THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST - GRADE 5 and 6 THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT READING POLICY

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1 THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST - GRADE 5 and 6 THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT READING POLICY The Altamont School English Department requires every Altamont student to read during the summer months five books, including the required books, from this summer reading list. Students may not substitute other titles by the same author for summer reading. English classes will always start the year with a discussion of what we have read over the summer, so do not worry if you do not completely understand the reading. Just read the book and bring questions to class when we talk about the book at the beginning of the school year. Make notes if that helps you. English teachers will quiz students during the first week, and in most classes students will write papers on their summer reading. During the school year, every Altamont student is required to read at least 400 pages per month. Rereading books for English credit is a violation of the Honor Code, excepting required titles for each class. Students may NOT use Spark Notes, the Internet, or any type of condensed source for reference or analysis for summer reading or books read during the school year. Using reading aids in place of reading the text is a violation of the Honor Code. Just read the book. I. Required Summer Reading: a. During the summer, each 5th Grader is required to read Wonder, by RJ Palacio. a. During the summer, each 6th Grader is required to read Rain Reign, by Ann M. Martin II. In addition, select 4 books from those listed below. Adair, G. Alcott, L. Alexander, Alvarez, J. Applegate, K. George Washington Carver Little Women The Wizard in the Tree, Time Cat, The Prydian Chronicles, etc. Return to Sender The Everworld series

2 Armstrong, W Sounder Atwater, R. Mr. Popper's Penguins Avi Bright Shadow, Crispin, Babbitt, N. The Search for Delicious, Tuck Everlasting Barron, T. The Fires of Merlin Barry, D. Peter and the Starcatchers Beagle. P. The Last Unicorn Bellairs, J. The Ghost in the Mirror Blos, J. A Gathering of Days* Blume, J. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Bluff, Conrad and Mary Apple and the Arrow Blumberg, Rhoda Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun Brian, K. The Princess and the Pauper Brink, C. Caddie Woodlawn* Brooks, B. Everywhere Burnett, F. The Secret Garden Buyea, R. Because of Mr. Terupt Byars, B. The 18th Emergency, Summer of the Swans, The Two-Thousand Pound Goldfish Cabot, M. All-American Girl Carroll, L. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts Cleary, B. Dear Mr. Henshaw* Clements, A. Frindle Clifford, E. Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library Coerr, E. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl Collier, J My Brother Sam is Dead Collins Gregor the Overlander Compestine, Y. Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party Conford, E. Felicia the Critic Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising Sequence, The Boggart Creech, S. Ruby Holler; Heartbeat, Walk Two Moons* Curry, J. The Black Canary Curtis, C. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, Bud, Not Buddy* Cushman, K The Midwife s Apprentice* DeAngeli, M. The Door in the Wall * DeJong, M. The Wheel on the School* DiCamillo, K. Because of Winn Dixie, The Tiger Rising, Tale of Despereaux* DiTerlizzi, T. Spiderwick Chronicles Dorris, M. Morning Girl (1492) Draper, S. Out of My Mind DuBois, W. Twenty-One Balloons* DuPrau, J City of Ember

3 Durango, J. Eager, E. Ellis, D. Erskine, C. Farley, W. Farmer Field, Rachel Fine, A. Fitzgerald, J. Fitzhugh, L. Fleischman, Paul Fleischman, S. Forbes, E. Fox, Paula Funke, C. Gaiman, N. Gantos, J. Gates, Doris Gavalda, A. George, J. Giff Gilson, J. Gipson, F Goodall, Jane Grahame, K. Gray, Elizabeth Greene, B. Greenfield, E. Griffin, P. Haddix Hamilton, V. Hartnett, S. Henkes Henry, M. Hentoff Hesse, K. Hiaasen, C. Holland, I. Holm, J. Sea of the Dead Half Magic The Bread Winer Mockingbird The Black Stallion The House of the Scorpion Calico Bush Flour Babie,; Up on Cloud Nine The Great Brain Harriet the Spy, Sport Borning Room (Civil War), Seedfolks The Whipping Boy* Johnny Tremain One Eyed Cat, Village By the Sea, Slave Dancer Thief Lord, Inkheart Coraline, Graveyard Book* Dead End in Norvelt* Blue Willow 95 Pounds of Hope On the Far Side of the Mountain Julie Trilogy, My side of the Mountain Picture of Hollis Woods Harvey the Beer Can King Old Yeller The Chimpanzee Family Book The Wind in the Willows Adam of the Road Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe Sister: Mary McLeod Bethune A Ghost Sitter, The Music Thief Shadow Children Series M.C.Higgins the Great*, Zeely, The House of Dies Drear, Bluish, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush; Many Thousand Gone-African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, House of Dies Drear What the Birds See Olive s Ocean Misty of Chincoteague, King of the Wind* The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Just Juice, Letters from Rifka, Witness, Aleutian Sparrow Hoot, Flush, Scat Behind the Lines Turtle in Paradise

4 Horvath, P. Howe, J. Hunt, Irene Hunter, E. Jacques, Brian James, W. Judson, Clara Ingram Kadohata Kay, E. Kelly Kipling, R. Konigsburg, E. Krass, P. Krumgold, Joseph Lai, T. Latham, Jean Lee Lavies Lawson, Robert L'Engle, M. Lester, J Lewis, C.S. Lin, G Lofting, H. Lord, B.B. Lord, C. Lowry, L. MacLachlan, P. Mah, A Marino, J. Mazer, H. Marsden, C. McGraw, Eloise J McKay McKinley, R Merrill, J. Meyer, C. Montgomery Mikaelsen, B. Myers, Walter Dean Neufeld Everything on a Waffle Howliday Inn, The Celery Stalks at Midnight Across Five Aprils The Warrior series Redwall series, The Angel s Command Smoky* Abraham Lincoln: Friend of the People Kira-Kira* The Divide The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Just So Stories, The Jungle Books The View from Saturday*, Silent to the Bone, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Sojourner Truth And Now Miguel Inside Out and Back Again Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Compost Critters Great Wheel Time Quartet To Be a Slave The Chronicles of Narnia series Where the Mountain Meets the Moon The Story of Dr. Dolittle In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Rules Anastasia Krupnik, Number the Stars*, Gathering Blue, Messenger, Gossamer Sarah Plain and Tall*, The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt Chinese Cinderella The Day that Elvis Came to Town A Boy at War The Buddha s Diamonds Golden Goblet Saffy s Angel The Hero and the Crown* The Toothpaste Millionaire Beware Princess Elizabeth, Doomed Queen Anne Anne of Green Gables Red Midnight Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner At Her Majesty s Request Lisa, Bright and Dark

5 North, S. (biography) Rascal Norton, S. Time Traders series O Brien, Robert Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh O'Dell, S. Island of the Blue Dolphins*, Sing Down the Moon Palacio, R.J. Wonder Paolini, C. Eragon, etc. Park A Single Shard, A Long Walk to Remember, When My Name Was Keoko Paterson, K. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Jacob Have I Loved*, Bridge to Terabithia, The Same Stuff as Stars Patron The Higher Power of Lucky* Paulson, G. The Tucket Adventures, Hatchet, Brian s Saga Peck, Richard Ghosts I Have Been, Amanda/Miranda, A Long Way From Chicago, A Year Down Yonder* Peck, Robert A Day No Pigs Would Die; A Part of the Sky Perkins, L Criss Cross* Philbrick The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Pierce, M. A Gathering of Gargoyles Preus Heart of a Samurai Pullman, P. The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass Qualey, M. Come in from the Cold Raskin, E. The Westing Game* Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows Reeder Shades of Gray Reynolds, Q. Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation Rinaldi,A. In My Father s House Riordan, R Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles Rowling Harry Potter series Russo, M. House of Sports Ryan, P. Esperanza Rising, Becoming Naomi Leon Rylant, C. Missing May* Schmidt The Wednesday Wars Sachar, L. Small Steps (sequel to Holes) Selznick, B. The Boy of a Thousand Faces The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck Senzai, N.H. Shooting Kabul Sewell Black Beauty Shiltz, L Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village*

6 Sidman, J. Simon, S. Skurzynski, G. Sleator Smith, G. Snicket, L. Speare, E. Sperry, A. Spinelli, J. Stead, R. Stevenson, R.L. Taylor, M. Taylor, M. Taylor, T. Trevino, E. Turner Ullman, J. Vanderpool Vande Velde, V. Whelan, G. White, E.B. Williams-Garcia Wilson, D. Wisler, C. Woodson Yates, E. Yee, P. Yep Yolen, J. Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night Wolves Over the Edge (and other national park mysteries) Singularity Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo Series of Unfortunate Events series The Sign of the Beaver, Witch of Blackbird Pond The Bronze Bow Call It Courage*, All Sail Set Maniac Magee*, Stargirl, etc. When You Reach Me*, Liar and Spy Treasure Island The Land, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Road To Memphis Harriet Tubman The Cay I, Juan de Pareja* Thief Banner in the Sky Moon Over Manifest* Heir Apparent Homeless Bird Trumpet of the Swan, One Crazy Summer I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade Red Cap (Civil War) Hush, Feathers Amos Fortune, Free Man* Tales From Gold Mountain Dragonwings Devil s Arithmetic; Children of the Wolf Prince Across the Water *Newbery Medal Winner (awarded annually since 1922 for the most distinguished book for children published in the U.S.).

GRC Summer Reading List 6 th grade REQUIRED READING: Read the following and complete a written assignment from the onepager format sheet for:

GRC Summer Reading List 6 th grade REQUIRED READING: Read the following and complete a written assignment from the onepager format sheet for: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead: Newbery Medal-winning science