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Recommended Summer Reading 5th Grade
George Washington, Spymaster (Allen) – Biography
Seer of Shadows (Avi) – Ghosts/fiction/NYC/Swindlers
Chasing Vermeer (Balliett) – Mystery/Fiction
The Penderwicks (Birdsall) - Family/Fiction
Millions (Boyce) - Humor/Adventure/fiction
After the Last Dog Died (Bredeson) – Nonfiction/Douglas Mawson
and Antarctic expedition
Mission Control: This is Apollo (Chaiken) - Nonfiction
Janitor’s Boy; Landry’s News (Clements) – Realistic/Fiction/School
Over Sea, Under Stone (Cooper) – Fantasy/Fiction/Treasure
Framed (Cottrell) – Adventure/Fiction/Art
Chasing Redbird (Creech) – Family/Fiction
Rodzina (Cushman) – Historical/Fiction/Orphans/West
Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science (Dendy
and Boring) – Nonfiction/scientists and inventors
Magicians Elephant (Cushman) – Fantasy/Adventure/Fiction
I am the Ice Worm (Easley) – Adventure/Survival/Fiction
Shoeless Joe and Me (Gutman) – Sports/Fiction
Wait Till Helen Comes (Hahn) – Ghosts/Fiction
George’s Secret Key to the Universe (Hawking) –
Science/Adventure/Fiction
Music of the Dolphins (Hesse) – Science Fiction/Diary/Marine life
Redwall (Jacques) – Fantasy/Adventure/Fiction
Tales from Moominvalley (Jansson) – Fantasy/Fiction
Kira-Kira (Kadohata) – Family/Fiction/Death
Framed (Korman) – Adventure/fiction/School
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Ella Enchanted (Levine) – Fantasy/fiction
Travel Team (Lupica) – Sports/Fiction
11 Birthdays (Mass) – Realistic/fiction
Baseball Saved Us (Mochizuki) – Picture Book/Fiction/WWII
Journal Of Biddy Owens (Myers) – Sports/Historical/Fiction
Bad News Outlaws (Nelson) – Biography/Bass Reeves
We Are the Ship (Nelson) – Nonfiction/Baseball
Legend of Bass Reeves (Paulsen) – Historical/Fiction
Esperanza Rising (Ryan) – Realistic/Historical/Fiction
Basher Five-Two: The true story of F-16 Fighter Pilot (O’Grady) –
Biography
Lightning Thief (Riordan) – Fantasy/Fiction
Scared Stiff (Roberts) – Mystery/fiction
Invention of Hugo Cabret (Selznick) – Fantasy/Fiction
When You Reach Me (Stead) – Realistic/Fiction
Mysterious Benedict Society (Stewart) – Adventure/Sci Fi
Gorilla Doctors (Turner) – Nonfiction
Twin in the Tavern (Wallace) - Mystery
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Van Draanen) – Mystery/Fiction
Recommended summer Reading 6th Grade
Down the Rabbit Hole (Abrahams) – Mystery/Fiction
Chains (Anderson) – Historical Fiction/Slavery/Spy
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Avi) – Historical Fiction/Murder/Mystery
Heartlight; Ancient One(Barron) – Science Fiction
Shakespeare Stealer (Blackwood) – Mystery, Fiction
When the Tripods Came (Christopher) – Science Fiction/Aliens
Things Not Seen (Clements) – Friendships/Fiction/Blindness
Powerless (Cody) – Mystery/supernatural
The Wish List (Colfer) – Super natural/fiction
12 Again (Corbett) – Family/Mystery
The Wanderer (Creech) – Realistic Fiction/Sea Life
Watsons Go to Birmingham (Curtis) – Family/Realistic/Fiction/Prejudice
Catherine Called Birdy (Cushman) – Historical Fiction/Diary/Middle Ages
The Sight (Davies) – Fantasy/Fiction
The Breadwinner (Ellis) – Historical Fiction/Afghanistan
The Slave Dancer (Fox) – Historical/Fiction/slavery
Ben Franklin’s Almanac (Fleming) – Biography
The Sea of Trolls (Farmer) – Fantasy/Fiction/Viking Mythology
Cover Up (Feinstein) – Realistic Fiction/Sports
Inkheart (Funke) – Fantasy/Fiction/series
Graveyard Book (Gaiman) – Supernatural/Fiction
Go for the Gold (Hamm) - Biography
Out of the Dust (Hesse) – Historical/Fiction/Great Depression
Storm Breaker (Horowitz) – Adventure Fiction/Mystery/Spies/Terrorism
Farewell to Manzanaar (Houston) – Biography/Japanese Internment/WWII
Steve Jobs: Titans of Business (Hunter) – Biography/Computers
The Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson) – Fantasy/Fiction
Dark Game: True Spy Stories (Janeczko) – nonfiction
Green Glass Sea (Klages) – Historical Fiction/WWII/Manhattan Project
Recommended summer Reading 6th Grade
Unreal (Jennings) – Short Stories/Fiction
Howl’s Moving Castle (Jones) - Fantasy
Cracker! Best Dog in Vietnam (Kadohata) – Historical Fiction
Skulduggery Pleasant (Landry) – Fantasy/Humor/Magic
The Wreckers (Lawrence) – Survival/Fiction/Shipwrecks
A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle) – space & time/Fiction
Wizard of Earthsea (LeGuin) – Fantasy/Fiction/magic
Indian Captive (Lenski) – Historical/Fiction/Mary Jemison
Heat; Travel Team; Game Changers (Lupica) – Fiction/Sports
Hero and the Crown (McKinley) – Fantasy/Fiction/Wizards
Gods of Manhattan (Mebus) – Fantasy/mythology/Advent.
Keys to the Kingdom series (Nix) – Fantasy/Good & Evil
Bound (Napoli) – Historical/China/Footbinding
Sing Down the Moon (O’Dell) – Historical Fiction/Navajo
Bread and Roses (Paterson) – Historical/ Fiction/Strikes
The Ghost Belonged to Me (Peck) – Mystery/Fiction/Ghosts
Revenge of the Whale (Philbrick) – Nonfiction/Shipwreck
Magic Steps (Pierce) – Fantasy/Murder/magic
The Witch Child (Rees) – Historical Fiction/1600’s Witches
An Acquaintance with Darkness (Rinaldi) – Historical Fiction
Red Pyramid (Riordan) – Fantasy Fiction/Mythology
Benedict Arnold (Sheinkin) – Biography/Spies
This is Rocket Science (Skurzynski) – Nonfiction/ aerospace
Surviving the Applewhites (Tolan) – School/family/fiction
Girl in a Cage (Yolen) – Historical Fiction/Scotland 1600’s
Recommended Reading 7th-8th Grades
Ship Breaker (Bacigalupi) – Science Fiction/ Recycling/
Looking Glass Wars (Bleddor) – Fantasy/based on Alice in Wonderland
Tangerine (Bloor) – Realistic/Blindness/Soccer
Artemis Fowl series(Colfer) - Fantasy/fiction/Kidnapping
Matched (Condie) - Fantasy
Daniel Half Human (Chotjewitz) – Historical Fiction/WWII
Power of One (Courtnenay) – Historical/Fiction/Prejudice/WWII
Getting Away with Murder (Crowe) – historical fiction/Emmit Till/Racism
Red Kayak (Cummings) – Realistic/Fiction/Death
Maze Runner trilogy (Dashner) – Science Fiction
Earth in the Hot Seat (Delano) – Nonfiction/Global Warming
The Truth About Forever (Dessen) – Realistic/Fiction/Death
Runner (Deuker) – Adventure/Terrorism/Smuggling
Ender’s Game (Card) – Science Fiction/Space warfare
The Lincolns (Fleming) – Biography
Gone (Grant) – Fiction/Supernatural
Looking for Alaska (Green) – Schools/fiction
Double Identity (Haddix) – Science fiction/Cloning
SeaBiscuit (Hillenbrand) – Nonfiction/Horse racing
Unbroken (Hillenbrand) – Nonfiction/WWII/Prisoner of War
Into Thin Air (Krakauer) – Nonfiction/Mt. Everest/Accidents
Beyond the Burning Time (Lasky) – Historical fiction/Witches/1600’s
Lord of the Nutcracker Men (Lawrence) – Historical fiction/WWI
Corner of the Universe (Martin)– Friendship/fiction
Tomorrow When the War Began (Marsden) – Science fiction/Survival
Sunrise Over Fallujah (Myers) – Historical fiction/Iraq War
Sabriel (Nix) – Fantasy; Good and Evil
Recommended Reading 7th-8th Grades
Legend (Lu) – Science fiction/government
Ruined (Morris) – Ghost/Fiction
Left for Dead (Nelson) – Nonfiction/WWII
Airborn (Oppel) – Fantasy/Pirates/Fiction
This Dark Endeavor (Oppel) – Supernatural fiction
The Devil in Vienna (Orgel) – Historical Fiction/WWII
Maximum Ride The Final Warning (Patterson) - Adventure
East (Pattou) – Fantasy /Fiction
Crooked River (Pearsall) – Nonfiction/Frontier/Trials
Life As We Knew It (Pfeffer) – Science fiction/natural disaster
Terrier(Pierce) – Fantasy
Hot Zone (Preston) – Science Fiction/Disease
Mortal Engines (Reeve) – Science Fiction/Nuclear weapons
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Riggs) – Science
fiction/Orphanages
Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie (Sonneblick) –
Realistic/Disease/School
Shabanu (Staples) – marriage/fiction
Under the Persimmon Tree (Staples) – Survival/Afghanistan
The Hobbit (Tolkien) - Fantasy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) – Classic/fiction
Homecoming (Voigt) – Family/Realistic/Fiction
Glass Castle (Walls) – Biography/Homeless
Surviving Hitler (Warren) – Nonfiction
Leviathan (Westerfeld) – Science fiction/War/Genetic eng.
Distant Waves (Weyn) – Historical fiction/Titanic/inventors