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
MatildaRoald Dahl · 840L
New KidJerry Craft
Not NothingGayle Forman
Number the StarsLois Lowry · 670L
One for the MurphysLynda Mullaly Hunt
Other Words for HomeJasmine Warga · 930L
Out of My MindSharon M. Draper · 700L
PaxSara Pennypacker · 760L
Roller GirlVictoria Jamieson · 440L
RulesCynthia Lord
ShilohPhyllis Reynolds Naylor · 890L
Simon Sort of SaysErin Bow
SuperfudgeJudy Blume
Surviving the ApplewhitesStephanie S. Tolan
Swim TeamJohnnie Christmas
SwindleGordon Korman
The City of EmberJeanne DuPrau
The GiverLois Lowry · 760L
The Graveyard BookNeil Gaiman · 820L
The Honest TruthDan Gemeinhart
The Labors of Hercules BealGary D. Schmidt
The Lost YearKatherine Marsh
The One and Only IvanKatherine Applegate · 570L
The PenderwicksJeanne Birdsall
The War That Saved My LifeKimberly Brubaker Bradley · 580L
UngiftedGordon Korman
When Stars Are ScatteredVictoria Jamieson
Where the Red Fern GrowsWilson Rawls · 700L
WonderR.J. Palacio · 790L- WonderstruckBrian Selznick