5th and 6th Grade Summer Reading: 2023: Home

Second Street Campus

For rising fifth graders, the required reading is: 

• Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan

• TWO choice books from the independent reading list. Click the blue tabs near the top of the page to see some book trailers and covers for independent reading options!  You can also download the full list HERE.

Source: Scholastic

For rising sixth graders, the required reading is:

• The Night Diary by Veera Hirandani

• TWO choice books from the independent reading list Click the blue tabs near the top of the page to see some book trailers and covers for independent reading options! You can also download the full list HERE.

Source: Penguin Middle School

Dav Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants, shows why choosing what you want to read is a very good thing!

Source: Scholastic

Cooper Campus

For rising fifth graders, the required reading is:

• Lion: A Long Way Home, Young Readers Edition by Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose

• TWO choice books from the independent reading list Click the blue tabs near the top of the page to see some book trailers and covers for independent reading options! You can also download the full list HERE.

Source: Google

For rising sixth graders, the required reading is:

• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

• TWO choice books from the independent reading list Click the blue tabs near the top of the page to see some book trailers and covers for independent reading options! You can also download the full list HERE.

Source: Texas Bluebonnet Award

Jason Reynolds, DC-area author of Look Both Ways (a realistic fiction independent reading choice book) and a former Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, discusses why he feels it's important for kids to read.

Source: Left Bank Books