SUMMER READING
All students entering grade 6 in September 2011, are to read at least 1 of the
following books.
Book Title
Author
The Bite of the Gold Bug:
A Story of the Alaska Gold Rush
Barth DeClements
The Secret Garden
Frances Burnett
Sebastian Super Sleuth and the Copy Cat Crime Mary Blocent Christian
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary
Soup
Robert Newton Peck
The Pushcart War
Jean Merrell
The Family Under the Bridge
Natalie Carlson
Owls in the Family
Farley Morwat
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle
Bambi
Felix Salten
King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry
Young Merlin
Robert D. San Souci
Any sequels to:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
The Twenty One Balloons
William Pene du Bois
The Wheel on the School
Meinert De Jong
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkein
Watership Down
Adams
The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynn Reid Banks
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J. K. Rowling
**The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
**And Now Miguel
Joseph Krumgold
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead
George
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
Darby
Jonathan Fuqua
Tale of Despereaux
Kate Di Camillo
Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
Loser
Jerry Spinelli
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi
Redwall
Brian Jaques
The Curse of the Blue Figurine
John Bellairs
** Easy to read
5th to 6th
**The En
The Black Cauldron
Ben and Me
Bingo Brown books
Olive’s Ocean
Cracker Jackson
A Siftly Tilting Planet
A Wind in the Door
The Watson’s Go To Birmingham
My Side of the Mountain
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
Chasing Vermeer
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
Lloyd Alexander
Robert Lawson
Betsy Byars
Kevin Henkes
Betsy Byars
Madeline L’ Engle
Madeline L’ Engle
Christopher Paul Curtis
Jean Craighead George
Jenny Nimmo
Jenny Nimmo
Blue Balliett
Judy Blume
Nonfiction
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Go For the Goal
Mia Ham
The Look-It-Up Book of First Ladies
S. A. Kramer
Children of the Wild West
Russell Freedman
Basher Five-Two
Captain Scott O’Grady
Helen Keller’s Teacher
Margaret Davidson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
William Anderson
**Abraham Lincoln
Ingri Edgar Parin d’ Aulaire
882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your
Questions about the Titanic
Hugh Brewster & Laurie Coulter
Exploring the Titanic
Robert D. Ballard
The Snake Scientist
Sy Montgomery
Once A Wolf
Steven R. Swinburn
The Bone Detectives
Donna M. Jackson
Ancient Egyptions
James and Hart Putnam
The Buried City of Pompeii
Shelly Tank
Ben Franklin’s Almanac
Candace Fleming
American Plague: The True and Terrifying
Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic
Jim Murphy
Poetry
The Children’s Own Longfellow
Houghton Mifflin
Choose one from each of the following series or authors:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Eve Bunting
James Herriot
The books on the list above are recommended by your teachers, but other
appropriate books and magazines will be accepted.
** Easy to read
5th to 6th