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2025 School Summer Reading Lists: Wilmington Christian School Grades K-Grade 5

This guide provides links to the Delaware Library Catalog for school summer reading lists.for public, private, and charter schools.

2025

Wilmington Christian School Summer Learning Activities (Elementary School)

Kindergarten

Read 10 books. The following are suggestions:

All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688111311

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Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
ISBN: 9780394800189
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema; Beatriz Vidal (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780803708099
A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee by Chris Van Dusen
ISBN: 9780811836036
Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688070458
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780397322596
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg; Allan Ahlberg
ISBN: 9780670287055
Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152280505
Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat; Jose Aruego (Illustrator); Ariane Dewey
ISBN: 9780027822502
Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763641757
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
ISBN: 9780307931252
James Marshall's Mother Goose by James Marshall (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780374336530
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn; Ruth E. Harper (Illustrator); Nancy M. Leak (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781933718002
The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780374346218
Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse; Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780877017592
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág
ISBN: 9780399233159
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate; Ashley Wolff (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780140562736

Publication Date: 2001-07-09

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Miss Spider's Tea Party by David Kirk (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439833059
The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780694011476
My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie; Rosemary Wells (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781564026200
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
ISBN: 9780399226168
Owen by Kevin Henkes (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688114497
Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780027458503
Swimmy by Leo Lionni (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780394917139

Publication Date: 1963-04-12
Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood; Bruce Wood (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780439635691
Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780152026080
We Are Best Friends by Aliki (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688008222
Who Will Be My Friends? by Syd Hoff (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060225568
Zonderkidz series
ISBN: 9780310750963

See complete list at Kindergarten link above.

Grade 1

Suggested authors include the following:

See Grade 1 link above for complete list.

Grade 2

Reading suggestons:

Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060239596

Publication Date: 1972-04-26
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061958274
Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne; Sal Murdocca (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780679890669
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780670451494

Publication Date: 1941-01-01
Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat; Marc Simont (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780698206274

See Grade 2 link above for additional suggestions.

Grade 3

Read at least one of the following books:

Grade 4

Read at least one of the following books:

The Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo
ISBN: 9780763618988

Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner; Greg Hargreaves (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780064401326

Publication Date: 2010-04-27
Frindle by Andrew Clements; Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689818769

Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Stuart Little by E. B. White; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060263959

Publication Date: 2005-02-01
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Newbery Honor Book) by Richard Atwater; Florence Atwater
ISBN: 9780316058421

Publication Date: 1988-09-26

Grade 5

Read at least one of the following books:

The Serpent Slayer and the Scroll of Riddles by Champ Thornton; Dana Thompson (Illustrator); Andrew David Naselli
ISBN: 9781645072331

Publication Date: 2022-02-14
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
ISBN: 9780375869020

Publication Date: 2012-02-14
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780547577098
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate; Patricia Castelao (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780061992254
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 9780440413288
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
ISBN: 9780375831430

Publication Date: 2005-06-14
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780312380038

Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
ISBN: 9780142402245

Publication Date: 2006-10-05
Maniac Magee (Newbery Medal Winner) by Jerry Spinelli
ISBN: 9780316809061

Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Stuart Little by E. B. White; Garth Williams (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060263959

Publication Date: 2005-02-01
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
ISBN: 9780689205866

Publication Date: 1970-11-01
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525443926

Publication Date: 1988-06-01
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
ISBN: 9780786838653

Publication Date: 2006-04-01
The Green Ember by S. D. Smith; Zach Franzen (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780986223518

Publication Date: 2015-01-15
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson; Joe Sutphin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525653561

Publication Date: 2020-03-10