Summer Reading Lists
Reccommended Reading for Kindergarten
Reccommended Reading for Kindergarten
- 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
Recommended Reading for First Grade
Recommended Reading for First Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Second Grade
Recommended reading for Second Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Third Grade
Recommended reading for Third Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Fourth Grade
Recommended reading for Fourth Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Fifth Grade
Recommended reading for Fifth Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Sixth Grade
Recommended reading for Sixth Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Seventh Grade
Recommended reading for Seventh Grade
- 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
Recommended reading for Eighth Grade
Recommended reading for Eighth Grade
- 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/Recommended reading for Ninth Grade
Required/Recommended reading for Ninth Grade
- required: Fagles' translation of The Odyssey
- Mythology, Edith Hamilton
- Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Thomas R. Martin
Required/Recommended reading for Tenth Grade
Required/Recommended reading for Tenth Grade
- required: Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of King Arthur
Recommended reading for 11-12
Recommended reading for 11-12
- As our school expands, we will update this list here.