Grade Six Summer Reading List 2018

GRADE SIX SUMMER READING LIST 2018

June 1, 2018 Dear Rising Sixth Graders,

We wish you a summer filled with fun, excitement, rest, and wonderful reading. We hope you will discover many new authors and find read-aloud times to share books with family and friends. We have prepared the following list that starts you on that wonderful journey.

Rising sixth graders are expected to read at least five books this summer. The three required books are: Booked by Kwame Alexander, 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts by R.J. Palacio, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. All three books can be found on Amazon or at Politics and Prose.

You will find recording sheets in the back of this booklet that provide space for you to take some notes and answer some important questions. Besides the three required books, we invite you to select at least two additional books to read. You may choose them from the attached list, but you are not limited to only these books. Please record the titles and authors on the record sheets at the end of the Sixth Grade list and make sure you remember to bring your sheets and books with you to school on the first day.

We encourage diversity in reading and hope each of you will discover a new type of book and at least one new author. Ambitious and extensive reading will be duly recognized. We look forward to teaching you next year, and hope you have a wonderful summer.

Sincerely, Your 6th Grade Teachers

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REQUIRED READING:

Booked 365 Days of Wonder Number the Stars

Kwame Alexander R.J.Palacio Lois Lowry

SUGGESTED BOOKS ARE LISTED BELOW ? FEEL FREE TO USE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS OR BOOKS OF YOUR OWN CHOICE.

ADVENTURE

Kit's Wilderness

Crispin Don't You Know There is a War Going On?

Bud, Not Buddy

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm A Girl Named Disaster

Water Sky The Tarantula in My Purse

Kim

The Blue Sword

The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner

Hatchet (and other titles)

The Golden Compass (series)

Kidnapped Treasure Island

The Thief

David Almond Avi

Christopher Paul Curtis Nancy Farmer

Jean Craighead George

Rudyard Kipling Robin McKinley Walter Dean Myers Gary Paulsen Philip Pullman Robert Louis Stevenson

Megan Turner

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Swiss Family Robinson

Johann David Wyss

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

BIOGRAPHY

Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir Lincoln, A Photobiography Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! The Story of My Life The Land I Lost Red Scarf Girl Little by Little: A Writer's Education The Diary of a Young Girl Rosa Parks: My Story

Rhoda Blumberg

Beverly Cleary Russell Freedman

Jean Fritz Helen Keller Quang Nhuong Huynh Ji-Li Jiang Jean Little Anne Frank Rosa Parks

FAMILY/FRIENDSHIP STORIES

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Hoot Flush

Carl Hiaasen

Everything on a Waffle

Polly Horvath

Lily's Crossing

Patricia Reilly Giff

Crazy Lady

Jane Leslie Conley

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

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The Autumn Street

Lois Lowry

Anne of Green Gables (series)

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A Long Way from Chicago A Year Down Yonder

Loser Crash (and other titles) Stargirl

Shabanu (sequels)

Surviving the Applewhites

Homecoming Dicey's Song

Richard Peck Jerry Spinelli

Suzanne Fisher Staples Stephanie S. Tolan Cynthia Voight

FICTION

The Man Who was Poe

Avi

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

The Movies Make the Man

Bruce Brooks

Year of the Impossible Goodbyes

Sook Choi

Red Badge of Courage

Steven Crane

My Side of the Mountain (sequels)

Jean Craighead George

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

Across Five Aprils

Irene Hunt

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Tales from Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

A Wrinkle in Time (series)

Madeleine L'Engle

Belle Teal

Ann M. Martin

Lyddie Jip: His Story

Katherine Patterson

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Under the Blood-Red Sun

Graham Salisbury

The Innkeepers Apprentice

Allen Say

The Cay (sequels)

Theodore Taylor

The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series

J. R. R. Tolkein

The Devil's Arithmetic When You Reach Me

Jane Yolen Rebecca Stead

MYSTERIES

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

John Bellairs

The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

NATURE STORIES

Sounder National Velvet Old Yeller All Creatures Great and Small Big Red The Call of the Wild The Yearling Black Beauty The Red Pony

William Armstrong Enid Bagnold Fred Gipson James Herriott Jim Kjelgaard Jack London Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Anna Sewell John Steinbeck

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