6th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST



5th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

FICTION:

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Follow Edward,

a 3 ft. china rabbit, on a lifetime of adventures.

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits,

and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall. The title says it all.

Lunch Money by Andrew Clements. Greg is an expert at making money. The Last

Holiday Concert, Frindle, and Things Not Seen are also popular novels.

Replay by Sharon Creech. Leo is part of loud, funny Italian family and he has a part

in the school play. Spend your summer enjoying all of Sharon Creech’s novels.

Millicent Min, Girl Genius and Sanford Wong Flunks Big Time are companion

novels by Lisa Yee. Millicent likes school; Sanford likes basketball.

Travel Team by Mike Lupica. Danny gets cut from the basketball team but still

ends up a winner.

Chicken Boy by Frances O’Roark Dowell. Everyone considers Tobin McCauley

a delinquent until Harry, whose hobby is chickens, befriends him.

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale. Meet Miri a potential princess.

POPULAR SERIES:

Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne, The Spiderwick Chronicles by

Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, Guardians of Ga’Hoole by Kathryn Lasky,

On the Run by Gordon Korman, Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo and Protector

of the Small by Tamora Pierce.

POETRY:

Runny Babbit: A Silly Book by Shel Silverstein. Song of the Water Boatman

by Joyce Sidman. Beyond the Great Mountains: A Visual Poem about China

by Ed Young.

NON-FICTION and BIOGRAPHY:

Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes by Pamela Turner.

Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter.

Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman.

The Prairie Builders : Reconstructing America’s Lost Grasslands by Sneed

Collard.

The Art Book for Children published by Phaidon.

Built To Last: Building America’s Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, and

Skyscrapers by George Sullivan.

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