalgliesh
Ginger Pye 1952 Eleanor Estes
American Before Columbus Elizabeth Baity
Minn of the Mississippi Holling C. Holling
The Defender Nicholas Kalashnikoff
The Light At Tern Rock Julia Sauer
The Apple and the Arrow Mary and Conrad Buff
Amos Fortune, Free Man 1951 Elizabeth Yates
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed Mabel Leigh Hunt
Gandhi, Fight Without A Sword Jeanette Eaton
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People Clara Ingram
The Story of Appleby Capple Anne Parish
The Door in the Wall 1950 Marguerite de Angeli
Tree of Freedom Rebecca Caudill
The Blue Cat of Castle Town Catherine Coblentz
Kildee House Rutherford Montgomery
George Washington Genevieve Foster
Song of the Pines Walter and Marion Havighurst
King of the Wind 1949 Marguerite Henry
Seabird Holling C. Holling
Daughter of the Mountains Louise Rankin
My Father’s Dragon Ruth S. Gannett
Story of the Negro Arna Bontemps
The Twenty-One Balloons 1948 William Pene du Bois
Pancakes-Paris Claire Hutchet Bishop
Li Lun, Lad of Courage Carolyn Treffinger
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Catherine Besterman
Johnny Longfoot
Misty of Chincoteague Marguerite Henry
Miss Hickory 1947 Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Wonderful Year Nancy Barnes
Big Tree Mary and Conrad Buff
The Heavenly Tenants Williama Maxwell
The Avion My Uncle Flew Cyrus Fisher
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston Eleanor Jewett
Strawberry Girl 1946 Lois Lenski
Justin Morgan Had a Horse Marguerite Henry
The Moved-Outers Florence Crannell Means
Rabbit Hill 1945 Robert Lawson
The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes
The Silver Pencil Alice Dalgliesh
Abraham Lincoln’s World Genevieve Foster
Lone Journey: the Life of Roger Williams Jeanetter Eaton
Johnny Tremain 1944 Esther Forbes
These Happy Golden Years Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fog Magic Julia Sauer
Rufus M. Eleanor Estes
Mountain Born Elizabeth Yeats
Adam of the Road 1943 Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Middle Moffat Eleanor Estes
Have Youn Seen TomThumb? Mabel Leigh Hunt
The Matchlock Gun 1942 Walter Edmonds
Little Town On the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison Lois Lenski
George Washington’s World Genevieve Foster
Down Ryton Water Eva Roe Gaggin
Call it Courage 1941 Armstrong Sperry
Blue Willow Doris Gates
Young Mac of Fort Vancouver Mary Jane Carr
The Long Winter Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nansen Anna Gertrude Hall
Daniel Boone 1940 James Daugherty
The Singing Tree Kate Seredy
Runner of the Mountain Tops Mabel Robinson
By the Shores of Silver Lake Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boy With a Pack Stephen Meader
Thimble Summer 1939 Elizabeth Enright
Nino Valenti Angelo
Mr. Popper’s Penguins Richard and Florence Atwater
Hello the Boat! Phyllis Crawford
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot Jeanette Eaton
The White Stag 1938 Kate Seredy
Pecos Bill James Cloyd Bowman
On the Banks of Plum Creek Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Roller Skates Ruth Sawyer
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book Lois Lenski
Whistler’s Van Idwal Jones
The Golden Basket Ludwig Bemelmans
Winterbound Margery Bianco
The Codfish Musket Agnes Hewes
Caddie Woodlawn 1936 Carol Ryrie Brink
Dorby 1935 Monica Shannon
Davy Crockett Constance Rourke
Invincible Louisa: 1934
The Story of the Author of Little Women Cornelia Meigs
The Forgotten Daughter Caroline Snedeker
Swords of Steel Elsie Singmaster
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze 1933 Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War Hildegarde Swift
Waterless Mountain 1932 Laura Adams Armer
The Cat Who Went to Heaven 1931 Elizabeth Coatsworth
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years 1930 Rachel Fiel
The Trumpeter of Krakow 1929 Eric P. Kelly
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon 1928 Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Smoky, the Cow Horse 1927 Will James
Shen of the Sea 1926 Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Tales from Silver Lands 1925 Charles Finger
The Dark Frigate 1924 Charles Boardman Hawes
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle 1923 Hugh Lofting
The Story of Mankind 1922 Hendrik Willem van Loon
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