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2024 Summer Reading List

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.  The following book is required and may be read to your student.

Required: Classic Starts Swiss Family Robinson

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 Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne

Optional: 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 Greek Way by Edith Hamilton

Optional: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

 

Entering 10th Grade:

Required: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J.R.R. Tolkien

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