Hawthorn School Summer 23 reading list ideas
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
