Summer Reading List
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Summer’s here!
Vacations. Mission trips. Summer evenings reading on the couch.
Summer brings new opportunities, needed refreshment and necessary refueling...and the TIME to do such.
Family members looking for summer reads?
Our summer reading list continues to grow, some titles added this month, others compiled over the years. My lists have been published magazines, state newsletters, Appendix D of You HAVE to Read This One: Raising a Contagious Reader and Celebrate High School (high school lists categorized American, British, world and ancient).
Parents often ask, "How do we chose books?"
Choosing a book depends upon many factors, some unique to an individual or circumstances, however the most universal depend upon
a student’s reading ability, age and maturity
a family’s values and worldview
a whether a book is to be read aloud or read independently.
All these factors, or a combination of these factors, help determine what titles may be appropriate for your children.
Summer picture books for little learners
Arnosky, Jim, All About Turtles
Arnosky, Jim, Deer at the Brook
Berkes, Marianne, Over in the Ocean in the Coral Reef
Carle, Eric, A House for Hermit Crab
Carle, Eric, Mister Seahorse
Carle, Eric, Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth
Gibbons, Gail, Ducks
Gibbons, Gail, The Berry Book
Krauss, Ruth, The Carrot Seed
Lionni, Leo, Swimmy
McCloskey, Robert, Make Way for Ducklings
Zion, Gene, Harry by the Sea
Chapter books for middle elementary to middle school readers
The spectrum of age and maturity of students in grades four through eight is great. As a guide, selections marked (2-4) may be considered acceptable read-aloud titles for grades 2-4. I have marked titles considered more difficult—by vocabulary, sentence structure or content— with (M). Parents may decide to wait until grades 7-8 to introduce these books. As always, if in doubt, read the book first.
Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women (M)
Bagnold, Enid, National Velvet
Barrie, J. M., Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank, The Wizard of Oz
Beechick, Ruth, Adam and His Kin
Brink, Carol Ryrie, Caddie Woodlawn
Bulla, Clyde Robert, A Lion to Guard Us (M)
Carroll, Lewis, Alice in Wonderland (M)
Crane, Stephen, The Red Badge of Courage (M)
D'Angeli, Marguette, The Door in the Wall
Dalgliesh, Alice, The Courage of Sarah Noble (2-4)
duBois, William Pene, The Twenty-One Balloons (M)
Edmunds, Walter D, The Matchlock Gun (2-4)
Forbes, Esther, Johnny Tremain (M)
Fritz, Jean, The Cabin Faced West (2-4)
George, Jean Craighead, My Side of the Mountain
Green, Roger Lancelyn, The Tale of Troy (M)
Henty, G. A., For the Temple (M)
Latham, Jean Lee, Carry on Mr. Bowditch (M)
Lenski, Lois, Strawberry Girl (2-4)
Norton, Mary, The Borrowers (2-4)
Sheldon, George, The Cricket in Times Square
Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels (M)
White, E. B., Stuart Little
Summer reads for high school young adults
A comprehensive list is included in Celebrate High School.
Aristolte, Complete Works
Austin, Jane, Pride and Prejudice
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Canterbury Tales
Chesterton, G. K., Favorite Father Brown Stories
Cierco, Orations
Cooper, James Fenimore, The Last of the Mohicans
de Tocqueville, Alexis, Democracy in America
Dickens, Charles, The Tale of Two Cities
Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury
Foxe, John, The Book of Martyrs
Graves, Robert, Claudius, the God
Green, Roger Lancelyn, Tales of Ancient Egypt
Hamilton, Edith, Mythology
Hemmingway, Ernest, Farewell to Arms
Homer, The Odyssey
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Keller, Helen, The Story of My Life
Lewis, C. S., The Screwtape Letters
Mc Cullough, John Adams
Plato, The Republic
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, The Yearling
Scott, Sir Walter, Ivanhoe
Shakespeare, William, Julius Casear
Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Lewis, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Thoreau, Henry David, Walden
Verne, Jules, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Virgil, The Aeneid
Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery
