RMS Reading
SIXTH GRADE

Everyone At Richmond Reads!

All English teachers at the Richmond School ask their students to read a minimum of two books over the summer and hope they will read a great deal more. This page contains the sixth grade list and links to the lists for 7th and 8th graders. The sixth grade list contains new books from Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award List and New Hampshire's Great Stoneface Award List. You can also check out this year's winners from the two states.

The Seventh Grade List contains brief reviews written over the years by students leaving the seventh grade; the Eighth Grade List contains a wide selection of books listed by genre: fantasy and science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction, and non-fiction. You can access Howe Library as well with many links. The lists are not meant to be exclusive or definitive; they are simply an expression of Richmond's deep commitment to pleasure reading. All teachers encourage students to read books which they are comfortable reading in terms of difficulty and enjoy reading because of subject matter or genre.

SIXTH GRADE SUMMER READING:

DCF & GSF AWARDS GO TO TWO GREAT BOOKS!!!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
VT CHILDREN VOTE

2009-2010 WINNERS

Great Stone Face Award
NH CHILDREN VOTE

On Daniel Tucker’s thirteenth birthday, a hawk flies over his family’s farm. Does the hawk announce a visitor, or warn of imminent danger? Daniel’s mother and sister listen for the hawk’s message, but something urgent stirs inside Daniel. He is struggling to find his own path between the heritage of his Pequot mother and the customs of his English father.
Meanwhile, a new family has moved into the crumbling cabin next door. Hiram Coombs can’t believe his parents have returned to Vermont now that the Revolutionary War is over. Don’t they remember the terror of the raid, when Indians and Redcoats burned the family’s old farm and kidnapped Hiram’s uncle?

Where the Great Hawk Flies

Liza Ketcham

Swindle

Gordon Korman

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.

GSF BOOKS FOR 2010-2011
NH Students Vote in the Spring!

The Great Stone Face Book Award is sponsored by the Children's Librarians of New Hampshire (CHILIS)and is given each year to an author whose book receives the most votes from fourth through sixth graders throughout the state. Each year a committee chooses 25 recently published titles, which children then use as a guide for voting. The vote takes place every April during National Library Week, and the winner is announced in May. The purpose of the award is to promote reading enjoyment, to increase awareness of contemporary writing, and to allow children to honor their favorite author. All information came from the Dover Public Library website. Check out the illustrated covers of all the books, with annotations on this site.

2010-2011 DCF BOOKS
VT Students Vote in the Spring!

The Dorothy Canfield Children's Book Award was first given in 1957. It is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries. These books, to be read during the school year, comprise the master list for the award. Students vote each spring for their favorite book. All information below came from the DCF website.