HCA Summer Reading List K5 Listed below is a suggested summer reading guide for students entering K5 at Highlands Christian Academy. Books may be read individually or with a parent. If your child is reading above the K5 level, additional summer reading lists for other grades may be obtained from the elementary office. Anderson, Hans The Ugly Duckling Berenstain, Stan and Jan Any Berenstain Bear book Bridwell, Norman Clifford (any Clifford book) Brown, Marc Any Marc Brown book Burton, Virginia Katy and the Big Snow, The Little House, etc. Carle, Eric The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cronin, Doreen The Diary of a Spider, The Diary of a Worm, etc. Ehlert, Lois Leaf Man Freeman, Don Corduroy (and any other Corduroy book) Hoban, Russell Any Frances book by Hoban Kirk, David Miss Spider s Tea Party LeSieg, Theo In a People House and any other LeSieg book Lionni, Leo Swimmy, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Frederick Minarik, Else Little Bear series Moncure, Jane Belk Apes Find Shapes, A Color Clown Comes to Town Mosel, Arlene Rikki Tikki Tembo Numeroff, Laura If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Potter, Beatrix The Tale of Peter Rabbit Rey, H.A. & Margaret Any Curious George book Seuss, Dr. (Any Dr. Seuss book) Tafuri, Nancy Goodnight, My Duckling, Silly Little Goose Wilder, Laura Ingalls The Deer in the Wood
HCA Summer Reading List First Grade Listed below is a suggested summer reading guide for students entering the first grade at Highlands Christian Academy. Books may be read individually or with a parent. Please encourage your child to read at least 5 books during the summer to help retain the current reading level. You may find that your child reads below or above this level. Additional summer reading lists for other grades may be obtained from the elementary office. Rewards will be given next fall to our top readers for the summer reading contest. Please keep track of the books your child reads on the reading contest forms found at www.highlandschristian.org in the library department. Bemelmans, Ludwig Bourgeois, Paulette Brown, Marc Brown, Margaret De Paola, Tomie Flack, Marjorie Guarino, Deborah Hof, Syd Hoffman, Mary Holabird, Katherine Hunt, Angela Kraus, Robert Lobel, Arnold Lucado, Max Mayer, Mercer McCloskey, Robert McKissack, Patricia Parrish, Peggy or Herman Pfister, Marcus Quackenbush, Robert Rylant, Cynthia Scieszka, Jon Sharmat, Marjorie Slobodkina, Esphyr Seuss, Dr. Thaler, Mike Thomas, Patricia Waite, Michael Zion, Gene Madeline s Rescue Franklin (series) Any Arthur book Goodnight Moon Any De Paola book The Story about Ping Is Your Mama a Llama Danny and the Dinosaur Amazing Grace Angelina Ballerina The Tale of Three Trees Leo the Late Bloomer Frog and Toad (series) Just in Case You Ever Wonder, The Crippled Lamb There s Something in my Attic Make Way for Ducklings Any biography by McKissack, i.e. Great African Americans Any Amelia Bedelia book Any Rainbow Fish book Henry s Awful Mistake, Henry s Important Date, etc. Any Henry and Mudge books The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs Nate the Great series Caps for Sale (Any Dr. Seuss book) Owly Stand Back Said the Elephant, I m Going to Sneeze (Any of the Christian Character series) Harry the Dirty Dog ( or any other Harry books) Any I Can Read It All by Myself series Any Let s-read-and-find-out Science series Any Real Readers series Any Beginner Books
HCA Summer Reading List Second Grade Listed below is a suggested summer reading guide for students entering the second grade at Highlands Christian Academy. Please encourage your child to read at least 5 books during the summer to help retain the current reading level. You may find that your child reads below or above this level. Additional summer reading lists for other grades may be obtained from the elementary office. Rewards will be given next fall to our top readers for the summer reading contest. Please keep track of the books your child reads on the reading contest forms found at www.highlandschristian.org in the library department. Adler, David Any picture book biography by Adler, Cam Jansen series Allard, Harry Miss Nelson is Missing Arnold, Tedd Hi Fly Guy, Super Fly Guy Bemelmans, Ludwig Madeline s Rescue (any Madeline book) Bond, Michael Paddington Bear Brown, Marc Arthur books Brunhoff, Laurent Babar Cooney, Barbara Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius Davoll, Barbara Tales from Schroon Lake series DiCamillo, Kate Mercy Watson series Frost, Marie Hattie series Gire, Ken Psalty series Hoban, Lillian Any Arthur book Lobel, Arnold Frog and Toad series Marshall, James George and Martha books Ness, Evaline Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine Rettino, Ernie Psalty in Alaska Roop, Peter Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie Suess, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Tripp, Valerie American Girls series Van Allsburg, Chris The Polar Express and other books authored by Van Allsburg Waber, Bernard Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Williams, Margery Velveteen Rabbit Series Science I Can Read books Let s-read-and-find-out Science, Science I Can Read New True Books All Aboard Science Reader Berger Science Reader Poetry (These are good books to read out loud.) Prelutsky, Jack The New Kid on the Block (and other Prelutsky books) Silverstein, Shel Where the Sidewalk Ends (and other Silverstein books)
HCA Summer Reading List Third Grade Listed below is a suggested summer reading guide for students entering the third grade at Highlands Christian Academy. Please encourage your child to read at least 5 books during the summer to help retain the current reading level. You may find that your child reads below or above this level. Additional summer reading lists for other grades may be obtained from the elementary office. Rewards will be given next fall to our top readers for the summer reading contest. Please keep track of the books your child reads on the reading contest forms found at www.highlandschristian.org in the library department. Adler, David Barrie, J.M. Bond, Michael Catling, Patrick Cleary, Beverly Cole, Joanna Cooney, Barbara Dalgliesh, Alice Danziger, Paula Edmonds, Walter Elmer, Robert Erdrich, Lise Farris, Christine Fleischman, Sid Fleming, Ian Ga g, Wanda Gardiner, John Reynolds Graham, Kenneth Hermes, Patricia King Smith, Dick Lucado, Max Levene, Nancy Lewis, Beverly MacDonald, Betty MacLachlan, Patricia Monsell, Helen Murphy, Elspeth Campbell Oke, Janette Prelutsky, Jack Robinson, Barbara Sharmat, Marjorie Silverstein, Shel Smith, Robert Kimmel Sobol, Donald Warner, Gertrude White, E.B. Yates, Elizabeth Ziglar, Zig Cam Jansen series or Picture Book biography series Peter Pan A Bear Called Paddington The Chocolate Touch Ralph S. Mouse, The Mouse and the Motorcycle Ms. Frizzle s Adventures, The Magic School Bus Eleanor The Courage of Sarah Noble Amber Brown series The Matchlock Gun Any Robert Elmer book (i.e. About-Face Space Race) Sacagawea My Brother, Martin The Whipping Boy Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang Millions of Cats Stone Fox The Reluctant Dragon, The Wind in the Willows Starving Time Babe, the Gallant Pig Tell Me the Story Shoelaces and Brussels Sprouts, etc. Cul-de-sac Kids series Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Sarah, Plain and Tall Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States Beatitudes series and any of her mysteries Ducktails, Porky s Prickly Problem, Prairie Dog Town New Kid on the Block The Best School Year Ever Nate the Great books Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Light in the Attic Chocolate Fever Encyclopedia Brown series Boxcar Children series Stuart Little, Charlotte s Web Carolina s Courage Cry in Echo Canyon
HCA Summer Reading List Fourth Grade Listed below is a suggested summer reading guide for students entering the fourth grade at Highlands Christian Academy. Please encourage your child to read at least 5 books during the summer to help retain the current reading level. You may find that your child reads below or above this level. Additional summer reading lists for other grades may be obtained from the elementary office. Rewards will be given next fall to our top readers for the summer reading contest. Please keep track of the books your child reads on the reading contest forms found at www.highlandschristian.org in the library department. Alcott, Dickens, Kipling Avi Atwater, Richard Bailey, Carolyn Banks, Lynne Brouwer, Sigmond Carrol, Lewis Cleary, Beverly Christopher, Matt Dahl, Roald DiCamillo, Kate Elmer, Robert Estes, Eleanor George, Jean Giff, Patricia Henry, Marguerite Hope, Laura Lee Hutchens, Paul Johnson, Lois Walfrid Kline, Suzy Krumgold, Joseph Le Guin, Ursula Lenski, Lois L Engle, Madeline Leppard, Lois Lindgren, Astrid Lowry, Lois Mann, Elizabeth McCloskey, Robert Morris, Gilbert Myers, Bill Myers, Bill Naylor, Reynolds Prelutsky, Jack Robinson, Barbara Ryan, Pam Munzo Selden, George Silverstein, Shel Various authors White, E.B. Wilder, Laura Ingalls Great Illustrated Classics Poppy Mr. Popper s Penguins Miss Hickory The Indian in the Cupboard Any Sigmond Brouwer Sports Mystery Alice s Adventures in Wonderland Ramona books, Dear Mr. Henshaw and other Beverly Cleary books. Any sports book by Matt Christopher Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, The Minpins Because of Winn-Dixie Any Robert Elmer book (i.e. About-Face Space Race) The Hundred Dresses, Ginger Pye, The Moffats (series) On the Far Side of the Mountain Lily s Crossing, The Picture of Hollis Woods Stormy, Misty s Foal, Sea Star, Misty of Chincoteague Bobbsey Twins series Sugar Creek Gang series Adventures of the Northwoods series Mary Marony books Onion John Jane on her Own Strawberry Girl A Wrinkle in Time The Mandie books Pippi Longstocking Number the Stars The Great Wall, The Great pyramid Homer Price Dixie Morris Animal Adventure series The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle series (My life as..) McGee and Me series Shiloh New Kid on the Block, A Pizza the Size of the Sun The Best School Year Ever Riding Freedom The Cricket in Time Square Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Light in the Attic Sisters in Time series Stuart Little, Charlotte s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan Little House series
HCA Summer Reading List Fifth Grade Listed below is a suggested summer reading guide for students entering the fifth grade at Highlands Christian Academy. Please encourage your child to read at least 5 books during the summer to help retain the current reading level. You may find that your child reads below or above this level. Additional summer reading lists for other grades may be obtained from the elementary office. Rewards will be given next fall to our top readers.for the summer reading contest. Please keep track of the books your child reads on the reading contest forms found at www.highlandschristian.org in the library department. Alcott, Louisa May Benge, Janet & Geoff Bailey, Carolyn Brink, Carol Burnett, Frances Byars, Betsy Curtis, Christopher Cushman, Karen DiCamillo, Kate DuBois, William Pene Elmer, Robert Farley, Walter Gipson, Fred Henry, Marguerite Howard, Milly Juster, Norton Kjelgaard, Jim Knight, Eric Konigsburg, Elaine L. L Engle, Madeline Latham, Jean Lawson, Robert Leppard, Lois Lewis, Beverly Lewis, C.S. Meigs, Cornelia Montgomery, L.M. Moray, Walt O Hara, Mary Paulsen, Gary Rawls, Wilson Ryan, Pam Nunoz Sewell, Anna Speare, Elizabeth Sperry, Armstrong Steig, William Travers, Pamela Wilder, Laura Ingalls Little Women Heroes of History series Miss Hickory Caddie Woodlawn The Secret Garden Summer of the Swans Bud, Not Buddy Midwife s Apprentice Because of Winn Dixie, The Tiger Rising The Twenty-One Balloons The Young Underground series The Black Stallion Old Yeller King of the Wind The Treasure of Pelican Cove The Phantom Tollbooth Big Red Lassie Come Home From the Mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler A Wrinkle in Time Carry on, Mr. Bowditch Ben and Me, Mr. Revere and I Mandie series Summerhill Secrets series Chronicles of Narnia series Invincible Louise Anne of Green Gables Gentle Ben My Friend Flicka Hatchet Where the Red Fern Grows Esperanza Rising Black Beauty Sign of the Beaver Call it Courage Abel s Island Mary Poppins series Little House series