Lenny Norbeck and his friends

The Mikes set out to investigate

the suspicious death of a young

pitcher at a Phillies game.

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The orphan Bod, short for

Nobody, is taken in by the

inhabitants of a graveyard as a

child of eighteen months and

raised lovingly and carefully to

the age of eighteen years by the

community of ghosts and

otherworldly creatures.

The partnership between Dr.

Watson and Sherlock Holmes

begins in this mystery involving

a case unsolved by police but

solved by Holmes in three days.

The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd

When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim

disappears from the London Eye

ferris wheel, the two siblings must

work together--Ted with his brain

that is "wired differently" and

impatient Kat--to try to solve the

mystery of what happened to

Salim.

A Study in Scarlet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman

When Did You See Her Last? Lemony Snicket

Thirteen-year-old Lemony

Snicket and his mentor S.

Theodora Markson of the

secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of

a town called Stain'd By The Sea

go searching for a missing girl.

The Door in the Dragon’s Throat Frank Peretti

When teenagers Jay and Lila Cooper

and their archaeologist father travel to

Nepur, an uninviting land of deserts

and danger, they must search to

uncover the truth behind an ancient

legend. Locals claim that inside a dark

cavern called the Dragon's Throat is a

forbidden Door that brings certain

death to anyone who tries to open it.

Search for the Shadowman Joan Lowry Nixon

While working on a genealogy

project for his seventh grade

history class, Andy Bonner

becomes determined to solve the

mystery surrounding a distant

relative who was accused of

stealing the family fortune.

Strike Three, You’re Dead Josh Berk

R i s i n g 6 t h

G r a d e r s

Theme:

Mysterious Adventures

Berkeley County School District

Summer Reading

Fiction Texts

Five Union prisoners escaping in

a balloon from the siege of Rich-

mond set down on the shores of

an uncharted island.

The Kite Rider Geraldine McCaughrean

In thirteenth-century China, after

trying to save his widowed mother

from a horrendous second marriage,

twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-

changing adventures when he takes

to the sky as a circus kite rider and

ends up meeting the great Mongol

ruler Kublai Khan.

39 Clues Rick Riordan

Amy and Dan, members of the

powerful Cahill family, try to

uncover the thirty-nine clues which

will reveal the secrets of their lineage

and find out what really happened to

their parents.

Leviathan Scott Westerfeld

In an alternate 1914 Europe,

fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince

Alek, on the run from the

Clanker Powers who are

attempting to take over the globe

using mechanical machinery,

forms an uneasy alliance with

Deryn who, disguised as a boy to

join the British Air Service, is

learning to fly genetically-

engineered beasts.

Chomp Carl Hiaasen

The difficult star of the reality tele-

vision show, "Expedition Survival,"

disappears on location in the Florida

Everglades, where they were film-

ing animals from the wildlife refuge

run by Wahoo Crane's family, and

Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon

set out to find him, but they must

avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.

Becoming Holmes Shane Peacock

When the young Sherlock Holmes is

immersed in despair, the only thing

that can rouse him from the blackness

is his discovery of a sinister plot un-

leashed by Malefactor.

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson

When a mysterious stranger with a

scar on his cheek dies, young Jim

Hawkins ends up with a mysterious

map of an island. He imagines that

he is off to a wonderful sea

adventure that will lead to a huge

treasure. But once he sets sail with

Dr. Livsey and the one-legged Long

John Silver, the dream turns out to

include greed, mutiny, and murder.

The Mysterious Island Jules Verne

The Name of This Book is Secret Pseudonymous Bosch

Cassandra and Max find a

missing magician's notebook and

start to investigate the fire which

burnt down his house and his

mysterious "symphony of

smells."

Kepler’s Dream Juliet Bell

While her mother undergoes radi-

cal cancer treatment, eleven-year-

old Ella stays with her father's

mother in Albuquerque, New

Mexico, where she learns about

grammar and family history, and

helps investigate the theft of an

extremely rare book from her

grandmother's library.

Poison Most Vial Benedict Carey

When a famous forensic scientist

turns up dead and Ruby's father

becomes the prime suspect,

Ruby must marshal everyone she

can to help solve the mystery

and prove her father didn't

poison his boss.

The Apothecary Maile Meloy

Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott,

newly arrived in London from Los

Angeles in 1952, becomes friends

with a mysterious apothecary and

his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is

drawn into a dangerous adventure

with Benjamin when his father is

kidnapped and Russian spies try to

steal his book of secrets.

Crispin Avi

Falsely accused of theft and

murder, an orphaned peasant boy

in fourteenth-century England

flees his village and meets a larger

-than-life juggler who holds a

dangerous secret.

Informational Texts

Lost Cities: Unsolved Mysteries Sue Hamilton

Explores the unsolved mysteries of

the lost cities of Atlantis,

Camelot, El Dorado, Shangri-La,

Ubar, and Yonaguni, addressing

questions about whether the cities

really existed, where they might

have been located, and why they

became lost.

Mysterious Signs John Townsend

Examines phenomena related to

the Earth's surface including crop

circles, stone circles, pyramids,

hill carvings, mounds, and more.

Amelia Lost: The Life and Adventures of Amelia Earhart Candace Fleming

Traces the life of female aviator

Amelia Earhart from her

childhood to her final flight,

discusses the extensive search for

her and her missing plane, and

includes photographs, maps,

handwritten notes by Amelia, and

sidebars.

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

Jennifer Armstrong

Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the U.S.S. Indianapoli Pete Nelson

Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S.

Indianapolis at the end of World

War II, the navy cover-up and

unfair court martial of the ship's

captain, and how a young boy

helped the survivors set the record

straight fifty-five years later.

The Incredible Record-setting, Deep Sea Dive of the Bathysphere Bradford Matsen

Describes the 1934 dive of a

bathysphere, or "sphere of the

deep," in which two explorers,

William Beebe and Otis Barton,

set the world depth record and

saw mysterious creatures of the

deep ocean.

Describes the events of the 1914

Shackleton Antarctic expedition when,

after being trapped in a frozen sea for

nine months, their ship, Endurance,

was finally crushed, forcing

Shackleton and his men to make a very

long and perilous journey across ice

and stormy seas to reach inhabited

land.

Mistakes that Worked Charlotte Jones

Presents the stories behind forty

things that were invented or

named by accident, including

aspirin, X-rays, Frisbees, Silly

Putty, and Velcro.

Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Solved by Modern Science Susan Hughes

Examines how developments in

modern science, such as DNA

analysis and spectroscopy, have

helped to reopen archaeological

mysteries about ancient cities,

Egypt's first female pharaoh, a

missing expedition to find the

Northwest Passage, and more,

with illustrations, maps, and

photographs.

Girls Think of Everything Catherine Thimmesh

Tells the story of how women

throughout the ages have respond-

ed to situations confronting them

in daily life by inventing such

items as correction fluid, space

helmets, and disposable diapers.

The Everything Kids’ Science Book Tom Robinson

A collection of science

experiments and activities which

teach children the basic concepts

of biology, chemistry, and physics.

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster Deborah Hopkinson

Draws on stories from survivors

and archival photographs to de-

scribe the history of the "Titanic"

from its launch to its sinking.

Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii James M. Deem

Describes the archaeological

excavations that began on the

ancient cities of Pompeii and

Herculaneum which had been

buried by the eruption of Mt.

Vesuvius in AD 79.