Read With Us This Summer - 2025
Read with us this Summer!
Welcome to this year’s summer reading portal, where you can find special book suggestions from Mr. Cooper and our amazing teachers.
Student summer reading lists by division coming out soon. Be sure to check back often for updates!
Aaron Cooper, Head of School
- The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson (also read the first book in the trilogy called The British are Coming)
- The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger
- From the Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Holly Donaldson Casella '04, Director of Advancement
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
- The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Katherine Kaneko, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Beth O'Brien, Director of Enrollment Management and Financial Aid
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Early Childhood & Lower School Divisions
Jeannie Staunton Bean '83, Director of Early Childhood- The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need From Grownups by Erika Christakis
- Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Meaghan Mallin, Head of Early Childhood and Lower School
- All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
- Be You! by Peter H. Reynolds
Middle & Upper School Divisions
Kirsten Rosolen, Head of Middle and Upper School- The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connect, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Reshan Richards, Director of Studies
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
- Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricort
Horizons
Leanne Tormey, Horizons Executive Director
Leanne Tormey, Horizons Executive Director
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness by Susan Verde
Summer Reading
- Malala's Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
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