Grade
6
Complete your Guided Reading library with these diverse Level Z titles, curated for advanced readers in grade 6.
One of America's most influential Hispanics, Sonia Manzano, "Maria" on Sesame Street, delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir.
A fast-paced thriller about the twelve-day pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth.
A missing girl, a determined reporter, and a young man on the brink combine for a powerful story of choices, suspense, and survival.
The compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos—and herself—from a violent coup.
In the rainy Seattle of the 1930's, romance blooms among the jazz clubs, the mansions of the wealthy, and the shanty towns of the poor. But what is more powerful: love or death?
The story of Muhammad Ali's childhood, his rise as a champion, his politics, and his battle against Parkinson's disease.
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him—until he becomes friends with a new boy in town.
Jarrett doesn't trust Kevon. But he has to share a room with him anyway when his mom takes in Kevon as a foster child.
Alternating points of view enrich this contemporary teen romance about a brainy Afghan refugee and the artistic son of Islamophobic Australians.
This extraordinary novel encompasses a legal battle, a subtle love story, and the primal coming-of-age narrative: discovering the truth of one's own capacities.
Inspired in part by the author's own experience with depression, this rare young adult novel focuses on the recovery from a suicide attempt—about how to live when life doesn't seem worth it.
With the help of a fellow artist, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories.
A heart-stopping story of love, death, technology, and art set amid the tropics of a futuristic Brazil.
In this novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam War in his classic, Fallen Angels.
On a visit to her dying grandmother Ola's house, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and comes to a better understanding of relatives both living and dead.
Tyrell is a fifteen-year-old, African American teen living in a homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and little brother, and worried about following in his criminal father's footsteps.
When her estranged grandmother moves in, needing care for her dementia, secrets and lies are uncovered, and Katie makes discoveries about her family and herself.
The story of young Panchito and his trumpet is one of the most widely anthologized stories in Chicano literature, as the wise, sensitive little boy became a role model for generations of immigrants.
