Summer Reading List 2025
| K-3 Summer Reading List 2025 |
| 4th-8th Summer Reading List 2025 |
| High School Summer Reading List 2025 |
Summer Reading Sign Off Sheet
| Summer Reading Sign Off Sheet |
Below are Christiana’s hand-picked summer reading books for Kindergarten through 3rd Grade. Summer reading material has been carefully selected to expose students to award-winning quality fiction that is age-appropriate. Most of these books are
read-aloud selections. Summer reading is OPTIONAL for K-3rd Grade.
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Students in Grades 4-8 are required to read 3 titles for Summer Reading. Those may be selected from the suggestions below, or from the Summer Reading Competition, "Britain's Best Secrets and Mysteries" Please use the Sign-Off sheet when complete and turn into your child's History tutor in the Fall.
Parents, please feel free to choose from any of the optional titles. We have made grade level recommendations, but your child is not limited to only reading the titles in their suggested grade level. Questions? Contact Tracey Willet.
4th Grade
5th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
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NOTE: for the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB / Science tutor on the first day of class.
9th Grade
NOTE: For the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB tutor on the first day of class.
Required Summer Reading:
10th Grade
NOTE: For the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB tutor on the first day of class.
Required Summer Reading for New Students Only:
11th Grade
NOTE: For the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB tutor on the first day of class.
Required Summer Reading for New Students:
Required Summer Reading for Returning and New Students:
12th Grade
Required Summer Reading:
Optional Summer Reading for High School, or register for the 2025 Summer Reading Theme, "Britain's Best Secrets and Mysteries":
read-aloud selections. Summer reading is OPTIONAL for K-3rd Grade.
- Any book by Arnold Lobel
- Any book by Beatrix Potter
- Any book by Beverly Cleary
- Any poetry collection by Shel Silverstein
- Any book in the Classic Starts or Great Illustrated Classics series
- Aesop’s Fables
- A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Curious George by H.A. Ray
- Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
- Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
- Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
- Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
- The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
- The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
- The Velveteen Rabbit by Williams Margery
- Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
- Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
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Students in Grades 4-8 are required to read 3 titles for Summer Reading. Those may be selected from the suggestions below, or from the Summer Reading Competition, "Britain's Best Secrets and Mysteries" Please use the Sign-Off sheet when complete and turn into your child's History tutor in the Fall.
Parents, please feel free to choose from any of the optional titles. We have made grade level recommendations, but your child is not limited to only reading the titles in their suggested grade level. Questions? Contact Tracey Willet.
4th Grade
- Twenty and Ten by Claire H. Bishop (History)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (History)
- The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds (History)
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (History)
- Appleblossom the Possum by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Science)
- The Poppy Series by Abi (Science)
- One Day in the Woods by Jean Craighead George (Science)
- A Nest for Celeste by Henry Cole
- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder OR any other books by this author
- Westward to Home by Patricia Hermes OR any other book in the MY AMERICA series
- Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
- The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
5th Grade
- Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (History)
- Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld (History)
- The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky (Science)
- Along Came Galileo by Jeanne Bendick (Science)
- Twenty One Balloons by Penne Dubois
- Stuart Little by E.B. White OR any other books by this author
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl OR any other books by this author
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo OR any other NOVEL by this author
- Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- The Gospel of Luke from The Holy Bible (any translation) (REQUIRED for History)
- Louis Pasteur: Founder of Modern Medicine by John H. Tiner (REQUIRED for Science)
- The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
- The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis OR any other books by this author
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom
7th Grade
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (History)
- The Captive by Joyce Hansen (History)
- Calico Bush by Rachel Field (History)
- Jump Ship to Freedom by James Collier & C. Collier (History)
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
- The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Jeanne Bendick (REQUIRED for Science)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- White Fang by Jack London
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
8th Grade
- Johannes Kepler by John Hudson Tiner (REQUIRED for Science)
- Harboring Hope: The True Story of How Henny Sinding Helped Denmark's Jews Escape the Nazis by Susan Hood
- City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Science)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (History)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (History)
- The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp (History)
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (History)
- Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet by Arthus Conan Doyle (English)
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (History)
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
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NOTE: for the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB / Science tutor on the first day of class.
9th Grade
NOTE: For the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB tutor on the first day of class.
Required Summer Reading:
- How To Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler – Ch. 5 & 7 …Bring to Great Books class the first day
- Do Hard Things by Alex & Brett Harris (Note-taking is required)
- The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by David George Haskell (Bring Cornell notes and book to Biology class the first day)
10th Grade
NOTE: For the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB tutor on the first day of class.
Required Summer Reading for New Students Only:
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Chapters 5 & 7
- Do Hard Things by Alex & Brett Harris
- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- Medea by Euripides – may access through Internet Classics Archive. Or, may watch the video of this Greek Tragedy on YouTube
- From Achilles to Christ by Louis Markos, Chapter 9-12, 14 (pp. 173-178 only)
- Please compose one thoughtful question for each of the plays (Prometheus Bound, Oresteia, Oedipus, Antigone, and Medea).
11th Grade
NOTE: For the Required Summer reading, you will be required to take notes as indicated below to be turned in to the GB tutor on the first day of class.
Required Summer Reading for New Students:
- From Achilles to Christ by Louis Markos, p. 193-250
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Chapters 5 & 7
Required Summer Reading for Returning and New Students:
- Song of Roland
- Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (Recommended: Ignatius Press 0-8987-0268-2
12th Grade
Required Summer Reading:
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Optional Summer Reading for High School, or register for the 2025 Summer Reading Theme, "Britain's Best Secrets and Mysteries":
- The Ides of April by Mary Rae (Recommended for entering 9th/10th Grade)
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey (purchase and complete the workbook)
- Socrates Meets Jesus by Peter Kreeft (Recommended for entering 9th/10th Grade)
- The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The One and Future King by T.H. White (Recommended for entering 11th Grade)
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Recommended for entering 11th Grade)
- Charlemagne by Notker the Stammerer (Two Lives of Charlemagne, pgs 91-172) (Recommended for entering 11th Grade)
- The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliffe
- Les Miserables (abridged version) by Victor Hugo
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
- Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
- Tales; Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
- Travels by Marco Polo
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- The Time Machine; The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Father Brown Series; Everlasting Man; A Man Called Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
- David Copperfield; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Souls of Black Folk (various essays) by W.E.B. DuBoise
- Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ramona by Helen Hunt
- Macbeth; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- Grapes of Wrath; East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Brothers Karmazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Note: This is a challenging read)
- Christianity for Modern Pagans: Paschal's Pensees by Peter Kreeft.
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