Summer Reading Lists
Reading lists are suggestions only, unless otherwise identified as "required." There are no essays for the summer of 2020.
Reccommended Reading for Kindergarten
Make Way for Ducklings, McCloskey
The Story about Ping, Flack & Wiese
Madeline, Bemelmans
Little Bear, Minarik
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
Pooh's Library, Milne
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel, Burton
Owl at Home, Lobel
Curious George, Rey
Roxaboxen, McLerran
The Story of Babar, de Brunhoff
Velveteen Rabbit, Williams
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
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
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
Cricket in Times Square, Selden
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
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
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
Frankenstein, Shelley
Great Expectations, Dickens
Jane Eyre, Bronte
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: 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: Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of King Arthur
Recommended reading for 11-12
As our school expands, we will update this list here.