6TH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST
You may choose to read one of these suggested titles OR a
book of your choice this summer. Many of these titles are
recommendations from former 6th graders!
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Artemis Fowl **and series** by Eoin Colfer
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats by Gary Paulsen
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, Chris Van Allsburg (illus.)
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Cousins by Virginia Hamilton
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Divergent **and trilogy** by Veronica Roth
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Football Champ by Tim Green
Found **and series** by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Harry Potter **series** by J. K. Rowling
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
The Island by Gary Paulsen
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
The Lightening Thief **and series** by Rick Riordan
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer
Matched **and trilogy** by Ally Condie
Middle School series by James Patterson
Mister Monday by Garth Nix
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
The Mysterious Benedict Society **and series** by Trent Lee Stewart
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and Very Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (illus.)
The River by Gary Paulsen
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief ** and series** by Wendelin van Draanen
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island by Eve Bunting
STORM : The Infinity Code by E.L. Young
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer series by John Grisham
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Words of Stone by Kevin Henkes
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli