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Upper School Summer Reading List 2006
Most of these titles were suggested by the children in the upper school. They should be available either in the Bank Street Library or your local public library. The titles in bold are new to the list this year. Many of the authors listed below have written several fine books. Be sure to try some of their other titles.
--Lisa Von Drasek, Children's Librarian, Bank Street College
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
| Abelove, Joan | Go and Come Back |
| Almond, David | Skellig; Fire-Eaters |
| Adams, Douglas | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen; The High King; Tha Arkadians |
| Ames, Mildred | Anna to the Infinite Power |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Speak |
| Anderson, M. T. | Whales on Stilts |
| Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary
True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance; Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War |
| Avi | The Barn; Nothing But the Truth; Who Was that Masked Man Anyway?; Crispin: The Cross of Lead |
| Babbitt, Natalie | The Search for Delicious |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow |
| Bauer, Joan | Rules of the Road (and other titles) |
| Bauer, Marion | Dane On My Honor |
| Bawden, Nina | Granny the Pag |
| Bausum, Ann | With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote |
| Beatty, Patricia | Charley Skedaddle; Turn Homeward Hannalee |
| Bell, Hilari | The Goblin Wood |
| Bellairs, John | - any of his mysteries |
| Bennett, James | Dakota Dream |
| Betancourt, Jeanne | My Name in Brain Brian |
| Birdsall, Jeanne | The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy |
| Blackwood, Gary | The Shakespeare Stealer |
| Blumenthal, Karen | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America |
| Bond, Nancy | Truth to Tell |
| Borden, Louise | The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H. A. Rey |
| Braun, Lillian Jackson | The Cat Who… (mystery series) |
| Brennan, Herbie | Faerie Wars |
| Broach, Elise | Shakespeare's Secret |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Brooks, Bruce | The Moves Make the Man |
| Bruhac, Joseph | Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two |
| Byars, Betsy | The "Blossoms" series; The Dark Stairs |
| Calhoun, Dia | Firegold |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Shadow (series) |
| Carmi, Daniella | Samir and Yonatan |
| Carroll, Jim | The Basketball Diaries |
| Childress, Alice | A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl (series) |
| Choldenko, Gennifer | Al Capone Does My Shirts |
| Choi, Sook Nyul | Year of Impossible Goodbyes |
| Chotjewitz, David | Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi |
| Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None |
| Christopher, John | The White Mountains (trilogy) |
| Cleaver, Vera | Where the Lilies Bloom |
| Clement-Davies, David | Fire Bringer |
| Cole, Brock | The Goats |
| Collier, James Lincoln | With Every Drop of Blood |
| Coman, Carolyn | What Jamie Saw |
| Conly, Jane | Crazy Lady |
| Cooney, Carolyn | The Face on the Milk Carton; Goddess of Yesterday |
| Cormier, Robert | The Bumblebee Flies Anyway; The Chocolate War |
| Cottonwood, Joe | Quake! |
| Couloumbis, Audrey | Getting Near to Baby |
| Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons |
| Crichton, Michael | Jurassic Park; The Terminal Man |
| Crutcher, Chris | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963; Bud, Not Buddy |
| Cushman, Karen | Catherine, Called Birdy; The Midwife's Apprentice |
| Dahl, Roald | Boy |
| Danziger, Paula | The Cat Ate My Gymsuit |
| Dash, Joan | The Longitude Prize; The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller |
| Dessen, Sarah | This Lullaby |
| Deuker, Carl | Heart of a Champion |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickinson, Peter | The Ropemaker |
| Donnelly, Jennifer | A Northern Light |
| Duncan, Lois | Locked in Time; Stranger with My Face |
| Ende, Michael | The Neverending Story |
| Farmer, Nancy | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; The Sea of Trolls |
| Farrell, Jeanette | Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Diseases |
| Feiffer, Jules | The Man in the Ceiling; A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears |
| Fenner, Carol | Yolonda's Genius |
| Ferris, Jean | Once Upon a Marigold |
| Fine, Anne | Up On Cloud Nine |
| Fisher, Catherine | The Oracle Betrayed |
| Flake, Sharon G. | The Skin I'm In; The House of the Scorpion |
| Fleischman, Paul | The Borning Room; Bull Run; Whirligig |
| Fleischman, Sid | The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story |
| Fleming, Candace | Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life; Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life |
| Fletcher, Susan | Shadow Spinner |
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain |
| Fox, Paula | Slave Dancer; Monkey Island; One Eyed Cat |
| Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin | Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement; Fight On! Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration |
| Frank, Anne | Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl |
| Freedman, Russell | Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life; The LIfe and Death of Crazy Horse; In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights |
| Frost, Helen | Keesha's House |
| Funke, Cornelia | The Thief Lord; Inkheart |
| Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key |
| Giblin, James Cross | When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS; Charles A. Lindbergh : A Human Hero |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Nory Ryan's Song; Pictures of Hollis Woods |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Goodall, Jane | The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours |
| Gordon, Sheila | Waiting for the Rain |
| Govenar, Alan (Editor) | Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter |
| Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan | Chuck Close, Up Close; Frank O. Gehry: Outside In |
| Greene, Bette | Summer of My German Soldier |
| Guy, Rosa | The Friends |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Stepping on the Cracks |
| Henkes, Kevin | Olive's Ocean |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot |
| Haddix, Margaret | Among the Hidden (series) |
| Hale, Shannon | Princess Academy |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush; Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed; Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales; Plain City |
| Hautzig, Esther | Endless Steppe |
| Hesse, Karen | Witness; Letters from Rifka; Phoenix Rising |
| Holm, Jennifer L. | Our Only May Amelia |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | My Louisiana Sky (and other titles) |
| Head, Ann | Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Flush |
| Hinton, S. E. | The Outsiders |
| Hobbs, Will | Far North (and other titles) |
| Hoose, Phillip | We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History; The Race to Save the Lord God Bird |
| Howe, James | Totally Joe |
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall series |
| Jiang, Ji-Li | Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
| James, Mary | Frankenlouse |
| Jimenez, Francisco | Breaking Through |
| Johnson, Angela | Toning the Sweep |
| Jones, Dianna Wynne | Hexwood |
| Juby, Susan | Alice, I Think |
| Kerr, M. E. | Deliver Us From Evie |
| Klass, David | California Blue |
| Konigsburg, E. L. | The View from Saturday; The Outcasts of 19 Schulyer Place |
| Klause, Annette Curtis | Alien Secrets |
| Laird, Elizabeth | Kiss the Dust |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Dave at Night |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time (series); And Both Were Young |
| Lenski, Lois | Indian Captive |
| Lipsyte, Robert | The Brave; The Contender; One Fat Summer |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor | Forest |
| Lobel, Anita | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War |
| London, Jack | White Fang; Call of the Wild |
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver |
| Lynch, Chris | Shadow Boxer |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Baby |
| Mack, Tracy | Birdland |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | The Pirate's Son |
| McKee, Tim | No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa |
| McGraw, Eloise | The Moorchild |
| Maguire, Gregory | Seven Spiders Spinning |
| Mahy, Margaret | The Other Side of Silence |
| Meyer, Carolyn | Mary, Bloody Mary |
| Meyer, L.A. | Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy |
| Mori, Kyoko | Shizuko's Daughter |
| Mochizuki, Ken | Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story |
| Mosher, Richard | Zazoo |
| Murphy, Jim | The Great Fire; Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America; An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 |
| Mwangi, Meja | The Mzungu Boy |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Scorpions; Somewhere in the Darkness; Monster; The Greatest: Muhammad Ali |
| Naidoo, Beverley | The Other Side of Truth |
| Napoli, Donna Jo | The Magic Circle; Breath |
| Nicholson, William | The Wind Singer (series) |
| Nix, Garth | Sabriel (series) |
| Nelson, Theresa | Earthshine; The Beggar's Ride |
| Nelson, Marilyn | Carver: A Life in Poems |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | A Dangerous Promise |
| Orwell, George | 1984 |
| Park, Linda Sue | When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in World War II |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange |
| Paterson, Katherine | Lyddie; Jacob I Have Loved; The Great Gilly Hopkins |
| Pattou, Edith | East |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet; Brian's Winter |
| Peck, Robert | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Peck, Richard | A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories; A Year Down Yonder; The River Between Us |
| Philbrick, W. Rodman | Freak the Mighty |
| Pierce, Tamora | Trickster's Choice |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters |
| Potok, Chaim | The Chosen |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men |
| Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials Book One (series) |
| Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game |
| Rhue, Morton | The Wave |
| Rinaldi, Ann | In My Father's House; Wolf By the Ears |
| Riordan, Rick | The Lightning Thief |
| Rosoff, Meg | How I Live Now |
| Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Esperanza Rising |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes |
| Salinger, J. D. | Catcher in the Rye |
| Salisbury, Graham | Blue Skin of the Sea; Under the Blood Red Sun |
| Scieszka, Jon (Editor) | Guys Write for Guys Read |
| Sirof, Harriet | Because She's My Friend |
| Sleator, William | The House of Stairs; Interstellar Pig |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Smith, K. | Skeeter |
| Smith, Robert Kimmel | Bobby Baseball |
| Sones, Sonya | Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy |
| Soto, Gary | A Summer Life |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Spiegelman, Art | Maus I and Maus II |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Maniac Magee |
| Staples, Suzanne | Shabanu |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| Stroud, Jonathan | The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Tashjian, Janet | The Gospel According to Larry |
| Taylor, Mildred | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; The Land |
| Temple, Frances | Grab Hands and Run; The Ramsay Scallop |
| Tolan, Stephanie S. | Surviving the Applewhites |
| Tillage, Leon Walter | Leon's Story |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. | The Lord of the Rings (series) |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Uris, Leon | Exodus |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Bad Girls; When She Hollers |
| Wardlaw, Lee | 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents |
| Warren, Andrea | Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story |
| Weaver, Will | Farm Team |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| White, Ruth | Belle Prater's Boy |
| Wilson, Diane | I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Make Lemonade |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This; Locomotion |
| Wrede, Patricia C. and Caroline Stevermer | Sorcery & Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot |
| Wright, Richard | Black Boy |
| Yee, Lisa | Standford Wong Flunks Big-Time |
| Yolen, Jane | The Devil's Arithmetic; Armageddon Summer |
| Zevin, Gabrielle | Elsewhere |
| Zindel, Paul | The Pigman; Loch |
| And, | here are some other authors to look for: |
| Alexie, Sherman | LeGuin, Ursula |
| Alverez, Julia | Lowery, Lois |
| Avi | Lubar, David |
| Beatty, Patricia | Lynch, Chris |
| Bridgers, Sue Ellen | Marsden, John |
| Brooks, Bruce | Mazer, Norma |
| Brooks, Terry | McCaffrey, Anne |
| Burnford, Sheila | McKinley, Robin |
| Christopher, John | Morey, Walt |
| Chabon, Michael | Nix, Garth |
| Cisneros, Sandra | Nolan, Han |
| Colman, Hila | O'Neal, Zibby |
| Conford, Ellen | Paterson, Katherine |
| Cooper, Susan | Paulson, Gary |
| Cormier, Robert | Peck, Richard |
| Crutcher, Chris | Peck, Robert Newton |
| Duncan, Lois | Peyton, K. M. |
| Garden, Nancy | Preussler, Otfried |
| Green, Bette | Sebestyn, Quida |
| Hinton, S.E. | Staples, Suzanne Fisher |
| Holland, Isabelle | Sutcliff, Rosemary |
| Johnston, Norma | Verne, Jules |
| Jones, Adrienne | Voight, Cynthia |
| Kerr, M. E. | Westall, Robert |
| Konigsburg, E. L. | Williams-Garcia, Rita |
| Koertge, Ron | Yep, Lawrence |
| Korman, Gorden | Yolen, Jane |
| L 'Engle, Madeleine | Zindel, Paul |