Sixth Grade

Sixth grade is the first year of middle school, and the year the work starts asking for an argument instead of an answer. Pre-algebra shows up, writing gets graded on whether you made a point, and your child stops wanting to be read to. This shelf is built for exactly that.

How to use it: one math book, ninety minutes of real work a day, and reading that respects them. The Big Fat Notebooks live on the table, not the shelf.

The whole year in one place: The Whole Year: 6th Grade. For the reader: The Series Reader.

Shop our Sixth Grade products below

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A Really Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson
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The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth: Understanding Our World and Its Ecosystems

Rachel Ignotofsky
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Packing for Mars for Kids

Mary Roach
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

  • General / Multiple Sciences
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Rachel Ignotofsky introduces fifty women through illustrated life stories about the questions they pursued, the work they did, and the barriers they faced. The gallery of pioneers carries readers across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through people and turning points rather than a conventional survey text.

Rachel Ignotofsky
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Randall Munroe
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How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Randall Munroe
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What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe
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What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe
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Dinosaurs: Exploring Prehistoric Life and Geological Time

Rachel Ignotofsky
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Apollo 11 Q&A: 175+ Fascinating Facts for Kids

Kelly Milner Halls
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Ben Rothery's Deadly and Dangerous Animals

Ben Rothery
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Ben Rothery's Weird and Wonderful Animals

Ben Rothery
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Sensational Butterflies

Ben Rothery
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Eyewitness Bird

DK
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Who Was Rachel Carson?

  • Life Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Rachel Carson's journey from a girl fascinated by the sea to a fisheries writer and author of Silent Spring turns environmental evidence into a consequential life story. Her investigation of pesticide harm shows how chemistry can move through ecosystems and how clear science writing can change public debate.

Sarah Fabiny Who Hq
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Where Is the Grand Canyon?

Jim O'Connor Who Hq
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Who Was Charles Darwin?

  • Life Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Darwin's childhood experiments and difficult five-year voyage aboard the Beagle lead to collected organisms and observations from Africa, South America, and the Galapagos. The biography turns field evidence, geographic comparison, and the development of evolutionary ideas into the milestones of an explorer's life.

Deborah Hopkinson Who Hq
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Who Was Steve Jobs?

Pam Pollack Meg Belviso Who Hq
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