Summer is a special time of relaxation and recreation.  Reading over the summer helps children remain reading and comprehension strategies developed during the school year.  It also helps them to explore personal interests.

The following is a list of books that students entering the 6th grade may enjoy reading.  They can be found in the local libraries and bookstores.  So pour yourself a cool glass of lemonade, find a nice shady spot, and read to your heart's content.

1. Never Mind!
2. The Book Without Words
3. Cold in Summer
4. Life in the Fat Lane
5. Tangerine
6. Al Capone Does My Shirts
7. Eager
8. Among the Hidden
9. Princess Academy
10. Flush
11. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
12. MadCat
13. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
14. Heir Apparent
15. So B. It
16. Hush