Learning starts at home.

To help support learning over the summer, and reduce summer learning loss we are are offering a FREE collection of books to your family and hope they can be a great addition (or start!) to your at-home library. These titles were selected to align with Catholic School values reinforced in your child’s classroom. These include values such as enthusiasm, initiative, compassion, service, wellness, and humility. We challenge your child to do their best in finishing them all!

Engaged, active families lead to engaged, curious students; spark discussion in your home with provided learning materials included guided reading activities, read along videos, and upcoming in-person family activities! Get started today by checking out the resources below.

15+ engaging titles to choose from for every grade level

Curated reading list designed to reflect your school’s Values Infusion Alignment

100% free for eligible Catholic School Families

Family Activities

Sizzling Summer reading strategies for grades K-8 running all summer long! Family support for learning over the summer is one of the best ways to prepare students for success in the Fall. Explore parent workshops to learn strategies for supporting your child’s love of reading all year round! Families who attend will receive a kit of new books to read at home together.

Sizzling Summer Material List

Hello, Crabby
ABC Mindful Me
There’s Only One You
I Am Enough
The One Day House
We March
Let’s Celebrate Diwali
I Am Smart
Princess Truly: I Am a Super Girl!
Dreamers
Hello Summer!
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Jabari Jumps
Attack of the 50-Foot Fly
Spring After Spring
Rainforest Opposites
Ty’s Travels: Zip, Zoom!
Protecting Earth’s Waters
More Than Peach
Lala’s Words
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Jingle Dancer
I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
Red Kite, Blue Kite
Guacamole: Un Poema Para Cocinar / A Cooking Poem
Maria Tallchief
King & Kayla and the Case of the Secret Code
Soccer On Sunday
The Word Collector
National Geographic Readers: Weird Sea Creatures
Fly Guy’s Big Family
The World Is Not a Rectangle
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #3: Surf’s Up, Creepy Stuff!
Unicorns and Germs

Imagine
The Earth Gives More
Fly Guy Presents: Dogs
Pug’s Road Trip
King & Kayla and the Lost Library Book
Your Name is a Song
Drum Dream Girl
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils

Write to Me
Landed
A Marvelous Mexican Misunderstanding
The Hallelujah Flight
Coyote Tales
Who Would Win?: Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark
What If You Had T. Rex Teeth?
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #2: Ghosts Don’t Ride Bikes, Do They?
Mia Mayhem Learns to Fly
The Bad Guys
The Lion’s Share
Planting Stories
Camp Out!
The Bad Guys in Open Wide and Say ARRRGH!
Vera Vance: Comics Star
Science of Fun Stuff: Unmasking the Science of Superpowers!
Be A King
You Should Meet Katherine Johnson
Mia Mayhem Is A Superhero!
Who Would Win?: Walrus vs. Elephant Seal
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Salsa Stories
The Youngest Marcher
Yo-Yo and Yeou-Cheng Ma, Finding Their Way
Comeback Catcher
Bat and the End of Everytyhing
Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire
Mega Robo Bros
Sarai and the Meaning of Awesome
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
Yes! We Are Latinos
Schomburg
Ink!
Charlie and Frog
Ways to Make Sunshine
Manjhi Moves a Mountain
Thursday – War of the Waterslides
Future Hero #1: Race to Fire Mountain
Animal Rescue Friends
The International Space Station
Mario and the Hole in the Sky
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Towers Falling
Making Friends with Billy Wong
Betty Before X
Wish Upon a Sleepover
The Great Migration
A Whole New Ballgame
Soar
Ugly
I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910
Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream: On Point
Science Comics: Volcanoes: Fires and Life
Shirley Chisholm Dared
Any Day With You
A Spy Called James
Ocean Life
Hidden Figures
Flor and Miranda Steal the Show
You Can Save the Planet
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Scholastic Success Workbook with Reading Comprehension
Scholastic Success Workbook with Writing
Scholastic Success Workbook with Math
How I Became a Ghost
Her Own Two Feet
Game of Stars
Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
Top 20 Daredevils
Project Middle School
The Doughnut King
Ghost Squad
Legends of the Sky
What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything?
Torpedoed
The Way to Rio Luna
Connect the Dots
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now
Native American Heroes
How To Be An Elephant
Child of the Dream
Forest World
Chasing Jaguars
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Middle School 5-Magazine Pack

This is Just a Test
Finding Mighty
My Fate According to the Butterfly
Aru Shah and the Song of Death
Accidental Archaeologists
Salt
Finding Langston
The Dark Lord Clementine
Artemis Fowl
Rebel Voices
What Color Is My World?
Almost Astronauts

Freedom Fire
Hour of the Bees
The Tryout
A Wish in the Dark
It’s the End of the World and I’m In My Bathing Suit
The Last Cuentista
Out of Hiding
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Middle School 5-Magazine Pack

Ocdaniel
Sparrow
Fly Girls
The Dreamer
Stargirl
Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Unbound
Miles Morales
Resistance
Voices From the March on Washington
Behind the Mountains
Bouncing Back
Class Act

The Curse of the Mummy
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
The Great Pengui