Summer Reading 2023

CLA’s 2023 Summer Reading List

We hope you’ve had a fantastic start to your summer, CLA! If you didn’t check out the summer reading letters sent home in this year’s final Friday folder, please check out the lists below.

We can’t wait to see you at the end of the summer!

Summer Reading Logs – K-8th

Elementary School

Middle School


Needs ideas? Check out Justin Taylor’s A Christian Classical Reading List for grades 1-8.

Grades 1-3

Grades 4 & 5

Grades 6-8

Or download this list by Calvary Classical School in Hampton, Virginia.

PDF with Links


Chapter Book Suggestions:

  • A to Z Mysteries Series by Ron Roy
  • American Girl Series by Porter, Shaw, and Tripp
  • Boxcar Children Series by Gertrude Warner
  • Dog Man Series by Dav Pilkey
  • Cam Jansen Mysteries Series by David Adler
  • Cul-de-Sac Kids Series by Beverly Lewis
  • Encyclopedia Brown Series by Donald J. Sobol
  • Geronimo Stilton Series by Elisabetta Dami
  • Hopscotch Hill School Series by Valerie Tripp
  • The Imagination Station Series by Marianne Hering
  • Judy Moody Series by Megan McDonald
  • Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osbourne
  • Nate the Great Series by Marjorie W. Sharmat
  • The Sugar Creek Gang Series by Paul Hutchens
  • Who Was…? Series (Non-fiction)
  • What Was…? Series (Non-fiction)
  • Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
  • How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
  • The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
  • New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer
  • Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina
  • Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  • Any book by Beverly Cleary
  • Any book by Lee Roddy
  • Stuart Little by E. B. White
  • The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
  • Journey to America Sonia Levitin
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Machlachlan
  • Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Summer of Swans by Betsy Byars
  • Books by Andrew Clements