Book Recommendations

Recommended by:

Beth Thomas & Karen Doherty
LCJSMS Librarians

*These books will change quarterly*

Summer Reading Lists 2022

6th Grade

If you have not read Wonder, choose ONE more book from the list to read in addition to Wonder.
If you have already read Wonder, select any of the TWO titles from the following list.

Required Reading:
Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Image: Wonder the Book

Fiction:

Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai
What Lane by Torrey Maldonado
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
Blended by Sharon Draper
Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
Enginerds by Jarrett Lerner
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste

Graphic Novels:

This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
Twins by Varian Johnson
All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson
Guts by Raina Telgemeier

Nonfiction/Biography:

The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
by Sonia Sotomayor
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away by Erica Armstrong and Kathleen van Cleve
Ugly
by Robert Hoge