Summer Reading List

Due to the fact that students are emerging readers and are at various reading levels, please have your child read 10 to 20 minutes daily.  The following book is required and may be read to your student.

Students entering 2nd Grade

Due to the fact that students are emerging readers and are at various reading levels, please have your child read 10 to 20 minutes daily.  The first book is required and may be read to your student.

Required: Classic Starts Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Students entering 3rd Grade:

Required: A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla

Students entering 4th Grade:

Required: The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Students entering 5th Grade:

Required: D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths

Students entering 6th Grade:

Required: Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

Upper School Summer Reading

ALL BOOKS WILL BE PROVIDED BY TCA.  Students will receive their summer reading books in Literature class the week before final exams.  Students new to TCA may pick up their summer reading books from the registrar or from the front desk.

Entering 7^th Grade:

Required: The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood and Around the World in 80 Days: A New Translation by Jules Verne and Matthew Jonas

Entering 8^th Grade:

Required: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Entering 9th Grade:

Required: Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, translated by Morshead, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Sandars

Entering 10^th Grade:

Required: Augustine’s Confessions translated by Boulding and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J.R.R. Tolkien

Entering 11^th Grade:

Required: Othello by William Shakespeare, Oxford World’s Classics Edition

Entering 12th grade:

Required: Othello by William Shakespeare, Oxford World’s Classics Edition