Summer Reading

WHAT ARE WE READING THIS SUMMER?

This year you will read a total of 2 books for your 6th grade summer reading requirements. Please follow the instructions below to help you select books.

Book 1: Wonder is required for all 6th graders.

Book 2: Everyone must have read Wonder by R.J. Palacio before 6th grade. If you have not, this will be one of your two summer reading selections. If you have already read it, select any of the two titles from the following list (and you can always read more! Many of these titles are the first in a series):

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