6th Grade Summer Reading

6th Grade Reading Suggestions *Indicates books that will be assigned in class.


  • Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
  • As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
  • First Rule of Punk by Celia Perez
  • Free Lunch by Rex Ogle
  • Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
  • See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
  • Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks
  • Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
  • Theodore Boone series by John Grisham
  • Journey of Little Charlie by Paul Christopher Curtis
  • Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
  • The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Uncommon Champions: fifteen athletes who battled back by Mary Kaminsky
  • The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Martin W. Sandler
  • All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson
  • Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
  • Brave by Svetlana Chmakova
  • Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
  • The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller
  • Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson
  • Snow & Rose by Emily Winfield Martin
  • What Lane? By Torrey Maldanado
  • Wild Robot by Peter Brown
  • Wildfire by W. Rodman Philbrick
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
  • *The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Advanced)
  • *Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
  • *Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
  • *Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
  • *The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Advanced)