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This list has been complied by the HCS English Department Chairperson Sara Arnold. It should be noted here that HCS strives to provide reading opportunities that glorify God, but every family must take personal ownership of reading content allowed. HCS strives to be college preparatory in its focus.
Suggested Summer Reading List for students entering the following grade(s):
Pre-K5: Aesop’s Fables
Dr. Seuss books
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Fox Went out on a Chilly Night by P. Spier
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Toot & Puddle by Holly Hobbie
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
1st-2nd: Aesop’s Fables
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel, series
Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish
Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant, series
Nate the Great by Marjorie Sharmat, series
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh
3rd-4th: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald, series
Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingles Wilder, series
Cricket in Times Square by Selden
Stuart Little by E.B. White
James and the Giant Peach by R. Dahl
5th-6th: Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Di Camillo
Anne of Green Gable by L.M. Montgomery, series
Redwall, by Brian Jacques, series
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, series
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate Di Camillo
The Door in the Wall by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
7th-8th: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Carry on Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Poems by Robert Frost
9th-10th: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Poems by Carl Sandburg
11th-12th: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, series
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
*created and revised 6-1-2010
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