Lorien Wood Summer Reading Book ListWe have compiled this preliminary list as an aid to help you chooseexcellent summer reading books with your child. We encourage you

to have reading time for a half hour five days a week. Enjoy yourreading!

Read-aloud Books for Rising KindergartenersIhe Rose's SmrTe; Farizad of the Arabian Nights, David Kheridian

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Butterflies for Kiri, Cathryn FalwellD Is for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC, Kay Chorao

The Serpent Came to Gloucester, M.T. AndersonThe Spider and the Fly, Mary Howitt

Just Add One Chinese Sisfe4, Patricia McMahonJust Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco

The Great Stone Face, retold by Gary SchmidtTea with Milk, Allen Say

Butterflies for Kiri, Cathryn FalwellZoom Upstream, Tim Wynne-Jones

The Time of the Lion, Carolyn PitcherThe Gift of the Crocodile, Judy SierraThe Bobbin Girl, Emily Arnold McCully

The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. MilneRarse/'s Riddle, Erica Silverman

King Arihur: The Sword in the Stone, King Arthur and the RoundTable, Excalibur, Hudson Talbott

A Sh/p's Caf, Richard AdamsRobin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Eric Kimmel

Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret HodgesCyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His

Head, Bill PeetThe Quiltmakef s Gift, Jeff Brumbeau

The Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix PotterThe Young Lancelof, Robert San Souci

Cinderella, K.Y. CraftMarie in Fourth Position, Amy Littlesugar

Anna the Bookbinder, Andrea Cheng

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dennis CovilleSwan Lake, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger

The Trojan Horse, Wanruick HuttonPegasus, Marianna Mayer

The Snow Queen, Andersen/ P.J. LynchThe Pied Piper, Mercer Mayer

The Memory Coat, Elvira WoodruffMa Deaf s Aprons, Patricia McKissack

The Twelve Labors of Hercules, James RiordanUp the Learning Tree, Marcia Vaughn

Hana in the Time of Tulips, Deborah NoyesSnow White, Trina Schart Hyman

Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Paul . O. ZelinskyThe Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beast,

Marianna MayerThe Pirate Queens, Jane YolenHansel and Gretel Rika Lesser

The Mare on the Hill, Thomas LockerEmily, Michael Bedard

Moses; Noah; A Apple Pie, rll. Gennady SpirinExodus, Joseph, Brian Wildsmith

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret SidneyGrimm's Fairy Tales

Andersen's Fairy TalesAesop's Fables

The Blue and the Gray, Eve BuntingThe Emperols New Clothes, Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis,

illustrated by Angela Barrettl, Crocodile, Fred Marcellino

The Bat in the Boot, Annie Cannon

Lorien Wood Summer Reading Book ListWe have compiled this preliminary list as an aid to help you chooseexcellent summer reading books with your child. We encourage you

to have reading time for a half hour five days a week. There aresuggestions for every reading level. lt is ideal if the reading is a mix

of the child reading aloud, the child reading silently and a parentreading 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 JewellGeorge the Drummer Boy, Nathaniel Benchley

Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd ArnoldBaby Wolf, Mary Batten

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Presenf, Charlotte ZolotowRomulus and Remus, Anne Rockwell

*Frog and Toad, Robert Lobel*Mr. Putter and Tabby Write the Book, Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake

the Cake, Cynthia RylantThe Flying Horse: The Story of Pegasus, Jane Mason

*Sheep Out to Eaf, Nancy ShawVessie Bear, What Will You Wear?, Nancy White Carlstrom

The Little Country Town, Jandelyn SouthwellBunny Cakes, Rosemary Wells

Titch, Pat Hutchins*Bedtime for Frances, Russell Hoban

Beware, Beware, Susan Hill

Developing Readers

Who Built the Pyramids? Meredith HooperPoppington; Mr. Putter and Tabby, Cynthia Rylant

Sluggef s Car Wash, Stuart J. MurphyWild, Wild Wolves,Joyce MiltonThe Bravest Cat, Laura Driscoll

Where are the Night Animals? Mary Ann Fraser

First Flight: The story of rom T{e and the wright Brothers, GeorgeShea

The Big Balloon Race, Eteanor CoerrToo Many Babas, Carolyn Croll

Wagon Wheels, Barbara BrennerKn ig hts, Catherine Daly-Weir

The Animal Rescue Club, John HimmelmanGargoyles: Monsters in sfone, Jennifer Dussring

Make way for Ducklings, Blueberries for sal, Robert wliclosteyDragon scares and wiilow Leaves, Terryr Givens

Mike Mulligan and His sfeam shovel, Virginia Burton LeeThe Egg, M.p. Robertson*Bread and Jam for Frances, Russell Hoban

Edward and the pirates, David McphailLeah's Pony, Elizabeth Friedrich

*No Foal Yef, Jessie HaasWashington lruing,s R/p Van Winkle, Lara Bergen

._ Hejdi, adapted by Lucy CoatsThy Friend, Obadiah, Brinton Turklepeter and the Wolf, Vladimir Vagin

The schoolchildren's Blizzard, Marty Rhodes FisherToads and Diamonds, Charlotte Huck

The Batile for st. Michael's, Emiry Arnord MccuilyThe Legend of sleepy Hollow, retold by Diane wolksteinBuffalo Bill and the pony Express, ching,s paper pony,

Eleanor CoerrAbe Lincoln's Hat, Martha Brenner

Wagon Train, Sydelle KramerRed, White and Blue, John Herman

Sfone Soup, Marcia BrownL.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, M.c. Heildorfer

Marmee's surprise, adapted by Monica KuilingA Chair For My Mother, Vera B. Williams

The Long Way to a New Land, Joan Sandin*The Mystery of Foghorn lsland, Geoffrey HayesDust for Dinner Ann Turner

Allen Jay and the lJnderground Railroad, Marlene Targ BrillLewis and clark: A prairie Dog for the president, shirlei Raye

Redmond

Read-aloud BooksBoy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaursl Kathleen V. Kudlinski

The Hero Beowulf , Eric A. KimmelJust Add One Chinese Sisfer, Patricia McMahon

A Medieval Feasf, AlikiBill Pickett, Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney

Beatrix Potter, Alexandra WallnerThe Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles

*The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Beatrix PotterYoung Mozart, Rachel lsadora

The Book of Dragons, E. Nesbitlnto the Forest, Anthony Browne

The Rose's Sm/e: Farizad of the Arabian Nights, David KheridianThe Strange Voyage of Neptune's Car, Joe Lasker

Love as Sfrong as Ginger, Lenore LookJust Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco

D ls for Drums: A Colonial Williamsburg ABC, Kay ChoraoThe Serpent Came to Gloucester, M.T. Anderson

The Spider and the Fly, Mary HowittThe Greaf Sfone Face, retold by Gary Schmidt

Tea with Milk, Allen Say*Zoom Upstream. Tim Wynne-JonesThe Time of the Lion, Carolyn PitcherThe Gift of the Crocodile, Judy SierraThe Bobbin Girl, Emily Arnold McCully

The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. MilneRaise/'s Riddle, Erica Silverman

*King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone,*King Arthur and the RoundTable, * Excalibur, Hudson Talbott

A Sh,p's Caf, Richard AdamsRobin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Eric Kimmel

Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret HodgesCyrus the Unsinkable Sea Se4pent, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His

Head, Bill Peet*The Quiltmakef s Gift, Jeff BrumbeauThe Tailor of Gloucester, Beatrix Potter'The Young Lancelof, Robeft San Souci

Cinderella, K.Y. CraftMarie in Fourth Position, Amy Littlesugar

Anna the Bookbinder, Andrea Cheng

William shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dennis CovilleSwan Lake, ill. Lisbeth Zwerger

The Trojan Horse, Wanrvick HuttonPegasus, Marianna Mayer

The Snow Queen, Andersen/ P.J. LynchThe Pied Piper, Mercer Mayer

The Memory Coat, Elvira WoodruffMa Deals Aprons, Patricia McKissack

The Twelve Labors of Hercules, James RiordanUp the Learning Tree, Marcia Vaughn

Hana in the Time of Tulips, Deborah NoyesSnow White, Trina Schart Hyman

Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin, Paul . O. ZelinskyThe Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beasf,

Marianna MayerThe Pirate Queens, Jane YolenHansel and Gretel Rika Lesser

The Mare on the Hill, Thomas LockerEmily, Michael Bedard

Moses, Noah, ill. Gennady SpirinExodus, Joseph, Brian Wildsmith

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Margaret SidneyGrimm's Fairy Tales

Andersen's Fairy TalesAesop's Fables

The Blue and the Gray, Eve BuntingThe Emperof s New Clothes, Andersen, translated by Naomi Lewis,

illustrated by Angela Barrettl, Crocodile, Fred Marcellino

The Bat in the Boot, Annie Cannon

Form Two (Rising Second and Rising Third)

Beginner ReadersAbigail Adams, Alexandra Wallner

Roughing lt on the Oregon Trail, Diane StanleyThe Man Who Loved Books, Jean Fritz

A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A Picture Book ofSacajawea, David A. Adler

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Tiger Tales and Big cat stories, Deborah chancellorJourney of a Humpback Whale, Caryn Jenner

Plants Bite Bac& Richard plattShoe/ess Joe and Black Betsy, phil Bildner

Be atrix, Jeanette WinterThe Saracen Maid, Leon Garfield

This Time, Tempe Wick? patricia Lee Gauch*The lnk Drinker, Eric SanvoisinDaughter of Liberty, Robert euackenbushSam the Minuteman, Nathaniel Benchley

When Jessie Came Across the Sea, Amy HestKate shelley and the Midnight Express, Margaret K. wetterer

Katie's Trunk, Ann TurnerAladdin an-d the Magic Lamp, Deborah Hautzig

The Story of Columbus, Anita GaneriThe Drinking Gourd: A Story of the tJnderground Railroad,

F. N. MonjoThe Blue Hill Meadows, Cynthia Rylant

Ben Franklin and the Magic squares, Frank Murphy

Developing ReadersTentaclesl rales of Giant squid, shirley Raye Redmond

Pyramids and Mummies, Seymour SimonThe Trojan Horse: How the Greeks won the war, Emily Litfle

Roman Numerals I to MM, Arthur GeisertSky Tree, Thomas Locker

Grace the Pirate, Kathryn LaskySecref Seyen Adventure, Enid Blyton

Betsy-Tacy, Maud Lovelace*The Happy Orpheline, Natalie Savage Carlson*Little House in the Big woods, Laura lngalls wilderThe 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 Readersclara BarTon and Her victory over Fear, Robert euackenbush*The Mouse and the Motorcycle, *Henry Huggins. Beverly cleary

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The Tomb of the Boy King, John FrankOdd Boy Out: Young Albeft Einstein, Don Brown

*The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank BaumThe Wind in the Willows, The Reluctant Dragon, Kenneth Grahame

*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald DahlrThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (and the other Narnia books),

C.S. LewisTime of Wonder, Robeft McCloskeyThe Beast of Lor, Clyde Robert Bulla

Rabbit Hrl, Robert LawsonThee, Hannah!, *Yonie Wondernose, The Door in the Wall,

Marguerite deAngeliCharlotte'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 BooksStarry Messenger: Galileo Galilei, Peter Sis

John Bunyan's A Pilgrim's Progress, retold by GeraldineMcCaug h rean

Capital! Washington DC from A to Z, Laura Krauss MelmedThe Amazing lmpossible Erie Canal, Cheryl Harness

Liberty, Lynn CurleeMr. Revere and /, Robefi Lawson

Pinocchio, Carlo CollodiBambi, 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 EagerThe Railway Children, E. Nesbit

*Mary Poppins, P.L. TraversThe Ordinary Princess, M.M. Kaye

One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Dodie SmithPeter Pan, J.M. Barrie

*Redwall, Brian JacquesThe 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 VennemaLouisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary, Cary RyanThe Man Who Made Time Travel, Kathryn Lasky

Michelangelo, Diane StanleyHatshepsuf; His Majesty, Her Self , Catherine Andronik

Maritcha: A Nineteenth century American Girr, Tonya BoldenRemember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese suruivors Teil

Their Sfories, Thomas B. AllenThe Tower of London, Leonard Everett Fisher

The Red rails: world war ll's Tuskegee Airmen, steven L. JonesBrooklyn Bridge, Lynn Curlee

One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Dodie SmithFantastic Flights: one Hundred Years of Flying on the Edge, patrick

O'BrienSee-Through Mummies, John Malam

Stonehenge, Catherine M. PetriniG 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 SeldenRobin Hood of Sherwood Foresf, Ann McGovern

Plain Girl, Virginia SorensenOver the River, Sharelle Byars Moranville

The Twenty-One Balloons, William pene DuBois*Scouf: The Secret of the Swamp, piet prins

*Little Women, Louisa May AlcottHeidi, Johanna Spyri

Voyage to Plundef Michele TorreyBlack Beauty, Anna Sewell

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Wheel on the School, Meindert deJongThe Four-Story Mistake, Elizabeth Enright

The Penderwicks, Jeanne BirdsallOne Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes

* ov e rr",:;?,x# 3?sBq"sn n c o o pe rPassage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, Ken Mochizuki

The Odyssey, retold by Robin ListerWalking 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. MontgomeryRobinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

*The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan AikenHitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field

Gullivels Travels, adapted by James RiordanCarry On, Mr. Bowditch. Jean Lee Latham

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton JusterThe Story of the Trapp Family Srngers, Maria Augusta Trapp

Sixth GradeThe Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander

Letters from Rifka, Karen HesseHitty: Her First Hundred Years, Rachel Field

Calico Captive, Elizabeth George SpeareThe Upstairs Room, Joanna Reiss

Losf on a Mountain in Maine, Donn Fendler as told to Joseph EganBushnell's Submarine: The Best-Kept Secref of the American

Revolution, Arthur S. LefkowitzDays of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United Sfafes, Patricia C.

and Frederick L. McKissackThe Lost Colony of Roanoke, Jean FritzExploring the Bismark, Robert D. Ballard

The Boys' War; lnside the Alamo, Jim MurphySecrefs of a Civil War Submarine, Sally M. Walker

"Dear Friend:" Thomas Garrett and William Still, Collaborators on theU nderg round Rail road, J udith Bentley

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in theTwelfth Century, Uri Shulevitz

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead GeorgeWhere the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawling

Good Masters! Srlrzeef Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, LauraAmy Schlitz

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the lron Curtain, Peter SisThe Sword in the Stone, T.H. White

A Swiftly Tilting Planet; Meet the Austins, Madeleine L'EngleThe Twenty-One Balloons. William Pene duBois

Luvvy and the Girls, Natalie Savage CarlsonThe 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 SpeareJohnny Tremain, Esther ForbesAcross Five Aprils, lrene Hunt

The Adventures of Sherlock Holme,s, Arthur Conan DoyleJane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Oliver Twist, Charles DickensPride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore CooperThe Slave Dancer, Paula Fox

Cheaper By the Dozen, Frank E. GilbreathBen-Hur, Lew Wallace

Lord of the Rrngs trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkienthe space trilogy, C.S. LewisCall of the Wild, Jack London

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness OrczyJacob Have I Loved; Day of the Pelican, Katherine Patterson

Tom Sawyer, Mark TwainNight to Remember, Walter Lord

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher StoweTreasure lsland; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Lewis Stevenson

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee LathamThe 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 AmbroseH itl e r Youth, Bartoletti

Phineas Gage, Sid FleischmanThe Wanderings of Odysseus, The Sword and the Circle, Rosemary

Quesf for the Tree Kangaror, ilt?fi edition to the Ctoud Forest ofNew Guinea, Sy Montgomery

When My Name Was Keoko, Linda ParkWe Are the Ship: The Story of Negro Baseball League, Kadir NelsonChew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food,

Eric SchlosserThe Secret of the Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story, Peter

TaylorChasing Lincoln's Killer, James Swanson

Code Talkers, Joseph BruchacSarah Bishop; lsland of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell