Dear Students,
Are you ready for a challenge? At Acacia, we take risks, persevere, and take on challenges so that we can grow in many ways. An important part of your academic career here is becoming a life long learner. To meet this goal, we challenge you to read 30 different books this year! To complete this challenge, you must read:
- 15 nonfiction books from our book list
- 15 fiction books from our book list
When you finish a book, schedule a Book Conference with your DEAR teacher to have her sign your form.
After you have successfully conferenced with your DEAR teacher, taken and passed an AR quiz on the book, you will be able to color in the entry and pick up a new book!
We will have three celebrations throughout the school year for students that have met benchmark goals.
Here We Go!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Cockerill
Nonfiction Books
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by Candace Fleming
BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5.0
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
by Andrea Warren
BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6.0
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
by Marissa Moss
BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 0.5
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson
BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
Queen of the Falls
by Chris Van Allsburg
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1.0
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
by Jim Murphy
BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2.0
Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing
by Leonard S. Marcus
BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2.0
Everybody Paints! The Lives and Art of the Wyeth Family
BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2.0
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
by Tonya Bolden
BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3.0
Florence Nightingale
by Demi
BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 0.5
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14.0
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1.0
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba
BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Parrots Over Puerto
by Susan L. Roth
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by Chun Yu
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1.0
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List
by Leon Leyson
BL: 7.0 - AR Pts: 7.0
The True Story Behind Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
by Jennifer Armstrong
BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1.0
Fiction Books
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 15.0
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
BL: 12.0 - AR Pts: 27.0
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
BL: 10.0 - AR Pts: 28.0
Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5.0
Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson
BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4.0
Death Mountain
Sherry Shahan
BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6.0
City of Orphans
Avi
BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8.0
Stand Tall
Joan Bauer
BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5.0
The Lions of Little Rock
Levine, Kristin
BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
The Red Pyramid
by Rick Riordan
BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18.0
My Side of the Mountain
George, Jean Craighead
BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6.0
The Whipping Boy
Fleischman, Sid
BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2.0
Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Fiction
BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4.0
Indio
Garland, Sherry
BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11.0
Treasure Island (Unabridged)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12.0
The War of the Worlds (Unabridged)
Wells, H.G.
BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Unabridged)
Verne, Jules
BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17.0
The Odyssey
Homer
BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24.0
National Velvet
Bagnold, Enid
BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11.0
Dead End in Norvelt
Gantos, Jack
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12.0
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
Hatchet
Paulsen, Gary
BL:5.7 AR Pts. 7.0
Emory's Gift
Cameron, W. Bruce
BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17.0
New Books Added 10/27
Bookies Book Suggestions for Sixth Grade
Fiction (historical)
An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
AR Quiz No. 148352 EN Fiction
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5.0
The rescue of an elephant and a Canadian navigator after the WWII bombing of Dresden.
Crow by Barbara Wright
AR Quiz No. 148806 EN Fiction
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10.0
In 1898, Moses struggles with tensions among his family and friends while passions run high between African Americans and whites in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
AR Quiz No. 14454 EN Fiction
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6.0
Saving people from the testing of the atom bomb on Bikini Atoll
I am David by Ann Holm
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8.0
A twelve-year old boy adjusts to freedom after fleeing a concentration camp where he has spent most of his life.
The Captain’s Dog by Roland Smith
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8.0
The story of the Lewis and Clark expedition – from the perspective of Lewis’s dog
Jefferson’s Sons by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
AR Quiz No. 145768 EN Fiction
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11.0
Jefferson had two sons by a slave, and who became slaves in his house. A fictional account of their story.
Ghost Hawk (combination fantasy and historical) by Susan Cooper
L: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12.0
In the 1600s, a young Indian boy’s spirit is trapped in a colonial boy.
Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7.0
Surviving a plague in 1793 Philadelphia
A medal for Leroy Michael Morpurgo
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3.0
A young boy discovers that his heroic uncle was denied a WWI medal due to his race.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12.0
A young girl discovers how to explore nature at the turn of the century – while dealing with six brothers.
Classics and beloveds
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13.0
Three troubled children bond when they discover a secret garden.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11.0
The story of a horse in 19th Century England
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16.0
A young girl must leave her idyllic life in the Swiss Alps for the city.
Peter Pan by James Barrie
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8.0
The real story of Neverland
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
National Velvet Enid Bagnold
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11.0
Can a plain old horse be turned into a winner?
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
A time-twisting adventure
The Narnia Series by CS Lewis
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Fiction (general)
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5.0
Starry River of the Sky or When the Moon Meets the Mountain by Grace Lin
Crime Travelers series by Paul Aertler (former Graland teacher)
Escape from Mr Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7.0
Escaping a library designed by a gamemaker is no easy task.
Boys of Blur by ND Wilson
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
A modern retelling of Beowulf in Florida, with football.
Young Sherlock Holmes series by Andrew Lane
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
Life when you’re raised by ghosts
Out of Dust by Karen Hesse
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3.0
Poetry – hardships on a wheat farm
When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
Rules by Cynthia Lord
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4.0
Living with an autistic brother isn’t easy.
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11.0
Learning about an eclipse helps three children learn about themselves
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10.0
A child genius must learn how to connect with others after the death of her parents.
The Time-Traveling Fashionista: On Board the Titanic by Bianca Turetsky
L: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6.0
Trying on a vintage gown transports a young girl into the life of silent film star Alice Baxter – on board the Titanic
Colorado fiction
The Quilt Walk by Sandra Dallas
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7.0
A pioneer story based on a real-life quilt that hangs in Golden.
Phantoms in the Snow by Kathleen Benner Duble
L: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8.0
The 10th mountain division
The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
Driving a herd of turkeys from Kansas to Colorado was never going to be easy.
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by Candace Fleming
BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5.0
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
by Andrea Warren
BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6.0
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero
by Marissa Moss
BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 0.5
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
by James L. Swanson
BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
Queen of the Falls
by Chris Van Allsburg
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1.0
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
by Tanya Lee Stone
BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
by Jim Murphy
BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2.0
Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing
by Leonard S. Marcus
BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2.0
Everybody Paints! The Lives and Art of the Wyeth Family
BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2.0
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
by Tonya Bolden
BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3.0
Florence Nightingale
by Demi
BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 0.5
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14.0
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1.0
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba
BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Parrots Over Puerto
by Susan L. Roth
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution
by Chun Yu
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1.0
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List
by Leon Leyson
BL: 7.0 - AR Pts: 7.0
The True Story Behind Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
by Jennifer Armstrong
BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1.0
Fiction Books
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 15.0
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
BL: 12.0 - AR Pts: 27.0
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
BL: 10.0 - AR Pts: 28.0
Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4.0
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5.0
Feathers
Jacqueline Woodson
BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4.0
Death Mountain
Sherry Shahan
BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6.0
City of Orphans
Avi
BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8.0
Stand Tall
Joan Bauer
BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5.0
The Lions of Little Rock
Levine, Kristin
BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
The Red Pyramid
by Rick Riordan
BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18.0
My Side of the Mountain
George, Jean Craighead
BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6.0
The Whipping Boy
Fleischman, Sid
BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2.0
Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Fiction
BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4.0
Indio
Garland, Sherry
BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11.0
Treasure Island (Unabridged)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12.0
The War of the Worlds (Unabridged)
Wells, H.G.
BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Unabridged)
Verne, Jules
BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17.0
The Odyssey
Homer
BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24.0
National Velvet
Bagnold, Enid
BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11.0
Dead End in Norvelt
Gantos, Jack
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12.0
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
Hatchet
Paulsen, Gary
BL:5.7 AR Pts. 7.0
Emory's Gift
Cameron, W. Bruce
BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17.0
New Books Added 10/27
Bookies Book Suggestions for Sixth Grade
Fiction (historical)
An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
AR Quiz No. 148352 EN Fiction
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5.0
The rescue of an elephant and a Canadian navigator after the WWII bombing of Dresden.
Crow by Barbara Wright
AR Quiz No. 148806 EN Fiction
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10.0
In 1898, Moses struggles with tensions among his family and friends while passions run high between African Americans and whites in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
AR Quiz No. 14454 EN Fiction
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6.0
Saving people from the testing of the atom bomb on Bikini Atoll
I am David by Ann Holm
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8.0
A twelve-year old boy adjusts to freedom after fleeing a concentration camp where he has spent most of his life.
The Captain’s Dog by Roland Smith
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8.0
The story of the Lewis and Clark expedition – from the perspective of Lewis’s dog
Jefferson’s Sons by Kimberley Brubaker Bradley
AR Quiz No. 145768 EN Fiction
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11.0
Jefferson had two sons by a slave, and who became slaves in his house. A fictional account of their story.
Ghost Hawk (combination fantasy and historical) by Susan Cooper
L: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12.0
In the 1600s, a young Indian boy’s spirit is trapped in a colonial boy.
Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson
BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7.0
Surviving a plague in 1793 Philadelphia
A medal for Leroy Michael Morpurgo
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3.0
A young boy discovers that his heroic uncle was denied a WWI medal due to his race.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12.0
A young girl discovers how to explore nature at the turn of the century – while dealing with six brothers.
Classics and beloveds
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13.0
Three troubled children bond when they discover a secret garden.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11.0
The story of a horse in 19th Century England
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16.0
A young girl must leave her idyllic life in the Swiss Alps for the city.
Peter Pan by James Barrie
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8.0
The real story of Neverland
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
National Velvet Enid Bagnold
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11.0
Can a plain old horse be turned into a winner?
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
A time-twisting adventure
The Narnia Series by CS Lewis
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Fiction (general)
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5.0
Starry River of the Sky or When the Moon Meets the Mountain by Grace Lin
Crime Travelers series by Paul Aertler (former Graland teacher)
Escape from Mr Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7.0
Escaping a library designed by a gamemaker is no easy task.
Boys of Blur by ND Wilson
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
A modern retelling of Beowulf in Florida, with football.
Young Sherlock Holmes series by Andrew Lane
The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
Life when you’re raised by ghosts
Out of Dust by Karen Hesse
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3.0
Poetry – hardships on a wheat farm
When you Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
Rules by Cynthia Lord
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4.0
Living with an autistic brother isn’t easy.
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11.0
Learning about an eclipse helps three children learn about themselves
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10.0
A child genius must learn how to connect with others after the death of her parents.
The Time-Traveling Fashionista: On Board the Titanic by Bianca Turetsky
L: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6.0
Trying on a vintage gown transports a young girl into the life of silent film star Alice Baxter – on board the Titanic
Colorado fiction
The Quilt Walk by Sandra Dallas
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7.0
A pioneer story based on a real-life quilt that hangs in Golden.
Phantoms in the Snow by Kathleen Benner Duble
L: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8.0
The 10th mountain division
The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6.0
Driving a herd of turkeys from Kansas to Colorado was never going to be easy.