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Good Titles for 6th Grade Booktalks

 

Barnard, Bryn                       Dangerous Planet: Natural Disasters that Changed History

Cleary, Brian P.                    A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime

Clements, Andrew              A Million Dots

Fleischman, John               Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about brain science

Gaiman, Neil                        Coraline

Gelman, Rita G                    Doodler Doodling Wonderful plays on words and pictures

George, Jean Craighead   The Tarantula in My Purse  (This book has the stories about the owl in the shower & the crow)

Gerstein, Mordecai              The Wild Boy: based on the true story of the wild boy of Aveyron

Gerstein, Mordecai              The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Gilpin, Daniel                       Life-Size Killer Creatures

Goldstone, Bruce                Great Estimations

Grandits                                Technically, It’s Not My Fault: concrete poems (read the poem “The Autobiography of Murray the Fart”)

Grant, John                           Life-Size Dragons

Hatkoff, Isabella                   Owen & Mzee: the true story of a remarkable friendship (about the hippo and the tortoise in Kenya, after the tsunami)

Kehret, Peg                           Shelter Dogs (p. 117, Bridgette: seizure-alert dog)

Kehret, Peg                           Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio

Komatsu, Yoshio                 Wonderful Houses Around the World

Lord, Cynthia                        Rules

McKissack, Patricia             Porch Lies

Morpurgo                               Kensuke’s Kingdom

Pullman                                 I Was a Rat!

Ruurs, Margriet                    My Librarian Is a Camel

Scieszka, Jon                       Guys Write for Guys Read

Slaymaker, Melissa            Bottle Houses: the creative world of Grandma Prisbrey

Stine, R.L. (ed.)                    Goosebumps: 3 Ghoulish Graphix Tales                     

Zronik, John                          Street Cred (there are quite a few books in this series called “Automania!”, with titles like “Sweet Rides” and “Muscle Cars”)

 

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