Summer Reading List

For

Students Entering

The Haverford School

Sixth Grade

REQUIRED: The Misfits, James Howe

Knots in My Yo-Yo String, Jerry Spinelli

CHOOSE TWO (2) OTHER TITLES TO REPORT ON: (use the attached forms for your reports)

FICTION

Anderson, John David – Standard Hero Behavior

Avi – Wolf Rider

Blackwood, Gary – The Shakespeare Stealer

Bruchac, Joseph – March Toward the Thunder or Sacajawea or The Warriors

Bruchac, Joseph – The Warriors or Code Talker

Carey, Janet Lee – Dragon’s Keep

Cleary, Beverly -- Strider

Clements, Andrew – Things Not Seen, Lunch Money

Collins, Suzanne – Hunger Games

Curtis, Christopher Paul – Bud not Buddy,

Dorros, Arthur – Under the Sun

DuPrau, Jeanne – The City of Ember

Farmer, Nancy – The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm or Sea of Trolls

Funke, Cornelia – Inkheart

Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book

Glenn, Mel – Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems

Green, Tim – Football Champ

Haddix, Margaret – Double Identity or Found

Hesse, Karen – Stowaway

Hiaasen, Carl – Hoot or Scat or Flush

Hoeye, Michael – Time Stops for No Mouse or Sands of Time, or No Time Like Show Time

Hunter, Mollie – The King’s Swift Rider

Klass, David – Firestorm

Koertge, Ron – Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

Korman, Gordon – Schooled or Swindle

Lipsyte, Robert – One Fat Summer or The Chief

Lupica, Mike – Travel Team or Heat or Summer Ball or The Big Field

Lyn Miller-Lachmann, ed. – Once Upon a Cuento

Mazer, Harry –Boy at War

McCaughrean, Geraldine – The Kite Rider

Meehl, Brian – Out of Patience

Meyer, Carolyn – Gideon’s People

Morrison, P.R. – Wind Tamer

Myers, Walter Dean – Slam!

Nimmo, Jenny – Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy or any in this series

Nye, Naomi Shihab – Habibi

Okimoto, Jean Davies – To JayKae: Life Stinx

Oppel, Ken – Airborn or Skybreaker

Park, Linda Sue – Archer’s Quest

Patneaude, David – Thin Wood Walls

Paulsen, Gary – The Rifle or Hatchet

Peet, Mal – The Keeper

Philbrick, Rodman – Freak the Mighty

Pratchett, Terry – Only You Can Save Mankind

Ritter, John---The Boy Who Saved Baseball

Shusterman, Neal – The Schwa Was Here

Spinelli, Jerry – Milkweed

Stewart, Trenton Lee – The Mysterious Benedict Society

Taylor, Mildred D. – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward – Rebel: A Tibetan Odyssey

Wood, Don – Into the Volcano

Woodson, Jaqueline – Miracle’s Boys or Locomotion

Yee, Lisa—Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time

Yolen Jane – Sword of the Rightful King

SERIES (you may read one)

Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson: Peter Pan series

Lewis, C.S.: Chronicles of Narnia

Collins, Suzanne: Gregor series

MacHale, D. J. : Pendragon series

Riordan, Rick: Percy and the Olympians series

Stone, Jeff: Five Ancestors series

BIOGRAPHIES And NONFICTION

Armstrong, Lance – Every Second Counts

Asgedom, Mawi – Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to

Harvard

Blumberg, Rhonda – Shipwrecked!; The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

Campbell, Andrea – Forensic Science: Evidence, Clues and Investigation

Coste, Chris –A 33-year Old Rookie

Fradin, Dennis – Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence

Garner, Eleanor Ramrath – Eleanor’s Story

Gilbreth, Frank – Cheaper by the Dozen

Jiang, Ji Li – Red Scarf Girl

Nhuong, Huynh Quang – Water Buffalo Days or The Land I Lost

Parks, Rosa – Rosa Parks: My Story

Paulsen, Gary – How Angel Peterson Got His Name or My Life in Dog Years

Rosenberg, Liz, ed. – Invisible Ladder: an Anthology of Contemporary American poems for

Young Readers

Stefoff, Rebecca – Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederation

Wulffson, Don L. – The Kid Who Invented the Trampoline

Fleischman, Sid – Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini

McKinley, Michael – Ice Time: The Story of Hockey

Nelson, Kadir – We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Scieszka, Jon – Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories about Growing up Scieszka

Watkins, Richard – Gladiators

Wilson, Daniel H. – How to Survive a Robot Uprising

You may also choose a book from the Pennsylvania’s Young Readers’ Choice list.