6th Grade Summer Reading List



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6th Grade Summer Reading List 2014

Students must read one book from the list prior to entering 6th grade. Summer reading will be evaluated during the first two weeks of school. The teacher determines how the books will be evaluated using a test, a composition, a project or other activity. Students who are new to Hamilton County Schools may be allowed to read a selection during the first two weeks of school. Reading Levels (RL) are listed below.

Notes from a Liar and Her Dog (Choldenko) - Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies. RL 5.0

Stargirl (Spinelli) - In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. RL: 6.1

Sahara Special (Codell) – Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates. RL:5.0

Among the Hidden (Haddix) - In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family’s farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. RL:6.9

Mississippi Bridge (Taylor) - During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River. RL:5.9

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants {choose one from the series} (Brashares) - During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences. RL:6.2

Swindle (Korman) - After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino’s heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father’s failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker. RL:4.4

Bird (Johnson) - Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties. RL:8.2

The Lightning Thief (Riordan) - After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. RL:4.7

The Dream Bearer (Myers) - During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father’s outbursts and unstable behavior. RL:6.0

Flush (Hiaasen) - With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. RL:6.9

Diary of a Wimpy Kid {choose one from the series} (Kinney) - Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. RL:5.3

The Skin I’m In (Flake) - Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like. RL:9.1

A Girl Named Disaster (Farmer) - While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. RL:7.9

So B. It (Weeks) - After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. RL:5.6

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie (Sonnenblick) - When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family. RL:6.2

My Teacher is an Alien (Colville) - After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he’s an alien and only Peter believes her. Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith’s horrible plans. RL:5.3

Three Cups of Tea (Thomson) - An adaptation of the bestselling book about the American Greg Mortenson’s building of over 60 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. RL:5.6

Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis) - Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. RL:5.8

Philip Hall Likes Me I Reckon Maybe (Greene) - Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that Philip Hall likes her, but their on-again, off-again relationship sometimes makes her wonder. RL:5.7

Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks (Klise) - When the principal asks a fifth-grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results. RL:5.0

Call It Courage (Sperry) - Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people. RL:7.8

Regular Guy (Weeks) - Because he is so different from his eccentric parents, twelve-year-old Guy is convinced he has been switched at birth with a classmate whose parents seem more normal. RL:6.4

Half Magic (Eager) - Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. RL:6.2

Dairy Queen (Murdock) - After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. RL:6.8

Hunger Games (Collins) - In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. RL:Young Adult

Edward’s Eyes (MacLachlan) - Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient. RL:6.0

When You Reach Me (Stead) - As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. RL:5.0

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