GRADE SIX SUMMER READING LIST 2017
June 1, 2017
Dear Rising Sixth Graders,
We wish you a summer filled with fun, excitement, rest, and wonderful reading. We hope
you will discover many new authors and find read-aloud times to share books with family and
friends. We have prepared the following list that starts you on that wonderful journey.
Rising sixth graders are expected to read at least five books this summer. The three required
books are: Chief Joseph: The Voice For Peace by Lorraine Jean Hopping, The Lions of Little Rock
by Kristin Levine, and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. All three books can be found on Amazon
or at Politics and Prose. Please be sure that you get the correct book for Chief Joseph. It is a
biography by Sterling Press. We encourage you to read Chief Joseph in the month of August so
that it is fresh in your mind as it is the anchor text we use for the first month of school.
You will find recording sheets in the back of this booklet that provide space for you to take
some notes and answer some important questions. Besides the three required books, we invite you
to select at least two additional books to read. You may choose them from the attached list, but you
are not limited to only these books. Please record the titles and authors on the record sheets at the
end of the Sixth Grade list and make sure you remember to bring your sheets and books with you to
school on the first day.
We encourage diversity in reading and hope each of you will discover a new type of book
and at least one new author. Ambitious and extensive reading will be duly recognized. We look
forward to teaching you next year, and hope you have a wonderful summer.
Sincerely,
Your 6th Grade Teachers
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GRADE SIX SUMMER READING LIST 2017
REQUIRED READING
Chief Joseph: The Voice For Peace
Lorraine Jean Hopping
The Lions of Little Rock
Kristin Levine
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
ADVENTURE
Kit’s Wilderness
David Almond
Crispin
Don’t You Know There is a War Going On?
Avi
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer
Water Sky
The Tarantula in My Purse
Jean Craighead George
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
The Blue Sword
Robin McKinley
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner
Walter Dean Myers
Hatchet (and other titles)
Gary Paulsen
The Golden Compass (series)
Philip Pullman
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Thief
Megan Turner
Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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BIOGRAPHY
Shipwrecked!
The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
Rhoda Blumberg
A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir
Beverly Cleary
Lincoln, A Photobiography
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Russell Freedman
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!
Jean Fritz
The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
The Land I Lost
Quang Nhuong Huynh
Red Scarf Girl
Ji-Li Jiang
Little by Little: A Writer’s Education
Jean Little
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Rosa Parks: My Story
Rosa Parks
FAMILY/FRIENDSHIP STORIES
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Hoot
Flush
Carl Hiaasen
Everything on a Waffle
Polly Horvath
Lily’s Crossing
Patricia Reilly Giff
Crazy Lady
Jane Leslie Conley
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
The Autumn Street
Lois Lowry
Anne of Green Gables (series)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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A Long Way from Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck
Loser
Crash (and other titles)
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Shabanu (sequels)
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Surviving the Applewhites
Stephanie S. Tolan
Homecoming
Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voight
FICTION
The Man Who was Poe
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
The Movies Make the Man
Bruce Brooks
Year of the Impossible Goodbyes
Sook Choi
Red Badge of Courage
Steven Crane
My Side of the Mountain (sequels)
Jean Craighead George
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb
A Wrinkle in Time (series)
Madeleine L’Engle
Belle Teal
Ann M. Martin
Lyddie
Jip: His Story
Katherine Patterson
Under the Blood-Red Sun
Graham Salisbury
The Innkeepers Apprentice
Allen Say
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The Cay (sequels)
Theodore Taylor
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series
J. R. R. Tolkein
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Jane Yolen
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
MYSTERIES
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
John Bellairs
The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
NATURE STORIES
Sounder
William Armstrong
National Velvet
Enid Bagnold
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriott
Big Red
Jim Kjelgaard
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
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NON-FICTION
The Great Fire
Jim Murphy
The Science of Life:
Projects and Principles for Beginning Biologists
Frank G. Bottone, Jr.
Popular Science; Science Year by YearScholastic
Discoveries and Inventions from the Last Century that Shape Our Lives
MATH FUN
A Million Dots
Andrew Clements
Rickshaw Girl
Mitali Perkins
Mummy Math: An adventure in Geometry
Sir Cumference and the Great Night of
Angleland (series)
Cindy Neuschwander
Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen
Have a wonderful literary summer!
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Lowry, Number the Stars
Who is your favorite character? Why?
What is your favorite incident/event in the book? Why is it your favorite?
What are the best aspects of the book? Why should anyone read it?
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Levine, The Lions of Little Rock
Who is your favorite character? Why?
What is your favorite incident/event in the book? Why is it your favorite?
What are the best aspects of the book? Why should anyone read it?
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Summer Reading List Record
Over the summer you must read at least five (5) books. The NPS reading list provides many
suggestions for books appropriate for your grade level. Please record the books that you have read and
return this completed form to your teacher the first day of school in September.
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Upon completion of the required reading, the student and parent should sign below.
Student’s Signature
Date
Parent Signature
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Additional Books I Read
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