Summer Reading Lists

Beatrix Potter: The Complete Tales

Make Way for Ducklings, McCloskey

The Story about Ping, Flack & Wiese

Madeline, Bemelmans

Little Bear, Minarik

The Real Mother Goose

Corduroy, Freeman

Mouse Soup, Lobel

Mouse Tales, Lobel

Little Bear’s Visit, Minarik

Father Bear Comes Home, Minarik

Little Bear’s Friend, Minarik

Cat in the Hat Beginning Reader books

Pooh's Library, Milne

Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel, Burton

Owl at Home, Lobel

Curious George, Rey

Aesop's Fables

Roxaboxen, McLerran

The Story of Babar, de Brunhoff

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Roop

Velveteen Rabbit, Williams

The Biggest Bear, Ward

Frog and Toad Treasury, Lobel

The Hundred Dresses, Estes

Little Bear (box set), Minarik

Amelia Bedelia books, Parish

Pinocchio, Collodi

Just So Stories, Kipling

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Kipling

Hans Christian Andersen’s Complete Fairy Tales

Little House on the Prairie, Wilder

On the Banks of Plum Creek, Wilder

By the Shores of Silver Lake, Wilder

Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls

The Long Winter, Wilder

Little Town on the Prairie, Wilder

These Happy Golden Years, Wilder

The First Four Years, Wilder

Homer Price, McCloskey

The Courage of Sarah Noble, Dalgliesh

Sarah, Plain and Tall, MacLachlan

Mr. Popper's Penguins, Atwater

Prince Caspian, Lewis

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Lewis

Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Lewis

The Silver Chair, Lewis

Number the Stars, Lowry

The Horse and His Boy, Lewis

The Magician’s Nephew, Lewis

The Last Battle, Lewis

Sign of the Beaver, Speare

Guns for General Washington, Reit

Cricket in Times Square, Selden

The Hobbit, Tolkien

Heidi, Spyri

Old Yeller, Gipson

Princess and the Goblin, MacDonald

Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer, Wisler

The Shakespeare Stealer, Blackwood

The Sword in the Tree, Bulla

The Reluctant Dragon, Grahame

Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt

Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea, Montgomery

Anne of the Island, Montgomery

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Latham

The Giver, Lois Lowry

Book of Virtues, Bennett

Greek Myths, Coolidge

Around the World in Eighty Days, Verne

The Jungle Books, Kipling

The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien

The Two Towers, Tolkien

The Return of the King, Tolkien

A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle

The Moral Compass, Bennett

Black Arrow, Stevenson

A Wind in the Door, L’Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet, L’Engle

Many Waters, L’Engle

An Acceptable Time, L’Engle

Frankenstein, Shelley

Great Expectations, Dickens

Jane Eyre, Bronte

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne

The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith

Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Verne

The Time Machine, Wells

A Separate Peace, Knowles

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages, Bloom

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, Metaxas

required: Fagles' translation of The Odyssey

Mythology, Edith Hamilton

Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Thomas R. Martin

required: Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of King Arthur

As our school expands, we will update this list here.