Dear future 6th grade students, Now that your summer vacation has begun, you will have plenty of free time. I want you to enjoy your time off: kick back, relax, and pick up a few good books. In this journal, you will find 2 suggested reading lists and journal pages. You are expected to read 3 chapter books throughout the summer (either from the enclosed reading lists or your own choice). Some of these books are not written by Christian authors, so please ask your parents to help you choose wisely. Each book on the 1st list has its reading level written next to it. Research has shown that when reading for pleasure, it is better to choose books that are below your current reading level. Only books that are chapter books will count for the Summer Reading Program Bogert Bucks reward. When you finish reading each book, please write a 5-10 sentence summary in your journal, and have your parents initial it in the space provided. You may read more than 3 books if you like. Only books that are chapter books will count for the Summer Reading Program Bogert Bucks reward. Please bring your journal to me on the first day of school. I look forward to seeing you in September. Happy reading!!  Your 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Bogert

1

6th Grade Book List READING OLYMPICS BOOKS

Author

Reading Level

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days The Borrowers Bridge to Terabithia The Castle in the Attic The Cricket in Times Square The Enormous Egg The Great Brain The Great Gilly Hopkins Henry Huggins James and the Giant Peach The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Little House in the Big Woods Mr. Popper’s Penguins My Side of the Mountain Night of the Twisters Philip Halls Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe The Pinballs Poppy Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ The Seven Chinese Brothers Shiloh Soup Stuart Little Superfudge Tuck Everlasting The Whipping Boy A Wrinkle in Time

Stephen Manes Mary Norton Katherine Paterson Elizabeth Winthrop George Selden Oliver Butterworth John Dennis Fitzgerald Katherine Paterson Beverly Cleary Roald Dahl C.S. Lewis Laura Ingalls Wilder Richard Atwater Jean Craighead George Ivy Ruckman Bette Greene Betsy Byars Avi Eleanor Coerr Betty Miles Margaret Mahy Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Robert Newton Peck E.B. White Judy Blume Natlie Babbitt Sid Fleischman Madeleine L’Engle

4.2 5.3 4.6 4.9 4.9 5.0 5.2 4.6 4.7 4.8 5.7 5.3 5.6 5.2 4.7 5.0 3.8 4.5 4.1 3.7 4.8 4.4 4.4 6.0 3.4 5.0 3.9 4.7

--See other side for more books that are not part of the Reading Olympics

2

OTHER BOOKS

Author

Reading Level

My Name is Maria Isabel Any Cam Jansen Mysteries Flat Stanley The Family Under the Bridge Books from the Ramona series The Courage of Sarah Noble Fantastic Mr. Fox Amber Brown books The Hundred Dresses John and the Fiddler What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Stone Fox A Gift for Mama Busybody Nora Left Behind: The Kids series Herbie Jones books Horrible Harry books Green Gravy Pickle Pizza Other books by Grasshopper on the Road Uncle Elephant Yeh Shen: Cinderella Story from China The Pizza Pie Slugger Meet Kirsten Encyclopedia Brown series The Bathwater Gang Song of the Trees The Lighthouse Mystery Mountain Top Mystery Boxcar Children series Little House on the Prairie series Beauty Bull Run

Alma Flor Ada 4.9 David A. Adler 3.3-3.8 Jeff Brown 4.0 Natalie Savage Carlson 4.7 Beverly Cleary 4.8-5.2 Alice Daliesh 3.9 Roald Dahl 4.1 Paula Danziger 2.6-4.0 Eleanor Estes 5.4 Patricia Foley 4.7 Jean Fritz 5.5 John Reynolds Gardiner 4.0 E. Hautzig 4.2 Johanna Hurwitz 4.1 J. Jenkins/T.LaHaye 5.5 Suzy Kline 3.3-3.5 Suzy Kline 2.8-3.3 Beverly Lewis 2.5 Beverly Lewis 2.5 Beverly Lewis 2.3-6.8 Arnold Lobel 2.9 Arnold Lobel 2.6 Ai-Ling Louie 5.1 Jean Marzollo 3.3 Janet Shaw 3.8 Donald J. Sobol 3.9-4.8 Jerry Spinelli 3.0 Mildred Taylor 3.8 Gertrude C. Warner 3.2 Gertrude C. Warner 3.6 Gertrude C. Warner 3.9 Laura Ingalls Wilder 4.9 Robin McKinley 6.2 Paul Fleischman 5.3

3

See next page for more books Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery The Giver Holes Homecoming Letters from Rifka Mattimeo The Merlin Effect Out of the dust A Swiftly Tilting Planet The Tombs of Atuan Where the Red Fern Grows The Year Without Michael Z for Zachariah

Russell Freedman Lois Lowry Louis Sachar Cynthia Voigt Karen Hesse Brian Jacques T.A. Barron Karen Hesse Madeleine L’Engle Ursula K. LeGuin Wilson Rawls Susan Pfeffer Robert C. O’Brien

7.8 5.7 4.6 4.4 4.2 5.2 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.9 4.9 4.3 5.6

4

Additional Books/Authors Grades 5-6 Title

Author

The Strange Case of Baby H Becoming Little Women Into the Blue – Dolphin Diaries Coals of Fire Mary Slessor Come What May Legend of the Gilded Saber Little Princess Cross My Heart At the Plate with Mark McGwire Survival in the Storm Lost in Cyndonia Because of Winn-Dixie Mercy at Midnight The Forgotten Filly Parables for Kids Storytime Jamboree Promise Breaker The Black Stallion Mildred Keith Homesick: My Own Story Julie of the Wolves Adara Meet the Ponytail Girls Brighty of the Grand Canyon Westward to Home: Joshua’s Diary Fanny Crosby, the Hymn Writer Swamp Robber Forty-Acre Swindle Breaking Through Disappearing Stranger

*American Girl History Mysteries series Jeanine Atkins *Ben M. Baglio Elizabeth Hershberger Bauman *Janet & Geoff Benge *Lauren Brooke *Sigmund Brouwer *Frances Burnett *Sandra Byrd *Matt Christopher *Dear America series *Jim Denney Kate DiCamillo *Lois Hoadley Dick Karle Dickerson *Danae Dobson *Peter Dyck *Robert Elmer *Walter Farley *Martha Finley Jean Fritz *Jean Craighead George *Beatrice Gormley *Bonnie C. Hanson *Marguerite Henry Patricia Hermes *Heroes of the Faith series *Paul Hutchens *Dave & Neta Jackson Francisco Jimenez *Lois Johnson

Almost Home Peace Be With You

*Wendy Lawton Cornelia Lehn

5

Mandy and the Secret Tunnel Shadows Beyond the Gate The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Little House on Rocky Ridge Midnight Mystery Tales of the Kingdom The Journey of Yung Lee – Immigrant Chronicles Walking with Jesus Dixie & Flash Fire, Smoke and Secrets The Curse of the Horrible Hair Day The Journal of Jesse Smoke The Mystery of the Hooded Horseman Shiloh Rascal Preacher’s Boy Missing Money The Door in the Dragon’s Throat Sojourner Truth Race the Wind Lilly’s Ultimate Party Henry’s Red Sea Olympic Dreams Tanglewoods Secret Hiding Out Davy Crockett – In Their Own Words Little Pilgrim’s Progress Abby: Maui Mystery Glued Together Charlotte’s Web Voyage of the Great Titanic: Diary of Margaret Ann Brady Far Side of the Loch

*Lois Leppard *Beverly Lewis *C.S. Lewis *Roger MacBride *Dandi Mackall *David & Karen Mains Judith McCoy-Miller Mary Clemens Meyer *Gilbert Morris *Ken Munro *Bill Myers *My Name is America series *Mysteries in Odyssey series *Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Sterling North Katherine Paterson *Kathleen Pennell *Frank Peretti *Peter & Connie Roop Chris Platt *Nancy Rue Barbara Smucker *Lauraine Snelling *Patricia St. John *Hilda Stahl *George Sullivan Helen Taylor *Pamela Walls *Irene Weaver *E.B. White Ellen Emerson White *Melissa Wiley

6