5th/6th Grade Summer Reading Suggestions         

See the Ums Website for Required Reading for 6th Grade Students Going to 7th Grade. 

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5^th Grade Recommended Reading Titles

Mystery

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Pie by Sarah Weeks

ANYTHING by Stuart Gibbs

Fantasy

Spirit Animals series by various authors (Book 1: Wild Born)

The Serpent’s Secret by Sayatani DasGupta

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

Realistic Fiction

A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

Athlete vs. Mathlete by W.C. Mack

Restart by Gordon Korman

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Secret Sheriff of 6th Grade by Jordan Sonnenblick

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6^th Grade Recommended Reading Titles

Mystery

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar

Fantasy

Endling #1:  The Last by Katherine Applegate

Magisterium series by Holly Black (Book 1: The Iron Trial)

Keepers of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger

The School for Good and Evil series by Soman Chainani

Realistic Fiction

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres

Maxi’s Secrets: (Or, What You Can Learn from a Dog) by Lynn Plourde

How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson