Enlightening Minds ♦ Enriching Hearts ♦ Inspiring Future Leaders
Required Summer Reading
Matilda By Roald Dahl
Boy By Roald Dahl
These books are suggestions. You do not have to read them all.
For students going into the:
Sixth Grade:
The Fire Bug Connection by: Jean Craighead George
Taking Sides by: Gary Soto
Letters From Rifka by: Karen Hesse
Shannon Lucid: Space Ambassador by: Carmen Bredeson
Deep-Sea Explorer: The Story of Robert Ballard, Discoverer of the Titanic
Aida by: Leontyne Price
Between the Dragon and the Eagle by: Mical Schneider
Perloo the Bold by: Avi
I Am Lavina Cumming by: Susan Lowell
Teammates by: Peter Golenback
Last Summer with Maizon by: Jacqueline Woodson
The Baby Grand, The Moon in July and Me by: Joyce Annette Barnes
The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by: Patricia MacLachlan
Seeker of Knowledge by: James Rumford
Dolphins: What They Can Teach Us by: Mary M. Cerullo
The View from Saturday by: E.L. Konigsburg
Bud, Not Buddy by Christoper Paul Curtis
What could go wrong! by: Willo Davis Roberts
The Twenty-on Balloons by William Pene Dubois
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (series)
Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island by: Eve Bunting
The Breadwinner (series)
A Week in the Woods by: Andrew Clements
Because of Winn-Dixie by: Kate Dicamillo
Behind the Bedroom Wall by: Laura E. Williams
Dealing with Dragons (series)
Artemis Fowl (series)
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Under the Blood Red Sun by: Graham Salisbury
Half Magic by Edward Eager
Where the Red Fern Grows by: Wilson Rawls
The Duplicate by: William Sleator
Woodsong by: Gary Paulsen
The Secret of Platform 13 by: Eva Ibbotson
PS Longer Letter Later by: Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin
The Man in the Ceiling by: Jules Feiffer
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by: Roald Dahl
Millicent Min: Girl Genius by: Lisa Yee
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by: Lensey Namioka
Baseball in April and Other Stories by: Gary Soto
Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by: Gary Paulsen
Stand Tall, Harry by: Mary Mahony
Harry Scores a Hat Trick by: Mary Mahony
*Note: These books are just suggestions you do not have to read them all.