Sixth Grade Book Talk 2015 -2016

Book Talk 6 (Pathfinders): Wednesday

8:15 8:45 am (Reading)
Wed. September 30
Wed. December 9th
Mystery & Suspense
Character Counts
Wed. Feb. 24th
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Wed. April 20, 2016
Quest, Adventure & Fantasy
Around the World
Mystery & Suspense
Abduction
Belly Up
Closed for a Season
Crandalls Castle
Deep, Dark, and Dangerous
Dollhouse Murders
Ghost Dogs Secret
Jaguar
Old Willis Place
Seer of Shadows
Tombquest
Trapped in Death Cave
Westing Game
Wright 3
Character Counts
A Bundle of Sticks
Becoming Naomi Leon
Freak the Mighty
Funerals & Fly Fishing
Joey Pigza Swallows a Key
My Louisiana Sky
Report Card
Ruby Holler
So B It
Swindle
Tangerine
The Man Who Loved Clowns
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Wing Nut
The Whipping Boy

Author
Kehret
Gibbs
Hahn
Wright
Hahn
Wright
Kehret
Smith
Hahn
Avi
Northup
Wallace
Raskin
Balliett
Author
McCord
Ryan
Philbrick
Bartek
Ganto
Holt
Clements
Creech
Weeks
Korman
Bloor
Wood
Willis
Auch
Fleischmann

Lexile
760
820
670 (audio)
670 (audio)
650
670 (audio)
730
690 (audio)
630 (audio)
720 (audio)
690
630
750 (audio)
870
Lexile
650
830
1000 (audio)
720
970
770 (audio)
700
660 (audio)
860 (audio)
710 (audio)
680 (audio)
870
700
740
570

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Quest, Adventure & Fantasy
Archers Quest
Ella Enchanted
Keeper of the Grail
Last Lobo
Magnificent Mummy Maker
Navigating Early
On Etruscan Time
Paint the Wind
Peak
Ravenmasters Secret
Shakespeares Secret
The Grimm Legacy
Young Man and the Sea
Around the World
Chinese Cinderella
Dogsong
Egypt Game
Heart of a Shepherd
Holes
My Friend the Enemy
Nory Ryans Song
Number the Stars
Shakespeare Stealer
Snow Treasure
Thunder from the Sea
Wild Man Island
Wringer

Author

Lexile

Park
Levine
Spradlin
Smith
Woodruff
Vanderpool
Barrett
Ryan
Smith
Woodruff
Broach
Schulmann
Rodman
Author
Mah
Paulsen
Snyder
Parry
Sachar
Cheaney
Giff
Lowry
Blackwood
McSwigan
Harlow
Hobbs
Spinelli

690
670 (audio)
830
850 (audio)
800
740
790
780 (audio)
780 (audio)
750 (audio)
620
600
800
Lexile
960 (audio)
930 (audio)
1010
850
660 (audio)
860
600
670 (audio)
840 (audio)
690 (audio)
700
690
690

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Book Talk 7 (Panthers)
2:00 2:30 pm
Wed. October 7th
Wed. December 9th
Mystery & Suspense
Cultural Connections
Wed. Feb. 24th
Wed. Apr. 20th
Changing World
Environment & Life Science
Book Talk 7 (Ravens)
2:00 2:30 pm
Wed. October 7th
Wed. December 9th
Environment & Life Science
Changing World
Wed. Feb. 24th
Wed. Apr. 20th
Cultural Connections
Mystery & Suspense
Book Talk 7 (Endeavor)
1:15 1:45 pm (1st semester)
Wed. October 7th
Wed. December 9th
Cultural Connections
Environment & Life Science
2:00 2:30 pm (2nd Semester)
Wed. Feb. 17th
Wed. Apr. 27th
Mystery & Suspense
Changing World

Theme Mystery &

Suspense
Among the Hidden
Black Duck
Bringing the Boy Home
Enders Game
If the Witness Lied
Last Book of the Universe

Author

Lexile

Haddix
Lisle
Nelson
Card
Cooney
Philbrick

800 (audio)
790
710
780 (audio)
670
740

Last Thing I Remember

Klavan

690

Maze Runner
Silent to the Bone
Thunder Cave
Touching Spirit Bear
Tuck Everlasting
Theme - Changing World

Dashner
Konigsburg
Smith
Mikaelsen
Babbitt
Author

770
810 (audio)
620 (audio)
670
770
Lexile

Adoration of Jenna Fox

Pearson

570

Four Perfect Pebbles

Invitation to the Game
Penny From Heaven
Phoenix Rising
Running Out of Time

Perl & Lazan

Soldiers Heart

Paulsen

Soldier X
Stones in Water
Torn Away
The Giver
Whirligig
Will at the Battle of
Gettysburg

Wulffson
Napoli
Heneghen
Lowry
Fleischman
Calkhoven

1080
740
730
610 (audio)
730 (audio)
1000 (e-audio)
740
630
730
760
760 (audio)
670

Uprising

Haddix

790 (audio)

Hughes
Holmes
Hesse
Haddix

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Author

Lexile

Theme Environmental
& Life Science
Code Orange

Cooney

850

Compound

Bodeen

760

Cryptid Hunters
Dark Life
Double Identity
Elephant Run
Fever-1793
Hoot

Smith
Falls
Haddix
Smith
Anderson
Hiaasen

750
690 (audio)
810
750
580 (audio)
760

Life as We Knew It

Pffeffer

770

Kissing Doorknobs
Out of My Mind (audio)
Rules
Small Steps: The Year I
Got Polio
Unwind

Hesser
Draper
Lord
Kehret

730
700
780
890

Schusterman

740 (audio)

Cultural Connections

Author

Lexile

The Bomb

Taylor

830

Boy Who Saved Baseball

Ritter

660 (audio)

Dark Waters

McPhail

460

Homeless Bird
King of Dragons
Miss Spitfire: Reaching
Helen Keller
My Side of the Mountain

Whelan
Fenner

800
790

Miller

890

Craighead

820

Pop

Korman

740

Shadow Spinner
Skeeter
Skin Im In
Storm Warriors
Surviving the Applewhites
Ties That bind, Ties That
Break
Wonder

Fletcher
Smith
Flake
Carbone
Tolan

710 (audio)
680
670 (audio)
890
820 (audio)

Namioka

830

Palacio

790 (audio)