Recommended Books for 6th Graders to Read
History books for 6th graders
You Wouldn't Desire to be Cleopatra
by: Jim Pipe and David Salaria, illustrated by: David Antram - (Children'south Press, 2007) 32 pages.
This is a darkly humorous biography of the Egyptian queen who ruled the Nile kingdom in the first century B.C. Information technology covers her girlhood every bit a princess in the palace at Alexandria, her marriage to her brother, her rise to power, and her incredible wealth, wars, and intelligence. Information technology includes her love affairs with two Roman generals, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and her eventual suicide by snake. They are all wittily described with hilarious illustrations. Sidebars on Egyptian civilisation, plus a glossary and index, are included.
Perfect for: Young Egyptologists, those interested in ancient cultures, kingdoms, and rules. Those who similar night humor.
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Yellow Star
by: Jennifer Roy - (Two Lions, 2006) 242 pages.
This is the true story of Sylvia Perlmutter, one of only 12 children in the Lodz ghetto of Poland to survive the Holocaust; originally 250,000 people lived there. For fifty years Ms. Perlmutter refused to talk about her experience, but finally, she narrates the horrific memories to her niece (the writer). In five poetic prose vignettes, the gripping story describes her life from ages iv-10, facing Nazi brutality, starvation, illness, and humiliation. While frightening and sad, she manages to provide an first-class label of her tenacious, quick-thinking male parent. The book also includes a timeline and historical notes.
Perfect for: Youth interested in the Holocaust.
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The President Has Been Shot!
by: Rebecca C. Jones - (Puffin, 1998) 144 pages.
This is a dynamic and comprehensive presentation on the ten assassination attempts of U.S. presidents (four succeeded, 6 failed). It includes details on the attacker'due south psychological reasons and analysis of the socio-political consequences. Startling quotes are included: Jacqueline Kennedy's refused to alter her clothes, soaked with JFK'southward blood, explaining, "Let them see what they've done." Another fascinating fact: a president died in office every 20 years from 1840-1960 and Reagan was shot, merely survived, in 1980. Conspiracy theories are addressed. Numerous black-and-white illustrations and photographs provide added details.
Perfect for: Children interested in U.Due south. history — unless they're disturbed by violence. Children interested in politics and socio-political links.
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The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Declension Guard's Near Daring Sea Rescue
by: Michael J. Touglas and Casey Sherman - (Scribner, 2010) 224 pages.
On Feb. eighteen, 1952, ii storm-smashed oil tankers split in half in the cold North Atlantic, placing dozens of crewmen in mortal danger. A puny lifeboat with iv Declension Baby-sit sailors chugged into the night on what seemed like a suicidal rescue mission,facing the thrashing seventy-foot waves of the maelstrom. In these activity-packed pages a smash-biting account with visceral detail describes how 32 lives were saved. Captivating characterizations of the Coast Guard squad's heroism, perseverance, and camaraderie.
Perfect for: Take chances readers, those who similar boats and the seas, and those who like to read hero stories, and triumph in the face of horrible odds.
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Kids at Piece of work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Confronting Child Labor
by: Russell Freedman photos by Lewis Hine - (HMH Books for Immature Readers, 1998) 112 pages.
Do your children think their chores are tough? Get them this eloquent, powerful history book to set them direct. From 1908-1918, schoolteacher Lewis Hine photographed poor children working in weather then depressing that a public cause was launched, resulting in Congress passing child labor laws. Children as young as 3 are shown in the haunting photos, working in Texas cotton fields, Maine sardine canneries, New York laundries, Pennsylvania coal mines, and Georgia material mills. The author's explanatory text is well-researched and informative and he includes quotes from Hines. The photography, however, is the power of this book
Perfect for: Idealists eager to learn how activists tin create social reform via dedicated utilise of their talents.
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Julius Caesar: Dictator for Life (A Wicked History)
by: Denise Rinaldo - (Franklin Watts, 2010) 128 pages.
This is a highly entertaining biography of the Roman military machine genius, cunning politico, Great Roman Civil War victor, and tyrannical monarch who change Rome's history. Special attention is devoted to Caesar'south rising to power (acquisition Gaul, Espana, invading United kingdom). Not overlooked are details nearly his resolute personality, his romance with Cleopatra, the complex details of his bump-off (54 B.C.), and his destruction of the democracy of the Roman Republic. The book includes ready apart information, photos, a timeline, a glossary and a "Wicked Web" of allies and enemies — Et tu, Brute?
Perfect for: Those interested in archetype times, Roman history, and aggressive, megalomaniac rulers.
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Japan in the Days of the Samurai (Cultures of the By)
by: Virginia Schomp - (Cavendish Foursquare Publishing, 1998) 80 pages.
The samurai "warrior class" — prominent in Nihon from the medieval Heian Period to the 1860s — was made up of skilled soldiers, spies, assassins, and guards. These warriors also received aesthetic training in poesy, bloom-arranging, and the traditional tea ceremony. This appealing presentation describes samurai culture and history and the influence of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity on their beliefs. It includes sidebars on intriguing subtopics (famous samurai women and World State of war II kamikaze pilots for case). It'southward all complemented by color reproductions, a timeline, glossary, and a reference listing of book and websites.
Perfect for: Japanophiles. Boys are especially interested in these feudal, formidable "knights" of East Asia, only girls will like learning that at that place were samurai women.
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India's Gupta Dynasty (Cultures of the Past)
by: Kathryn Hinds - (Cavendish Square Publishing, 1996) 80 pages.
The subcontinent's "Gilt Age" (320-550 A.D.) featured military expansion, benevolent rulers, public prosperity, and scientific, literary, artistic, and philosophical achievements. Packed with intriguing facts, this comprehensive book offers portrayals of the dynasty'due south highly respected monarchs (Chandragupta I, Samadragupta, Chandragupta Two) and scholars (poet/playwright Kalidasa and mathematician/astronomer Aryabhata). It besides exams Buddhist and Hindu influence on society and the office of women. It's filled with beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of Gupta compages, sculpture, and cave-temple paintings.
Perfect for: Indophiles and those interested in South Asian history and culture.
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Children of the Great Low
past: Russell Freedman - (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2010) 128 pages.
The difficult lives of Low era youngsters — boxcar children riding the runway, factory kids, sharecroppers, migrant farm laborers, African-Americans — is eloquently communicated via letters, diaries, memoirs, and archival photos. These youths were burdened past stressful weather condition that included demoralized, out-of-work parents, starvation, eviction, lack of article of clothing, ramshackle "Hooverville" settlements, and schoolhouse closures. Happy times are also depicted, with movies and radio shows. The book captures the challenging realities of the 1930s and manages to exist inspiring despite also being grim.
Perfect for: Children curious or concerned almost poverty and those interested in this period in U.S. history.
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The Alamo (A Day That Changed America)
by: Shelley Tanaka, illustrated by: David Craig - (Hyperion, 2003) 48 pages.
Told through the eyes of two survivors, this retelling offers detailed narration and sophisticated analysis of the March half-dozen, 1836, battle in Texas. Outnumbered 20-1 by Mexican opponents, the Alamo's soldiers fought heroically until all the adult men fighting were killed, or captured and executed. Reasons for the rebellion are objectively noted, with attention given to the Mexican perspective. Myths besides are addressed. Readers tin can look a vivid business relationship of the violent massacre, word of the event'due south backwash, biographical information on famed participants (James Bowie, Santa Anna, Davy Crockett, William Travis), plus colorful maps, battle paintings, diagrams of the fort, old photos, and letters.
Perfect for: Youths interested in Texas, American history, American history with Mexico, and westward expansion.
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Survivors: True Stories of Children in Holocaust
by: Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun - (Scholastic Paperbacks, 2005) 208 pages.
The experiences of nine boys and girls who escaped death during the Holocaust are chronicled in this intense, graphic collection. Interviewed equally adults, the survivors recount their terrifying, heart-wrenching childhoods. Markus played dead in the snow; Matheis jumped out of a boxcar and fled into the woods; Luncia hid in a tiny trunk; others hid in haystacks or attics, disguised their identities, or survived the concentration camps. Every child possessed moral and physical backbone, resolute optimism and the will to keep living — and still they are scarred for life.
Perfect for: Mature children interested in the Holocaust. Those interested in stories of survival and seeing the volition to live in the human spirit.
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Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
by: Andrea Warren - (HarperCollins, 2002) 160 pages.
Jack Mandelbaum, a Jewish boy in Poland, is separated from his family unit when he'southward sent to a Nazi concentration camp. This harrowing biography recounts nightmarish conditions at that place that included fleas, lice, beatings, hard labor, and bread filled with sawdust. He is surrounded by incessant coughing and death. When he'southward liberated at xviii, he weighs only fourscore pounds. Jack survives because of memories of his family unit, friendship, luck, courage, and a positive outlook.
Perfect for: Mature kids interested in the Holocaust, those interested in stories of survival.
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Ruby-red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
by: Ji-li Jiang - (HarperCollins, 2004) 320 pages.
This is a tragic, honest autobiography of a teenage daughter's experiences during the Cultural Revolution in Communist china. Brainwashing and the cult-worshipping of Mao Tse-tung acquired neighbors and friends to betray each other in the cluttered upheaval. The narrator's family is relentlessly persecuted considering her grandfather was a landowner, which made all his descendants guilty of the "Iv Olds" — onetime ideas, old culture, former community, quondam habits. This is an expertly written, suspenseful folio-turner with a wise cess of the era's fanaticism. It is memorable, psychologically complex, and thought provoking.
Perfect for: Anyone intrigued past political upheaval, the dangers of propaganda, this time in Chinese history, or an engrossing family story of survival.
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Marco Polo and the Medieval Explorers
by: Rebecca Stefoff - (Chelsea Business firm Publication, 1992) 111 pages.
Fascinating facts are revealed most the adventurous merchants and explorers who traveled from Europe to Asia, and vice versa, from 1245-1433. The volume describes Marco Polo's legendary acquaintance with Kublai Khan in Beijing, and the Mongolian Empire'south expansion and interaction with Europe is expounded. Additional portrayals include Cheng Ho, the eunuch explorer of China's Ming Dynasty, and Ibn Battuta, the Berber traveler who roamed from Timbuktu to Sri Lanka to Beijing to Republic of bulgaria. Maps, paintings, drawings, photographs, and a timeline fill out the volume.
Perfect for: Those interested in Medieval times, Asian history, and children who dream of roaming far and wide.
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
past: Jacqueline Kelly - (Henry Holt and Co., 2009) 352 pages.
A prize-winning book that explores the unconventional life of a advised young naturalist.
She'southward a plough-of-the-century Texas girl, only 11-year-old Calpurnia Tate is more interested in condign a scientist than in knitting or cooking. With the help of her grandfather, an amateur naturalist, and Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, she starts doing fieldwork. The Development of Calpurnia Tate is the critically acclaimed story of an outsider who has to forge her own style in the globe every bit she discovers her unique identity.
Perfect for: Kids who similar historical fiction.
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Catherine the Smashing: Empress of Russia (A Wicked History)
by: Zu Vincent - (Franklin Watts, 2009) 128 pages.
Fearless, iron-willed, intelligent, and power-hungry, Catherine the Great ruled Russian federation for 34 years. She expanded her empire's borders and modernized the citizenry with Enlightenment reforms and by linking her nation politically and culturally to Europe. Office of a serial on notorious leaders, readers meet the ruthless Catherine. However, they learn some of her hopes and motivations. But her grand manipulations, including how she took control of the nation and had her spouse assassinated, keep tweens reading. The book includes quotes, photos, etchings, a timeline, glossary, a map of key locations in Catherine's life, and a "Wicked Web" depicting her allies and enemies.
Perfect for: Those interested in the working of monarchies, the dominion of despots, and the goings-on backside castle walls.
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by: Anne Frank - (Bantam, 1993) 304 pages.
The Nazis occupied Amsterdam in 1942, forcing 13-yr-old Anne Frank and her family unit to hide in the secret annex of a warehouse. Anne memorializes her 2 years of claustrophobic solitude in this witty, fearful, intimate diary, that concludes when the Gestapo discover the hideout. (Anne died in March 1945, in Bergen-Belsen concentration army camp.) This is a remarkable coming-of-age archetype, set in tragic circumstances. Anne wrote, "I want to go on living even after my death!… Will I ever exist able to write anything peachy?" Her wish has been realized.
Perfect for: Teenagers, wanna-be writers, or children interested in Nazi Germany.
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
past: Elizabeth Yates - (Puffin Books, 1989) 192 pages.
The truthful story of fifteen-year-old Prince At-mun who was captured in Africa in 1725 by slave traders, shipped in chains via the Middle Passage to Boston, and sold as a slave, and renamed Amos Fortune. Maintaining his nobility equally the get-go son of a main, he learns the tanning trade from a kind master, purchases freedom for himself and his family members, buys state in New Hampshire and builds a house and a barn for himself. Inspirational story of persistence, with historical details of Colonial and early American life.
Perfect for: Tweens interested in slavery, social justice, African-American history, and the Colonial Era.
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Albert Einstein: Genius of the Twentieth Century
by: Allison Lassieur - (Children's Press, 2005) 128 pages.
The Nobel prize-winner'southward personal life and professional person achievements are chronologically examined in this fact-filled, accessible presentation. His problems in school and difficulty finding a job are addressed. Readers also larn how he was affected past his family, his love of music, his Jewishness, the rise of Nazism and his departure from Frg, his marriages and children, and the development of the diminutive bomb, using his theories. One-page explanations of his major discoveries in time, gravity, matter, free energy, and light are provided, including, of form, his theory E = mcii.
Perfect for: Those interested in science and scientists and how the genius mind works.
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The American Story: 100 Truthful Tales from American History
by: Jennifer Armstrong, illustrated by: Roger Roth - (Random House, 2006) 368 pages.
This big, 360-page book tells stories fatigued from the archives of American historical events, large and modest. Its 100 brusk tales — each typically one to v pages — recount in cogent and chronological order stories of courage, struggle, discovery and freedom that shaped the American experience, from the 1565 founding of America's offset city to the confounding 2000 presidential ballot. … Smart and written in a lively manner featuring clever watercolor illustrations, this book makes history digestible in appetizing bite-size pieces.
Perfect for: Kids who like history.
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