BCS Summer Reading 2017: GRADE 6 Reading Lists

Aru Shah of Atlanta, Georgia, is a seventh-grader and social misfit. After lighting a mysterious lamp on a dare, she releases the Sleeper from his slumber and must—with the help of her newfound soul sister, Mini, and their pigeon sidekick, Subala—go on a quest to stop the Sleeper from awakening the Lord of Destruction and ending the world

In this graphic novel, Vera spends summer at a Russian camp in hopes of finally finding a peer group she can belong to.

The story of Betty, the girl who would one day become civil rights activist alongside her husband, Malcolm X.

Malú wants to be totally punk at her new middle school, but her Mexican-American mother would prefer she learn to be a proper señorita.

Almost as soon as Brodie arrives in a beautifully realized dog heaven, he remembers that there is something he must do. He must go back. He must save his boy.

A Newbery Award-winning story about the lives of several middle school children intersecting on one summer day, as if by fate.

A white sharecropper’s son finds himself on a mission to recapture a family that has escaped slavery. But how can he complete this journey when his morals are telling him to stop?

Twelve-year-old Granite Flowerpetal finds an unusual way to raise the spirits of his family members and bring happiness and prosperity to his new hometown.

Thirteen-year-old Bed-Stuy native and double Dutch fiend MaKayla has one goal this summer: to make it to the National Jump-off at Madison Square Garden.

Eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil is a fan of American television and Superman comic books. He loves English class and playing football (soccer) with his friends. His Christian, Kurdish family’s affluent lifestyle is interrupted when a coalition of countries initiates military action to stop Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1991.

Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In this prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he became the jazz music worshiping, basketball star his sons look up to.

After his brother is killed in gang activity, Lolly copes with his grief by building Lego wonders.

Sunny Lancaster is a home-schooled almost-13-year-old torn between duty to run and passion for dance in the latest compulsively readable installment of Reynolds’ lauded Track series.

In 1947, Nisha’s beloved country of India is being torn apart—and so is her family.