Sixth Grade

The Evelyn Smith Wray Village School
Rising Sixth Grade Summer Reading List 2010.

Rising sixth grade students are required to read at least one of the following books.  At the beginning of the school year, students will be asked to complete a project in the classroom pertaining to the book, which was read during the summer.  Students who read more than one of the books on the list will receive special recognition.
 
Christian Fiction
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
Trailblazer Books series by Dave and Neta Jackson

Fantasy Fiction
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Redwall series by Brian Jacques
The Squire’s Tale by Gerald Morris

Historical Fiction
Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Chu Ju’s House by Gloria Whelan
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Literature Classics
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Nonfiction
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine by Albert
Marrin
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World, One Child at a Time
(Young Reader’s Edition) by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Nonfiction-Biography
Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell by Tom L. Matthews Dear Dr. Bell...Your Friend, Helen Keller by Judith St. GeorgeHudson Taylor:
Deep in the Heart of China (and others in the series Christian Heroes: Then and Now) by Janet & Geoff Benge
Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg

Realistic Fiction
Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
The View from Saturday by E.L Konigsburg
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver

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