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

Vision Books (available at www.setonbooks.com)

• 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