In order to read The Great Books, a student needs to first read “good” books.
Bloomfield Christian School has compiled a list of “good” books for your student’s summer reading enjoyment.
Recommendation – Students are required to read a minimum of thirty minutes per day, five days a week
(2 hours and 30 minutes a week) and complete the Grammar School Reading Log. The Grammar School
Reading Log is due the first day of school.
Rising Fourth Grade
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children sel. Avery
Favorite Poems Old and New
sel. Ferris
*Adam of the Road
Gray
The Bard of Avon
Stanley
Beowulf (simplified)
Black Beauty
By Pike and Dyke: Dutch Republic
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Canterbury Tales
* Cricket in Times Square, A
Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim’s
* The Door in the Wall
Unknown
Sewell
Henty
Wilder
Chaucer/McCaughrean
Selden
Hunkin
D’Angeli
The Dragon and the Raven: King Alfred
* From the Mixed Up Files of…
The Horse and His Boy
In Freedom’s Cause: Wallace and Bruce
* The Ink on His Fingers
Joan of Arc
Leonardo da Vinci
Long Winter, The
*The Magician’s Nephew
Medieval Feast, A
Henty
Konigsburg
Lewis
Henty
Vernon
Stanley
Stanley
Wilder
Lewis
Aliki
*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
My Side of the Mountain
Silver Chair, The
Selected King Arthur Stories
Sounder
The Trumpeter of Krakow
The Thunderstorm in Church
Twenty-One Balloons
O’Brien
George
Lewis
Green
Armstrong
Kelly
Vernon
du Bois
In order to read The Great Books, a student needs to first read “good” books.
Bloomfield Christian School has compiled a list of “good” books for your student’s summer reading enjoyment.
The Wind in the Willows
A Wrinkle in Time
* Book to be read during school year.
Grahame
L’Engle
5/25/2016