{"id":361,"date":"2010-09-21T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/?p=361"},"modified":"2010-09-23T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:55:41","slug":"6th-grade-summer-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/2010\/09\/21\/6th-grade-summer-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Grade Summer Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the books that DeJesus English Classes students talked about when they came to the Library on Monday, Sept. 20th.<\/p>\n<p>But first, a chart of their favorite genres.\u00a0 (There were about 50 students surveyed, many of them have more than one favorite genres, so the total numbers are larger than 50.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/files\/2010\/09\/GenrePrefGraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/files\/2010\/09\/GenrePrefGraph-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main reasons that they enjoyed these books are (in order of the frequency cited as the major reasons of why the students liked a particular book):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exciting and Fast Paced (28%)<\/li>\n<li>Suspenseful and\/or Scary (27%)<\/li>\n<li>Inventive or Imaginative (13%)<\/li>\n<li>Meaningful and Deep (12%)<\/li>\n<li>Well Written (Vocab., Descriptions, etc.) (12%)<\/li>\n<li>Characters that one admires or relates to (8%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Freedom Riders<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Heir Apparent<\/strong><\/em> by Van Velde<br \/>\n<em><strong>Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/strong><\/em> by Kinney<br \/>\n<em><strong>Uglies <\/strong><\/em>by Westerfeld<br \/>\n<strong><em>Kiki Strike #2<\/em><\/strong> by Miller<br \/>\n<strong><em>Hunger Games Trilogy<\/em><\/strong> by Collins<br \/>\n<strong><em>Crocodile Tears<\/em><\/strong> by Horowitz<br \/>\n<em><strong>Sea of Trolls<\/strong><\/em> by Farmer<br \/>\n<em><strong>When You Reach Me<\/strong><\/em> by Stead<br \/>\n<em><strong>Percy Jackson<\/strong><\/em> series by Riordan<br \/>\n<em><strong>Harry Potter<\/strong><\/em> series by Rowling<br \/>\n<em><strong>Icefire <\/strong><\/em>by d&#8217;Lacey<br \/>\n<em><strong>The City of Ember<\/strong><\/em> by DuPrau<br \/>\n<em><strong>Pretty Little Liars<\/strong><\/em> by Shepard<br \/>\n<em><strong>Thirteen Reasons Why<\/strong><\/em> by Asher<br \/>\n<em><strong>Hatchet <\/strong><\/em>by Paulsen<br \/>\n<em><strong>Vampire Diaries<\/strong><\/em> by Smith<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Last Book in the Universe<\/strong><\/em> by Philbrick<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Mysterious Benedict Society<\/strong><\/em> by Stewart<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Tulip Touch<\/strong><\/em> by Fine<br \/>\n<em><strong>Ways to Live Forever<\/strong><\/em> by Nicholls<br \/>\n<strong><em>Beautiful Creatures<\/em><\/strong> by Garcia<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Devil&#8217;s Arithmetic<\/strong><\/em> by Yolen<br \/>\n<em><strong>Oddballs <\/strong><\/em>by Sleator<br \/>\n<em><strong>To Kill a Mocking Bird<\/strong><\/em> by Lee<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Year I Turned 16<\/strong><\/em> by Schwemm<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Maze Runner<\/strong><\/em> by Dashner<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Last Battle <\/strong><\/em>by Lewis<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Invention of Hugo Cabret<\/strong><\/em> by Selznick<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore <\/strong><\/em>by Nixon<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Stand<\/strong><\/em> by King<br \/>\n<em><strong>Handle with Care<\/strong><\/em> by Picoult<br \/>\n<em><strong>Thirteen Plus One<\/strong><\/em> by Myracle<br \/>\n<em><strong>Jade Green<\/strong><\/em> by Naylor<br \/>\n<em><strong>Everything on a Waffle<\/strong><\/em> by Horvath<br \/>\n<em><strong>Million Dollar Throw<\/strong><\/em> by Gutman<br \/>\n<em><strong>The Giver<\/strong><\/em> by Lowry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the books that DeJesus English Classes students talked about when they came to the Library on Monday, Sept. 20th. 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