MS Suggested Summer Reading Lists

June 15, 2007

FIFTH GRADE
Some Suggestions for 2007 Summer Reading

Read four (4) books during the summer.
Read any of these titles.
Read other books by these authors.
Read a series.
Read any books not on this list.
Read!

Adventure
Alexander Book of Three*
Avi Poppy*
Farley The Black Stallion*
Fendler Lost on a Mountain in Maine
O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins
Ruckman Night of the Twisters
Snyder The Egypt Game
Speare Sign of the Beaver
Steig Abel’s Island and Dominic

Animal Stories
DiCamillo Because of Winn Dixie
Gipson Old Yeller*
Kjelgaard Big Red*
Morey Gentle Ben
Morpurgo Kensuke’s Kingdom
Mowat Owls in the Family
North Rascal
Selden A Cricket in Times Square*
Taylor The Trouble with Tuck*
Wallace A Dog Called Kitty

Family/Friends
Avi S.O.R. Losers
Blume Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great*
Byars The Not-Just-Anybody Family*
Cleary Henry Huggins*
Clements Frindle
Cohen Thank You, Jackie Robinson
Fitzgerald The Great Brain*
Lowry All About Sam* and Anastasia Krupnick*
McCloskey Homer Price*
Namioka Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
Park Skinnybones
Peck Soup*
Raskin The Westing Game
Rockwell How to Eat Fried Worms

Fantasy
Alexander Book of Three*
Banks Indian in the Cupboard*
Bellairs House with a Clock in the Walls
Butterworth The Enormous Egg
Cooper The Boggart*
Coville Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Dahl The BFG, The Witches, and James and the Giant Peach
DiCamillo Tale of Despereaux
Eager Half Magic*
Hovrath The Trolls
Jacques Redwall*
Justin The Phantom Tollbooth
Lewis The Magician’s Nephew*
Norton The Borrowers*
O’Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Pinkwater Lizard Music
Richler Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*
White Trumpet of the Swan
Winthrop The Castle in the Attic
Wrede Dealing with Dragons*

Historical Fiction
Banks Moses in Egypt
Clark Secret of the Andes
Dyer A Way of His Own
Lawrence The Thieves of Ostia
Levin Journey to America
McGraw The Golden Goblet
Snyder The Egypt Game
Turnbull Maroo of the Winter Caves

* First in Series
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SIXTH GRADE
Some Suggestions for 2007 Summer Reading

“Summer reading is different. There’s no agenda, nothing assigned, nothing mandatory. One reads at one’s own pace – a few pages now and then, or a sudden all-day binge.” George Howe Colt, The Big House

Read at least four (4) books during the summer.
Read any of these titles.
Read other books by these authors.
Read a series.
Read something else that is not on this list.
Read!

Adventure/Survival
Avi Poppy*
Bauer On My Honor
Bunting SOS Titanic
Eckert Incident at Hawk’s Hill*
Fendler Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Funke The Thief Lord
George Julie of the Wolves* and
On the Far Side of the Mountain*
Houston Frozen Fire
Hobbs Bearstone*, Far North, and Ghost Canoe
Mikaelsen Touching Spirit Bear
Horowitz Stormbreaker*
O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins and Zia
Paulsen Mr. Tucket*
Salisbury Lord of the Deep
Speare Sign of the Beaver
Steig Abel’s Island and Dominic
Taylor The Cay*

Fantasy/Time Travel
Alexander Book of Three*, The Iron Ring, and Time Cat
Avi Bright Shadow
Babbit Tuck Everlasting
Barron The Lost Years of Merlin*
Boston Children of Green Knowe*
Cameron Court of the Stone Children
Cassedy Behind the Attic Wall
Christopher The Tripod Series: When The Tripods Came*
Collins Gregor the Overlander*
Cooper The Boggart*, Over Sea, Over Stone*
Eoin Artemis Fowl*
Funke Dragon Rider
Haddix Running Out of Time
Jacques Redwall*
LeGuin The Wizard of Earthsea*
Justin The Phantom Tollbooth
Kendall The Gammage Cup
L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time*
Lively The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Riordan The Lightning Thief*
Rowling The Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*
Sachar Holes*
Stroud The Amulet of Samarkand*
Waugh The Mennyms*
Winthrop Castle in the Attic
Wrede Dealing with Dragons*

Historical Fiction
Cushman Catherine, Called Birdy, Matilda Bone, and The Midwife’s Apprentice
Fleischman The Whipping Boy
Gray Adam of the Road
Hautzig The Endless Steppe
Lasky The Night Journey
Levitan Journey to America*
Paulsen The Rifle
Reiss The Upstairs Room
Woodruff Orphan of Ellis Island

Humor/Family/Friends
Fitzgerald The Great Brain*
Hiaasen Hoot
Korman No More Dead Dogs
Lowry All About Sam*
McCloskey Homer Price*
Mowat Owls in the Family
Park Skinnybones*
Peck,Richard A Long Way from Chicago
Peck,Robert Soup*
Pinkwater Lizard Music
Robertson Henry Reed, Inc.*
Rockwell How to Eat Fried Worms
Sachar Sideway Stories from Wayside School*
Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events*
Sonnenblick Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
Stolz Dog on Barkham Street*

Animal Stories
Armstrong Sounder
Estes Ginger Pye
Farley The Black Stallion*
Fox One-Eyed Cat
Gipson Old Yeller*
Harlow Starr in the Storm and Thunder from the Sea
Kjelgaard Big Red*
Knight Lassie-Come-Home
London White Fang
Morey Gentle Ben
Mowat Owls in the FamilyNaylor, Shiloh Season, and Saving Shiloh
North Rascal
O’Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows
Seidler A Rat’s Tale
Taylor Trouble with Tuck*

*First in a Series

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SUGGESTIONS FOR SUMMER READING FOR 2007
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES

Read any of these titles.
Read other books by these authors.
Read a series.
Read books not on this list.
Read at least four books.

Just read, read, read…

Science Fiction
Babbit Tuck Everlasting
Christopher The Tripod Series Dickinson Eva
Haddix Running Out of Time
Huxley Brave New World
Farmer The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time
Sachar Holes
Sleator Interstellar Pig
Almond Skelling
Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
LeGuin Wizard of Earthsea
Nix Sabriel
Pearce Tom’s Midnight Garden
Pullman The Golden Compass
Wells War of the Worlds

Adventure
Bauer On My Honor
Eckert Incident at Hawk’s Hill
Cole The Goats
George Frightful
Hobbs Bearstone, Far North, and Ghost Canoe
Lowry A Summer to Die
Mazer Snow Bound
Paulsen Hatchet, and Canyons Alexander Illyrian Adventure
Westmark
Read Alive

Historical Fiction
Auch Ashes of Roses
Avi The Fighting Ground, and True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Beatty Charlie Skedaddle Collier Jump Ship to Freedom
Fast April Morning
Greene Summer of My German Solider
Hamilton The House of Dies Drear
Hunt Across Five Aprils
Keith Rifles for Waite
Lester To Be A Slave
Levitan Journey to America
Mitchell Gone With the Wind
Myers Fallen Angels
Glory Field
Paulsen The Rifle
Reiss The Upstairs Room
Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
Richter Friedrich
Whelan Goodbye, Vietnam
Yolen The Devil’s Arithmetic

Animal Stories
Durrell My Family and Other Animals
Fox One-Eyed Cat
Gavin Ring of Bright Water
Hillenbrand Seabiscuit
London White Fang
The Call of the Wild
Steinbeck The Red Pony
Hiaasen Hoot
Fantasy
Alexander The Iron Ring
Almond Kit’s Wilderness
Cooper Over Sea, Over Stone
Ibbotson Secret of Platform 13
Jacques Redwall
Tolkien The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

Mystery
Avi Something Upstairs
Bellairs House with a Clock in Its Walls
Cooper The Boggart
Coville My Teacher is an Alien
Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-time
Hamilton The House of Dies Drear
Christie And Then There Were None
Duncan What Did You Do Last Summer?

Contemporary Fiction
Anonymous Go Ask Alice
Avi Nothing But the Truth
Benchley Jaws
Bloor Tangerine
Cisneros The House on Mango Street
Cormier The Chocolate War
Guest Ordinary People
Hickman Rocket Boys
Kinsella Shoeless Joe
Knowles A Separate Peace
Lipsyte One Fat Summer, The Contender, Hoops, and The Boxer
Lowry The Messenger and Gathering Blue
Gaines A Gathering of Old Men

Hinton That Was Then, This Is Now, Tex, Taming the Star Runner, and Rumble Fish
Holman Slake’s Limbo
Humphrey The Ordways
Keyes Flowers For Algernon
Martinez Parrot in the Oven
Myers Scorpion
Monster
Peck A Day No Pigs Would Die
Spinelli Maniac Magee
Zindel The Pigman

Non-Fiction
Brokaw A Long Way From Home
Chestnut A Diary from Dixie
Halberstam The Teammates
McCain Character is Destiny
McCullough Johnstown Flood
O’Conner Lazy B
Schlosser Fast Food Nation
Gunther Death Be Not Proud

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