Students entering 1st Grade
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
Optional: Classic Starts Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Students entering 3rd Grade:
Required: Classic Starts Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
Optional: Calico Bush by Rachel Field, A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond, Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Students entering 4th Grade:
Required: The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks, AND choose one: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White OR Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Optional: Classic Starts Oliver Twist, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Students entering 5th Grade:
Required: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen and Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Optional: The Golden Fleece by Padraic Collum, D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
Students entering 6th Grade:
Required: The Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Optional: Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
Upper School Summer Reading
Entering 7th Grade:
Required: The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood and The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Optional: Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne and The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
Entering 8th Grade:
Required: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Optional: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Entering 9th Grade:
Required: Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Optional: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Entering 10th Grade:
Required: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Optional: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Entering 11th Grade:
Required: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller AND The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Optional: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
Entering 12th grade:
Required: Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Optional: My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde