6th Graders Recommend to Rising Sixth Graders by Amanda Bozarth https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v by the Burke 6th Graders 2017 en-us 2017-05-04 15:05:29 UTC 2024-05-11 04:45:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png Brown Girl Dreaming boza0 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/169963950 What did it feel like to grow up in the 1960's? Jacqueline Woodson spent her childhood in Brooklyn and South Carolina and wrote about it in verse with humor and joy .]]> 2017-05-04 15:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/169963950 The Secret Keepers - Trenton Lee Stewart https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172084561 Reuben is a wonder-seeking boy. While his mom is at work every day, he goes on dangerous adventures. On one of his particularly daring exploits, a magical object comes into his possession. He is wrapped in hundreds of years of a fight for power. Will he make his way through this? -Reed]]> 2017-05-16 13:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172084561 Boxers https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172084589 Boxers: From Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang 
Boxers a beautifully illustrated graphic novel  tells the tale of a riveting story of the Chinese Boxers Revolution. As Christianity sweeps the Chinese nation, Bao and his band of brothers and fellow villagers train with the kung fu master Red Lantern. After learning an ancient ritual they take the form of gods to fight against the new settlers. will they prevail and free China or will they lose in shame?         
 
]]> 2017-05-16 13:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172084589 George- Alex Gino https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172084673 George is a boy, a fourth grade boy. But really George knows she a girl. Her fourth grade class is producing Charlotte’s Web, Charlotte’s part seems almost too perfect for George. But she can't even try out for the part because she's a boy. This moving story teaches acceptance and diversity as George and her best friend Kelly tell the world who she really is. - Aranel

]]> 2017-05-16 13:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172084673 The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart krag230 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172085246 The world is suffering from what is commonly known as the Emergency. All the governments in the world are bad, nothing is right...meanwhile, there are mysterious tests taking place in Stonetown. Tests that require one pencil and one eraser, and tests that have the oddest questions…what is going on in the world? --Gabriel]]> 2017-05-16 13:40:55 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172085246 Upside down in the middle of nowhere samm230 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086029 Armani Curtis is having her 10th birthday when something bad happens. Hurricane Katrina hit. Armani is scared and starts looking for her family, and in the process Armani becomes brave, she learns how to survive, she starts to appreciate things even if they don't mean anything. But what exactly happened? - Maya]]> 2017-05-16 13:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086029 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086135 Princeless by Jeremy Whitley
Princess Adrienne is tired of being cooped up in a castle. She escapes and is off to save her sisters. She finds some help on the way. Is she getting herself into some deep trouble?

Sanja

]]> 2017-05-16 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086135 Samurai rising- Pamela S. TurnerDeath is an everyday experience for Minamoto Yoshitstsune. With plenty of beheadings and blood this not your average biography.Just glad I am not a samurai. It includes plenty of adventure and battle it is quite violent but packed with information. oppa230 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086332 2017-05-16 13:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086332 How they croaked https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086386 How they Croaked by Georgia Brigg, is a book about the “awful ends to the awfully famous”. It includes all of the gory details of their deaths. If you can't stand some gore do not read this book. It includes people like King Tut, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Napoleon. -Mateo

]]> 2017-05-16 13:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086386 The One and Only Ivan- Katherine Applegate https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086568 This book is based on a true story about a gorilla named Ivan who spent 27 years behind the glass of a mall zoo. He rarely thought about his jungle life and was so used to being in captivity with his friends Stella and Bob. He became occupied with painting and television. But when the zoo was losing business the owner brought a new baby elephant taken from the wild. Unexpected friendships flourished and Ivan saw his art in a whole new way.
-Cali

]]> 2017-05-16 13:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172086568 oppa230 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172087251 2017-05-16 13:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172087251 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172088853 Ben Ripley is a math genius and a normal kid. Until a spy gave him a visit and changed his life. His life was at risk and he became a new person.]]> 2017-05-16 13:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172088853 Bayou Magic https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172112743 This is Maddy’s first summer in the most unpredictable place. She has heard it is scary, and her grandmothers is horrible and mean. Will Maddy learn to love the glowing fireflies and thick air? Or will she grow to await her return to the city?

]]> 2017-05-16 15:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172112743 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172112781 Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Two kids having the adventure of imagination, going into the woods everyday, until a terrible disaster happens and changes everyone's relationships with each other. Macaylè
]]> 2017-05-16 15:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172112781 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172113220 Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.----> Finley]]> 2017-05-16 15:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172113220 11 Birthdays https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172113642 Amanda Ellerby is turning 11 and every year she spends it with her best friend Leo. But on her 11th birthday they don't spend it together and it messes up their entire birthday tradition. On the day after her birthday something seems different. It seems like the same day is repeating itself. The same day being her birthday!? --Eve



]]> 2017-05-16 15:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172113642 Wing's Of Fire, The Dragonet Prophecy, By: Tui T. Sutherlands jcblambert https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172114026 Five poor dragonets living in a cave, stolen from the people they love. Thought to choose the queen that will end the thirty year war, and in the perspective of Clay, he and his siblings, Tsunami, Sunny, Glory, and Starflight, try to find their way out of their cave prison. Will they succeed? And if they do, what challenges await them in a world of Pyrrhia? Will they survive, without the help of the Talons of Peace?]]> 2017-05-16 15:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172114026 wilg230 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172114228 Out of my mind 
by Sharon M. Draper

This is an amazing book about an amazing girl named Melody. Melody is almost 11 but she has never been able to speak. People think she is dumb because she can’t prove otherwise, will she ever be able to prove herself?

]]> 2017-05-16 15:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172114228 https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172116355 The phantom tollbooth by norton juster
Milo is a normal boy in the normal until he passes through the phantom tollbooth. He is transferred into a new world. This world is filled with amazing things were reason is defied by logic. What will milo find in this wonderful world?-Elijah 😀

]]> 2017-05-16 15:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172116355 Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherlands kdog_krishna https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172116731 Wings of Fire, the Dragonet Prophecy - Tui T. Sutherland
In the land of Pyara a war has been raging on for 20 years. The seven dragon tribes have divided among the three different sandwing princesses. It is up to 5 dragonets to end this war. Will they do it? -Krishna
]]> 2017-05-16 15:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172116731 Alex Rider: The Series by Anthony HorowitzAlex Rider an orphaned teen turned spy. After his parents and Uncle died unknowingly to him. However he soon finds out that his parents and uncle were agents for MI6. He now is tasked saving the world on mission at a time! By DJ https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172116821 2017-05-16 15:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172116821 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin https://padlet.com/boza0/40dw02wxh13v/wish/172117143 Grace Lin: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon: A young girl named Minli is living in a poor, muddy village. But when her grandmother tells her the story of the man of the moon, she sets out on a quest that will change her life.

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