SUMMER READING LIST
Students entering GRADE SIX

*You may search the SAILS website from the Taunton Public Library’s link.
 Go to www.tauntonlibrary.org and then click on SAILS to locate a book(s) by author or title.

√ YOUR CHOICE

TITLE OF BOOK

AUTHOR

 

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

 

The Agony of Alice

*Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin

Baseball Fever

Johanna Hurwitz

Catherine Called Birdy

*Karen Cushman

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Roald Dahl

Chasing Verneer

Blue Balliett

The Broccoli Tapes

Jan Slepian

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Paula Danziger

Dealing with Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede

Dragonwings

*Laurence Yep

 

Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine

Every Living Thing

*Cynthia Rylant

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Margaret Sidney

Freaky Friday

Mary Rogers

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Incident at Hawk’s Hill

Allen W. Eckert

Jim Ugly

Sid Fleischman

 

Letters from Rifka

*Karen Hesse

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Gary Schmidt

 

Mississippi Bridge

*Mildred D. Taylor

 

National Velvet

Enid Bagnold

On My Honor

Marion Dana Bauer

Princess Academy

Shannon Hale

 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Katherine Wiggins

The Search for Delicious

Natalie Babbitt

There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom

Louis Sachar

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

*Avi

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

 

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

*Louis Sachar

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr

*You may choose another book by the highlighted author.
Updated, April 2008