GRADE SIX SUMMER READING LIST 2017

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1 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 6 th Grade Teachers 1

2 REQUIRED READING Chief Joseph: The Voice For Peace The Lions of Little Rock Number the Stars Lorraine Jean Hopping Kristin Levine Lois Lowry ADVENTURE Kit s Wilderness Crispin Don t You Know There is a War Going On? Bud, Not Buddy The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm A Girl Named Disaster Water Sky The Tarantula in My Purse Kim The Blue Sword The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner Hatchet (and other titles) The Golden Compass (series) Kidnapped Treasure Island The Thief Swiss Family Robinson Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea David Almond Avi Christopher Paul Curtis Nancy Farmer Jean Craighead George Rudyard Kipling Robin McKinley Walter Dean Myers Gary Paulsen Philip Pullman Robert Louis Stevenson Megan Turner Johann David Wyss Jules Verne 2

3 BIOGRAPHY Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir Lincoln, A Photobiography Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! The Story of My Life The Land I Lost Red Scarf Girl Little by Little: A Writer s Education The Diary of a Young Girl Rosa Parks: My Story Rhoda Blumberg Beverly Cleary Russell Freedman Jean Fritz Helen Keller Quang Nhuong Huynh Ji-Li Jiang Jean Little Anne Frank Rosa Parks FAMILY/FRIENDSHIP STORIES Little Women Hoot Flush Everything on a Waffle Lily s Crossing Crazy Lady Walk Two Moons The Autumn Street Anne of Green Gables (series) Louisa May Alcott Carl Hiaasen Polly Horvath Patricia Reilly Giff Jane Leslie Conley Sharon Creech Lois Lowry Lucy Maud Montgomery 3

4 A Long Way from Chicago A Year Down Yonder Loser Crash (and other titles) Stargirl Shabanu (sequels) Surviving the Applewhites Homecoming Dicey s Song Richard Peck Jerry Spinelli Suzanne Fisher Staples Stephanie S. Tolan Cynthia Voight FICTION The Man Who was Poe The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle The Movies Make the Man Year of the Impossible Goodbyes Red Badge of Courage My Side of the Mountain (sequels) Out of the Dust Across Five Aprils Just So Stories Tales from Shakespeare A Wrinkle in Time (series) Belle Teal Lyddie Jip: His Story Under the Blood-Red Sun The Innkeepers Apprentice Avi Bruce Brooks Sook Choi Steven Crane Jean Craighead George Karen Hesse Irene Hunt Rudyard Kipling Charles Lamb Madeleine L Engle Ann M. Martin Katherine Patterson Graham Salisbury Allen Say 4

5 The Cay (sequels) The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings series The Devil s Arithmetic When You Reach Me Theodore Taylor J. R. R. Tolkein Jane Yolen Rebecca Stead MYSTERIES The House with a Clock in Its Walls The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Westing Game John Bellairs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Ellen Raskin NATURE STORIES Sounder National Velvet Old Yeller All Creatures Great and Small Big Red The Call of the Wild The Yearling Black Beauty The Red Pony William Armstrong Enid Bagnold Fred Gipson James Herriott Jim Kjelgaard Jack London Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Anna Sewell John Steinbeck 5

6 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 Year- Scholastic Discoveries and Inventions from the Last Century that Shape Our Lives MATH FUN A Million Dots Rickshaw Girl Mummy Math: An adventure in Geometry Sir Cumference and the Great Night of Angleland (series) Lawn Boy Andrew Clements Mitali Perkins Cindy Neuschwander Gary Paulsen Have a wonderful literary summer! 6

7 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? 7

8 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? 8

9 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. 1. Title: 2. Title: 3. Title: 4. Title: 5. Title: Upon completion of the required reading, the student and parent should sign below. Student s Signature Date Parent Signature Date 9

10 Additional Books I Read 6. Title: 7. Title: 8. Title: 9. Title: 10. Title: 11.Title: 12.Title: 13.Title: 14.Title: 15.Title: 10

GRADE FOUR SUMMER READING LIST 2018

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