Find your summer reading nook!

We ask parents and families to commit to have their students read 30 minutes a day during summer months. Research suggests that this simple commitment provides growth in vocabulary, fluency, background knowledge, and overall comprehension.

6th Guidelines:

All students are encouraged to read at least one(1) novel from below. We encourage all Falcons to read a minimum of thirty minutes per day of the summer!

• Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
• Medusa – Myth of Monsters by Katherine Marsh
• Dust and Grim by Chuck Wendig
• How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy by Crystal Allen
• The Night Diary by Veera Hiranadani
• The Five Impossible Tasks of Eden Smith by Tom Llewellyn
• Becoming Muhammad Ali by Kwame Alexander & James Patterson

AAC, along with one (1) novel from above, you will also read How to Read Literature Like a Professor FOR KIDS (Chapter 1). 6th grade teachers will use this as text to cross connect other chapters throughout the 2026-27 school year.

8th Guidelines:

On- Level students are encouraged to read at least one(1) novel from below. AAC students are encouraged to read at least one (1) from below and 1 of their choice. We encourage all Falcons to read a minimum of thirty minutes per day of the summer!

• Not Another Banned Book by Dana Alison Levy
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• The Space Between Here and Now by Sarah Suk
• Ambushed: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow
• The Singular Life of Aria Patel by Samira Ahmed