Curio Class
Grade 6
157 stories, poems and plays that fit grade 6.
Short stories
54 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Pail of Air
Fritz Leiber
A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle
After Twenty Years
O. Henry
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Felix Salten
The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew 3)
Carolyn Keene
The Cabuliwallah
Rabindranath Tagore
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster
The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
The Dragon Tamers
E. Nesbit
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kastner
The Eyes Have It
Philip K. Dick
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew 2)
Carolyn Keene
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys 2)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
E. Nesbit
Kaa's Hunting
Rudyard Kipling
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Little Fuzzy
H. Beam Piper
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mowgli's Brothers
Rudyard Kipling
The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew 4)
Carolyn Keene
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
The Ransom of Red Chief
O. Henry
The Red-Headed League
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
Rocket Summer
Ray Bradbury
The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray Leinster
The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew 1)
Carolyn Keene
The Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3)
Franklin W. Dixon
Silver Blaze
Arthur Conan Doyle
Smoky, the Cow Horse
Will James
Stormy, Misty's Foal
Marguerite Henry
The Story-Teller
Saki
The Three Questions
Leo Tolstoy
Tiger! Tiger!
Rudyard Kipling
Toomai of the Elephants
Rudyard Kipling
The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Eric P. Kelly
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
Vanka
Anton Chekhov
White Fang
Jack London
The White Seal
Rudyard Kipling
Year of the Big Thaw
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Youth
Isaac Asimov
Zero Hour
Ray Bradbury
Poems
28 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
A narrow fellow in the grass
Emily Dickinson
Barter
Sara Teasdale
The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe
The Creation
James Weldon Johnson
Dream Variations
Langston Hughes
Dreams
Langston Hughes
Eldorado
Edgar Allan Poe
Fog
Carl Sandburg
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson
I, Too
Langston Hughes
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
Mother to Son
Langston Hughes
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman
The Pasture
Robert Frost
Paul Revere's Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers)
Sara Teasdale (editor)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale
There is no frigate like a book
Emily Dickinson
The Tiger
William Blake
The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
Myths, fables and folk tales
28 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Padraic Colum
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Arabian Nights (Lang)
Ashputtel
Brothers Grimm
The Badger and the Bear
Zitkala-Sa
The Children of Odin: Norse myths
Padraic Colum
Chinese fairy tales (set I)
Richard Wilhelm (collected)
The Fisherman and the Genie
Arabian Nights (Lang)
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Arthur Ransome (retold)
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden
Richard Wilhelm (collected)
Iktomi and the Coyote
Zitkala-Sa
Iktomi and the Ducks
Zitkala-Sa
Iktomi and the Muskrat
Zitkala-Sa
The Little Match Girl
Hans Christian Andersen
The Mirror of Matsuyama
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
The Nightingale
Hans Christian Andersen
The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
Arabian Nights (Lang)
Shen of the Sea (selected stories)
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
The Snow Queen
Hans Christian Andersen
Snowdrop
Brothers Grimm
The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad
Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold)
Tales from Silver Lands (selected stories)
Charles J. Finger
The Toad and the Boy
Zitkala-Sa
The Tree-Bound
Zitkala-Sa
West African folk tales (set II)
W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected)
The Wild Swans
Hans Christian Andersen
Chapter books and novels
43 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
At the Earth's Core
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit
The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys 9)
Franklin W. Dixon
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Hunting for Hidden Gold (Hardy Boys 5)
Franklin W. Dixon
Key Out of Time
Andre Norton
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Mark of Zorro
Johnston McCulley
The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys 4)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys 8)
Franklin W. Dixon
Ozma of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit
Plague Ship
Andre Norton
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys 7)
Franklin W. Dixon
The Shore Road Mystery (Hardy Boys 6)
Franklin W. Dixon
Space Tug
Murray Leinster
Star Born
Andre Norton
Starman's Quest
Robert Silverberg
Storm Over Warlock
Andre Norton
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
E. Nesbit
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
The Time Traders
Andre Norton
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
True stories
4 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.Nothing matches yet. The first stories are still on the reading desk.