Kolbe Academy & Trinity Prep

 

Kolbe Academy Summer Reading Program

Book List

Entering Grades 7 & 8

Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women

Asimnov, Isaac – Nine Tomorrows

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice

Ball, Ann - Miguel Pro

Baroness Orzey  – The Scarlet Pimpernel

Beebe, Catherine – St. Hohn Bosco and St. Dominic Savio (Ignatius Press)

Biographies of saints at the student’s level

Bradbury, Ray - Dandelion Wine

Cather, Willa – Death Comes to the Archbishop

Chesterton, G.K. – Father Brown and the Church of Rome (Ignatius Press)

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe

Derleth, August - Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus

de Wohl, Louis – Set All Afire; Lay Siege to Heaven (Ignatius Press)

Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (series); White Company

Forbes, Mother Frances - Saint Monica; Saint Catherine of Siena; Saint Teresa of Avila

Frank, Anne - Diary of Anne Frank

Gardiner, Harold, SJ – Edmund Campion (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)

Hamilton, Edith – The Greek Way; The Roman Way

Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Tanglewood Tales; The Wonder Book

Henry, O. – The Best Short Stories of O. Henry

Holm, Ann - I Am David

Homan, Helen Walker – Francis and Clare: Saints of Assisi (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)

Lewis, C.S. – Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength; Screwtape Letters; The Great Divorce; Till We Have Faces

Lomask, Milton – Saint Isaac and the Indians (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)

Montgomery, Lucy – Anne of Green Gables (series)

Nevins, Albert, M.M. – St. Francis of the Seven Seas (Ignatius Press, Saints for Youth Series)

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Poage, Fr. Godfrey, C.P. - Maria Goretti

Poe, Edgar Allan – The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Pyle, Howard – Robin Hood, King Arthur, Men of Iron and others

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan - The Yearling

Rawls, Wilson - Where the Red Fern Grows

Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe; Rob Roy; The Antiquary; The Heart of Midlothian

Shakespeare, William - Merchant of Venice

Smith, Fr. J.J. - Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Black Arrow; Kidnapped; Treasure Island

Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ten Boom, Corrie – The Hiding Place

Tolkein, J.R.R. - Fellowship of the Ring

Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Joan of Arc

Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and others

Vision Books - Saints Lives

Von Le Fort, Gertrude – The Song at the Scaffold

Wallace, M. Imelda, Sr. - Outlaws of Ravenhurst

Waugh, Evelyn – Edmund Campion

White, T.H. – Mistress Masham’s Repose; The Once and Future King; The Sword and the Stone

Windeatt, Mary Fabyan - Saint Benedict; Saint Rose of Lima

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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