Summer Reading
Summer is a time for adventures of the heart, soul, mind, and body. Find a great adventure, or a best friend, in the stories below.
Enjoy these summer reading lists, curated by our librarian, academic deans, and english teachers. Students may choose books from lower or higher grade levels, to meet their reading and maturity level. Upper School students are expected to choose from their rising grade level.
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” C.S. Lewis
AP Language and Composition: Summer Reading
The AP Language and Composition teachers offer students reading choices that are relevant to the course, as well as enjoyable and helpful to their students’ growth as readers.
AP Literature and Composition: Summer Reading List
The teachers of AP Lit offer literature that will broaden their students’ literary experience.
Early Childhood: Lower School Library Favorites
Book recommendations for our youngest readers to read, or be read to.
Middle School Summer Reading
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about Middle School Summer Reading
Rising Eleventh Grade: Summer Reading Lists
The teachers of 11th-grade literature offer reading choices that are relevant to the upcoming course, as well as enjoyable and helpful to their students’ growth as readers.
Rising Fifth Grade :Summer Book List
Book Recommendations from The Horn Book
Rising First Grade: Summer Book List
Favorite Book Series for First Grade & Second Grade Readers
Rising Fourth Grade: Summer Book List
Book Recommendations from The Horn Book
Rising Ninth Grade: Summer Reading Lists
The 9th-grade teachers offer reading choices that should prove enjoyable as well as helpful to their students’ growth as readers.
Rising Second Grade: Summer Book List
Favorite Book Series for Second Grade & Third Grade Readers
Rising Tenth Grade: Summer Reading Lists
The 10th-grade teachers offer reading choices that are relevant to the study of world literature, as well as enjoyable and helpful to their students’ growth as readers.
Rising Third Grade: Summer Book List
Favorite Book Series for Third Grade Readers
Twelfth Grade: Summer Reading List
The teachers of 12th grade offer literature that will broaden their students’ literary experience.