Sixth Grade Supplemental Reading List
Bible:
- The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version (available at www.tanbooks.com)
- Butler’s Lives of the Saints, (available at www.setonbooks.com)
- 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.setonbooks.com)
Dictionary & Thesaurus:
- Merriam-Webster Children’s Dictionary, Dorling Kindersley (available at www.setonbooks.com)
- The American Heritage Student Thesaurus, Houghton Mifflin (available at www.setonbooks.com)
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.setonbooks.com)- Saint Dominic
- Saint Benedict
- The Children of Fatima
- Saint John Masias
- 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
http://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
