6Th Reading List
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6th Grade Recommended Summer Reading List NOVEL AUTHOR …and Now Miguel Joseph Krumgold A Gathering of Days Joan W. Blos A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir Beverly Cleary A Jar of Dreams Yoshiko Uchida A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Afternoon of the Elves Janet Taylor Lisle Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Virginia Hamilton Apple is M Sign Mary Riskind Bongo Brown, Gypsy Lover Betsy Byars Bowman's Store Joseph Bruchac Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Bunnicula Deborah and James Howe Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary Dog Poems Myra Cohn Livingston Dragonwings Lawrence Yep Drylongso Virginia Hamilton East of the Sun and West of the Moon: A Play Nancy Willard George Washington Mary Pope Osborne Going Home Nicholasa Mohr Harriet Tubman Ann Petry Hatchet Gary Paulsen Hawk, I'm Your Brother Byrd Baylor Hide and Seek Ida Vos How to be an Ocean Scientist in Your Own Home Seymour Simon Hugh Glass, Mountain Man Robert M. McClung In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell Journey to the Planets Patricia Lauber Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Mildred Pitts Walter Life in a Tidal pool Alvin and Virginia Silverstein Life on Mars David Getz Little Town on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder Meet the Austins Madeleine L'Engle Meeting the Whales Erich Hoyt Mrs. Frisby and the Rats on Nimh Robert C. O'Brien My Sister, My Science Report Margaret Bechard Old Yeller Fred Gipson One at a Time David McCord Other Bells for Us to Ring Robert Cormier 6th Grade Recommended Summer Reading List NOVEL AUTHOR Over the Top of the World Will Steger Petty Crimes Gary Soto Pyramid David Macaulay Rio Grande Stories Carolyn Meyer Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Shadow of a Bull Maia Wojciechowska Shadow Shark Colin Thiele Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shoebag Mary James Some of the Kinder Planets Tim Wynne-Jones Summer of the Dodo Patricia Baehr Sweetgrass Jan Hudson Sweetwater Laurence Yep Taking Sides Gary Soto Talk About English Janet Klausner The Great Little Madison Jean Fritz The Invisible Thread Yoshiko Uchida The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Viet Nam Huynh Quang Nhuong The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis The Pueblo Charlotte and David Yue The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone James Cross Giblin The Root Cellar Janet Lunn The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare The Spring of the Butterflies and Other Chinese Folktales He Liyi The Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars The Tarantula in My Purse Jean Craighead George The View From Saturday E.L. Konigsburg The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame The Wreck of the Zanzibar Michael Morpurgo Tom's Midnight Garden Philippa Pearce Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt Two Short and One Long Nina Ring Aamundsen Windcatcher Avi Within Reach Pam Conrad Zeely Virginia Hamilton Additional book lists can be found at Borders and Waldenbooks stores as well as online at these websites: www.ala.org and www.bookadventures.org.