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Suggested reading list for students entering grade 6 

You must read a minimum of five books this summer. Students are required to read Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider by Edd Winfield Parks. Complete the Biography Form and return it on the first day of school. Choose four other books . The other books are your choice; however, they must be appropriate for your grade level.

Joey Pigza  Swallowed the Key By Jack Gantos

Roll of Thunder. Hear My Cry  by Michael Taylor

Children of the River by Linda Crew

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Giver by Lois Lowry

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead

Crash by Jerry Spinelli

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

 One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children’s Peace Statue by Ishii Takyuki

Of Soft Rain :A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelea Cornelissen

Bridge to Teribithia by Katherine Patterson

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Toulane by Kate DiCamillo

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz

The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi

The Penderwicks:A Summer Tale of four Sisters, Two Rabbits and ana Interesting Boy by Jean Birdsall

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

The Island by Gary Paulsen

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Belle’s Prater’s Boy by Ruth White.

Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes

The Big Field by Mike Lupica