Summer Reading Assignment for Students Entering 6th Grade

Dear Student and Parent,

Summer break is almost here! It is a wonderful time for rest, relaxing fun, adventures, and….and….and the opportunity to READ, READ, READ!! My hope is that you will be excited and truly enjoy what you are reading. It is an important time to help you, as a reader, maintain the skills learned during the year. Reading every day will help advance current reading levels and create the habit of lifelong reading and learning.

For this summer, I am requiring that you read two books, one I choose and one that you ​ ​ choose that is at least 200 pages long.

Book One (my choice): A Night Divided by Jennifer A Nielsen ​ ​ ​ ​

Book Two (your choice): Choose one book to read. I have provided a list of ​ suggestions, but you are welcome to read any other book as long as it is at least 200 pages long. Please be prepared to do an in class assignment during our first week of 6th grade.

Lastly, you are always welcome to read more! As you get to know me, you will hear my favorite saying: “Always do more, never do less”. I am looking forward to our year of English together.

Have a terrific summer!!! Mrs. Jeffries

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – ​Charles William Eliot

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! ​ ​ ​

Book Suggestions: choose one to read from this list or one of your choice (at least 200 pages)

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm The Crossover by Kwame Alexander The Third Mushroom by Jennifer Holm Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Trapped by Michael Northrop Adventures by Kate DiCamillo The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool Soar by Joan Bauer When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ​ ​ by Margot Lee Shetterly - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a My Life With the Chimpanzees by Jane Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz ​ Goodall The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan White Fang by Jack London Patron ​ Old Yeller by Fred Gipson Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Holes by Louis Sachar Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata ​ The Bridge to Teribithia by Katherine The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo ​ Paterson Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park ​ Rick Riordan A Year Down Yonder by by Richard Peck Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz The View from Saturday by E.L. Assassin by Anna Myers Konigsburg Walk Two Moons by Sharon Paperboy by Vince Vawter Creech *I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Missing May by Cynthia Rylant *The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli ​ *Eragon by Christopher Paolini Wringer by Jerry Spinelli ​ *Princess Bride by William Goldman Number the Stars by Lois Lowry ​ *War Horse by Michael Morpurgo Heat by Mike Lupica ​ ​ *The Boy on The Wooden Box by Leon The Underdogs by Mike Lupica Leyson Game Changers by Mike Lupica *The Secret Hum of A Daisy by Tracy Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Holczer Swindle by Gordon Korman *The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Framed by Gordon Korman Crane Showoff by Gordon Korman *Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper Jackpot by Gordon Korman *Atherton by Patrick Carmen The Hypnotist by Gordon Korman Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Among the HIdden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

*For More Advanced Readers.