Summer Reading List 2021 Grades 5-6

5th Grade REQUIRED ● In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord In this book, Bandit (or Shirley Temple Wong) moves from China to New York City. How does she adapt to a new culture, learn a new language, and make new friends?

6th Grade REQUIRED ● Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien What is Mrs. Frisby’s problem with Moving Day? What is the interesting history of the rats of NIMH? Putting both stories together tells the whole tale, beginning to end!

5th and 6th Grade SUGGESTED ● Animal Fiction Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan Eckert; Black Beauty by Anna Sewell; Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat; Shoebag by M. E. Kerr; White Dolphin by Gill Lewis

● Historical Fiction Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall; Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac; Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne 20th Century Historical Fiction: Blue Willow by Doris Gates; Our Own Amelia May by Jennifer Holm; The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly; Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt; Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski; Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse; Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan; Sweet Home, Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg;

● Classics The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery; Matilda by Roald Dahl

● Fantasy Moorchild by Eloise McGraw; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis; Matilda by Roald Dahl; The Grey King by Susan Cooper; The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper;

● Realistic Fiction Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli; The 7th Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall; Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff; The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald (series); Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea; The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall; The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez;

● Newbery Titles The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis; Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech; Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath; The One and Only Ivan by K.A. Applegate; Amos Fortune Free Man by Elizabeth Yates;

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● Mysteries The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg; Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter by Beth Fantaskey; The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange; Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (Newbery Medal); Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Newbery Honor);

● Survival Stories The Place of Lions by Eric Campbell; The Island by Gary Paulsen; Downriver by Will Hobbs; The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Newbery Honor); Island: Shipwreck by Gordon Korman;

● Sports Soar by Joan Bauer; The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz; The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter; The Hero Two Doors Down by Sharon Robinson;

● Biography and other nonfiction Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman; Harriet Tubman by Ann Petry; The Great Fire by Jim Murphy; An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

● Immigrant Stories Gaby Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes; Across the Great River by Irene Beltran Hernandez; I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin;

Online resources for finding books Create a free library account: Open Library openlibrary.org (very good online library resource, we've used this site the most frequently due to its selection and ease of access).

Create a free account: Internet Archive internetarchive.org (very vast database, but a reliable resource as well – more difficult to sift through, also has a lot of older or difficult to find books/sources).

Ohio Digital Library https://ohdbks.overdrive.com/

Kindle Editions--sold on Amazon.com Google Books: https://books.google.com/

Search all local libraries for ebook lending options https://www.worldcat.org/

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