High Rock Summer Reading

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1 High Rock Summer Reading 2018 Summer Reading List by Author Rising sixth graders are expected to read at least two books from this list over the summer. At least one book should be fiction, and neither may be rereads. For more information, see the attached parent letter. The book lists are organized around High Rock s core values: Be Yourself and Become a Community. Visit the High Rock Library website ( ) to see alternate versions of this list List with summaries and book covers - 26 pages - to read online! 2018 List by genre - good version for an overview of choices Alexander, Kwame. Booked, Crossover, Rebound Anderson, Jody. My Diary from the Edge of the World Anderson, John David. Mrs. Bixby s Last Day, Posted, Sidekick, Minion Angleberger, Tom and Paul Dellinger. Fuzzy Asher, Diane. Sidetracked Bacon, Lee. Joshua Dread (series) Balliett, Blue. Hold Fast Baptiste, Tracey. The Jumbies, The Return of the Jumbies Barnhill, Kelly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon Bauer, Joan. Close to Famous, Almost Home, Soar Beasley, Cassie. Tumble and Blue Beatty, Robert. Serafina and the Black Cloak (series) Benjamin, Ali. The Thing about Jellyfish Berry, Julie. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place. Black, Holly. The Iron Trials (series) Black, Peter Jay. Urban Outlaws (series) Bradley, Kim. The War that Saved My Life, The War I Finally Won Bragg, Georgia. How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous Burg, Ann. Unbound Buyea, Rob. Because of Mr. Terupt. Mr. Terupt Falls Again, Saving Mr. Terupt Cheng, Jack. See You in the Cosmos Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Does My Shirts, Al Capone Throws Me a Curve Cody, Matthew. Powerless (Supers of Noble s Green trilogy) Conklin, Melanie. Counting Thyme Connor, Leslie. Waiting for Normal, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

2 Creech, Sharon. Moo DasGupta, Sayantani. The Serpent s Secret Davies, Jacqueline. Nothing but Trouble Deem, James. Bodies from the Ice Dendy, Leslie and Mel Boring. Guinea Pig Scientists Dowd, Siobhan, The London Eye Mystery Draper, Sharon. Out of My Mind Flanagan, John. Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger s Apprentice series) Brotherband Chronicles Forde, Patricia. The List Frost, Helen. Diamond Willow Gantos, Jack. Dead End in Norvelt, From Norvelt to Nowhere Gibbs, Stuart. Belly Up. Poached, Big Game, Panda-monium Gidwitz, Adam. A Tale Dark and Grimm (trilogy) Golding, Julia. Secret of the Sirens (series) Gownley, Jimmy. Dumbest Idea Ever Grabenstein, Chris. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello s Library, Mr. Lemoncello s Library Olympics, Mr. Lemoncello s Great Library Race Graff, Lisa. Lost in the Sun Gratz, Alan. Refugee. Green, Tim. Football Genius or others Grimes, Nikki. Garvey s Choice Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Double Identity Hale, Shannon. The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern quartet) Rapunzel s Revenge, Calamity Jack Hayles, Marsha. The Breathing Room Hennessey, Carolyn. Pandora Gets Jealous (series) Hinds, Gareth. Odyssey Hoffman, Alice. Nightbird Holm, Jennifer. Full of Beans, Turtle in Paradise Holt, K.A. Rhyme Schemer Holyoke, Polly. The Neptune Project (Neptune Trilogy) Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Hopkinson, Deborah. The Great Trouble, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, Dive! : World War II stories of sailors & submarines in the Pacific Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker or others from his series Hunt, Lynda Mullaly. One for the Murphy s Jackson, Linda Williams. Midnight without a Moon, A Sky Full of Stars Jacobsen, Jacobsen. Small As an Elephant Jarrow, Gail. Fatal Fever: Tracking down Typhoid Mary

3 Jamieson, Victoria. Roller Girl Janeczko, Paul B. The Dark Game: True Spy Stories. Jones, Traci L. Silhouetted by the Blue Kahn, Hena. Amina s Voice Kehret, Peg. Stolen Children, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Kelly, Erin Entrada. Blackbird Fly Kelly, Jacqueline. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate Korman, Gordon. Ungifted, Restart Kidd, Chip. Go: a Kidd s Guide to Graphic Design L Engle, Madeleine, A Wrinkle in Time (Wrinkle in Time Quintet) Levine, Kristin. The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had, Lions of Little Rock Lin, Grace. When the Sea Turned to Silver (any in trilogy.) Macaulay, David and Richard Walker. The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body Magoon, Kekla. Shadows of Sherwood : a Robyn Hoodlum adventure (Robyn Hoodlum trilogy) Mass, Wendy. Every Soul a Star, A Mango Shaped Space McMann, Lisa. The Unwanteds (series), Dragon Quest (series) Messenger, Shannon. Keeper of the Lost Cities (series) Messner, Kate. Wake Up Missing Miller, Sarah Elizabeth. The Borden Murders : Lizzie Borden & the trial of the century Montgomery, Sy. Temple Grandin: How the Girl who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World Moore, David Barclay The Stars Beneath Our Feet Mosier, Paul. Train I Ride Newquist. HP. The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins. Nielsen, Jennifer. A Night Divided, The False Prince (Ascendance trilogy) Partridge, Elizabeth. Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don t You Grow Weary Patterson, James and Chris Grabenstein. I Funny (series) Pearsall, Shelley Jump Into the Sky Perez, Celia C. The First Rule of Punk Peters, Marilee. Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics Pinkney, Andrea. The Red Pencil Reisman, Michael. Simon Bloom, Gravity Keeper (or sequels) Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief (series), The Red Pyramid (series) Rose, Caroline Starr. May B. Sands, Kevin. The Blackthorn Key, Mark of the Plague, The Assassin s Curse Schlitz, Laura Amy. A Drowned Maiden s Hair

4 Shang, Wendy Wan The Great Wall of Lucy Wu Sheinkin, Steve. Two Miserable Presidents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. Lincoln s Grave Robbers. Sloan, Holly Goldberg. Counting by 7s Smith, Dan. Boy X Smith, Roland. Elephant Run, Peak, IQ Series. Smith, Sheri. Flygirl Stewart, Trenton Lee. Mysterious Benedict Society (trilogy) Stone, Tanya Lee. The Good, The Bad, and the Barbie. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Stroud, Jonathan. Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus series), The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Company) Thor, Annika. A Faraway Island, The Lily Pond, Deep Sea Townsend, Jessica. Nevermoor. The Trials of Morrigan Crow Turnage, Sheila. Three Times Lucky Turner, Pamela. Samurai Rising : The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune Vivat, Booki. Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom (series) Westerfeld, Scott. Leviathan, Behemoth, and Goliath Wiles, Deborah. Countdown, Revolution Williams-Garcia, Rita. One Crazy Summer. P.S. Be 11, Gone Crazy in Alabama Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. Yelchin, Eugene. Breaking Stalin s Nose

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