6th grade Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award reading list
Books referenced by Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award at the 6th grade level. Source: sites.google.com.
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About the 6th grade Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award reading list
Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award is the Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award framework. ReadingList tracks 29 titles referenced by Alabama Camellia Children's Choice 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 490L–920L. The framework is published at sites.google.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 3 titles here with a Lexile score 0 are grade-level, 3 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Alabama Camellia Children's Choice 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 Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award expects.
How to use this list: treat the Alabama Camellia Children's Choice 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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29 books
11 BirthdaysWendy Mass
42 MilesTracie Vaughn Zimmer
A Week in the WoodsAndrew Clements
Anne Frank, Beyond the DiaryRuud van der Rol
Boy at WarHarry Mazer
BunniculaDeborah Howe
Castles: Old Stone PoemsJ. Patrick Lewis
Circus MirandusCassie Beasley
CousinsVirginia Hamilton
Cracker The Best Dog in VietnamCynthia Kadohata
DecemberEve Bunting
Escaping the Giant WavePeg Kehret
Mick Harte Was HereBarbara Park
Million-Dollar ThrowMike Lupica
Nothing's Fair in Fifth GradeBarthe DeClements
Pink and SayPatricia Polacco
Stone FoxJohn Reynolds Gardiner · 550L
Stuart LittleE.B. White · 920L
SuperfudgeJudy Blume
The Boxcar ChildrenGertrude Chandler Warner · 490L- The Dollhouse MurdersBetty Ren WrightThe Dollhouse MurdersBetty Ren Wright
- The Glory GirlBetsy ByarsThe Glory GirlBetsy Byars
The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien- The Pigman and MePaul ZindelThe Pigman and MePaul Zindel
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