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SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST FOR STUDENTS ENTERING 6^TH GRADE

SEPTEMBER 2022
It is recommended that children read throughout the summer for skill maintenance as well as enjoyment. Students should read at least one fiction and one nonfiction book. The following list provides suggestions for each genre. Students should complete the Book Report form for one book and be prepared to present it to the class in September. Happy Reading! :)

Fiction

• Adams:  Watership Down
• Avi:  Poppy
• Billingsley:  The Folk Keeper
• Burnett:  The Secret Garden
• Byars:  Summer of the Swans
• Clark:  The Secret of the Andes
• Clements:  Frindle
• Colfer:  Artemis Fowl
• Conly:  Crazy Lady
• Craven:  I Heard the Owl Call My Name
• Creech:  Absolutely Normal Chaos or Walk Two Moons
• Curtis: Bud, Not Buddy or The Watsons Go to Birmingham
• Cushman:  Catherine, Called Birdy or The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
• Dahl:  James and the Giant Peach
• DeAngeli:  The Door in the Wall
• Dorris:  Sees Behind Trees
• du Bois: The Twenty-One Balloons
• Gauthier:  Club Earth
• George:  Julie of the Wolves 
• Gibson: The Miracle Worker
• Gilbreth:  Cheaper by the Dozen
• Giff:  Lily’s Crossing
• Hahn:  Stepping on the Cracks
• Henkes:  Words of Stone
• Hesse:  The Music of Dolphins or Out of the Dust
• Houston:  Frozen Fire
• Howe:  The New Nick Kramer
• Jiang:  Red Scarf:  A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
• Konigsburg:  The View from Saturday
• Korman: Schooled 
• L’Engle:  A Wrinkle in Time
• Levine:  Ella Enchanted
• Levitin:  Journey to America
• Lewis:  Chronicles of  Narnia Series
• Lowry (3):  See You Around, Sam/Number the Stars/The Giver
• Lupica:  Heat or Travel Team
• McGraw:  The Moorchild or the Golden Goblet
• Mikaelsen:  Countdown
• Montgomery:  Anne of Green Gables
• Morey:  Kavik the Wolf Dog
• Morgan:  Camp Confidential
• Myers:  The Keeping Room
• O’Dell:  Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Oppel:  Silverwing
• Paterson (3):  Jip/The Great Gilly Hopkins/Jabob Have I Loved
• Paulsen (3):  Hatchet/The Island/The River
• Peck:  A Long Way from Chicago
• Pullman:  The Golden Compass
• Rawls:  Where the Red Fern Grows
• Reeder:  Shades of Gray
• Rorby:  Hurt Go Happy
• Rowling:  Harry Potter Series
• Snicket:  A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Temple:  The Ramsay Scallop
• Tolkien:  The Hobbit
• Voigt:  Bad Girls or A Solitary Blue
• Voigt:  A Solitary Blue
• Watkins:  Premonitions
• Waugh:  Space Race
• White: Belle Prater’s Boy
• Winthrop:  Castle in the Attic
• Yolen:  Passager  

Popular 6th Grade Nonfiction Informational Books

• Ardley, Neil:  Music (eyewitness)
• Bachrach, Susan:  Tell Them We Remember:  The Story of the Holocaust
• D’Aulaire, Ingri, and Edgar D’Aulaire:  D'Aulaires: Book of Greek Myths

• Driscoll, Michael:  A Child’s Introduction to Poetry
• Fritz, Jean:  Around the World in a Hundred Years From Henry the Navigator to Magellan.
• Kaminsky, Mary, and Bobby Valentine:  Uncommon Champions: Fifteen Athletes who Battled Back.
• Lasky, Kathryn:  The Man Who Made Time Travel.
• Stanley, Diane:  Michelangelo
• Thimmesh: Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon 
• Swanson:  Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat (ebook) ...

• Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance (Paperback) ...
• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon (Hardcover) ...
• Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle (Hardcover)

• March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior To Little Rock Nine. ...
• Back From The Brink. ...
• Crash: The Great Depression And The Fall And Rise Of America. ...
• Higher, Steeper, Faster: The Daredevils Who Conquered The Skies...