CALHOUN ACADEMY SUMMER READING LIST
RISING FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES
AUTHOR AND TITLE
Aiken, Joan
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
and other books by this author
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women
Little Men
Eight Cousins
Alexander, Lloyd
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
and other books by this author
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Fever, 1793
Avi, Crispin
Do You Know There’s A War On?
Babbitt, Natalie
Tuck Everlasting
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Barrie, James
Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frak
The Wizard of Oz
and other Oz books
Byars, Betsy
Summer of the Swans
The Not-Just-Anybody Family
The Midnight Fox
and other books by this author
Cushman, Karen
Catherine Called Birdy
Dahl, Ronald
Matilda
and other books by this author
DeAngeli, Marguerite
The Door in the Wall
and other books by this author
de Trevino, Elizabeth
I, Juan de Pareja
Dicamillo, Kate
Tale of Despereaux
The Miraculous Journey of Edward
Tulane
Fitzhugh, Louise
Harriet the Spy
Fogelin, Adrian
Crossing Jordan
Forbes, Esther
Johnny Tremain
Fritz, Jean
The Cabin Faced West
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Funke, Cornelia
Thief Lord
Inkheart
George, Jean Craighead
Julie of the Wolves
and other books by this author
Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Colfer, Eoin
Artemis Fowl
Hahn, Mary Downing
Stepping on the Cracks
and other books by this autor
Creech, Sharon
Walk Two Moons
and other books by this author
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Bud, not Buddy
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham
Bucking the Sarge
Hamilton, Virginia
M.C. Higgins the Great
The House of Dies Drear
Zeely
and other books by this author
Hansen, Joyce
Which Way Freedom?
Yellow Bird and Me
Hesse, Karen
Out of the Dust
Hiaasen, Carl
Hoot
Judson, Clare Ingram
Thomas Jefferson: Champion of the
People
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the
People
Juster, Norton
The Phantom Tollbooth
Kadohata, Cynthia
Kira Kira
Kantor, Mackinlay
Lee and Grant at Appomatox
Kinny, Jeff
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
Konigsburg, E.L.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler
Lasky, Kathryn
Guardians of Ga’hoole series
L'Engle, Madeleilne
Science Fiction Trilogy:
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
The Austin Family:
Meet the Austins
The Moon by Night
The Young Unicorns
Dragons in the Waters
The Arm of the Starfish
A Ring of Endless Light
Lowry, Lois
The Giver
MacGregor, Ellen
Miss Pickerell on the Moon
Miss Pickerell & the Weather
Satellite
and other Miss Pickerell books
North, Sterling
Rascal
The Wolfing
O'Brien
Silver Chief, Dog of the North
O'Dell, Scott
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Sing Down the Moon
Park, Linda Sue
A Single Shard
and other books by this author
Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
Patterson, Margaret
Because of Anya
Paulsen, Gary
Dogsong
and other books by this author
Pearson, Tracy
Scribbler of Dreams
Peck, Richard
A Long Way From Chicago
A Year Down Yonder
Blossom Culp & the Sleep of Death
Pullman, Philip
The Subtle Knife
Rawls, Wilson
Where the Red Fern Grows
Lenski, Lois
Strawberry Girl
Cotton in My Sack
and other books by this author
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s
Stone
and other Harry Potter books
Lewis, C.S.
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the "Dawn Trader"
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magicians Nephew
The Last Battle Lord
In the Year of the Boar and
Sachar, Louis
Holes
Sachs, Marilyn
Veronica Ganz
Peter and Veronica
The Bear's House
Selznick, Brian
The Invention of Hago Cabret
Frost, Robert
You Come Too
Slote, Alfred
My Father, the Coach
The Biggest Victory
Hang Tough, Paul Mather
Tony and Me
Matt Gargan's Boy
(all fictional sports stories)
Hannum, Sara & Reed, E.D., comp.
Lean Out of the Window: An
Anthology of Modern Poetry
Silverstein, Shel
Falling Up
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Light in the Attic
Smith, Roland
Zach’s Lie
Elephant Run
Smith, William
Laughing Time
Snicket, Lemony
A Series of Unfortunate Events
ADDITIONAL BOOKS
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
The Egypt Game
Speare, Elizabeth George
The Sign of the Beaver
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spinelli, Jerry
Maniac Magee
Taylor, Mildred
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Voight, Cynthia
Dicey's Song
White, E.B.
Trumpet of the Swan
and other books by this author
White, Ruth
Belle Prater’s Boy
Winthrop, Elizabeth
Castle in the Attic
Yates, Elizabeth
Amos Fortune, Free Man
POETRY
Bogan, Louise & Smith, W.J. comp
The Golden Journey: Poems for
Young People
De La Mare, Walter, ed.
Come Hither
Fergurson, Margaret
Pug
Frost, Helen
Salt
Blume, Judy
Are You There God?
It’s Me Margaret
and other books by this author
Cleary, Beverly
Ramona the Pest
Ramona and Her Mother
Ramona and Her Father
and other books by this author
Edwards, Julie Andrews
Mandy
Fitzgerald, John
The Great Brain
George, Jean C.
My Side of the Mountain
and other books by this author
Any Newbery Medal or Caldecott
award winners
(Many of these books may be found in
the Calhoun Academy library)
Biographies and autobiographies