Lower School Summer Reading
Students entering 1st 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. Please continue to practice phonograms at least three times a week.
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. Please continue to practice phonograms. The first book is required and may be read to your student.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Students entering 3rd Grade:
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Magicians Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Students entering 4th Grade:
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Students entering 5th Grade:
Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Optional:
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Mythology
Students entering 6th Grade:
The Canterbury Tales (Puffin Classic) retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Optional:
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Upper School Summer Reading
Entering 7th Grade:
Read 2 books, choosing 1 from each pair:
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly OR The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
AND
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas OR Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
Entering 8th Grade:
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Entering 9th Grade:
Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Entering 10th Grade:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Entering 11th Grade
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Entering 12th grade
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-Li Jiang
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho