6th Grade Summer Reading List 2015

Individuality Adolescence is a time for decision making

The Crossover by
Kwame Alexander

Inspired by her late grandmother,

thirteen-year-old Nina spends a
summer secretly doing good deeds
for her neighbors and enjoying the
changes she brings about, even as
she is dealing with changing
friendships and family issues.

The Summer I
Saved the World
in 65 Days by
Michele Hurwitz

Rules by Cynthia
Lord

Swindle by Gordon
Korman

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball

stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with
highs and lows on and off the court
as their father ignores his declining
health. (2015 Newbery Award
winner)

Frustrated at life with an autistic

brother, twelve-year-old Catherine
longs for a normal existence but her
world is further complicated by a
friendship with a young paraplegic.
Newbery Honor.

After sports card collector S. Wendell

Palamino cons him out of a valuable
baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin
Bing puts together a band of misfits
to break into Palominos heavily
guarded store and steal the card
back, planning to use the money to
finance his fathers failing invention,
the SmartPick fruit picker.

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Friendship Friendship goes both ways

11 Birthdays
Wendy Mass

by

After celebrating their first nine

same-day birthdays together,
Amanda and Leo, having fallen out
on their tenth and not speaking to
each other for the last year, prepare
to celebrate their eleventh birthday
separately but peculiar things begin
to happen as the day of their
birthday begins to repeat itself over
and over again.
Game Changers by When the coachs son, Shawn
Mike Lupica
OBrien, is chosen to play
quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben
McBain is not surprised but when
he tries to be a good teammate and
help the inconsistent Shawn, he is
startled to learn that his new friend
does not really want the position.

My Life in Dog
Years
by
Gary
Paulsen

Autobiographical tales by the author

who describes some of the dogs that
have had special places in his life,
including his first dog, Snowball, in
the Philippines; Dirk, who protected
him from bullies; and Cookie, who
saved his life.

Wonder by R.J.
Palacio

If youve ever been the new kid, then

you know how hard that can be. The
thing is, Auggies just an ordinary
kid, with an extraordinary face.
Born with extreme facial
abnormalities, Auggie Pullman was
not expected to survive.Now he is
going from being home-schooled to
entering public middle school. Can
he convince his new classmates that
hes just like them, despite

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appearances?

Knowledge is power
The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau

In the year 241, twelve-year-old

Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day
to be a Messenger to run to new
places in her decaying but beloved
city, perhaps even to glimpse
Unknown Regions.

How to Catch a
Bogle by Catherine
Jinks

Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

Orphan Birdie McAdam is tougher

than she looks. She's proud of her
job as apprentice to Alfred the
Bogler, a man who catches
monsters for a living. Birdie lures
the bogles out of their lairs with her
sweet songs, and Alfred kills them
before they kill her. On the mean
streets of Victorian England, hunting
bogles is actually less dangerous
work than mudlarking for scraps
along the vile river Thames. Or so it
seemsuntil the orphans of London
start to disappear . . .
After her mother leaves home
suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and
her grandparents take a car trip
retracing her mother's route. Along
the way, Sal recounts the story of
her friend Phoebe, whose mother
also left. Newbery Award.

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Schooled by Gordon
Korman

Cap lives in isolation with his

grandmother, a former hippie; but
when she falls from a tree and
breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a
foster home where he has his first
experience in a public school.

Courage Courage provides opportunities for personal growth

Into the Wild by Erin
Hunter

The Lost Hero by

Rick Riordan

Rusty, a bored house kitten, is

apprenticed by the ThunderClan and
must struggle to fit in when the
group of feral cats is threatened by
ShadowClan, the enemy.

Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students

from a school for "bad kids," find
themselves at Camp Half-Blood,
where they learn that they are
demigods and begin a quest to free
Hera, who has been imprisoned by
Mother Earth herself. First book in
the Heroes of Olympus series.

A Long Walk to
Water by Linda Sue
Park

When the Sudanese civil war

reaches his village in 1985, elevenyear-old Salva becomes separated
from his family and must walk with
other Dinka tribe members through
southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and
Kenya in search of safe haven.
Based on the life of Salva Dut, who,
after emigrating to America in 1996,

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began a project to dig water wells in
Sudan.
Pictures of Hollis
Woods by Patricia
Reilly Giff

A troublesome twelve-year-old
orphan, staying with an elderly artist
who needs her, remembers the only
other time she was happy in a foster
home, with a family that truly
seemed to care about her. Newbery
Honor.