Book Recommendations for Sixth Grade

We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.

● A. De St. Exupery: The Little Prince

● A. Lang: Arabian Knights

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman

● Aliki Brandenberg: A Medieval Feast

● Ann Nolan Clark: Secret of the Andes

● Arthur Conan Doyle: The Boys' Sherlock Holmes

● Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World

● B. T. Washington: Up From Slavery

● Beverly Butler: Light A Single Candle

● C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia series

● Carl Sandberg: Rootabaga Stories

● Carolyn Kendall: The Gammage Cup

● Carolyn Kendall: Whisper of Glocken

● Charles Lindbergh: Spirit of St. Louis

● Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (recommended for girls mainly)

● Christopher Sblendorio: The Falconer

● Elizabeth G. Speare: The Bronze Bow

● Elizabeth G. Speare: The Sign of the Beaver

● Elizabeth G. Speare: Witch of Blackbird Pond

● Elizabeth Gouge: The Lost Angel

● Elizabeth J. Gray: Adam of the Road

● Enid Bagnold: National Velvet

● Eric Knight: Lassie Come Home

● Farley Mowat: Never Cry Wolf

● Farley Mowat: The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be

● Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

● George Macdonald: At the Back of the North Wind

● Helen Keller: Journal of Helen Keller

● Helen Keller: World I Live In

● Howard Pyle: Book of Pirates

● Howard Pyle: Men of Iron

● Howard Pyle: Otto of the Silver Hand

● Howard Pyle: Story of Sir Lancelot and His Champions of the Round Table

● Hugh Lofting: The Dr. Dolittle books

● Isaac B. Singer: When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw

● J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Return of the King

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Two Towers

● Jacob Streit: Three Knight Tales

● James Baldwin: Song of Roland

● James Ullaman: Banner in the Sky

● Janet Whitney: Elisabeth Fry

● Jean Craighead George: Julie and the Wolves

● Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain

● Jean Craighead George: Shark Beneath the Reef

● Jean Craighead George: Summer of the Falcon

● Jean Craighead George: The Cry of the Crow

● Jean Craighead George: Water Sky

● Jim Kjelgaard: Big Red

● Johann Wyss: Swiss Family Robinson

● John Kent: Elizabeth Fry

● John Sherman O'brien: Silver Chief: Dog of the North

● Joseph Krumgold: And Now Miguel

● Judy Blume: It's Me, Margaret

● Judy Blume: Are You There, God?

● Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days

● Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth

● Jules Verne: Mysterious Island

● Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

● Kate Seredy: The Good Master

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kerry Usher: Heroes, Gods and Emperors from Roman Mythology

● L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables

● Lawrence Yep: Dragonwings

● Lloyd Alexander: Chronicles of Prydain

● Lois Lowry: Number the Stars

● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

● Louisa May Alcott: Eight Cousins

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

● Lucy Boston: The Children of Green Knowe (and others)

● Madeleine L'engle: Wrinkle in Time series

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Black Gold

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Black Pearl

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Born to Trot

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Brighty of the Grand Canyon

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: King of the Wind

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Misty of Chincoteague

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Sea Star

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Stormy, Misty's Foal

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: White Stallion of Lipizza

● Marion Wood: Spirits, Heroes and Hunters from North American and Indian Mythology

● Marjorie Rawlings: The Yearling

● Mary Dodge: Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy)

● Olivia E. Coolidge: Roman Lives

● Olivia E. Coolidge: The King of Men

● Paul Gallico: Snow Goose

● Peter Patterson: Fal

● Peter Patterson: The Dragon Horse

● Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn

● Prince Modupe: I was a Savage

● Rachel Field: Hitty - Her First Hundred Years

● Ralph Moody: Little Britches

● Random House: EYEWITNESS BOOKS (Extensive series includes books on animals, minerals, plantlife, weather, human beings, etc.)

● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc

● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition

● Robert L. Stevenson: Black Arrow

● Robert L. Stevenson: Treasure Island (and others)

● Robert Newton Peck: A Day No Pigs Would Die

● Robin Moore: The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek (trilogy)

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Brother Dusty Feet

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Dragon Slayer

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Light Beyond The Forest

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Outcast

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Road to Camlan

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Sword and the Circle

● Rosemary Sutcliff: The High Adventures of Finn MacCool

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Warrior Scarlet

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women

● Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

● Scott O'Dell: The Black Pearl

● Scott O'Dell: The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day

● Scott O'Dell: The King's Fifth

● Scott O'Dell: Zia

● Sheila Burnford: The Incredible Journey

● Stephen Meader: Boy with a Pack

● Susan Cooper: Green Witch

● Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising

● Susan Cooper: The Grey King

● T. H. White: Mistress Masham's Repose

● T. H. White: The Once and Future King

● Tao Tao Liu Sanders: Dragons

● Tao Tao Liu Sanders: Gods and Spirits from Chinese Mythology

● Terry Brooks: Sword of Shannara

● Ursula Leguin: A Wizard of EarthSea (trilogy)

● Van Stockum: The Borrowed House

● Victor Barnouw: Dream of the Blue Heron

● Walter Farley: Black Stallion

● Walter Morey: Gentle Ben

● Walter Morey: Kavik the Wolf Dog

● Walter Wangerin: Book of the Dun Cow

● Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle

● William Armstrong: Sounder

● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows