Summer Reading
Entering 6th Grade
Bath. Maine 04530
June 2008

Realistic Fiction

Al Capone Does My Shirts. Choldenko

Becoming Naomi Leon. Ryan

The Boy Who Saved Baseball. Ritter

A Coyote's in the House. Leonard

Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Kinney

Drita, My Homegirl. Lombard

Granny Torelli Makes Soup. Creech

Heat. Lupica

Holes. Sachar

Hoot. Hiassen

Joey Pigza Loses Control. Gantos

Locomotion.  Woodson

No More Dead Dogs. Korman

Penny from Heaven. Holm

Pictures of Hollis Woods. Giff

Rules. Lord

Sea Legs. Shearer

Wenny has Wings. Carey

The Young Man and the Sea. Philbrick (Maine)

Historic Fiction

A Year Down Yonder. Peck

Black Strom Comin'. Wilson

The Birchbark House. Erdrich


Island of the Blue Dolphins.  O'Dell

Number the Stars. Lowry

Seaward Born. Wait (Maine)

Tadpole. White

Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963. Curtis


Fantasy / Science Fiction

The Golden Compass. Pullman

Here Be Monsters! Snow

Homework Machine. Gutman

I, Coriander. Gardner

The Lightning Thief. Riorden

Princess Academy. Hale

The Supernaturalist. Colfer

Tanglewreck. Winterson


Poetry

For Laughing Out Loud. Prelutsky

Hey World, Here I am! Little

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children

Nonfiction

The Cod's Tale. Kurlansky

Heros of Baseball. Lipsyte

How to Survive in Antarctica. Bledsoe

Life Under Ice. Cerullo

Looking for Seabirds. Webb

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. Armstrong

Tales of the Cryptids. Hall



Compiled by the K-8 Bath School Librarian.

Books available at Patten Free Library.

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