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Sagamore Middle School

6th Grade Summer Reading

Select fiction or non-fiction from the following list of titles. You do not have to purchase your book. The Sachem Public Library has our summer reading books for you to borrow.

The writing assignment that goes with your mandatory Summer Reading will be done in class in school in September. Please see the graphic organizers below.

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Fiction Titles

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Swindle by Gordon Korman

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The Apothecary by Maile Meloy

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Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

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A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman

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Game Over, Pete Watson by Joe Schreiber

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Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

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Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

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Refugee by Alan Gratz

Refugee by Alan Gratz

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Half A Chance by Cynthia Lord

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Double Reverse by Fred Bowen

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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

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Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

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The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

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Bystander by James Preller

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Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

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Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret

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Non-Fiction Titles

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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M. Walker

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Lincoln's Flying Spies: Thaddeus Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps by Gail Jarrow

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I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganada, Caitlin Alifreke and Liz Welch

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Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman

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