Recommended Summer Reading

We encourage you to make reading a part of your family’s summer. A regular habit of reading promotes fluency. Good books offer far more. They cultivate a child’s affections, stir their imaginations, and instill a deep love of learning.

A few suggestions to help with summer reading:

  • Have a set time each day for reading.

  • Choose “good” books and topics that stir the imagination.

  • Ask thoughtful questions to spark discussions about the book.

  • Have your child choose an interesting passage to read to the rest of the family.

  • Read portions of the book with your child.

  • Visit the library to explore books of interest

  • Read to your child books that have rich language

TK and Kindergarten (To be read aloud)

  • Classic Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

  • Hans Christian Andersen

  • The Brothers Grimm

  • Andrew Lang

  • Aesop’s Fables

  • Charles Perrault

  • Madame D’Aulnoy

  • Lady Lollipop by Dick King-Smith

  • Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

  • Amos & Boris by William Steig

  • Brave Irene by William Steig

  • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

  • The King’s Equal by Katherine Paterson

  • The Storm by Cynthia Rylant

  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem

  • Hickory by Palmer Brown

  • James Herriot’s Treasury for Children by James Herriot

Lower Elementary

  • Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

  • Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

  • Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • The Stray by Dick King-Smith

  • Matilda by Roald Dahl

  • Babe by Dick King-Smith

  • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

  • The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

  • The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

  • Abel’s Island by William Steig

  • The Real Thief by William Steig

  • The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

  • Editha’s Burglar by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Jane of Lantern Hill by LM Montgomery

  • Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-SmithBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Upper Elementary

  • The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

  • A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

  • Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

  • Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery

  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

  • Dragon: Hound of Honor by Julie Andrews Edwards

  • A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

  • White Fang by Jack London

  • Endurance by Alfred Lansing

  • The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery

  • All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

  • When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park