 This Summer Reading List is designed for students entering Grade vi in September 2018. Each novel has been linked to the Middle Schoolhouse Pillars of Courage, Honesty, Respect, and Service. As you read, think about how the characters relate to these pillars. Do you agree or disagree with this being the major pillar represented by the protagonist (main character)? Your mission : Read one or more of the amazing novels on this listing. In September, you lot will share your summertime reading choices through a diverseness of activities in your Humanities class. Rules: Utilise the Summer Reading List to find a stand-solitary book or 2, a new series or choose any Immature Adult novel written by one of our Grade 6 Featured Authors: Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass, Rick Riordan,
Kit Pearson, Kenneth Oppel and Frank Cortrell Boyce. Optional : In one case y'all finish a volume, write or pic a quick book review, charge per unit it out of 5 stars and so email information technology to me, Ms. Bailey, at sarah.bailey@smus.ca. For every review you transport, your name will be entered into a special draw. The more than reviews y'all submit, the higher your chances of winning! Whatsoever adventures yous are up to this summer, you volition find novels on this listing that y'all'll be excited to tell your friends almost in September. So kick dorsum with your book and savour the journeying. Happy Reading! Ms. Bailey, SMUS Centre School Teacher-Librarian Featured Authors: Kenneth Oppel, Frank Cortrell Boyce, Rebecca Stead,
Wendy Mass, Rick Riordan, Kit Pearson
| | The Unwanteds
by Lisa McMann Serial:The Unwanteds
When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill. Each year, all the thirteen-yr-olds are labeled every bit Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. Wanteds become more schooling and train to join the Quillitary. Necessaries keep the farms running. Unwanteds are prepare for elimination. Reading Level: Contained Reader
Pillar:Courage
Themes: twin brothers, wizards , magic, teenage boys, world-building. | | | Fablehaven
by Brandon Mull When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Read more of the Fablehavenseries. Reading Level: 700L
Pillar: Courage, Service
Themes: action-packed; world-edifice, suspenseful, caretakers of mythical creatures , family, good and evil, magic. | | | The Goose Girl
by Shannon Hale She can whisper to horses and communicate with birds, simply the crown princess Ani has a difficult time finding her place in the royal family and measuring upward to her imperial female parent. When she is shipped off to a neighboring kingdom as a bride, her scheming entourage mounts a bloody mutiny to replace her with a jealous lady-in-waiting. Barely escaping with her life, Ani disguises herself every bit a goose girl and wanders on the purple estate. Does she accept the pluck to reclaim her rightful place?
Read more of theThe Books of Bayern. Reading Level: 870L
Pillar: Honesty, Courage
Themes: courage, man/animal communication, betrayal, strong female protagonist, fairy tale retelling. | | | The School for Skillful and Evil
by Soman Chainani Series: The School for Proficient and Evil
3 stories featuring best friends Sophie and Agatha discover them kidnapped and taken to the School for Good and Evil, stuck in the middle of a brewing conflict, and battling against evil. Reading Level: Independent Reader
Pillar: Honesty
Themes:friendship, school stories. | | | The Dragonet Prophecy
by Barry Deutsch Determined to cease a generations-long war among the seven dragon tribes, a surreptitious movement called the Talons of Peace draws on a prophecy that calls for a great sacrifice, compelling 5 appointed dragonets to fulfill a painful destiny against their will.
Read more of the Wings of Fire serial. Reading Level: 740L
Pillar: Courage
Themes: dragons, dramatic boxing scenes, double-crosses, rulers, escapes, imaginary kingdoms. | | | Downwards the Mysterly River
by Bill Willingham When skillful Boy Scout Max "the Wolf" finds himself in an unfamiliar wood, he is joined by iii talking animal companions who are only as confused about how they got there, and shortly the group is being chased by ruthless hunters and their relentless hounds. Reading Level: 1040L
Pillar: Courage
Themes: animals, retention, homo-beast communication, suspense, friendship, magic. | | | The Wishing Spell
by Chris Colfer Using a mysterious book to travel to a land of wonder and magic, twins Alex and Connor meet a host of classic fairy tale characters and nefarious monsters before discovering that returning back home will be more difficult than anticipated.
Read more of the The Country of Storiesseries. Reading Level: 760L
Pillar: Courage
Themes: magic, brothers and sisters, twins, fairy tale characters. | | | The Sword of Summer
past Rick Riordan Living alone on the streets of Boston, Magnus Hunt learns he is the son of a Norse god, from an uncle his mother claimed was unsafe.
Read more of the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgardseries. Reading Level: 630L
Pillar: Courage
Themes: Norse mythology, quests, children . | | | Only You Can Salve Flesh
by Terry Pratchett The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Burn down button. Johnny Maxwell is most to set up the new high score on the reckoner gameOnly You Can Save Mankind.
All of a sudden, a bulletin appears:Nosotros wish to talk. We surrender.
Merely the aliens aren't supposed to give up—they're supposed to die!
Read more of theJohnny Maxwell serial. Reading Level: 540L
Colonnade:Courage
Themes: humour, aliens,estimator game, heroes. | | | The Boundless
by Kenneth Oppel Aboard "The Dizzying," the greatest railroad train ever congenital, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenage Volition enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the railroad train from villains. Reading Level: 730L
Pillar: Honesty, Courage
Themes: railroad trains, circus, Canadian history-1864-1914, magic, adventure, survival. | | | Awake and Dreaming
by Kit Pearson While living a miserable, poverty-stricken life with her young, irresponsible mother, nine-yr-old Theo dreams of belonging to a real family merely finds a shadowy effigy haunting her thoughts. Reading Level: 650L
Pillar:Courage
Themes: friendship, families, urban poverty, wishes, ghosts, Victoria. | | | Fires of Invention
past J. Scott Savage Fifty-fifty though engineering science and inventions have been outlawed in the mountain metropolis of Cove, in club to salvage the city Trenton and Kallista must follow a set of mysterious blueprints to build a creature to protect them from the dragons outside their door.
Read more than of the The Mysteries of Cove serial. Reading Level: 690L
Pillar: Service
Themes: steampunk, Dragons , Inventions, Engineering , Robots , Thirteen-year-old boys. | | | When You Accomplish Me
by Rebecca Stead In the 1980s, equally her mother prepares to be a contestant on a tv game show, Miranda tries to brand sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and infinite. Reading Level: 750L
Pillar: Honesty
Themes: mystery,friendships, family relations. | | | The Candymakers
by Wendy Mass When 4 twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly go friends and uncover secrets near themselves during the process.
Continue with the sequel: The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase Reading Level: 740L
Pillar: Service
Themes: candy, secrets, contests, friendship. | | | Under the Egg
by Laura Marx Fitzgerald Her grandfather'due south dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, subconscious painting she fears may exist stolen, simply it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure. Reading Level: 790L
Colonnade:Respect
Themes: mystery, humour, friendship, families. | | | The Black Book of Secrets
by F. E. Higgins Subsequently running abroad from his evil parents in the City, Ludlow Fitch meets Joe Zabbidou, a pawnbroker of secrets who enlists Ludlow as an apprentice to record the confessions of the townspeople of the remote village of Pagus Parvus.
Read more of theTales from the sinister city serial. Reading Level: 830L
Pillar:Honesty
Themes: suspense, apprentices, pawnbrokers, betrayal. | | | Millions
by Frank Cottrell Boyce Information technology was a one-in-a-million chance. A bag crammed with cash comes tumbling out of the air and lands right at Damian'southward anxiety. Suddenly the Cunningham brothers are rich. Very rich. They can buy annihilation they want. There'due south just one problem -- they accept only seventeen days to spend all the money earlier it becomes worthless. And the crooks who stole the cash in the get-go place are closing in -- fast. Reading Level: 650L
Colonnade: Service
Themes: humor, money, morality, choices, brothers. | | | Wolf Brother
by Michelle Paver half-dozen,000 years in the past, twelve-yr-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy fabricated to his dying father--to travel to the Mountain of the Globe Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
Read more of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness serial. Reading Level:660L
Pillar: Service
Themes: Prehistoric humans, boys and wolves, prophecies, quests. | | | The War that Saved my Life
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they detect life to exist much sweeter away from their calumniating mother.
Read more than ofThe State of war that saved my life series. Reading Level: 580L
Colonnade: Respect
Themes: l ife during wartime, living with visible disability, home forepart during WWII, families. | | | The Foreign Instance of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger boob of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, every bit they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can actually predict the time to come. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
Read more of the Origami Yodaserial. Reading Level: 760L
Pillar:Honesty
Themes:origami, finger puppets, eye schools. | | | The Way of the Warrior
by Chris Bradford Orphaned past a ninja pirate assail off the declension of Japan in 1611, twelve-yr-onetime English lad Jack Fletcher is determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword chief who rescued him begins training him every bit a samurai warrior.
Read more of the Y oung Samurai series. Reading Level: 750L
Pillar: Courage
Themes: samurai, ninja, pirates, orphans, bullying. | | | Wilder Boys
by Brandon Wallace To evade their mother'southward abusive boyfriend, brothers Jake, thirteen, and Taylor, eleven, venture from the suburbs of Pittsburgh toward the wilds of Wyoming in search of the father they take not seen in iv years, using their wilderness skills to survive against both natural and human dangers. Includes wilderness tips. Reading Level: 750L
Colonnade: Backbone
Themes: adventure stories; survival, runaway brothers, wilderness. | | | Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen After a aeroplane crash, thirteen-twelvemonth-old Brian spends fifty-4 days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with simply the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Read more of the Hatchet Adventures. Reading Level: 650L
Pillar: Service
Themes: sense of humor, money, morality, choices, brothers. | | | Pax
past Sara Pennypacker When his male parent enlists in the military and makes him render his beloved pet trick to the wild, Peter, who has been sent to live with his grandfather hundreds of miles away, embarks on a journey filled with astonishing discoveries in guild to be reunited with his play a joke on. Reading Level: 760L
Pillar:Courage
Themes: foxes as pets, human-animal relationship . | | | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
by Chris Grabenstein Twelve-twelvemonth-former Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must piece of work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.
Read more ofMr. Lemincello'south Libraryseries. Reading Level: 720L
Pillar:Courage
Themes: books and reading, contests, censorship, libraries. | | | Liar & Spy
past Rebecca Stead Moving into an flat when his father loses his job, Georges befriends Safer, a twelve-twelvemonth-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy, who recruits Georges into the world of espionage so that they can investigate a mysterious neighbor who lives on the top floor. Reading Level: 670L
Pillar:Honesty
Themes: sense of humour, friendship, families, spies. | | | George
by Alex Gino Knowing herself to be a daughter despite her outwardly male person appearance, George is denied a female role in the form play earlier teaming up with a friend to reveal her true self. Reading Level: 790L
Pillar:Honesty
Themes:gender identity, middle school students, bullying. | | | Paint
past Jennifer Trip the light fantastic In the belatedly 1800s, a Lakota male child befriends an orphaned mustang named Paint, and the two are forced to separate when the U.S. Cavalry attacks the boy's army camp, and Paint must make her own style in the Canadian prairie. Reading Level: 830L
Colonnade:Backbone
Themes: horses, pioneer life, orphaned animals, First Nations. | | | Militarist
past Jennifer Trip the light fantastic toe When Adam is diagnosed with leukemia, he reclaimes his Commencement Nations name Militarist every bit he fights for his life and for the land of his ancestors and the creatures that inhabit information technology. Reading Level: 750L
Pillar:Backbone
Themes: militarist, animal rescue, Kickoff Nations. | | | The Girl Who Could Fly
by Victoria Forester Later on leaving her serenity subcontract to attend a top-secret school for kids with unique skills, Piper McCloud enjoys the ability to fly freely with her peers, merely every bit everyone settles in to the daily routine, information technology becomes clear to all at this special place that Piper has a quality even more than special than the rest.
Read more than of the Piper McCloud series. Reading Level: 920L
Pillar:Courage
Themes: schoolhouse stories,individuality, secrets, power. | | | The True Significant of Smekday
past Adam Rex In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, 11-year-onetime Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are existence relocated, with her true cat and a renegade extraterrestrial named J. Lo as her copilots.
Read the sequel: Smek for President! Reading Level: 670L
Colonnade: Respect
Themes: humor, friendships, family relationships, UFO abductions, conflicting invasion. | | | Randoms
by David Liss A twelve-year-old male child is called to join a four-person applicant team to piece of work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his unabridged life.
Read more of the Randoms series. Reading Level: 840L
Pillar:Backbone
Themes: conspiracies, intergalactic infinite station, aliens, misfits. | | | The City of Ember
past Jeanne DuPrau Series:
Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are fated, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could exist engulfed past darkness. Reading Level: 680L
Pillar: Backbone
Themes: resourcefulness in children, dystopias, survival, natural resources. | | | The Wild Robot
by Peter Chocolate-brown Initializing for the offset time on a remote isle where she is all alone, Roz the robot learns survival strategies from the island's hostile animals and finally gains acceptance when she cares for an orphaned gosling. Reading Level: 740L
Pillar: Courage
Themes: survival, friendship, orphaned animals . | | | The Templeton Twins Have an Idea
by Ellis Weiner Abigail and John, the Templeton twins, and their dog Cassie, foil a pair of inept kidnappers intent on stealing i of their male parent's newest inventions.
Read more than of the Templeton Twins serial. Reading Level: 830L
Colonnade: Courage
Themes:humour, inventors, twins . | | | Flora & Ulysses
past Kate DiCamillo A girl named Flora and a squirrel named Ulysses, whose life was saved by Flora after he was involved in an incident with a vacuum cleaner, team upwards to use Ulysses' superpowers to conquer villains and protect the weak. Reading Level: 520L
Pillar: Respect
Themes: superheroes, girls, squirrels . | | | Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer When twelve-yr-erstwhile evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family unit fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a bribe in golden, the fairies fight back with magic, applied science, and a specially nasty troll.
Read more than of the Artemis Fowlseries. Reading Level: 600L
Pillar: Service
Themes: magic, kidnapping,farting trolls, fairies, evil masterminds . | | | Schooled
by Gordon Korman Later his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies. Reading Level: 740L
Pillar:Respect
Themes: sense of humor, friendships,homeschool, hippies, belonging, individuality, heart-warming. | | | Making It Home: Existent-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee
by Beverley Naidoo Children from effectually the globe share their personal experiences with state of war and other forms of conflict that have shattered their homes and families, in a powerful book that shows readers what it's like to be a refugee. Reading Level: 750L
Pillar: Backbone
Themes:child refugees, war, emotionally intense. | | | Believe: the Victorious Story of Eric LeGrand
past Eric LeGrand The defensive lineman for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights, who was paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a spinal injury during a game, shares his transformative journey equally he drew on his optimism to triumph over arduousness. Reading Level: 1040L
Colonnade: Backbone
Themes: biography, football players, athletes with disabilities. | | | Swindle
past Gordon Korman Subsequently unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to intermission into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the menu back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker. Reading Level: 710L
Pillar: Honesty
Themes: suspenseful, baseball game cards, collectors and collecting, friendship, crime | | | Navy SEAL Dogs: My Tale of Training Canines for Combat
past Mike Ritland A immature adult adaptation of the best-selling Trident K9 Warriors presents an insider'south tour of the world of aristocracy Navy SEAL working dogs to explain how they are trained, the extreme missions they undertake and how after retiring they are placed in loving homes. Reading Level: 900L
Pillar:Service
Themes: war machine, working dogs, state of war, Navy Seals. | | | I am Malala : The Daughter Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot past the Taliban
by Malala Yousafzai When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, ane girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October ix, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus abode from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journeying from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At xvi, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee always for the Nobel Peace Prize. Reading Level: 830L
Colonnade:Courage
Themes:immature women, man rights, children'southward rights, biography. | |
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