Summer time is a great time to do some reading.
We at Heritage Christian Academy would like to see
our students continue to excel in academics and one
key to that is to continue to be a lifelong reader.
The HCA library will be open Tuesday mornings
from 8:00 - 12:00 noon on the following dates:
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June 2nd
June 9th
June 16th
June 23rd
June 30th
August 4th
August 11th
August 18th
and Wednesday, July 29th from 8:00 - 12:00 noon
There is a reading list for secondary
students on our website. Look for it on the
Newsletter page or the Homework page
under Library. The Books on this list can be
found in the HCA Library.
This is a list to help your student get started in reading. As a disclaimer, I have not read all of the books on this list,
please use your best judgment as a parent. The books on this list can all be found in the HCA library.
Students entering 6th grade Summer Reading List
FICTION
Author
Title
Armstrong, William H.
Avi
Banks, Lynne
Brink, Carol Ryrie
Burnett, Frances
Sounder
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
The Indian in the Cupboard
Caddie Woodlawn
Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes
Bud, Not Buddy
Landing of the Pilgrims
City of Ember
Johnny Tremain
My Side of the Mountain
Old Yeller
Out of the Dust
The Music of Dolphins
Across Five Aprils
Captain’s Courageous
White Fang
Number the Stars
Shiloh
Five Children and It
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Dogsong
Brian’s Return
Westing Game
The Yearling
Holes
Lord of the Deep
The Good Master
The sign of the Beaver
Maniac Magee
Wringer
Cay
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Dragonwings
Carroll, Lewis
Colum, Padriac
Curtis, Christopher
Daugherty, James
Duprau, Jeanne
Forbes, Esther
George, Jean Craighead
Gipson, Fred
Hesse, Karen
Hunt, Irene
Kipling, Rudyard
London, Jack
Lowry, Lois
Naylor, Phyllis
Nesbit, E.
O’Dell, Scott
Paulsen, Gary
Raskin, Ellen
Rawlings, Marjorie
Sachar, Louis
Salisbury, Graham
Seredy, Kate
Speare, Elizabeth
Spinelli, Jerry
Taylor, Theodore
Twain, Mark
Yep, Lawrence
Reading Level
4.9
6.1
5.9
5.3
5.5
6.8
6.1
6.3
5.2
5.3
5.1
5.3
6.7
5.4
5.1
4.1
5.5
5.9
5.5
5.2
5.7
5.6
5.5
5.8
5.3
6.1
5.2
5.2
5.4
5.1
5.7
5.4
5.5
6.3
5.9
5.9
6.1
RC points
6
13
9
11
14
18
12
18
12
7
15
19
8
8
5
4
15
13
16
7
8
12
12
8
7
13
25
12
10
9
7
8
10
6
15
24
14
NON-FICTION
Finley, Martha
Frank, Anne
Gilbreth, F. & E.
Elsie Dinsmore Series
Diary of a Young Girl
Cheaper by the Dozen
No Reading Counts Points
5.9
21
6.6
13
Holliday, Laurel
Lyons, Mary
Osborn, Shane
Various Authors
No Abridged Versions
Why do They Hate Me?
Dear Ellen Bee
Born to Fly
Christian Heroes Series
Heroes of the Faith Series
Dear America
No Reading Counts Points
5.4
9
No Reading Counts Points
No Reading Counts Points
No Reading Counts Points
Various levels and points
Students entering 7th grade Summer Reading List
FICTION
Author
Title
Avi
Babbitt, Natalie
Banks, Lynne
Brink, Carol Ryrie
Burnett, Frances
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Tuck Everlasting
The Indian in the Cupboard
Caddie Woodlawn
Little Princess
Secret Garden
Artemis Fowl
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes
The Black Stallion
Johnny Tremain
My Side of the Mountain
Old Yeller
Hoot
Stowaway
Across Five Aprils
Captain’s Courageous
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs.
White Fang
Heat
Five Children and It
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Hatchet
Dogsong
Bridge to Teribithia
The Day No Pigs Would Die
Westing Game
Lord of the Deep
Under the Blood Red Sun
The sign of the Beaver
Maniac Magee
Wringer
Cay
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Time Machine
Dragonwings
Colfer, Eoin
Colum, Padriac
Farley, Walter
Forbes, Esther
George, Jean Craighead
Gipson, Fred
Hiaasen, Carl
Hesse, Karen
Hunt, Irene
Kipling, Rudyard
Konigsburg, E.L.
London, Jack
Lupica, Mike
Nesbit, E.
O’Dell, Scott
Paulsen, Gary
Paterson, Katherine
Peck, Richard
Raskin, Ellen
Salisbury, Graham
Speare, Elizabeth
Spinelli, Jerry
Taylor, Theodore
Twain, Mark
Wells, H.G.
Yep, Lawrence
Reading Level
6.1
5.9
5.9
5.3
5.5
6.8
6.2
6.3
6.5
5.3
6.7
5.4
5.8
6.1
5.5
5.9
6.8
5.5
5.5
5.6
5.5
6.3
5.8
5.3
5.5
6.1
5.4
5.8
5.7
5.4
5.5
6.3
5.9
5.9
7.1
6.1
RC points
13
6
9
11
14
18
14
18
12
19
8
8
15
15
15
13
9
16
14
12
12
10
8
7
9
13
10
14
7
8
10
6
15
24
9
14
NON-FICTION
Frank, Anne
Fritz, Jean
Gilbreth, F. & E.
Holliday, Laurel
Lowry, Lois
Lyons, Mary
Osborn, Shane
Diary of a Young Girl
Homesick: My Own Story
Cheaper by the Dozen
Why do They Hate Me?
Number the Stars
Dear Ellen Bee
Born to Fly
5.9
21
5.5
9
6.6
13
No Reading Counts Points
5.2
7
5.4
9
No Reading Counts Points
Rinaldi, Ann
Various Authors
No Abridged Versions
Taking Liberty
Christian Heroes Series
Heroes of the Faith Series
Dear America
6.1
13
No Reading Counts Points
No Reading Counts Points
Various levels and points
Students entering 8th grade Summer Reading List
FICTION
Author
Title
Alcott, Louisa May
Babbitt, Natalie
Bloor, Edward
Burnford, Shiela
Colfer, Eoin
Collier, James and Chris
Cushman, Karen
Grahame, Kenneth
Hiaasen, Carl
Hesse, Karen
Horowitz, Anthony
Hunt, Irene
Jacques, Brian
Konigsburg, E.L.
London, Jack
Montgomery, L.M.
Paulsen, Gary
Little Women
7.9
39
Tuck Everlasting
5.9
6
Tangerine
5.4
20
The Incredible Journey
8.1
8
Artemis Fowl
6.2
14
My Brother Sam is Dead
5.8
10
Catherine, Called Birdy
7.5
13
Wind in the Willows
8.3
14
Hoot
5.8
15
Stowaway
6.1
15
Point Blank
4.9
15
Across Five Aprils
5.5
16
Redwall Series
Various levels and points
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
6.8
9
White Fang
5.5
16
Anne of Green Gables
5.9
22
Hatchet
6.3
10
Brian’s Winter
7.3
9
Westing Game
6.1
13
Under the Blood Red Sun
5.8
14
Series of Unfortunate Events Various levels and points
The sign of the Beaver
5.7
7
Heidi
7.9
15
The Red Pony
6.4
9
Gulliver’s Travels
8.8
32
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
6.9
15
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5.9
15
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5.9
24
Time Machine
7.1
9
War of the Worlds
8.1
15
Dragonwings
6.1
14
Raskin, Ellen
Salisbury, Graham
Snicket, Lemony
Speare, Elizabeth
Spyri, Johanna
Steinbeck, John
Swift, Jonathan
Taylor, Mildred
Twain, Mark
Wells, H.G.
Yep, Lawrence
Reading Level
RC points
NON-FICTION
Fritz, Jean
Gilbreth, F. & E.
Lowry, Lois
Paulsen, Gary
Rinaldi, Ann
Shakespeare, William
Ten Boom, Corrie
Various Authors
No Abridged Versions
Homesick: My Own Story
Cheaper by the Dozen
Number the Stars
Woodsong
Taking Liberty
As You Like It
Hiding Place
Christian Heroes Series
Heroes of the Faith Series
Dear America
5.5
9
6.6
13
5.2
7
7.2
9
6.1
13
9
12
6.8
17
No Reading Counts Points
No Reading Counts Points
Various levels and points
Students entering 9th grade Summer Reading List
FICTION
Author
Title
Reading Level
Adams, Richard
Albom, Mitch
Alcott, Louisa May
Avi
Bunyan, John
Burnford, Shiela
Cather, Willa
DeFoe, Daniel
Grahame, Kenneth
Greene, Bette
Jacques, Brian
London, Jack
Marshall, Catherine
Mitchell
Orwell, George
Watership Down
Tuesdays with Morrie
Little Women
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Pilgrim’s Progress
The Incredible Journey
My Antonia
Robinson Crusoe
Wind in the Willows
Summer of My German Soldier
Redwall Series
Call of the Wild
Christy
Gone With The Wind
Animal Farm
1984
Pascal’s Wager
Esparanza Rising
Missing May
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Heidi
The Red Pony
Black Arrow
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Gulliver’s Travels
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
Return of the King
Two Towers
Prince and the Pauper
Time Machine
War of the Worlds
Bridge of the San Luis Rey
7.4
30
5.9
8
7.9
39
6.9
13
9.0
26
8.1
8
7.1
18
9.0
34
8.3
14
6.9
14
Various levels and points
7.3
9
8.5
28
9.0
94
9.0
10
8.2
25
No Reading Counts
5.5
11
6.7
5
7.6
27
7.9
15
6.4
9
7.6
18
8.9
18
7.1
17
6.1
7
8.8
32
6.9
15
8.1
21
8.1
34
9.0
27
8.4
31
8.4
17
7.1
9
8.1
15
9.0
9
Rue, Nancy
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Rylant, Cynthia
Smith, Betty
Spyri, Johanna
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swift, Jonathan
Taylor, Mildred
Tolkien, J. R.R.
Twain, Mark
Wells, H.G.
Wilder, Thronton
RC points
NON-FICTION
DC Talk
Elliott, Elisabeth
Foxe, John
Jackson, Livia Britton
Kherdian, David
Lewis, C.S.
Jesus Freaks
Through Gates of Splendor
Shadow of the Almighty
Chance to Die
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
I have Lived a Thousand Years
Road from Home
Mere Christianity
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
8.5
6.5
No Reading Counts
9
13
Paulsen, Gary
Richardson, Don
Rozar
Ten Boom, Corrie
Various Authors
No Abridged Versions
Woodsong
Eternity in Their Hearts
Peace Child
Laughing in the Face of Aids
Tramp for the Lord
Hiding Place
Heroes of the Faith Series
7.2
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
6.8
No Reading Counts
9
17
Students entering 10th grade Summer Reading List
FICTION
Author
Title
Reading Level
RC points
Adams, Richard
Albom, Mitch
Alcott, Louisa May
Austen, Jane
Avi
Bradbury, Ray
Bunyan, John
Cather, Willa
DeFoe, Daniel
Greene, Bette
Hardy, Thomas
Watership Down
Tuesdays with Morrie
Little Women
Emma
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Fahrenheit 451
Pilgrim’s Progress
My Antonia
Robinson Crusoe
Summer of My German Soldier
Tess of D’Urbervilles
Return of the Native
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Call of the Wild
Christy
Gone With The Wind
Animal Farm
1984
All Quiet on the Western Front
Light in the Forest
Pascal’s Wager
As You Like It
Much Ado about Nothing
Pygmalion
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Heidi
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Black Arrow
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Gulliver’s Travels
Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
Return of the King
Two Towers
Prince and the Pauper
The Aeneid
Time Machine
War of the Worlds
Bridge of the San Luis Rey
7.4
5.9
7.9
9.0
6.9
10
9.0
7.1
9.0
6.9
10
9.0
9.0
9.0
7.3
8.5
9.0
9.0
8.2
9.0
7.6
No Reading Counts
9
9.3
8.1
7.6
7.9
8.1
7.8
7.6
8.9
7.1
8.8
8.1
8.1
9.0
8.4
8.4
No Reading Counts
7.1
8.1
9.0
30
8
39
37
13
13
26
18
34
14
37
31
30
28
9
28
94
10
25
16
8
Homer
London, Jack
Marshall, Catherine
Mitchell
Orwell, George
Remarque, Erich Maria
Richter, Conrad
Rue, Nancy
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Smith, Betty
Spyri, Johanna
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swift, Jonathan
Tolkien, J. R.R.
Twain, Mark
Virgil
Wells, H.G.
Wilder, Thronton
NON-FICTION
12
8
9
27
15
6
36
18
18
17
32
21
34
27
31
17
9
15
9
DC Talk
Elliott, Elisabeth
Foxe, John
Graham, Billy
Griffin, John Howard
Gunther, John
Jackson, Livia Britton
Kherdian, David
Lewis, C.S.
Paulsen, Gary
Richardson, Don
Rozar
Ten Boom, Corrie
Various Authors
No Abridged Versions
Jesus Freaks
Through Gates of Splendor
Shadow of the Almighty
Chance to Die
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
In His Grip
Black Like Me
Death Be Not Proud
I have Lived a Thousand Years
Road from Home
Mere Christianity
Woodsong
Eternity in Their Hearts
Peace Child
Laughing in the Face of Aids
Tramp for the Lord
Hiding Place
Heroes of the Faith Series
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
9.0
8.2
8.5
6.5
No Reading Counts
7.2
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
6.8
No Reading Counts
14
12
9
13
9
17
Students entering 11/12th grade Summer Reading List
FICTION
Author
Title
Alcott, Louisa May
Austen, Jane
Bradbury, Ray
Bunyan, John
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Cervantes
Dickens, Charles
Little Women
Emma
Fahrenheit 451
Pilgrim’s Progress
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Don Quixote
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Man in the Iron Mask
Silas Marner
Testament
Tess of D’Urbervilles
Return of the Native
Iliad
Odyssey
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
Christy
Moby Dick
Gone With The Wind
Animal Farm
1984
All Quiet on the Western Front
Voice in the Wind
Redeeming Love
As You Like It
Much Ado about Nothing
Pygmalion
Heidi
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Black Arrow
Kidnapped
Gulliver’s Travels
Hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
Return of the King
Two Towers
Prince and the Pauper
The Aeneid
War of the Worlds
Ethan Frome
Bridge of the San Luis Rey
Doyle, Sir Arthur
Dumas, Alexander
Eliot, George
Grisham, John
Hardy, Thomas
Homer
Hugo, Victor
Marshall, Catherine
Melville, Herman
Mitchell
Orwell, George
Remarque, Erich Maria
Rivers, Francine
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Spyri, Johanna
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swift, Jonathan
Tolkien, J. R.R.
Twain, Mark
Virgil
Wells, H.G.
Wharton, Eith
Wilder, Thronton
Reading Level
RC points
7.9
39
9.0
37
10
13
9.0
26
7.8
35
9.0
20
12
63
10
67
9.0
40
9.0
38
9.0
25
8.4
46
12
15
6.6
22
10
37
9.0
31
9.0
30
9.0
28
8.9
42
9.0
24
8.5
28
10
42
9.0
94
9.0
10
8.2
25
9.0
16
No Reading Counts
9
12
9.3
8
8.1
9
7.9
15
8.1
6
7.8
36
7.6
18
8.9
18
8.8
32
8.1
21
8.1
34
9.0
27
8.4
31
8.4
17
No Reading Counts
8.1
15
9.0
10
9.0
9
NON-FICTION
DC Talk
Elliott, Elisabeth
Foxe, John
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Graham, Billy
Griffin, John Howard
Gunther, John
Jackson, Livia Britton
Lewis, C.S.
Richardson, Don
Rozar
Ten Boom, Corrie
Various Authors
No Abridged Versions
Jesus Freaks
Through Gates of Splendor
Shadow of the Almighty
Chance to Die
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Life of Charlotte Bronte
In His Grip
Black Like Me
Death Be Not Proud
I have Lived a Thousand Years
Mere Christianity
Eternity in Their Hearts
Peace Child
Laughing in the Face of Aids
Tramp for the Lord
Heroes of the Faith Series
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
9.0
8.2
8.5
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
No Reading Counts
14
12
9