Summer Reading List

For

Students Entering

The Haverford School

Sixth Grade

REQUIRED: Hoot, Carl Hiaasen

The Misfits, James Howe

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

FICTION

Allen, Will – Swords for Hire

Anderson, Janet S. – The Last Treasure

Anderson, Laurie Halse – Fever 1793

Avi – Wolf Rider

Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson – Any of the Peter Pan series

Berryhill, Shane – Chance Fortune and the Outlaws

Blackwood, Gary – The Shakespeare Stealer

Bruchac, Joseph – The Warriors, Code Talker

Card, Orson Scott – Ender’s Game

Cleary, Beverly -- Strider

Clements, Andrew – Things Not Seen, Lunch Money

Curtis, Christopher Paul – Bud not Buddy,

Del Vecchio, Gene – The Pearl of Anton

Dorros, Arthur – Under the Sun

DuPrau, Jeanne – The City of Embers

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

Haddix, Margaret – Double Identity

Hart, J.V. – Capt. Hook

Hesse, Karen – Stowaway

Hiaasen, Carl -- Flush

Hobbs, Will – Leaving Protection

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

Jennings, Richard W. – My Life of Crime

Kinney, Jeff – Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Klass, David – California Blue

Koertge, Ron – Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

Lawrence, Ian – B is for Buster or The Wreckers

Lipsyte, Robert – One Fat Summer or The Chief

Lupica, Mike – Travel Team, Heat

Mazer, Anne, ed. – A Walk in My World: International Short Stories About Youth

Mazer, Harry –Boy at War

McNamee, Graham -- Acceleration

Meehl, Brian – Out of Patience

Mikaelson, Ben – Touching Spirit Bear

Myers, Walter Dean – Slam!, Harlem Summer

Naidoo, Beverley – Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope

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

Nolan, Han – Face in Every Window

Nye, Naomi Saihab – Habibi

Oppel, Ken – Airborn, Skybreaker

Park, Linda Sue – Archer’s Quest

Paulsen, Gary – The White Fox Chronicles

Poe, Edgar Allan – Tales of Mystery and Horror

Pratchett, Terry – The Wee Free Men, Only You Can Save Mankind

Ritter, John---The Boy Who Saved Baseball

Shusterman, Neal – The Schwa Was Here

Smith, Roland – Zach’s Lie

Sutcliff, Rosemary – Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad

Turner, Megan Whalen – The Thief

Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward – Rebel: A Tibetan Odyssey

Woodson, Jaqueline – Miracle’s Boys

Yee, Lisa—Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time

Yolen Jane – Sword of the Rightful King

Zinnen, Linda – Holding at Third

SERIES

Lewis, C.S.: Chronicles of Narnia

Collins, Suzanne: Gregor series

MacHale, D. J. : Pendragon series

Patterson, James: Maximum Ride series

Riordan, Rick: Percy and the Olympians series

Shan, Darren: Cirque du Freak series

Spiderwick Chronicles

Stone, Jeff: Five Ancestors sereis

Yance, Richard: Alfred Kropp 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

Ayer, Eleanor – Parallel Journeys

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

Bradley, Bill – Values of the Game

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

Coste, Chris –A 33-year Old Rookie

Dash, Joan – Dangerous Engine: Benjamin Franklin: From Scientist to Diplomat

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

Garner, Eleanor Ramrath – Eleanor’s Story

Gilbreth, Frank – Cheaper by the Dozen

Hill, Grant – Change the Game

Jiang, Ji Li – Red Scarf Girl

Marrin, Albert – Sitting Bull

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

Paulsen, Gary – 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

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