6th grade Great Stone Face Book Award reading list
Books referenced by Great Stone Face Book Award at the 6th grade level. Source: www.librarything.com.
About the 6th grade Great Stone Face Book Award reading list
Great Stone Face Book Award is the Great Stone Face Book Award framework. ReadingList tracks 54 titles referenced by Great Stone Face Book Award at the 6th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 420L–990L. The framework is published at librarything.com.
At the 6th grade level — the 6-8grade band — students are middle-grade readers, with the curriculum focused on analyzing theme, character, and craft in full-length novels and first classics. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 700L to 1010L. Measured against that 925–1185L range, of the 23 titles here with a Lexile score 3 are grade-level, 20 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Great Stone Face Book Award classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Great Stone Face Book Award list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 6th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Great Stone Face Book Award expects.
How to use this list: treat the Great Stone Face Book Award titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 6th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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A Long Walk to WaterLinda Sue Park · 720L- A Mango-Shaped SpaceWendy Mass
A Night DividedJennifer A. Nielsen
A Tale Dark and GrimmAdam Gidwitz
A Work in ProgressJarrett Lerner
AlliesAlan Gratz
Amal UnboundAisha Saeed
Among the HiddenMargaret Peterson Haddix
Before the Ever AfterJacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson · 990L
BuddyM. H. Herlong
Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff Kinney · 950L
El DeafoCece Bell · 420L
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's LibraryChris Grabenstein
Esperanza RisingPam Muñoz Ryan · 750L
Fish in a TreeLynda Mullaly Hunt · 550L
FrindleAndrew Clements · 830L
GhostJason Reynolds · 730L
Gregor the OverlanderSuzanne Collins
Ground ZeroAlan Gratz
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneJ.K. Rowling · 880L
HeroesAlan Gratz
HootCarl Hiaasen · 760L
Impossible CreaturesKatherine Rundell
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- Matilda · Roald Dahl
- New Kid · Jerry Craft
- Not Nothing · Gayle Forman
- Number the Stars · Lois Lowry
- One for the Murphys · Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Other Words for Home · Jasmine Warga
- Out of My Mind · Sharon M. Draper
- Pax · Sara Pennypacker
- Roller Girl · Victoria Jamieson
- Rules · Cynthia Lord
- Shiloh · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Simon Sort of Says · Erin Bow
- Superfudge · Judy Blume
- Surviving the Applewhites · Stephanie S. Tolan
- Swim Team · Johnnie Christmas
- Swindle · Gordon Korman
- The City of Ember · Jeanne DuPrau
- The Giver · Lois Lowry
- The Graveyard Book · Neil Gaiman
- The Honest Truth · Dan Gemeinhart
- The Labors of Hercules Beal · Gary D. Schmidt
- The Lost Year · Katherine Marsh
- The One and Only Ivan · Katherine Applegate
- The Penderwicks · Jeanne Birdsall
- The War That Saved My Life · Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Ungifted · Gordon Korman
- When Stars Are Scattered · Victoria Jamieson
- Where the Red Fern Grows · Wilson Rawls
- Wonder · R.J. Palacio
- Wonderstruck · Brian Selznick