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Suggested Summer Reading List for Grades 6 & 7 SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST FOR STUDENTS ENTERING GRADE 6 This list includes a wide variety of books to appeal to the interests and reading levels of many students. Parents are encouraged to review book selections with their children in order to help them make appropriate choices. Students may select books from this list, or they may read a comparable book that is approved by their parents Armstrong, William – Sounder *Angleberger, Tom – Darth Paper Strikes Back; Jacques, Brian – Redwall Series Strange Case of Origami Yoda Juster, Norman – The Phantom Tollbooth Applegate, Katherine – The One and Only Ivan *AVI – S.O.R. Losers Kadohata, Cynthia – Kira-Kira Poppy *Kipling, Rudyard – Captain Courageous Babbitt, Natalie – Tuck Everlasting The Jungle Book Banks, Lynne Reid – Indian In The Cupboard *Konigsburg, E.L.- From The Mixed-Up Files Bauer, Joan – Hope Was Here of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweiler Balliett, Blue – Chasing Vermeer *Korman, Gordan – Hideout, Zoobreak, Swindle, and Framed Berlin, Eric – The Puzzling World of Winston Breen Series *Lewis, C.S. – Chronicles of Narnia Black, Holly – Doll Bones *L’Engle, Madeline – A Wrinkle In Time Brink, Carol Ryrie – Caddie Woodlawn A Ring of Endless Light Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden The Young Unicorns Buyea, Rob – Because of Mr. Terupt *Lupica, Mike – The Big Field and Hero *Byars, Betsy – The Summer of the Swans *Lowry, Lois – Gathering Blue *Cleary, Beverly – Dear Mr. Henshaw Mass, Wendy – 11 Birthdays *Clements, Andrew – Trouble-Maker *Mikaelsen, Ben – Touching Spirit Bear *Coville, Bruce - My Teacher is an Alien Montgomery, L.M. – Anne of Greene Gables *Creech, Sharon – The Wanderer Myers, Walter Dean – The Glory Field Bloomability *Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds – Shiloh Series Walk Two Moons *O’Dell, Scott – Island of the Blue Dolphins Ruby Holler Paolini, Christopher – Eragon Chasing Redbird Eldest Replay Patterson, James and Chris Grabenstein – I Funny Colfer, Eoin – Artemis Fowl Series *Paulsen, Gary – Hatchet Airman Brian’s Return *Curtis, Christopher Paul – Bud, Not Buddy Brian’s Winter *Dahl, Roald – The BFG Peck, Richard – A Year Down Yonder The Witches The Teacher’s Funeral Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Perkins, Lynne – Criss Cross Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe Raskin, Ellen – The Westing Game DeFelice, Cynthia – The Ghost And Mrs. Hobbs Reiche, Dietlof – I, Freddy The Ghost Of Fossil Glen Riordan, Rick – Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series DiCamillo, Kate – The Magician’s Elephant Ryan, Pam Munoz – Esperanza Rising *Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield *Sachar, Louis – Holes Oliver Twist *Selznick, Brian - Wonderstruck A Tale Of Two Cities Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty Dixon, Franklin – The Hardy Boys Series Snicket, Lemony – A Series of Unfortunate Events Series Fleishchman, Sid – The Whipping Boy *Spinelli, Jerry – Loser Gardiner, John Reynolds – Stone Fox The Library Card *George, Jean Craighead – My Side Of The Mountain Trilogy Crash Giff, Patricia Reilly – Lily’s Crossing Steinbeck, John – The Red Pony John Grisham – Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer Stevens, John – The Emerald Atlas Haddix, Margaret Peterson – Among The Hidden Series Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped Found: Missing, Bk. 1 Treasure Island Sent: Missing, Bk. 2 Taylor, Mildred – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Sabotaged: Missing, Bk. 3 Tolkein, J.R. – The Fellowship of the Ring Torn: Missing, Bk. 4 *Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn *Hesse, Karen – Letters From Rifka Uchida, Yoshika – Journey Home Out Of The Dust Van Draanen, Wendelin – Sammy Keyes Series *Hinton, S.E. – The Outsiders Woodson, Jacqueline – Miracle’s Boys *Hobbs, Will – Bearstone *Yep, Laurence – Child of the Owl Horvath, Polly – Everything On A Waffle Yolen, Jane – The Devil’s Arithmetic Hunt, Irene – Across Five Aprils .
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