Mrs. Keffeler’s
Summer Reading List
For Students Entering 6th Grade
Author: Gary Paulsen
Titles/Series: Hatchet
Author: Avi
Titles/Series: Nothing
but the Truth
Author: Pam Munoz Ryan
Titles/Series: Esperanza
Rising
Teacher Comments: Story of a young girl
forced to leave her life of privilege in Mexico to work
in
labor camps in S. California.
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Titles: Egypt
Game, The
Author: Jerry Spinelli
Titles/Series: Wringer,
Stargirl
Teacher Comments: A story of battling peer
pressure, and a story that reminds us of the
importance of individualism.
Author: Mike Lupica
Titles/Series: Heat
Teacher Comments: Baseball is everything
to thirteen year old Michael but his father's death
leaves him with uncertainty of the future.
Author: R. O'Brien
Titles/Series: Mrs.
Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Thank you to the
Mendocino Book Company and Ann Kilkenny!
If you purchase any of the books on these lists from Mendocino
Book Company, Ann will donate 10%
of the purchase price to St. Mary's School.
