Students in each grade are required to read four books before the fall retreat. Each grade has one required book that every student must read and about which each student must write a book report following the format given in the enclosed sheets. The other three books may be selected from the list.

Grade 6
Required: A Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Book List:
A Hero of Ticonderoga by G. Gauthier
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs .Basil E. Frankweiler by Konigsburg
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor
Julie of the Wolves by George
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty Lord
Snow Treasure by McSwigan
White Fang by London
Any of the Redwall series by Jacques
Anything from grades 7-9 reading list

Grade 7 -
Required: Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Book List:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (or any in the series) by Mildred Taylor
Homecoming by Voigt
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by Konigsburg
Rascal or The Wolfling by Sterling North
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (or any in the series) by Aiken
Anything from grades 8-9 reading list

Grade 8-
Required: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
Book List: A Wrinkle in Time (or any in the series) by L'Engle
Many Waters by L'Engle
The Hobbit (or any in the trilogy) by Tolkein
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
The Summer of My German Soldier by Greene
A Gathering of Days by Blos
Christy or Julie by Marshall
Little Women by Alcott
Through Gates of Splendor by Elliot
Olive Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts
My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier

Grade 9/10
Required: Cry, the Beloved Country by Patan
Book List:
Through Gates of Splendor by Elliot
Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Any Dorothy Sayers mystery
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Solzhenitsyn
Jane Eyre by Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Austen
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Damien the Leper by Farrow