Summer Reading List For Rising 6th Grade Science and Social Studies

Fiction

Why?: The War Years.@ dePaola, Tomie.

Without Warning: Ellen's Story 1914-1918.@Hamley, Dennis.

Don Quixote and the Windmills. Kimmel, Eric A.

The View from Saturday Konigsburg, E. L.

Esperanza Rising. Muñoz Ryan, Pam.

A Series of Unfortunate Events. Snicket, Lemony.

The Mysterious Benedict Society. Stewart, Trenton Lee.

Useful Fools. Schmidt, C. A.

Eli Remembers.@ Vander Zee, Ruth.

Archie's War: My Scrapbook of the First World War, 1914-1918.@ Williams, Marcia.



Non- Fiction

The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World.@ Aronson, Marc and John W. Glenn.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.

Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa. Chambers, Veronica.

Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology.* Collier, Michael.

Hidden on the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon.@ DeSaix, Deborah Durland and Karen Gray Ruelle.

Map: Satellite.* DK Publishing.

Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot With a Caribou Herd.# Heuer, Karsten.

The Race for Space: The United States and the Soviet Union Compete for the New Frontier. Kuhn, Betsy.

Come Look with Me: Latin American Art.@ Lane, Kimberly.

Rockets.* Miller, Ron.

Tycho Brahe: Pioneer of Astronomy.* Nardo, Don .

Adaptation.* Silverstein, Alvin; Virginia Silverstein; and Laura Silverstein Nunn.

The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain.@ Sis, Peter.

Isaac Newton: The Scientist Who Changed Everything.* Steele, Philip.

Great Inventions: Microscopes and Telescopes.* Stefoff, Rebecca.

The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb.# Sullivan, Edward T.

Circulating Life: Blood Transfusion From Ancient Superstition to Modern Medicine.* Winner, Cherie



Books marked with “*” are from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) list of outstanding trade books for students.

Books marked with “@” are from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) “Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People” list.

Books marked with “#” are on both the NSTA and NCSS lists.