SIXTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Below is a list of titles and authors that incoming sixth graders may enjoy.  This is not a required list but a guide to help you find good books.  Hope to see you this summer at the library.  Keep reading at your new school!
      

Fantasy and Science Fiction
Alexander, Lloyd.  Book of Three
Cassedy, Sylvia.  Behind the Attic Wall
Coville, Bruce.  Monsters Ring
Dahl, Roald.  The BFG
Eager, Edward.  Knight's Castle
Grahame, Kenneth.  The Wind in the Willows
Jacques, Brian.  Redwall
Juster, Norton.  The Phantom Tollbooth
Kendall, Carol.  The Gammage Cup
L'Engle, Madeleine.  A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C.S.  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lisle, Janet Taylor,.  The Afternoon of the Elves
Merrill, Jean.  The Pushcart War
Norton, Mary.  Bed-Knob and Broomstick
O'Brien, Robert.  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Pearce.   Tom's Midnight Garden
Rowling, J.K.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Classics
Alcott, Louisa May.  Little Women
Burnett, F. Hodgson.  The Secret Garden
Enright, Elizabeth.  The Saturdays
Estes, Eleanor.  The Moffats
Forbes, Esther.  Johnny Tremain
Montgomery, L.M.  Anne of Green Gables
Rawls, Wilson.  Where the Red Fern Grows
Sachar, Louis.  Holes
Stevenson, Robert Louis.  Treasure Island
Tolkien, J.R.  The Hobbit
Verne, Jules.  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Modern Classics
DuPrau, Jeanne. City of Ember
Farmer, Nancy. Sea of Trolls
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot
Paolini, Christopher. Eragon

Thrillers and Chillers
Aiken, Conrad.  The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Bellairs, John.  The House With a Clock in it's Walls
Coville, Bruce.  The Dragonslayer
Hahn, Mary Downing.  Wait Till Helen Comes
Howe, James.  Dew Drop Dead
McKissack, Patricia.  The Dark Thirty
Roberts, Willo Davis.  The View from the Cherry Tree
Travis, Williams. Changes

Other Times and Places
Avi.  The Fighting Ground
Collier, James.  My Brother Sam is Dead
Greene, Bette.  The Summer of My German Soldier
Lord, Bette Bao.  In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lunn,  Janet.  The Root Cellar
MacBride, Roger Lea.  Little House on Rocky Ridge
McKissack, Patricia C.  A Picture of Freedom:  The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl
Nixon, Joan Lowery.   A Family Apart (Orphan Train Series)
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Taylor, Mildred D.  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.  These Happy Golden Years

There's always time for a book:
Take a book when you know you'll be waiting.
Take a book to the doctor's office.
Take a book when you travel.
Read a book instead of watching TV.
Get a public library card.
READ!  READ!  READ!