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.