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    Class Novel Units 6th Grade

     

    The Three Novels we will read this year: 

     

     Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

    Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood,"

    travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story

    of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.

     

     

    The Cay by Theodore Taylor

    Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him

    , and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the

    United States on is torpedoed. When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle

    of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy.

    Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”

     

    A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

    A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan,

    a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home:

    she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees

    who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay.

    Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles,

    Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.