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Grade 6 Supplemental Reading List


Bible

The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version (available at www.tanbooks.com)
Butler's Lives of the Saints, (available at www.setonhome.org)
Saints for Young People for Every Day of the Year (available free on-line at www.daughtersofstpaul.com/saintday/m1.html or in text version by calling 1-800-876-4463)
Saints and Feast Days (available at www.setonhome.org)

Dictionary & Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary, Dorling Kindersley (available at www.setonhome.org)
The American Heritage Student Thesaurus, Houghton Mifflin (available at www.setonhome.org)

Recommended Anthologies

American Cardinal Readers, Book Six(available at www.neumannpress.com).  Book Six contains fifty-nine stories and poems, including the following titles:  On Lighting a Candle in Church; The History of Ali Baba; A Late Walk, Robert Frost; A Christmas Carol, Christina G. Rossetti; George Washington; I See His Blood Upon the Rose, Joseph Plunkett; Sun and Shadow, Oliver W. Holmes; The Death and Resurrection of Our Lord; The Glorious Whitewasher, Mark Twain - from Tom Sawyer; Saint Isaac Jogues; The Flower of Liberty, Oliver Wendel Holmes; The Grass, Emily Dickinson; Saint Aloysius; O Captain! My Captain! (Walt Whitman); Soldiers of Freedom, Woodrow Wilson; A Lad That Is Gone, Robert L. Stevenson; The Lily of the Mohawks; The Address of the Roman Catholics to George Washington; Washington's Answer; The Ship of State, Henry W. Longfellow.
What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know (available at www.coreknowledge.org)
Realms of Gold, Volume 1: (parental guidance advised - available at www.coreknowledge.org)
Treasury of Christian Classics for Children, adapted by Rhonda S. Hogan and Mary Hollingsworth
The Children's Book of Virtues, edited by William J. Bennett
The Best of Shakespeare (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature), by E. Nesbit, Iona Opie (Introduction), Peter Hunt

Foreign Languages and Cultures

International Children's Digital Library (available at www.icdlbooks.org)

Book Report Books: Saints

Mary Fabian Windeat Books (available at www.setonhome.org)
Saint Dominic
Saint Benedict
The Children of Fatima
Saint John Masias
Vision Books (available at www.setonhome.org)
Saint Philip of the Joyous Heart
Mother Cabrini
Saint Francis of the Seven Seas
Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus

Unabridged Children's Classics

A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll
All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley - (Recommended edition: The Whole Story ISBN: 0-670-87801-4)
Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry
Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott
Old Yeller; and Savage Sam by Fred Gipson
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss
The Door in the Wall, by Marguerite de Angeli
The Elephant's Child, by Rudyard Kipling
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories, by Edgar Allan Poe - ( Recommended edition: The Whole Story ISBN: 0-670-88725-0)

Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books (www.dk.com)

A wide selection of non-fiction picture books including:

Castle, and Knight, by Christopher Gravett
In the Beginning: The Nearly Complete History of Almost Everything, by Richard Platt
Wonders of the World, by Giovanni Caselli

Non-fiction: World History

Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan, by Jean Fritz
Mapping the World, Sylvia Johnson [ISBN: 0-689-81813-0]
Children's Atlas of People and Places, by Jenny Wood and David Munro
Children's Atlas of Exploration, by Anthony Mason
The Great Atlas of Discovery, by Neil Grant
True Stories from History and Biography, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old World and America, by Bishop Furlong (www.tanbooks.com)
Michelangelo, by Richard McLanthan
The Renaissance, by Tim Wood, Viking, 1993 (includes detailed pictures of Saint Peter's Cathedral)
"Major Naval Battles" (the March/April 1991 issue of Calliope, the world history magazine for young people (Call (800) 821-0115 or write to Cobblestone Publishing, 7 School Street, Peterborough, NH 03458)
The Ancient World of the Bible, by Malcolm Day, Viking, 1994
Ancient Greece, by Daniel Cohen, Doubleday, 1990
Ancient Rome: A Cultural Atlas for Young People, by Michael Corbishley, Facts on File, 1989
The French Revolution, by Adrian Gilbert, Thomson Learning, 1995 (Try complementing this non-fiction book with the fiction book Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens)
The Industrial Revolution, by Andrew Langley, Viking, 1994
The Industrial Revolution, by John D. Clare, Harcourt Brace/Gulliver Books, 1994 (Try complementing this non-fiction book with the fiction book Hard Times by Charles Dickens)
The Kingfisher Book of the Ancient World: From the Ice Age to the Fall of Rome, by Hazel Mary Martell
The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World, by Jack Zevin

Recommended Publishers:

Look for electronic editions of children's classics on web sites of libraries and bookstores.  For example:  http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/literatureclassicsms/lm_mm000.pdf
Puffin Classics paperback books, available at bookstores, (for information see www.puffin.co.uk)
Books of Wonder (finest quality classic editions) www.booksofwonder.com (800) 835-4135
Viking, A Division of Penguin Putnam, "The Whole Story" classics, (800) 788-6262

Catholic Publishers:

Seton Educational Media
(540) 636-9996
www.setonbooks.com

Pauline Books and Media
(800) 876-4463
www.pauline.org

Ignatius Press
(800) 651-1531
www.ignatius.com

The Neumann Press
(800) 746-2521
www.neumannpress.com

TAN Books
(800) 437-5876
www.tanbooks.com

Bethlehem Books
(800) 757-6831
www.bethlehembooks.com

Catholic Book Publishing
(888) 662-2356
www.st-jude.com



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