6th Grade Summer Reading List 2011-2012

Please read at least three books this summer. The more you read, the better reader you will become and the more you will like reading. There will be an assignment which will be due during the first couple of weeks of school.

  • Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Anne Brashers
  • Eragon and Eldest, Christopher Paolini
  • Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
  • Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
  • Alex Rider Adventure Series, Anthony Horowitz
  • Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
  • Last Book in the Universe and Freak the Mighty, The Young Man & the Sea, Rodman Philbrook
  • Any Lois Duncan book for mystery and suspense
  • Pendragon Series, D. J. MacHale
  • The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, Arlene Erlbach
  • The Schwa was Here, Neal Shusterman
  • Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (science fiction)
  • Animorph Series, Applegate, K. A.
  • Report to the Principal’s Office, Jerry Spinelli
  • Dear America Series, Donald Sobol
  • Danny Dunn (series), Jay Williams
  • Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
  • The Graveyard BookOdd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
  • Little Women series, Louisa May Alcott
  • The SecretGarden, Francis Hodgson Burnet
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  • Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth Speare
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • WutheringHeights, Emily Bronte
  • Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  • Mutiny on the Bounty, William Bligh
  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Lord of the Rings series, J. R. Tolkien
  • The Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
  • The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford
  • The Indian in the Cupboard (series), Lynne Reid Banks
  • My Friend Flicka, Mary O’Hara
  • A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
  • Misty of Chincoteague, Margaret Henry
  • The Hound of Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis
  • Swiss Family Robinson, Jonathan Wyss
  • Red Sky at Morning, Richard Bradford
  • Christy, Catherine Marshall
  • Anne of the Green Gables series, Lucy Montgomery
  • Robinson Crusoe, David Defoe
  • Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens
  • Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  • The Once and Future King, E. B. White
  • Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
  • Black Beauty (any in series), Anna Sewell
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nihm (any in series), Robert O’Brien