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Summer Reading – Suggestions Please?

Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-14T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Denver, CO

Tagged: classics, reading

This topic has 2 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 8 years ago by Melanie32.

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May 16, 2017 at 6:37 pm
Tristan
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Hi Everyone! I’m looking to pick one classic book for each of my children to read this summer appropriate to their age/ability as part of their summer reading challenge. I have 9 children from teen to toddler. That means I need a classic to read aloud to the non-readers, a first chapter book, and on up from there to a high difficulty level.
What are your not to be missed classics? The one book for each age or ability that you think is a must-read classic? (We read plenty of modern fiction, we don’t need any suggestions in that area, thanks!)
May 17, 2017 at 6:40 am
meganrussell
Participant
Because of Winn Dixie
Eragon series
Pride and Prejudice (older teen)
Shiloh
Charlotte’s Web
Trumpet of the Swan
Amos Fortune
King Arthur
Balto
Sherlock Holmes
Treasure Island
Moby Dick
Black Beauty
Pippy Longstocking
Indian in the Cupboard
Swiss Family Robinson
Frankenstein
Oliver Twist
Adventures of Ton Sawyer
The Odyssey

Hope this helps! Just a few off the top of my head that my kids have recently read or are on our summer booklist!

May 17, 2017 at 6:59 am
Melanie32
Participant
The Little House books
The Sign of the Beaver
Understood Betsy
The Cabin Faced West
Pollyanna
The Secret Garden
Swiss Family Robinson
Anne of Green Gables
Little Britches
The Girl of the Limberlost
Little Women
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyear
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
David Copperfield
A Tale of Two Cities
I really love Les Miserables but it is looooong! The redemptive story woven through it and the sacrificial love that points to Christ’s sacrifice for us makes it well worth the time IMO. However I still haven’t decided if I will make my daughter read it or not. It might be a book better saved for the more mature.