Kolbe Academy & Trinity Prep
Kolbe Academy Summer Reading Program
Book List
Entering Grades 5 & 6
Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women
Alexander, Lloyd – Taran Wanderer; Time Cat
Beebe, Catherine – St. John Bosco and St. Dominic Savio (Ignatius Press)
Betz, Eva – Freedum Drums; Priest on Horseback; Victory Drums; Young Eagles
Biographies of saints at the student’s level
Brown, Evelyn M. – Kateri Tekakwitha (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden; Little Lord Fauntleroy
Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass
Colum, Padraic – Children of Odin; The Golden fleece; Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Forbes, Mother Frances Alice - Saint Monica
Gardiner, Harold, SJ – Edmund Campion (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)
George, Craighead Jean - My Side of the Mountain
Gibson, William - The Miracle Worker
Gipson, Fred - Old Yeller
Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
Hamilton, Edith – The Greek Way; The Roman Way
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Tanglewood Tales; The Wonder Book
Heyerdahl, Thor - Kon-Tiki
Holm, Ann - I am David*
Homan, Helen Walker – Francis and Clare: Saints of Assisi (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)
Kipling, Rudyard - Captains Courageous
Lamb, Charles and Mary – Tales from Shakespeare
Lanier, Sidney – King Arthur and His Round Table
L’Engle, Madeline – A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C.S. – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Magician’s Nephew; The Last Battle; all*
Lomask, Milton – Saint Isaac and the Indians (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)
London, Jack - White Fang
Mac Donald, George – At the Back of the North Wind; The Princess and the Goblin; The Princess and Curdie
Montgomery, Lucy – Anne of Green Gables (series)
Nevins, Albert, M.M. – St. Francis of the Seven Seas (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)
Noyes, Alfred - The Secret of Pooduck Island
O'Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins
Polland, Madeleine - Fingal's Quest
Pyle, Howard – Robin Hood; King Arthur; Men of Iron and others
Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows*
Smith, Dodie – The Hundred and One Dalmations
Speare, Elizabeth George - The Bronze Bow; The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spyri, Johanna- Heidi
Stevenson, Robert Louis – A Child’s Garden of Verses; Treasure Island; Kidnapped; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and others
Thurber, James – The Thirteen Clocks
Tolkien, J.R.R. – Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Verne, Jules – Around the world in 80 Days; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and others
Vision Books
Wallace, Imelda – Outlaws of Ravenhurst
White, T.H. – Mistress Masham’s Repose; The Once and Future King; The Sword and the Stone
Wilder, Laura Ingalls – Little House on the Prairie and others
Windeatt, Mary Fabyan - Saint Catherine of Siena; The Children of Fatima; Saint Dominic; Saint Hyacinth of Poland; Saint John Masias; The Little Flower; Blessed Marie of New France; Saint Martin de Porres; The Miraculous Medal; Patron Saint of First Communicants; Saint Rose of Lima; Saint Thomas Aquinas
Wyss, Johann David - Swiss Family Robinson
Any age-appropriate title from Kolbe’s Recommended Reading List
* Titles excellent for adults to read to children.
Some of these books can be found in the library and you are welcome to check them out—see Miss Ristine for assistance.
Read many other good books approved by your parents – only one in a series will count toward Trinity’s Summer Reading Program.
To order Ignatius Press books using your credit card call toll free: 1-800-651-1531; or you may obtain an Ignatius Press catalogue from the school office. You can also order online at www.ignatius.com
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