J.M.J.
Holy Family Academy
Required Summer Reading List 2014 – 2015
Grades 11-12
Modeste Mignon, Balzac
On the Eve, Turgenev
Hamlet, Shakespeare
At least one of the next three novels:
Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Goethe
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII
Grades 9-12 Extra Credit
Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh
(available to borrow from HFA)
Grades 9-10
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
The Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Cather
The Life of Solitude, Petrarch
Grade 8 Grade 7
Book of Job Maria Capdeleine, Hemon
Illiad Acts of the Apostles
On Old Age, Cicero Joan of Arc, Marc Twain
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington
Grades 7-8 Extra Credit
Anything from J.R. R. Tolkien or
Anne of Green Gables,
L.M. Montgomery
Grade 6
The Gospel of Luke
Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words (Available at HFA)
Tales of Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
The Long Walk, Lavomir Rawicz
Grade 6 Extra Credit
Treasure Island, Robert Stevenson or
The Princess and Curdie, George MacDonald
Grade 5
The Gospel of Mark
Dominic Savio, Don Bosco (Available at HFA)
Little Men or Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, unabridged
Johnny Tremaine, Edith Forbes
Grade 4 (Please obtain unabridged copies)
The Gospel of Matthew
St. Isaac and the Indian, Milton Lomask or St. Rose of Lima, Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Treasure Island, R. Stevenson or Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink
Grade 3 Grade 2
The Little Flower, M.F. Windeatt Blessed Imelda, M.F. Windeatt
A Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli Aesop’s Fables
Notes for K-3
Kindergarteners should re-read “The Duck Book.” Mrs. Belleville would like to suggest that all incoming 2nd and 3rd graders try to read The Chronicles of Narnia.
Teacher Summer Reading Suggestions
Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, Dawson
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Goethe
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