Hawthorn School Summer 24  reading list ideas

Mrs. Anderson

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter (ages 5+)

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire (8+)

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen (8+)

Any classic fairy tales by Grimm, Andersen, etc (8+)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (8+)

The Good Master by Kate Seredy (10+)

King Solomon’s Ring by Konrad Z. Lorenz (12+)

Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (12+)


Mrs. Andino

Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard Atwater (6+)

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (8+)

Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan (10+)

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (10+)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (12+)

Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis (14+)

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis (14+)


Mr. Hickman

The Lighthouse, by Michael D. O’Brien (14+)

Touching the Void, by Joe Simpson (14+)

Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling (13+)


Mrs. Macalintal 

The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown (3+)

Fish is Fish by Leo Leonni  (3+)

A Color of His Own by Leo Leonni (2+)

Swimmy by Leo Leonni (2+)

Marshmallow by Clare Turlay Newberry (2+)

Pet Show! By Ezra Jack Keats (3+)

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats  (3+)

Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon (3+)

The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow (3+)


Mrs. MacDonald

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (3+)

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (3+)

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen (4+)

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney (4+)

One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey (5+)

The Cricket in Times Square, George Seldon (6+)

Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers (6+)

Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder (7+)

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (7+)

Milly-Molly-Mandy (Series), Joyce Lankester Brisley (7+)

Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace (7+)

Son of Charlemagne, Barbara Willard (7+)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Wiggin (8+)

Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild (8+)

The Wingfeather Saga,  Andrew Peterson (8+)

The Famous Five (Series), Enid Blyton (8+)


Mrs.Mancuso

The Secret Garden  by Frances Hodgson Burnett (8+)

A Wrinkle in TIme by Madeleine L’Engle (8+)

The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene (8+)

The Giver by Lois Lowry (10+)


Mr. McGovern

To Build a Fire by Jack London (12+)

The Odyssey retold by Gillian Cross, Illustrated by Neil Packer (12+)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury  (14+)


Mrs. Schneider

The BFG by Roald Dahl (7+)

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White (7+)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (10+)

Dead Wake by Erik Larson (14+)

Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson (14+)


Mr. Simonetti

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (6+)

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (9+)

Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien (10+)









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