Hawthorn School Summer 23  reading list ideas

Written By Pilar Suárez

Ideas for our students to read this Summer Break.


Primary School
Kindergarten

  • The Real Mother Goose Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright

  • Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

  • Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

  • The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

  • The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper  

  • Various Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rapunzel

First Grade

  • One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey

  • The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

  • Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

  • Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

  • The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 

  • The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton 

  • My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannet

Lower School

  • Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Heidi, Johanna Spyri

  • Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace

  • Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers

  • The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting

  • Son of Charlemagne, Barbara Willard

  • The Cricket in Times Square, George Seldon

  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Wiggin

Middle School

Boys

  • Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths by Bernard Evslin

  • The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  • The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen


Girls

  • Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

  • The Giver by Lois Lowry 

  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg

  • Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George

  • The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

  • Any one of Books 2-8 of the Anne of Green Gables series, by L.M. Montgomery

  • The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

  • The Penderwicks (series), by Jeanne Birdsall

  • Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne

  • Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

  • Any from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Pilar Suárez
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