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2025-2026 Summer Reading List

LOWER SCHOOL

Our summer reading program at FPD is designed to encourage students to read appropriate selections that can challenge and improve their reading comprehension.  We hope each student will find these reading assignments will enhance their summer experience.

UPPER SCHOOL

God has given us language as a means of learning about creation, a way to communicate with and about God, a way to communicate about His creation and how we should live, and a tool to care for creation and change our world.  God has chosen to communicate to us in writing through the Bible.  Through written text, we learn about the world and other people by stepping into their shoes and we enjoy vicarious experiences by exercising our God-given imagination.

Understanding our culture involves not only experiential participation in the current but also knowledge of the past.  Recognized classics in literature help us to see where our culture has come from and why we are where we are today.  Classics give us a rich vocabulary of images and common knowledge that helps us communicate vivid ideas.  Consider ideas like an Achilles’ heel, Pandora’s box, Icarus flying too high, Sisyphus rolling his stone to the top of the hill for eternity, the tortoise and the hare, or David and Goliath.  Ideas from classical literature and the Bible find their way regularly into our common discourse.

Studying works of modern importance help us to learn to understand and engage in our culture.  Most of our students will attend secular universities and must encounter texts that are sometimes openly and often subtly hostile to the Christian faith.  The best way to learn to recognize and confront these ideas is with the help of a competent Christian parent/guardian, pastor, mentor, or teacher.  Our students need to be prepared to engage our culture in redemptive ways. They need to be able to recognize and challenge ideas raised against their faith (II Corinthians 10:4, 5). We do have students in the upper grades read texts that may even be opposed to a Christian world-and-life view.  We understand the movement in our culture against our faith.  Furthermore, we understand that for many secular writers to be published, they must attempt to appeal to all beliefs and agendas.

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