Suggested Summer Reading for 6th grade
Recommended by Mrs. Ullrich
Realistic Fiction
Dante Del Gato.
Clements, Andrew. Lunch Money
Sixth grader, Greg Kenton has
decided that school is an excellent
market for making money. He starts
his own one-man operation, writing,
illustrating, producing and selling
his own comic books. A competitor
and a principal’s ban put him out of
business.
Mystery
Frost, Helen. Hidden. Years after
Darra Monson's father stole a
minivan with Wren Abbott hiding in
the back, the girls come face to face
at summer camp and together they
try to work through what happened
to them and the impact it had on
their lives.
Mass, Wendy, Every Soul a Star.
At Moon Shadow Campground,
thousands have gathered to catch a
glimpse of a rare and extraordinary
total eclipse of the sun. It’s also
where three lives are about to be
changed forever: sheltered Ally,
beauty queen Bree, and Jack. A
compelling story about strangers
coming together, unlikely
friendships, and finding one’s place
in the universe.
Sports
Lupica, Mike. Miracle on 49th Street.
After her mother's death, twelveyear-old Molly learns that her father
is a basketball star for the Boston
Celtics.
Ritter, John. The Boy Who Saved
Baseball. The fate of a small
California town rests on the
outcome of one baseball game, and
Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his
team to victory with the secrets of
the now disgraced player,
Beil, Michael, The Red Blazer Girls
Series
Sophie and her friends embark on
solving a case involving mistaken
identities, switch paintings and
pricelsss family heirlooms.
Stewart, Trenton Lee. The
Mysterious Benedict Society.
When Reynis Muldoon, an 11 year –
old orphan, responds to an
advertisement in the newspaper for
a “gifted child looking for Special
Opportunities”, he finds himself
part of a four – member team of
child secret agents. Trained and
supervised by a mysterious
benefactor Mr. Benedict, the children
embark on a mysterious adventure
at a school runby a criminal
mastermind bent on taking over the
world.
Fantasy
Collins, Suzanne. Gregor the
Overlander. When Gregor’s twoyear-old sister, Boots, tumbles down
an air duct in the laundry room of
their apartment building, he leaps
after her. The two wind up in
Underland, a place inhabited by
humans who have not been
“Overland” in centuries, as well as
giant-sized rat, bats and
cockroaches. Gregor just wants to
find a way home until he discovers
that his father is a prisoner of the
rats. As he searches for a way to free
him and keep his sister safe, he
finds he may indeed be the
Overlander of prophecy
Nielsen, Jennifer.
The False Prince.
Suggested Summer Reading for 6th grade
Recommended by Mrs. Ullrich
In the country of Carthya,
a devious nobleman engages
four orphans in a competition to be
selected to impersonate the king's
long-missing son.
Patterson, James. The Dangerous
Days of Daniel X Meet wisecracking, hard-fighting alien hunter
Daniel X, age 15, as he hunts and is
hunted by his most powerful and
lethal opponent yet: movie mogul
Ergent Seth, #6 on Daniel’s List of
Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma.
Adventure
Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong,
For a rugged outdoor man and his
family, life in northern Minnesota is
a wild experience involving wolves,
deer, and the sled dogs that make
their way of life possible. This
autobiography includes an account
of the author’s first Iditarod, a dog
sled race across
Alaska.
Wilson, Paul F. Jack: Secret
Histories.
Jack begins to uncover some
unsuspected talents in himself after
he and his friends discover a corpse
deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens.
Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone
Does My Shirts.
In 1935, Moose Flanagan's father
gets a job at Alcatraz prison, and
the family moves to the twelve-acre
rock island in the middle of San
Francisco Bay.
Horror
Black, Holly. Doll Bones
Zach, Poppy and Alice have been
friends forever. They love playing
with their action figure toys,
imagining a magical world of
adventure and heroism. Just when it
looks like the three might be
growing up and leaving the game
behind, Poppy reveals she is being
haunted. Reality and make-believe
begin to blend, and the three head
out on an adventure they will never
forget.
Narrative Non-Fiction
Borden, Louise.
The Journey That Saved Curious
George : The True Wartime Escape
of Margaret and H.A. Rey This
beautifully illustrated book tells the
story of the Reys and
their escape from Paris during World
War II.
Historical Fiction
Couloumbis, Audrey. The
Misadventures of Maude March.
After the death of the stern aunt
who raised them since they were
orphaned, eleven-year old Sallie and
her fifteen-year-old sister escape
their self-serving guardians and
begin an adventure resembling those
in the dime novels Sallie loves to
read
Wojtyla, Karen. Shark Life: True
Stories about Sharks and the Sea
Contains fifteen stories, adapted for
young people, in which Peter
Benchley describes his encounters
with sharks, and discusses what he
has learned about the sea.
Yolen, Jane. Roanoke: The Lost
Colony
Chronicles the history of the
Roanoke colony and offers possible
Suggested Summer Reading for 6th grade
Recommended by Mrs. Ullrich
explanations for their mysterious
disappearance.