Woodmere Middle School

Sixth Grade Summer Reading List

Title	Author
The Face on the Milk Carton	Caroline B. Cooney
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key	Jack Gantos
Among the Hidden	Margaret PetrsonHaddix
The Wish	Gail Carson Levine
A Boy at War: A novel of Pearl Harbor	Harry Mazer
Who Put that Hair in My Toothbrush?	Jerry Spinelli

Cooney, Caroline B. The Face on the Milk Carton.
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. 

Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off. 

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Among the Hidden.
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

Levine, Gail Carson.The Wish.A girl who is granted one wish by an old lady on the subway wishes to be "the most popular kid at Claverford."Will her wish make her happy?

Mazer, Harry.  A Boy at War : A novel of Pearl Harbor.
While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack. Through the chaos of the subsequent days, hetries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell. 

Spinelli, Jerry.  Who Put that Hair in my Toothbrush?
The sibling rivalry between twelve-year-old Megin and her older brother Greg intensifies after she ruins his science project and he retaliates by throwing her favorite hockey stick into the pond.