Assigned Reading - Summer 2011
Students entering grades 5 or above should complete the following reading assignments before the first day of the 2011-2012 school year.
Suggested Titles by Grade
Students of all grades are encouraged to read high-quality fiction and nonfiction daily during the summer. The following lists contain suggestions for short stories, novels, and poetry that your children may enjoy.
Primary (PreK-2): To Read Aloud
The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and others in this series
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris Tibbets
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
The Real Mother Goose
Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling*
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Favorite Uncle Remus Stories by Joel Chandler Harris
Thornton Burgess Animal Stories series
favorite picture books
* N.B.: The story “How the Leopard Got His Spots” contains a racial epithet that was common at the time the story was written but is considered offensive today. Some parents may wish to skip the story for that reason.
Grammar (3-6): Independent Reading
The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting and others in this series
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by Edgar and Ingri D'Aulaire
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace and others in this series
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks and others in this series
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Arabian Nights edited by Andrew Lang
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
St. Benedict: Hero of the Hills by Mary Fabyan Windeatt and others by this author
Vision Book series from Ignatius Press (Catholic biography)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and others in this series
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery and others in this series
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Upper School Juniors (7-8)
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Kidnapped by Robert Lois Stevenson
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and others in this series
The Young Carthaginian by G. A. Henty
For the Temple by G. A. Henty
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Doyle
The White Company by Sir Arthur Doyle
The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Best of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Upper School Seniors (10-12)
The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Emma by Jane Austen and others by this author
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Spear: A Novel of the Crucifixion by Louis De Wohl and others by this author
Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse and others by this author
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester and others in this series
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
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