MIDDLE ACADEMY 2013-2014 SUMMER READING LIST

Students should read the unabridged versions. Choice of books is decided completely by student and parent. You are not restricted to this reading list. Middle school students should complete at least five novels.

Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott Ann of Green Gales, Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos A Little Princess by Frances Burnett A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Adam of the Road by Elizabeth J. Gray Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates Around the World in Eighty Days by Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard Caddie Woodlawn by Carol R. Brink Call it Courage by Armstrong Perry Christy, Julie by Catherine Marshall Heidi by Johanna Spyri Island of the Blue Dolphins by Schott O’Dell Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne My Side of the Mountain by Mean C. George Rascal by Sterling North Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate D. Wiggin Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Sounder by William Armstrong The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Bronze Bow, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boon The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Haugaard The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier The Summer of Swans by Betsy Byars The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne