Indian Valley and Indian Crest
Middle Schools
Summer 2014
Guide To
Summer Reading for Incoming 6th Graders
Summer means sun and fun, biking and hiking, picnics and . . . RELAXING WITH A
GOOD BOOK!! Famous newspapers publish summer reading lists, so why shouldn’t we?
You probably know how it feels to finish an exciting book; you feel satisfied with the story
and pleased with your accomplishment. This summer you can get a “jump” on your yearly
reading requirement by keeping this summer reading log.
Here is a list of great suggestions for reading, divided up into many genres. You can just
find your favorite genre, and see if there’s something there that you want to read. Of course you
don’t have to read only the books we’ve listed here. The list is intended as a helpful suggestion.
What you do need to do this summer is to keep a reading log. Any books you read this
summer count towards next year’s reading goal.
Here’s your summer homework:
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Read at least two books this summer (or many more).
Bring your book log with you when you come back to school. If you lose this log, make
your list on a sheet of notebook paper.
Your new teacher will collect it from you and begin keeping records about what kind of
reader you are.
Realistic Fiction
Patron
Lord
Paterson *
Rylant
Vail*
Lowry*
Lipsyte
MacLachlan*
Sachar*
Blume
Danziger*
VanOosting
Fox
Cleary*
Spinelli*
Spinelli
Naylor
Brooks
Sleator
Konigsburg*
Myers
Christopher*
Byars*
George*
Langton
Woodruff
DiCamillo
The Higher Power of Lucky
Rules
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Missing May
Daring to Be Abigail
Number the Stars
The Contender
Baby
Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes
6th Grade Secrets
Starring Sally J. Freedman
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
The Last Payback
Monkey Island
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Strider
Crash
Star Girl, Love
Shiloh
Shiloh Season
The Wolfbay Wings series
Into The Dream
From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Hoops
Return of the Homerun Kid
Summer of the Swans
Julie of the Wolves
Frightful’s Mountain
Fledgling
Bicycle
The Tiger Rising
Historical Fiction
Patterson
Bread and Roses Too
Erdrich
Brink
Mazer
Namiotka
Birchbark House
Caddie Woodlawn
Goodnight Maman
Ties That Bind,
Ties That Break
Preacher’s Boy
The Thieves of Ostra
The Secret of Vesuvius
After the War
Hide and Seek
My Brother Sam Is Dead
No Promises In The Wind
Poppy and Rye
The Man Who Was Poe
Early Thunder
Love from Your Friend,
Hannah
A Family Apart
Paterson*
Lawrence
Lawrence
Matas
Vos
Collier
Hunt
Avi*
Fritz
Skolsky*
Nixon
Lyons
Fletcher
Speare
Letter From A Slave Girl
Shadow Spinner
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Scholastic
Woodruff
Dear American Series
George Washington’s Socks
Mystery and Adventure
Raskin
Hahn
Sachar*
Sobol
Snyder*
VanDraanen*
Smith
Napoli
Alexander*
O’Dell*
Paulsen*
Gardiner
Taylor*
Eckert
Ruckman
Banks
Dixon
Keene
Korman
The Westing Game
Come to Me By Moonlight
Holes
Encyclopedia Brown
Egypt Game
Sammy Keyes series
Zach’s Lie
Three Days
Book of Three
Sarah Bishop
Hatchet
The River
Stone Fox
The Cay
Timothy and the Cay
An Incident at Hawk’s Hill
Night of the Twisters
Indian In The Cupboard
I Houdini
Hardy Boys Series
Nancy Drew Series
39 Clues
Science Fiction and Fantasy
DiCamillo
L’Engle*
The Tale of Despereaux
A Wrinkle in Time (and
sequels)
Lubar
Monster Road
Lowry*
The Giver
Gathering Blue
Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Levine*
Ella Enchanted
Hoffman
Aquamarine
Rowling*
Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s
Stone
Hesse*
Music of Dolphins
Jacques*
Martin the Warrior
Napoli
The Prince and the Pond
Beast
Dahl*
The BFG
Matilda
Honus and Me
Guttman
Woodruff
Magnificent Mummy Maker
Roirdan
Lost Hero
* Others by these authors are also
recommended.
Multicultural Books
D’Adamo
Davis
Sperry
Myers*
Taylor*
Temple*
Napoli
Bao- Lord
Jiang
Staples
Iqbal
Just Like Martin
Call It Courage
Scorpions
The Well
Grab Hands and Run
Stones in Water
Year of the Boar and
Jackie Robinson
Red Scarf Girl
Shabanu
Biography, and Memoir
Ryan
Stanley
Reiss
Lynn
Freedman
Jeter
Bridges
Spinelli
Peck
Yates
When Marian Sang
I Am an American
The Upstairs Room
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Eleanor Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
The Life You Imagine
Through My Eyes
Knots on My Yo-yo String
Anonymously Yours
Amos Fortune Free Man
Byers
The Moon and
Of Science and Social
Studies Interest
Apfel
Lauber
Tanaka
Osbourne
Yolen
D’Aullaires
Larson
McCarty
Lister
Casselli
Tanaka
Voyager to the Planets
I Was There: Discovering
The Iceman
The Buried City of Pompeii
Favorite Greek Myths
Wings
Greek Myths
There’s a Hair in My Dirt
The Illiad
The Odyssey
In Search of Troy
The Buried City of Pompeii
Humor
I
Korman
Lubar
Coville
Pinkwater
Scieszka
Beware The Fish
Monster Road
My Teacher Is An Alien
Fat Camp Commandos
Time Warp Trio
Ardagh
End
A House Called Awful
Name: _________________________________________
Summer Book Log
Title
Author
Genre
Date
Finished
Rating
1-10
Reading Response
Reading response choices: Tell what you liked most about your book and why. OR Write a short summary about your book.