Summer Reading List Age: Preschool

Title Author All titles Dr. Seuss Are You My Mother? Philip D. Eastman Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? Bill Martin, Jr. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom John Archambault Corduroy Don Freeman Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney Hand, Hand, Finger, Thumb Al Perkins Little Toot Hardie Gramatky Love You Forever Robert N. Munsch Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Virginia Lee Burton The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak

Age: Elementary

Title Author Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Judith Viorst Day Amelia Bedelia Books Peggy Parish Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery Cinnabar, the One O’Clock Fox Marguertie Henry Curious George Hans Augusto Rey Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney Grandfather’s Journey Allan Say Heidi Johanna Spyri Little House books Laura Ingalls Wilder Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin Story about Ping Majorie and Kurt Wiese Flack Stuart Little E. B. White The Big Snow Berta and Elmer Hader The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne The Courage of Sarah Noble Alice Dalgliesh The Gingerbread Man Paul Galdone The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein The Little House Virginia Lee Burton The Mitten Jan Brett The Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Theodore Roosevelt: An Initial Biography Genevieve Foster

Age: Elementary / Middle School

Title Author A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Aesop’s Fables Carry on Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Grimes’ Fairy Tales Hans Brinker or the Siver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge Pinocchio Carlo Collodi

Age: Middle School

Title Author Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot Black Beauty Anna Sewell Charlotte's Web E. B.White Gladys Aylward, the Little Woman Gladys Aylward Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Robert C. O'Brien Old Yeller Fred Gipson Penrod Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson The Black Stallion Farley Walter The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Trumpet of the Swan E. B. White The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum The Yearling Watership Down Richard Adams Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems and Drawing of Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein White Fang Jack London

Age: Middle to High School

Title Author Biographies d’Aulaire Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Carolyn Keene Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyon Redwall Brian Jacques Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Stories Hans Christian Anderson Swiss Family Robinson JR Wyss The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Call of the Wild Jack London The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis The Hardy Boys Franklin W. Dixon The Lord of the Flies William Golding The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien The Mutiny on the Bounty Robert Lewis Stevenson

Age: High School

Title Author A Man for all Seasons Thomas Hardy Exodus Leon Uris Leader by Destiny Jeanette Eaton Little Women Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Silas Marner George Eliot The Everlasting Man G.K. Chesterton The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boone The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper The Outsiders S. E. Hinton The Silver Chalice Thomas Costain The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas