Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill Lower School Suggested Summer Reading List

It is our hope that you spend many pleasant hours reading aloud to your child this summer. Establishing a daily habit of reading is best—it can be something that you all look forward to!

Here are some ideas to keep this fresh and enjoyable: • Make regular trips to the library and let your child pick out books that he or she finds appealing. • Select a special book (or 2 or 3) to read in the car as you travel to your vacation destination. • Read about the places you will be visiting this summer. • Select books that are related to what you are doing this summer (for example, read books about the ocean if you are going to the beach). • Use the books you read as inspiration for art activities or fun experiences. • Minimize the amount of TV your child watches this summer. Instead, encourage him or her to put on dramas by acting out some of the stories you’ve read together. • Try reading a story without showing the pictures and have your child draw original illustrations. • Occasionally find unique or interesting places to read (for example, in a homemade tent in the den or up in the tree house!).

Above all, make reading a delightful, non-stressful part of your summer!

Robin Lemke Director of Lower School Lower School Suggested Summer Reading Book List

Rising First Grade

Story Books Poems and Collections Author Title Author Title Barklem ...... Brambly Hedge dePaola ...... Bible Stories Bridwell ...... Clifford (series) Kipling ...... Just So Stories Brown ...... Arthur (series) Milne ...... Now We Are Six Brown ...... The Little Island Prelutsky ...... Random House Book of Burton ...... The Little House Poetry for Children Burton ...... Mike Mulligan and Something Big Has Been Here His Steam Shovel Silverstein ...... Where the Sidewalk Ends Burton ...... Katy and the Big Snow Stevenson ...... Child’s Garden of Verses Carle ...... The Lonely Firefly Various authors ...... Mother Goose deBrunhoff ...... Babar (series) Flack and Weise ...... The Story about Ping Gag ...... Millions of Cats Graham ...... Be Nice to Spiders Recommended Authors Gramatky ...... Little Toot Brett, Jan Hall ...... Ox Cart Many Brown, Margaret Wise Hoban ...... Frances (series) Burningham, John Hoberman ...... The Seven Silly Eaters Burton, Virginia Hughes...... Dogger Carle, Eric Johnson, Crockett ...... Harold and the Purple Crayon Cooney, Barbara (series) dePaola, Tomie Keats ...... The Snowy Day Fleck, Marjorie Lionni ...... Swimmy Freeman, Don Marshall ...... George and Martha (series) Henkes, Kevin Payne ...... Katy No Pocket Karon, Jan Peet ...... Cowardly Clyde Lionni, Leo Pfister ...... Rainbow Fish Lobel, Arnold Piper ...... The Little Engine That Could McCloskey, Robert Rey...... Curious George (series) Meddaugh, Susan Rylant ...... The Relatives Came Oxenbury, Helen Seuss ...... The Cat in the Hat Rylant, Cynthia Steig ...... Brave Irene Spier, Peter Titus ...... Anatole Waber, Bernard Van Leeuwen ...... Amanda and Oliver Pig (series) Wood, Audrey and Don Waber ...... Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Zolotow, Charlotte Williams ...... A Chair for My Mother The Velveteen Rabbit Wood ...... The Napping House Ziefert ...... A New Coat for Anna Zion ...... Harry and the Dirty Dog (series) Zotolow ...... When the Wind Stops

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Rising Second Grade

Early Reading Series Family Books Dr. Seuss DK Eyewitness Series Author Title Hello Reader Series Aesop...... Aesop’s Fables I Can Read Cleary ...... Ramona Step into Reading Estes ...... Ginger Pye Fritz ...... George Washington’s Breakfast Graham ...... The Wind in the Willows Reader Series Hamilton ...... The People Who Could Fly Author Title Holling ...... Paddle to the Sea Jones ...... Twig Anderson ...... Billy and Blaze Kipling ...... Just So Stories Bonsall...... Various emergent readers Lester ...... John Henry Brown ...... Arthur Libby ...... Someone Awesome Hoban ...... Frances MacDonald...... Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Hoff ...... Various emergent readers Mahy ...... Seven Chinese Brothers Lobel...... Frog and Toad McCleery...... Wolf Story Minarik ...... Little Bear Meadowcroft ...... By Wagon and Flatboat Parish ...... Amelia Bedelia Potter ...... Peter Rabbit Quackenbush ...... Various emergent readers Rylant ...... Gooseberry Park Rey...... Curious George Sidney ...... Five Little Peppers and How Rylant ...... Henry and Mudge They Grew The Cobble Street Cousins Travers ...... Mary Poppins Mr. Putter and Tabby White ...... Charlotte’s Web Poppleton Williams ...... The Velveteen Rabbit Sharmot ...... Nate the Great Zorn and Gianni ...... Classic American Folk Tales Van Leeuwen ...... Hannah of Fairfield Yolen ...... Commander Toad

Math Author Title Stenmark ...... Family Math

Poetry Author Title Stevenson ...... A Child’s Garden of Verses

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Rising Third Grade Rising Fourth Grade Author Title Author Title Adler ...... Cam Jansen Babbitt ...... The Search for Delicious Baglio ...... Animal Ark Pets Banks ...... Indian in the Cupboard Banks ...... Indian in the Cupboard Bendall ...... Kids for Sail Berenstain ...... Berenstain Bears (chapter Brink ...... Baby Island books) Cleary ...... The Mouse and the Motorcycle Betancourt ...... Pony Pals Ramona the Pest Brown ...... Flat Stanley Ribsy Bulla, David ...... History series DeJong ...... The Wheel on the School Christopher ...... Sports Estes ...... The Moffats (series) Cleary ...... Henry Higgins Field ...... Hitty: Her First Hundred Years Ralph Graham ...... The Wind in the Willows Ramona Haywood ...... Betsy (series) Cole ...... Magic School Bus Henry ...... King of the Wind Gannett ...... My Father’s Dragon Misty of Chincoteague Greene ...... Rookie Biographies Hicks ...... Alvin Fernald (series) Kellog ...... Tall Tales Holbrook and Ward ...... Ethan Allen Leppard ...... Mandie Juster ...... The Phantom Tollbooth Lewis ...... Cul-•‐de-•‐Sac Kids Kipling ...... Kim Lindgren ...... Pippi Longstocking Krant ...... 100 Pounds of Popcorn MacDonald ...... Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Lawson ...... Ben and Me MacLachlan ...... Sarah, Plain and Tall Rabbit Hill Martin ...... The Doll People Lewis ...... The Lion, the Witch, and Osborne ...... Magic Treehouse the Wardrobe Peterson ...... The Littles Lindgren...... Pippi Longstocking Piemme ...... Geronimo Stitton Lovelace ...... Betsy-•-Tacy (series) Preller ...... Jigsaw Jones MacGregor ...... Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars Roy ...... A to Z Mysteries McCloskey ...... Homer Price Sobol...... Encyclopedia Brown Peck ...... Soup (series) Warner ...... The Boxcar Children Robertson ...... Henry Reed White ...... Charlotte’s Web Rockwell ...... How to Eat Fried Worms Wilder ...... Little House Sharp ...... Miss Bianca Various authors ...... American Girls The Rescuers (series) Various authors ...... Childhood of Famous Sobol ...... Encyclopedia Brown (series) Americans Sorensen ...... Miracle on Maple Hill Taylor ...... All of a Kind (series) Wiggin ...... The Birds’ Christmas Carol Williams ...... Danny Dunn

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Rising Fifth Grade Rising Sixth Grade

Author Title Author Title Abrahams ...... African Folktales Alcott ...... Little Men and Little Women Banner ...... Flames Across the Susquehanna Babbitt ...... Tuck Everlasting Burnett ...... A Little Princess Barth ...... I’m Nobody! Who Are You? Caudill ...... Tree of Freedom The Poems of Emily Dickinson DeJong ...... The Wheel on the School Derrydale Books ...... Children’s Classic Poetry DuBois ...... The Twenty-•‐One Balloons DuBois ...... The Twenty-One Balloons Evslin ...... Greek Gods Elliott ...... Shadow of the Almighty Fletcher ...... Shadow Spinner Frost ...... A Swinger of Birches Fritz ...... Brady Garfield ...... Follow My Leader Gilbreth ...... Cheaper by the Dozen Gilbreth ...... Cheaper by the Dozen Harrill ...... Mekada, Queen of Sheba Heyerdahl ...... Kon-•‐Tiki Henry ...... Misty of Chincoteague Hilton ...... Goodbye, Mr. Chips James ...... Shoebag Jacques ...... Redwall (series) Keehn ...... I Am Regina Konigsberg ...... A Proud Taste for Scarlet Kipling ...... The Jungle Book and Miniver Lawson ...... Rabbit Hill Lamb ...... Tales from Shakespeare Lenski ...... Blue Ridge Billy L’Engle ...... A Wrinkle in Time Indian Captive Lewis ...... The Chronicles of Narnia Strawberry Girl London ...... Call of the Wild Lewis ...... The Chronicles of Narnia MacDonald ...... At the Back of the North Wind Moody ...... Little Britches Marshall ...... Christy Norton ...... The Borrowers O’Dell ...... The Black Pearl O’Brien ...... Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of NIMH Streams to the River O’Dell ...... Island of the Blue Dolphins River to the Sea Sing Down the Moon Opie ...... Oxford Book of Children’s Peretti ...... Casper Kids Adventure Series Verse Tombs of Anak Paterson ...... Bridge to Terabithia Perry ...... Call It Courage Jacob Have I Loved Pyle ...... Otto of the Silver Hand Lyddie Sawyer ...... Roller Skates Porter ...... A Girl of the Limberlost Sewell ...... Black Beauty Raskin ...... The Westing Game Speare ...... Calico Captive Rawlings ...... The Yearling Sutcliffe ...... Historical fiction Sandburg ...... Rainbows are Made Webster ...... Daddy Long Legs Stanley and Vennema ..... Bard of Avon: The Story of White ...... Stuart Little Biographies William Shakespeare Wyss ...... Swiss Family Robinson Swift...... Gulliver’s Travels Taylor ...... The Cay Thomas ...... Leonardo Da Vinci Weil ...... Red Sails to Capri

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A Reading List for Parents

Annotated Bibliographies Author Title Hunt ...... Honey for a Child’s Heart Honey for a Teen’s Heart Wilkinson and Teel ...... A Time to Read: Good Books for Growing Readers Wilson and MacAulay ...... Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children’s Literature

Parenting, Education, and Culture Author Title Ames ...... Your -Year-Old (series) Andreola ...... A Charlotte Mason Companion Chapman ...... The Five Love Languages of Teenagers Chapman and Campbell ...... The Five Love Languages of Children Damon ...... Greater Expectations: Overcoming the Culture of Indulgence in America’s Homes and Schools Dawn ...... Is it a Lost Cause? Having the Heart of God for the Church’s Children Gurian ...... The Wonder of Boys The Wonder of Girls King ...... Charlotte Mason Reviewed MacAulay ...... For the Children’s Sake Mogel ...... The Blessing of a Skinned Knee Peterson ...... Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up with Your Teenager Rainey ...... Parenting Today's Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Pre-Teen and Early Teen Years Schaeffer ...... What Is a Family? Thompson and Kindlon ...... Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Tripp ...... Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens Shepherding a Child's Heart Turansky and Miller ...... Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids!

God's Design for Sex (series by NavPress) Author Title Stan and Brenna Jones ...... Book 1: The Story of Me (ages 3–5) Carolyn Nystrom ...... Book 2: Before I Was Born (ages 5–8) Stan and Brenna Jones ...... Book 3: What's the Big Deal? Why God Cares About Sex (ages 8–11) Stan and Brenna Jones ...... Book 4: Facing the Facts: The Truth About Sex and You (ages 11–14)

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