GRADE 6

Dear boys and girls!

You all know how important it is to be a good reader. Reading is the key that opens the door to the wonder-world of books. As you read the stories in this collection you will explore a new and delightful world of people and places. You will discover interesting facts and ideas to think about and sometimes to surprise you.

This Reader has in it passages from well-known books of English and American authors.

There are also stories of everyday life by modern writers, some animal stories and a few tales. Some stories will make you laugh. Others will give you new ideas. All of the stories will help you to be better readers.

These stories will be interesting to both boys and girls and will give you the pleasure of reading in English.

• Matilda (Roald Dahl)
  
  
• Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
  
  
• Bobs, the Monkey Who Forgot
  
  
• In the Classroom (from "Stuart Little" by E.B. White)
  
  
• The Hedgehog and the Hare
  
  
• Isn't It Fun to Whitewash the Fence? (from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by M. Twain)
  
  
• Alone and Far from Land
  
  
• Daring Sailors
  
  
• I Have Always Been a Rover (from "The Coral Island" by R. M. Ballantyne)
  
  
• The Man Who Minded the House
  
  
• Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents (from Winnie-the-Pooh after A. A. Milne)
  
  
• Opo the Dolphin
  
  
• Brown Wolf (after Lack London)
  
  
• How The Camel Got His Hump (after Rudyard Kipling)
  
  
• How The Book Was Born
  
  
• The Story of the Post
  
  
• The Legend of the Blue Flowers (an Indian tale)
  
  
• Johnny Appleseed
  
  
• The Ransom of Red Chief (after O'Henry)
  
  
• A Great Sailor
  
  

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