St. Thomas’s Day School Entering 6th Grade Summer Reading List Fantasy Historical Fiction Biography/Autobiography • Anpao- An American Indian Odyssey • Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet • Annie and Helen by Deborah by Jamake Highwater Gray Hopkinson • The Boggart by Susan Cooper • Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee • Eugene Debs: Rebel, Labor Leader, • The Chronicles of Prydain (series) by Latham Prophet by Dabid F. Selvin Lloyd Alexander • Catherine Called Birdie by Karen • Franklin DeLano Roosevelt by Russell • The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Cushman Freedman • The Dark is Rising Sequence by • Danny the Champion of the World • Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Susan Cooper by Roald Dahl Ingenious Inventions by Women by • Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. • Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Wrede • Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Sweet • Entwined by Heather Dixon • The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen • Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who • The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall Cushman Changed America by Andrea Davis • The Giver by Lois Lowry • North to Freedom by Anne Holm Pinkney • The Glass Slipper by Eleanor Farjeon • Rifles for Watie by Harold V. Keith • Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Meigs • Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne • Sounder by William H. Armstrong • The Kidnapped Prince- The Life of Collins • Secret of the Andies by Ann Nolan Olaudah by Olaudah Equiano, • Juniper by Monica Furlong Clark adapted by Ann Cameron • The Little Lame Prince by Dinah • The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox • They Led the Way by Johanna Maria Muloch Craik • Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski Johnston • The Magical Adventures of Pretty • The Trumpeter of Krakaw by Eric P. • The Road From Home by David Pearl by Virginia Hamilton Kelly Kherdian • Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris • Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet • Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks • The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye Bishop with Jim Haskins • The Owl Service by Alan Garner • Underground Man by Milton Meltzer • So Young to Die: The Story of Hannah Senesh by Candice F. • Perloo the Bold by Avi • The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed Ransom • The Rajah’s Rice by Dave Barry by Heather Vogel Frederick • Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? • The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth • The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Graham Elizabeth George Speare By Patricia A. McKissack • Steve Jobs: Thinking Differently by • A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond • Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink Patricia Latkin • When the Tripods Came by John • Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury Christopher • The Year of Miss Agnes by • Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry Kirkpatrick Hill • Woodsong by Gary Paulsen St. Thomas’s Day School Entering 6th Grade Summer Reading List Information Books Poetry 2017 Nutmeg Book Nominees • The Book of Where by Neill Bell • The Blood-Hungry Spleen and Other • The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel • Buried Alive by Elaine Scott Poems About Our Parts by Allan • Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s • Civil War (DK Eyewitness Books) Wolf Library by Chris Grabenstein • Dogs on Duty by Dorothy Henshaw • Every Thing On It by Shel Silverstein • Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes Patent • Heartbeat by Sharon Creech • Good for Me by Marilyn Burns • Masterminds by Gordon Karman • Honey, I Love by Eloise Greenfield • Freedom Walkers by Russell • The Misadventures of the Family Freedman • If I Were in Charge of the World and Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy Other Worries by Judith Viorst • The Impossible Rescue: The True • Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Story of an Amazing Arctic • Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo Museum Mile by Marcia Wells Adventure by Martin Sandler Dillon • Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky • Knowledge Encyclopedia by DK • Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman by Sandra Dallas • Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve • My America: A Poetry Atlas of the • Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Sheinkin United States selected by Lee • A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd • The Polar Bear Scientists by Peter Bennett Hopskins • Space Case by Stuart Gibbs Lourie • Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne • Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of • Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Anthologies Solomon Butcher by Pam Conrad • Poetry For Young People: Edgar • The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit • Rachel Carson and Her Book That Allen Poe by Brod Bagert • Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor • A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Folktales retold by Alison Lurie • A Separate Battle: Women and the Aston • Cloaked in Red by Vivian VandVelde Civil War by Ina Chang • Science Verse by Jon Scieszka • The Dark Thirty by Patricia • Seymour Simon’s Extreme Oceans by • Something Big Has Been Here by McKissack Seymour Simon Jack Prelutsky • Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant • The Story of the World: History of • Water Dance by Thomas Locker • The House on Mango Street by the Classical Child: Volume 3: Early • When We Were Very Young by A. A. Sandra Cisneros Modern Times by Susan Wise Bauer Milne • The Journey edited by Alma Murray • Titanic: Voices From Disaster by • Wind Song by Carl Sandburg and Robert Thomas Deborah Hopkinson • Words with Wings A Treasury of • Shelf Life: Stories by the Book edited • We Remember the Holocaust by African-American Poetry and Art by by Gary Paulsen David Adler Belinda Rochelle, editor • Shen of the Sea by Arthur Chrisman • Long Journey Home by Julius Lester • You Come Too by Robert Frost