Summer Reading

Below, please find the summer reading list for the incoming 2019-2020 6th grade students.

Grade Six Summer Reading List

Fiction (choose at least one)
Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
Murder at Midnight by Avi
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Holes by Louis Sachar
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Fish in a Tree by Linda Mullaly Hunt
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Track Series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu) by Jason Reynolds

Nonfiction (choose at least one)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Powerful Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Heroes of the Environment by Harriet Rohmer
Ancient Inca by Michael Burgan
No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits by Jordan Romero
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Young Reader’s Edition) by Malala Yousafzai/Christine Lamb
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, and Liz Welch