Lorien Wood Summer Reading Book List
We have compiled this preliminary list as an aid to help you choose
excellent summer reading books with your child. We encourage you
to have reading time for a half hour five days a week. Enjoy your
reading!
Read-aloud Books for Rising Kindergarteners
Ihe Rose's SmrTe; Farizad of the Arabian Nights, David Kheridian
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Butterflies for Kiri, Cathryn Falwell
D Is for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC, Kay Chorao
The Serpent Came to Gloucester, M.T. Anderson
The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt
Just Add One Chinese Sisfe4, Patricia McMahon
Just Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco
The Great Stone Face, retold by Gary Schmidt
Tea with Milk, Allen Say
Butterflies for Kiri, Cathryn Falwell
Zoom Upstream, Tim Wynne-Jones
The Time of the Lion, Carolyn Pitcher
The Gift of the Crocodile, Judy Sierra
The Bobbin Girl, Emily Arnold McCully
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
Rarse/'s Riddle, Erica Silverman
King Arihur: The Sword in the Stone, King Arthur and the Round
Table, Excalibur, Hudson Talbott
A Sh/p's Caf, Richard Adams
Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Eric Kimmel
Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges
Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His
Head, Bill Peet
The Quiltmakef s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau
The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter
The Young Lancelof, Robert San Souci
Cinderella, K.Y. Craft
Marie in Fourth Position, Amy Littlesugar
Anna the Bookbinder, Andrea Cheng
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dennis Coville
Swan Lake, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger
The Trojan Horse, Wanruick Hutton
Pegasus, Marianna Mayer
The Snow Queen, Andersen/ P.J. Lynch
The Pied Piper, Mercer Mayer
The Memory Coat, Elvira Woodruff
Ma Deaf s Aprons, Patricia McKissack
The Twelve Labors of Hercules, James Riordan
Up the Learning Tree, Marcia Vaughn
Hana in the Time of Tulips, Deborah Noyes
Snow White, Trina Schart Hyman
Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Paul . O. Zelinsky
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beast,
Marianna Mayer
The Pirate Queens, Jane Yolen
Hansel and Gretel Rika Lesser
The Mare on the Hill, Thomas Locker
Emily, Michael Bedard
Moses; Noah; A Apple Pie, rll. Gennady Spirin
Exodus, Joseph, Brian Wildsmith
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables
The Blue and the Gray, Eve Bunting
The Emperols New Clothes, Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis,
illustrated by Angela Barrett
l, Crocodile, Fred Marcellino
The Bat in the Boot, Annie Cannon
Lorien Wood Summer Reading Book List
We have compiled this preliminary list as an aid to help you choose
excellent summer reading books with your child. We encourage you
to have reading time for a half hour five days a week. There are
suggestions for every reading level. lt is ideal if the reading is a mix
of the child reading aloud, the child reading silently and a parent
reading to the child. Enjoy your readingl (Books with an asterisk
denote that the book is part of a series. )
Form 1 (Rising First)
Beginning Readers
*Two Silly Trolls, Silly Times with Silly Trolls, Nancy Jewell
George the Drummer Boy, Nathaniel Benchley
Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd Arnold
Baby Wolf, Mary Batten
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Presenf, Charlotte Zolotow
Romulus and Remus, Anne Rockwell
*Frog and Toad, Robert Lobel
*Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book, Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake
the Cake, Cynthia Rylant
The Flying Horse: The Story of Pegasus, Jane Mason
*Sheep Out to Eaf, Nancy Shaw
Vessie Bear, What Will You Wear?, Nancy White Carlstrom
The Little Country Town, Jandelyn Southwell
Bunny Cakes, Rosemary Wells
Titch, Pat Hutchins
*Bedtime for Frances, Russell Hoban
Beware, Beware, Susan Hill
Developing Readers
Who Built the Pyramids? Meredith Hooper
Poppington; Mr. Putter and Tabby, Cynthia Rylant
Sluggef s Car Wash, Stuart J. Murphy
Wild, Wild Wolves,Joyce Milton
The Bravest Cat, Laura Driscoll
Where are the Night Animals? Mary Ann Fraser
First Flight: The story of
rom T{e and the wright Brothers, George
Shea
The Big Balloon Race, Eteanor Coerr
Too Many Babas, Carolyn Croll
Wagon Wheels, Barbara Brenner
Kn ig hts, Catherine Daly-Weir
The Animal Rescue Club, John Himmelman
Gargoyles: Monsters in sfone, Jennifer Dussring
Make way for Ducklings, Blueberries for sal, Robert wliclostey
Dragon scares and wiilow Leaves, Terryr Givens
Mike Mulligan and His sfeam shovel, Virginia Burton Lee
The Egg, M.p. Robertson
*Bread
and Jam for Frances, Russell Hoban
Edward and the pirates, David Mcphail
Leah's Pony, Elizabeth Friedrich
*No Foal
Yef, Jessie Haas
Washington lruing,s R/p Van Winkle, Lara Bergen
Hejdi, adapted by Lucy Coats
._Thy Friend,
Obadiah, Brinton Turkle
peter and the Wolf, Vladimir Vagin
The schoolchildren's Blizzard, Marty Rhodes Fisher
Toads and Diamonds, Charlotte Huck
The Batile for st. Michael's, Emiry Arnord Mccuily
The Legend of sleepy Hollow, retold by Diane wolkstein
Buffalo Bill and the pony Express, ching,s paper pony,
Eleanor Coerr
Abe Lincoln's Hat, Martha Brenner
Wagon Train, Sydelle Kramer
Red, White and Blue, John Herman
Sfone Soup, Marcia Brown
L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, M.c. Heildorfer
Marmee's surprise, adapted by Monica Kuiling
A Chair For My Mother, Vera B. Williams
The Long Way to a New Land, Joan Sandin
*The Mystery
of Foghorn lsland, Geoffrey Hayes
Dust for Dinner Ann Turner
Allen Jay and the lJnderground Railroad, Marlene Targ Brill
Lewis and clark: A prairie Dog for the president, shirlei Raye
Redmond
Read-aloud Books
Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaursl Kathleen V. Kudlinski
The Hero Beowulf , Eric A. Kimmel
Just Add One Chinese Sisfer, Patricia McMahon
A Medieval Feasf, Aliki
Bill Pickett, Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney
Beatrix Potter, Alexandra Wallner
The Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles
*The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Beatrix Potter
Young Mozart, Rachel lsadora
The Book of Dragons, E. Nesbit
lnto the Forest, Anthony Browne
The Rose's Sm/e: Farizad of the Arabian Nights, David Kheridian
The Strange Voyage of Neptune's Car, Joe Lasker
Love as Sfrong as Ginger, Lenore Look
Just Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco
D ls for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC, Kay Chorao
The Serpent Came to Gloucester, M.T. Anderson
The Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt
The Greaf Sfone Face, retold by Gary Schmidt
Tea with Milk, Allen Say
*Zoom Upstream. Tim Wynne-Jones
The Time of the Lion, Carolyn Pitcher
The Gift of the Crocodile, Judy Sierra
The Bobbin Girl, Emily Arnold McCully
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
Raise/'s Riddle, Erica Silverman
*King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone,*King Arthur and the Round
Table, * Excalibur, Hudson Talbott
A Sh,p's Caf, Richard Adams
Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Eric Kimmel
Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges
Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Se4pent, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His
Head, Bill Peet
*The
Quiltmakef s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau
The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter
'The Young Lancelof, Robeft San Souci
Cinderella, K.Y. Craft
Marie in Fourth Position, Amy Littlesugar
Anna the Bookbinder, Andrea Cheng
William shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dennis Coville
Swan Lake, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger
The Trojan Horse, Wanrvick Hutton
Pegasus, Marianna Mayer
The Snow Queen, Andersen/ P.J. Lynch
The Pied Piper, Mercer Mayer
The Memory Coat, Elvira Woodruff
Ma Deals Aprons, Patricia McKissack
The Twelve Labors of Hercules, James Riordan
Up the Learning Tree, Marcia Vaughn
Hana in the Time of Tulips, Deborah Noyes
Snow White, Trina Schart Hyman
Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Paul . O. Zelinsky
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beasf,
Marianna Mayer
The Pirate Queens, Jane Yolen
Hansel and Gretel Rika Lesser
The Mare on the Hill, Thomas Locker
Emily, Michael Bedard
Moses, Noah, ill. Gennady Spirin
Exodus, Joseph, Brian Wildsmith
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret Sidney
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables
The Blue and the Gray, Eve Bunting
The Emperof s New Clothes, Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis,
illustrated by Angela Barrett
l, Crocodile, Fred Marcellino
The Bat in the Boot, Annie Cannon
Form Two (Rising Second and Rising Third)
Beginner Readers
Abigail Adams, Alexandra Wallner
Roughing lt on the Oregon Trail, Diane Stanley
The Man Who Loved Books, Jean Fritz
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A Picture Book of
Sacajawea, David A. Adler
Tiger Tales and Big cat stories, Deborah chancellor
Journey of a Humpback Whale, Caryn Jenner
Plants Bite Bac& Richard platt
Shoe/ess Joe and Black Betsy, phil Bildner
Be atrix, Jeanette Winter
The Saracen Maid, Leon Garfield
This Time, Tempe Wick? patricia Lee Gauch
*The lnk Drinker,
Eric Sanvoisin
Daughter of Liberty, Robert euackenbush
Sam the Minuteman, Nathaniel Benchley
When Jessie Came Across the Sea, Amy Hest
Kate shelley and the Midnight Express, Margaret K. wetterer
Katie's Trunk, Ann Turner
Aladdin an-d the Magic Lamp, Deborah Hautzig
The Story of Columbus, Anita Ganeri
The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the tJnderground Railroad,
F. N. Monjo
The Blue Hill Meadows, Cynthia Rylant
Ben Franklin and the Magic squares, Frank Murphy
Developing Readers
Tentaclesl rales of Giant squid, shirley Raye Redmond
Pyramids and Mummies, Seymour Simon
The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks won the war, Emily Litfle
Roman Numerals I to MM, Arthur Geisert
Sky Tree, Thomas Locker
Grace the Pirate, Kathryn Lasky
Secref Seyen Adventure, Enid Blyton
Betsy-Tacy, Maud Lovelace
*The Happy
Orpheline, Natalie Savage Carlson
*Little House
in the Big woods, Laura lngalls wilder
The Velveteen Rabbit, Marjorie Williams Bianco
George Washington's Breakfasf, Jean Fritz
'All-of a Kind Family, Sidney Taylor
Casting the Gods Adrift, Geraldine McCaughrean
.Billy and Blaze,
Clarence William Anderson
Secure Readers
clara BarTon and Her victory over Fear, Robert euackenbush
*The Mouse
and the Motorcycle, *Henry Huggins. Beverly cleary
The Tomb of the Boy King, John Frank
Odd Boy Out: Young Albeft Einstein, Don Brown
*The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Wind in the Willows, The Reluctant Dragon, Kenneth Grahame
*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
rThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (and the other Narnia books),
C.S. Lewis
Time of Wonder, Robeft McCloskey
The Beast of Lor, Clyde Robert Bulla
Rabbit Hrl, Robert Lawson
*Yonie
Thee, Hannah!,
Wondernose, The Door in the Wall,
Marguerite deAngeli
Charlotte's Web, StuarI Little, The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
*On the Banks of Plum Creek,*Farmer Boy, Laura lngalls Wilder
Greek Myths, lngri and Edgar d'Aulaire
*The Borrowers, Mary Norton
Children of Summer: Henri Fabre's /nsecfs, Margaret J. Anderson
Read Aloud Books
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Peter Sis
John Bunyan's A Pilgrim's Progress, retold by Geraldine
McCaug h rean
Capital! Washington DC from A to Z, Laura Krauss Melmed
The Amazing lmpossible Erie Canal, Cheryl Harness
Liberty, Lynn Curlee
Mr. Revere and /, Robefi Lawson
Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi
Bambi, Felix Salten
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
*The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
*One Hundred and One Dalmations, Dodie Smith
*The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Rascal, Sterling North
*The Princess and Curdie, George MacDonald
*H
alf-M agic, Edward Eager
The Railway Children, E. Nesbit
*Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
The Ordinary Princess, M.M. Kaye
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Dodie Smith
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
*Redwall, Brian Jacques
The Odyssey, retold by Adrian Mitchell
Treasure lsland, Robert Louis Stevenson
Form Three (Rising Fourth and Rising Fifth)
Good Queen Bess; The Story of Elizabeth I of Engtand, Diane
Stanley and Peter Vennema
Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary, Cary Ryan
The Man Who Made Time Travel, Kathryn Lasky
Michelangelo, Diane Stanley
Hatshepsuf; His Majesty, Her Self , Catherine Andronik
Maritcha: A Nineteenth century American Girr, Tonya Bolden
Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese suruivors Teil
Their Sfories, Thomas B. Allen
The Tower of London, Leonard Everett Fisher
The Red rails: world war ll's Tuskegee Airmen, steven L. Jones
Brooklyn Bridge, Lynn Curlee
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Dodie Smith
Fantastic Flights: one Hundred Years of Flying on the Edge, patrick
O'Brien
See-Through Mummies, John Malam
Stonehenge, Catherine M. Petrini
G I adi ato rs, Richard Watki ns
The 5,))}-Year-old Puzzle: solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt,
Claudia Logan
The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds
*History Detectives:
Ancient Greece, philip Ardagh
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
Robin Hood of Sherwood Foresf, Ann McGovern
Plain Girl, Virginia Sorensen
Over the River, Sharelle Byars Moranville
The Twenty-One Balloons, William pene DuBois
*Scouf: The Secret of the Swamp, piet prins
*Little Women, Louisa
May Alcott
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Voyage to Plundef Michele Torrey
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Wheel on the School, Meindert deJong
The Four-Story Mistake, Elizabeth Enright
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
One Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes
*
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Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Ken Mochizuki
The Odyssey, retold by Robin Lister
Walking the Bible: An lllustrated Journey for Kids Through the
Greatest Sfones Ever Told, Bruce Feiler
*ln Search of a Homeland: The Story of the Aeneid, Penelope Lively
*Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
*The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field
Gullivels Travels, adapted by James Riordan
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. Jean Lee Latham
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The Story of the Trapp Family Srngers, Maria Augusta Trapp
Sixth Grade
The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander
Letters from Rifka, Karen Hesse
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field
Calico Captive, Elizabeth George Speare
The Upstairs Room, Joanna Reiss
Losf on a Mountain in Maine, Donn Fendler as told to Joseph Egan
Bushnell's Submarine: The Best-Kept Secref of the American
Revolution, Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United Sfafes, Patricia C.
and Frederick L. McKissack
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, Jean Fritz
Exploring the Bismark, Robert D. Ballard
The Boys' War; lnside the Alamo, Jim Murphy
Secrefs of a Civil War Submarine, Sally M. Walker
"Dear Friend:" Thomas Garrett and William Still, Collaborators on the
U nderg round Rail road, J udith Bentley
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the
Twelfth Century, Uri Shulevitz
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawling
Good Masters! Srlrzeef Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura
Amy Schlitz
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the lron Curtain, Peter Sis
The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White
A Swiftly Tilting Planet; Meet the Austins, Madeleine L'Engle
The Twenty-One Balloons. William Pene duBois
Luvvy and the Girls, Natalie Savage Carlson
The Girls in the Velvet Frame, Adele Geras
Form Four (Rising Seventh and Eighth Grades)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth Speare
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
Across Five Aprils, lrene Hunt
The Adventures of Sherlock Holme,s, Arthur Conan Doyle
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper
The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox
Cheaper By the Dozen, Frank E. Gilbreath
Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace
Lord of the Rrngs trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
the space trilogy, C.S. Lewis
Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
Jacob Have I Loved; Day of the Pelican, Katherine Patterson
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Night to Remember, Walter Lord
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Treasure lsland; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Lewis Stevenson
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric P. Kelly
Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies, Mary E.
Lyons
The Good Fight: How World War ll Was Won, Stephen Ambrose
H itl e r Youth, Bartoletti
Phineas Gage, Sid Fleischman
The Wanderings of Odysseus, The Sword and the Circle, Rosemary
ilt?fi
edition to the Ctoud Forest of
Quesf for the Tree Kangaror,
New Guinea, Sy Montgomery
When My Name Was Keoko, Linda Park
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro Baseball League, Kadir Nelson
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food,
Eric Schlosser
The Secret of the Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story, Peter
Taylor
Chasing Lincoln's Killer, James Swanson
Code Talkers, Joseph Bruchac
Sarah Bishop; lsland of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell