Summer Reading List for East Lyme Public Schools: 5th and 6th Grade

Here is the suggested reading list for East Lyme Middle School grades 5 and 6. Click on the images or hyperlinks to see where the books are located in the East Lyme Public Library. Please remember that these are just suggested titles. If a book is already checked out to another reader, simply ask the librarian for another suggestion. Happy Summer Reading! 

For more information about the suggested books, please visit the East Lyme Middle School Media Center website.

Kang, Hildi. Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan. Terre Haute, IN: Tanglewood, 2011.

Riel, Jørn, and Helen Cann. The Shipwreck. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2011.. 

Tooke, Wes. King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012.

McMann, Lisa. The Unwanteds. New York: Aladdin, 2011.

Bacon, Lee. Joshua Dread: Bk.1. New York: Delacorte Press, 2012.

Northrop, Michael. Tombquest. Bk.1, Bk.1. New York: Scholastic Press, 2015.

Black, Holly, Cassandra Clare, and Scott M. Fischer. The Iron Trial. New York: Scholastic. 2014.

Colfer, Chris, and Brandon Dorman. The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns. New York: Little, Brown. 2014.

Pearson, Ridley. Disney in Shadow The Kingdom Keepers Series, Book 3. White Plains: Disney , 2011.

Green, Tim. New Kid. New York: Harper. 2015.

Lupica, Mike. The Underdogs. New York: Philomel Books, 2011.

O'Connor, Barbara. On the Road to Mr. Mineo's. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 2014.

Woods, Brenda. Saint Louis Armstrong Beach. New York, N.Y.: Nancy Paulsen Books, 2011.

DiTerlizzi, Tony, Tony DiTerlizzi, Lizzy Bromley, and Thomas Kennedy. The Search for Wondla. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010. Print.

Montgomery, Sy, and Nic Bishop. Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot. Boston [Mass.]: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.

Montgomery, Sy, and Nic Bishop. The Tarantula Scientist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2004. 

Hatke, Ben. Zita the Spacegirl. New York: First Second, 2010. Print.  

Hatke, Ben, and Colleen A. F. Venable. Legends of Zita the Spacegirl.New York: First Second, 2012. Print. 

Please remember these are just suggestions. You are free to read whatever books you and your families choose. Any book you read that is within your reading level counts toward your school's "bingo" prize card and the East Lyme Public Library's summer reading prizes.