Entering Grade 6

Book/Series Title	(Author)
The Secret School	Avi
The Pinballs	Byars
The Wanderer	Creech
A Face First	Cummings
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963	Curtis
The Tale of Despereaux	DiCamillo
City of Ember	DuPrau
The Great Wall of China: Great Building Feats Series	DuTemple
The House of the Scorpion	Farmer
The Thief Lord	Funke
Pictures of Hollis Woods	Giff
Bearstone	Hobbs
Outstanding In My Field	Jennings
Mistakes That Worked	Jones
Someday	Koller
Everest trilogy	Korman
Roman Mysteries series (any titles)	Lawrence
The Horse and His Boy	Lewis
Rules	Lord
The Giver	Lowry
Pyramid	Macauly
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793	Murphy
Carver: A Life in Poems	Nelson
When My Name Was Keoko	Park
Brian's Winter	Paulsen
The Great Gilly Hopkins	Paterson
Something for Joey	Peck
The Upstairs Room	Reiss
Esperanza Rising	Ryan
Flag Lore of All Nations	Smith
Wringer	Spinelli
The Land	Taylor
Surviving the Applewhites	Tolan
My Guardian Angel	Weil
West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Wilder
15 Minutes	Youn