Sixth-Grade Summer Reading Lists

English language arts

Tuck Everlasting

Babbitt

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Craven

Absolutely Normal Chaos

Creech

The Midwife's Apprentice

Cushman

Catherine, Called Birdy

Cushman

A Tale of Two Cities*

Dickens

The Three Musketeers*

Dumas

Summer of my German Soldier

Greene

Words of Stone

Henkes

The Phantom Tollbooth

Juster

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Lewis

Number the Stars

Lowry

The Giver

Lowry

Bridge to Terabithia

Patterson

Hatchet

Paulsen

The Island

Paulsen

Where the Red Fern Grows

Rawls

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Rowling

The Egypt Game

Snyder

Maniac Magee

Spinelli

Wringer

Spinelli

The Hobbit

Tolkien

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*

Twain

The Invisible Thread

Uchida

Bell Prater's Boy

White

Math

Adventures of Penrose - Mathematical Cat 

Theoni Pappas 

A Gebra Named Al:  A Novel 

Wendy Isdell and Pamela Espeland

Number Devil:  A Mathematical Adventure

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

How Much is a Million?

David M. Schwartz

Science

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeline  L'Engle

Inside the Body

Guiliano Fornair, Anita Ganeri, and R. Harrison

Social Studies

His Majesty Queen Hatshepsut

Dorothy Sharp Carter

Inside the Walls of Troy

Clemence McLaren

A Dream Takes Flight

Anna Kirwan

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

 Seventh-Grade Summer Reading Lists

English Language Arts

Nothing but the Truth

Avi

The Man Who Was Poe

Avi

Journey of the Sparrows

Buss

Where the Lilies Bloom

Cleaver

Crazy Lady!

Conly

The Dark is Rising

Cooper

Out of the Dust

Hesse

River Thunder

Hobbs

The Maze

Hobbs

The Hunchback of Notre Dame*

Hugo

Redwall

Jacques

Beyond the Burning Time

Lasky

A Wrinkle in Time

L'Engle

White Fang*

London

Z for Zachariah

O'Brien

The River

Paulsen

Frankenstein*

Shelley

Shanbanu, Daughter of the Wind

Staples

The Red Pony

Steinbeck

Treasure Island

Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Taylor

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*

Verne

Homecoming

Voigt

Goodbye, Vietnam

Whelan

Night

Wiesel

Math

Algebra Unplugged 

Kenn Amdahl and Jim Loats, Ph.D.

Fractions, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales

Theoni Pappas

G is for Googol:  a Math Alphabet Book 

David M. Schwartz

Science

Black Holes in Spacetime

Kitty Ferguson

Carnivorous Plants

Adrian Slack

Great Feuds in Science

Hal Hellman

Social Studies

A Mission For Her Village, Africa, 1440

Dawn C. Gill

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth Speare

The Salem Witch Trials

Jane Yolen

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

Eighth-Grade Summer Reading Lists

English Language Arts

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi

The Wizard of Oz

Baum

Jumping Off to Freedom

Bernardo

Midget

Bowler

Cold Sassy Tree

Burns

Children of the River

Crew

Ironman

Crutcher

Great Expectations*

Dickens

Fried Green Tomatoes

Flagg

Johnny Tremain

Forbes

Lone Wolf

Franklin

The Lord of the Flies

Golding

A Separate Peace

Knowles

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee

Cry the Beloved Country

Paton

Lyddie

Paterson

The Car

Paulsen

The Chosen

Potok

The Yearling

Rawlings

Wolf by the Ears

Rinaldi

The Killer Angels

Shaara

Hamlet*

Shakespeare

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Taylor

The Cay

Taylor

Around the World in Eighty Days*

Verne

Math

An Imaginary Tale:  The Story of i [the square root of minus one]

Paul J. Nahin

e:  The Story of a Number 

Eli Maor

Mathematics:  How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying

David M. Schwartz

Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work

M. C. Escher

Science

Kotik:  the Baby Seal

Fred Bruemmer

Safari Beneath theSea:  the Wonderful World of the North Pacific Coast 

Dian Swanson

Sound and Light:  Science Facts and Experiments 

David Glover

Social Studies

Jump Ship to Freedom

James Lincoln Collier

My Brother Sam is Dead

James Lincoln Collier

When Mr. Jefferson Came to Philadelphia

Ann Warren Turner

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen