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 or from the Highlands Christian Academy website
under the Resources – Printable Documents menu.
AUTHOR
TITLE or SERIES
Anderson, Hans
Barrett, H. Judi
Berenstain, Stan and Jan
Bridwell, Norman
Brown, Marc
Burton, Virginia
Carle, Eric
Cronin, Doreen
Eastman, P. D.
Ehlert, Lois
Freeman, Don
Henkes, Kevin
Hoban, Russell
Keane, Glen
Krauss, Ruth
LeSieg, Theo
Lionni, Leo
Lucado, Max
Martin, Bill
Minarik, Else
McCloskey, Robert
Moncure, Jane Belk
Mosel, Arlene
Numeroff, Laura
Potter, Beatrix
Rathmann, Peggy
Rey, H.A. & Margaret
Sendak, Maurice
Seuss, Dr.
Slate, Joseph
Tafuri, Nancy
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
The Ugly Duckling
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Any Berenstain Bear book
Clifford (any Clifford book)
Any Marc Brown book
Katy and the Big Snow, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, etc.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Diary of a Spider, The Diary of a Worm, etc.
Are You My Mother?
Leaf Man
Corduroy (and any other Corduroy book)
Owen
Any Frances book by Hoban
Adam Raccoon books
The Carrot Seed
In a People House and any other LeSieg book
Swimmy, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Frederick…
Just in Case You Ever Wonder
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Little Bear series
Blueberries for Sal
Apes Find Shapes, A Color Clown Comes to Town
Tikki Tikki Tembo
If You Give a Mouse…, If You Give a Pig…, If You Give a Cat…
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Officer Buckle and Gloria
Any Curious George book
Where the Wild Things Are, etc.
Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and other Dr. Seuss books
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
Goodnight, My Duckling, Silly Little Goose
The Deer in the Wood
The Beginner’s Bible
Books by E. Carle, Dr. Seuss, Tomie DePaola, Lillian or Russell Hoban, Leo Lionni, Margaret
Wise Brown, and Jan Brett are good reading materials for kindergarten. Classic stories: The
Three Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, The House that Jack Built, Chicken Little, The Little Red
Hen, and Mother Goose Rhymes are also good choices.
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 five 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 or from
the Highlands Christian Academy website. 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 under the Resources – Printable Documents menu.
AUTHOR
TITLE or SERIES
Bemelmans, Ludwig
Bourgeois, Paulette
Brett, Jan
Brown, Marc
Clairmont, Patsy
De Paola, Tomie
Flack, Marjorie
Guarino, Deborah
Hoff, Syd
Hoffman, Mary
Hunt, Angela
Kraus, Robert
Lobel, Arnold
Lucado, Max
Madeline’s Rescue
Franklin (series)
On Noah’s Ark, Town Mouse Country Mouse
Any Arthur book
Tails from the Pantry series
Any De Paola book
The Story about Ping
Is Your Mama a Llama
Danny and the Dinosaur
Amazing Grace
The Tale of Three Trees
Leo the Late Bloomer
Frog and Toad (series)
Just in Case You Ever Wonder, The Crippled Lamb
Mackall, Dandi
Natalie and the Downside-up Birthday
Marshall, James
Mayer, Mercer
McCloskey, Robert
McKissack, Patricia
Minarik, Else H.
Numeroff, Laura
Oke, Jeanette
Parish, Peggy or Herman
Quackenbush, Robert
Rey, H. A.
Rylant, Cynthia
Scieszka, Jon
George and Martha books, Pocketful of Nonsense
There’s Something in my Attic, A Very Special Critter
Blueberries for Sal
Any biography by McKissack, i.e. Great African Americans
Little Bear Series
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and others
Any Animal Stories book
Any Amelia Bedelia book
Henry’s Awful Mistake, Henry’s Important Date, etc.
Any Curious George title
Any Henry and Mudge book
The True Story of theThree Little Pigs
Scott, Lori
Meghan Rose has a Secret
Sharmat, Marjorie
Slobodkina, Esphyr
Seuss, Dr.
Thomas, Patricia
Waite, Michael
Zion, Gene
Nate the Great
Caps for Sale
Fox in Socks, There’s a Wocket in my Pocket and other Dr. Seuss books
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 Beginner Books
Any I Can Read It All by Myself series
Any I Can Read! Made by God series
Any Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series
Any Real Readers series
The Bible
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 five 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 or from the
Highlands Christian Academy website. 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 under the Resources – Printable Documents menu.
AUTHOR
Adler, David
Allard, Harry
Arnold, Tedd
Bond, Michael
Brown, Jeff
Brown, Marc
Brunhoff, Laurent
Cooney, Barbara
Davoll, Barbara
DiCamillo, Kate
Dungy, Tony
Frost, Marie
Gire, Ken
Keats, Ezra Jack
Lewis, Beverly
Lobel, Arnold
Ness, Evaline
Parish, Peggy
Rettino, Ernie
Roop, Peter
Sharmat, Marjorie
Suess, Dr.
Waber, Bernard
Williams, Margery
Series
TITLE or SERIES
Any picture book biography by Adler, Cam Jansen series
Miss Nelson is Missing
Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl
Paddington Bear
Flat Stanley books
Arthur books
Babar
Chanticleer and the Fox, Miss Rumphius
Tales from Schroon Lake series
Mercy Watson series
You Can Do It!
Hattie series
Psalty series
The Snowy Day
Cul-de-sac Kids series
Frog and Toad series
Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine
Amelia Bedelia
Psalty in Alaska
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Nate the Great books
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Velveteen Rabbit
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
Any I Can Read! Made by God series
American Girl Collection
The Bible
Poetry (These are read aloud books for the family.)
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 five 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 or from the Highlands
Christian Academy website. 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 under the
Resources – Printable Documents menu.
AUTHOR
TITLE or SERIES
Adler, David
Cam Jansen series or Picture Book biography series
Catling, Patrick
The Chocolate Touch
Cleary, Beverly
Ralph S. Mouse, The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Cole, Joanna
Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures, The Magic School Bus
Cronin, Doreen
The Trouble with Chickens
Dalgliesh, Alice
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Danziger, Paula
Amber Brown series
Edmonds, Walter
The Matchlock Gun
Elmer, Robert
Astro Kids series
Erdrich, Lise
Sacagawea
Farris, Christine
My Brother, Martin
Fleischman, Sid
The Whipping Boy
Ga’g, Wanda
Millions of Cats
Gardiner, John Reynolds Stone Fox
Hermes, Patricia
Starving Time
Jackson, Dave & Neta
Any Trailblazer Books series
King Smith, Dick
Babe, the Gallant Pig
Levene, Nancy
Shoelaces and Brussels Sprouts, etc.
Lewis, Beverly
Cul-de-sac Kids series
MacDonald, Betty
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
MacLachlan, Patricia
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Monsell, Helen
Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States
Murphy, Elspeth Campbell Beatitude & Ten Commandments mysteries, Three Cousins
Detective Club
Prelutsky, Jack
New Kid on the Block
Robinson, Barbara
The Best School Year Ever
Sharmat, Marjorie
Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag
Silverstein, Shel
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, A Light in the Attic
Smith, Robert Kimmel
Chocolate Fever
Sobol, Donald
Encyclopedia Brown series
Warner, Gertrude
Boxcar Children series
White, E.B.
Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web
Great Illustrated Classics
The Bible
Series: American Girls, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys,
The American Adventure series
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 five 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 or from the Highlands
Christian Academy website. 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 under the Resources – Printable Documents menu.
AUTHOR
Avi
Atwater, Richard
Birney, Betty
Brouwer, Sigmund
Carrol, Lewis
Cleary, Beverly
Clements, Andrew
Christopher, Matt
Dahl, Roald
De Angeli, Marguerite
DiCamillo, Kate
Elmer, Robert
Estes, Eleanor
George, Jean
Henry, Marguerite
Hope, Laura Lee
Hutchens, Paul
Jenkins, Jerry/Fabry, Chris
Johnson, Lois Walfrid
Krumgold, Joseph
Le Guin, Ursula
Lenski, Lois
L’Engle, Madeline
Leppard, Lois
Lindgren, Astrid
Lowry, Lois
Mann, Elizabeth
McCloskey, Robert
Moore, Stephanie
Morris, Gilbert
Myers, Bill
Myers, Bill
Naylor, Reynolds
Prelutsky, Jack
Robinson, Barbara
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Selden, George
Silverstein, Shel
Various authors
White, E.B.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
TITLE or SERIES
Poppy
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Surprises According to Humphrey
Any Sigmund Brouwer Sports Mystery
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Ramona books, Dear Mr. Henshaw and other Beverly Cleary books.
No Talking
Any sports book by Matt Christopher
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, The Minpins
The Door in the Wall
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
Stormy, Misty’s Foal, Sea Star
Bobbsey Twins series
Sugar Creek Gang series
Red Rock Mysteries, Left Behind—The Kids series
Adventures of the Northwoods series, Viking Quest Series
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
Alec London series, Morgan Love series, Carmen Browne series
Dixie Morris Animal Adventure series
The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle series (My life as..)
McGee and Me series, Elijah Project 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
The American Girls Collection
The Bible
Summer Reading List – Fifth & Sixth Grades
The books listed below are a suggested summer reading guide for students entering the fifth
and sixth grades at Highlands Christian Academy. Rewards will be given to our top readers
in grades 1st through 6th for the summer reading contest. Please keep track of the
books your child reads on the reading contest forms found at
www.highlandschristian.org under the Resources – Printable Documents menu.
AUTHOR
Alcott, Louisa May
Avi
Batson, Wayne
Benge, Janet & Geoff
Bailey, Carolyn
Black, Chuck
Brink, Carol
Bruchac, Joseph
Burnett, Frances
Byars, Betsy
Curtis, Christopher
De Angeli, Marguerite
DiCamillo, Kate
DuBois, William Pene
Elmer, Robert
Farley, Walter
Gipson, Fred
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Henry, Marguerite
Howard, Milly
Jenkins, Jerry/Fabry, Chris
Juster, Norton
Kjelgaard, Jim
Konigsburg, Elaine L.
L’Engle, Madeline
Latham, Jean
Lawson, Robert
Leppard, Lois
Levine, Karen
Lewis, Beverly
Lewis, C.S.
Lucas, Leanne
Meigs, Cornelia
Montgomery, L.M.
Moore, Stephanie
Moray, Walt
Myers, Bill
Norton, Mary
O’Dell
O’Hara, Mary
Rawls, Wilson
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Sewell, Anna
Speare, Elizabeth
Sperry, Armstrong
Steig, William
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
TITLE or SERIES
Little Women
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
The Door Within
Heroes of History series
Miss Hickory
The Kingdom Series
Caddie Woodlawn
Code Talkers
The Secret Garden
Summer of the Swans
Bud, Not Buddy
The Door in the Wall
Because of Winn Dixie
The Twenty-One Balloons
The Young Underground series
The Black Stallion
Old Yeller
Found
King of the Wind
The Treasure of Pelican Cove
Red Rock Mysteries
The Phantom Tollbooth
Big Red
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
Hana’s Suitcase
Summerhill Secrets series
Chronicles of Narnia series
Addie McCormick series
Invincible Louise
Anne of Green Gables
Alec London series, Morgan Love series, Carmen Browne series
Gentle Ben
The Elijah Project series
The Borrowers
Island of the Blue Dolphins
My Friend Flicka
Where the Red Fern Grows
Esperanza Rising
Black Beauty
Sign of the Beaver
Call it Courage
Abel’s Island
Little House series
Dear America, My America, & The Royal Diaries series
Daughters of Faith, Sisters in Time, Secret Keeper Girls
The Bible