Dear parents and students, my Fall 2017 Reading List is now ready.
When compiling this list, I considered recommendations and reviews by educational establishments and publishers, the opinions and experiences of teachers and my students over the past years.
Titles under each section were selected to contrast one another by geographical and historic setting, social issues, genre, and character archetypes.
Please remember, every child matures at their own pace. Age appropriate categories are just a loose guideline, not intended to assess development. If your child finds the books recommended for his/her age group too difficult or too easy, try the next level up or down as you see fit.
| Estimated age or reading level | Title and Author |
| Youngest | Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein |
| Readers | The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss |
| 04-Jun | Something Good Robert Munsch |
| Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans | |
| Hank’s Big Day: The Story of a Bug Evan Kuhlman | |
| Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak | |
| Young | Geronimo Stilton Elisabetta Dami |
| Readers | Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl |
| 06-Aug | The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne |
| The Search for Delicious Natalie Babbitt | |
| Ramona and Her Father Beverly Cleary | |
| The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame | |
| James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story Roald Dahl | |
| Confident readers | Big Nate Out Loud Lincoln Peirce |
| 08-Oct | Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell |
| Harry Potter J. K. Rowling | |
| The Paper House Lois Peterson | |
| The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis | |
| Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Pre-teens | The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 10-Dec | The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank | |
| Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery | |
| Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune Pamela S. Turner | |
| The Mysteries of Sherlock Holms Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Advanced | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose |
| Readers | Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen |
| Dec-14 | Arabian Nights/ One Thousand and One Nights |
| Ivanhoe Walter Scott | |
| Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card | |
| Vengeance George Jonas | |
| The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle | |
| The Giver Lois Lowry | |
| Young adults | Odyssey Homer |
| 15+ | Inherit the Wind Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee |
| Never Eat Alone Keith Ferrazzi | |
| The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway | |
| The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini | |
| Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai | |
| For the parents | The Collapse of Parenting, Leonard Sax |
| The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Susan Wise Bauer | |
Happy reading.
Maria
Fall 2017 Reading List is Ready