Summer Reading List

Grades 5 & 6

Chapter Books

Avi Seer of Shadows

Binding Sylvie and the Songman

Booraem Small Persons with Wings

Buckley-Archer Time Thief

Byrd Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom

Catanese Happenstance Found

Clement Keepers of the School: We the Children

Cody Powerless

Cotrell Boyce Cosmic

Curtis Elijah of Buxton

Deedy The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale

DeVillers Trading Faces

Dowd The London Eye Mystery

Gaiman The Graveyard Book

Gantos Dead End in Norvelt

Lai Inside Out and Back Again

Lin Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Lord Conspiracy 365 (series)

Lupica The Million-Dollar Throw

Paulsen Woods Runner

Raskin The Westing Game

Selznik Wonderstruck

Stead When You Reach Me

Voigt Young Fredle

Wood The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling

Yelchin Breaking Stalin’s Nose

Biography

Barton The Day-Glo Brothers

Fleming Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Freedman Lafayette and the American Revolution

Heiligman Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith

Hendrix John Brown: His Fight for Freedom

Macy Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

McClafferty The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon

Mitchell Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford

Paulsen How Angel Peterson Got His Name

Swanson Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

Non-Fiction

Allen Mr. Lincoln’s High Tech War

Arnosky Thunder Birds: Nature’s Flying Predators

Janeczki The Dark Game: True Spy Stories

Jenkins Can We Save the Tiger? (all ages)

Metselaar Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures

Newquist Here There Be Monsters: The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid

O’Connell The Elephant Scientist

Schanzer Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

Scott Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What Hubble Saw

Stone Almost Astronauts: The True Story of the “Mercury 13” Women

Graphic Novels

Hatke Zita the Spacegirl

Mouse Mouse Guard

O’Connor Olympians (series)

Say Drawing from Memory

Telgemeier Smile

Venditti The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel

Poetry

Raczka Lemonade, and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word

Sidman Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night