Holiday weeks are some of the best times to get kids reading, and some of the hardest times to find books at the right level. So we wrote them: 2,600 free holiday books, organised by grade, each one teaching something real. Here is what is in each grade band, with a few favourites to start.
Kindergarten to Grade 2: count, read and celebrate
Short, large-print books with counting, phonics and simple science.
- Halloween: Ten Little Bats, The Pumpkin Who Wasn’t Round.
- Thanksgiving: Ten Thankful Things, The Turkey Trot.
- Hanukkah: Eight Little Lights, 44 Candles in All.
- Christmas: Ten Little Ornaments, Twelve Days of Counting.
Grades 3–5: maths, science and history stories
- Halloween: The Multiplication Spell Book, Equivalent Fractions in the Candy Shop.
- Thanksgiving: The Harvest of 1621, The Wild Turkey Comeback.
- Hanukkah: Energy in a Candle Flame, The Revolt in Modi’in.
- Christmas: Energy in Christmas Lights, The Chemistry of Candy Canes and Caramel.
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Grades 6–8: real-world science and history
- Halloween: What the Vampire Bats Know, The Peppered Moth.
- Thanksgiving: Why Cranberries Bounce, Heritage Turkey Breeds.
- Hanukkah: Linear Equations of Candle Burn Rates.
- Christmas: Stringing Lights with Pythagoras, Newton’s Laws on a Toboggan.
Grades 9–12: longer, deeper reads
- Halloween: Glow-in-the-Dark Chemistry, De-Extinction.
- Thanksgiving: Brining and Osmosis, The Dutch Hunger Winter.
- Hanukkah: Rates of Change: Calculus of a Burning Candle.
- Christmas: The Tree from Halifax, Heat from the Cold.
How teachers use them
- Assign a book to a class from the free Pagine teacher dashboard and see who has read it.
- Use the subject label to fit a holiday book into maths or science time.
- Pair a book with a holiday worksheet such as Christmas maths word problems or Thanksgiving reading comprehension.
Every Pagine Original is checked against the PagineApp Guidelines for age, safety and accuracy, then read through by a teacher, whose name appears in the book once reviewed.
Browse all four holiday collections and pick a grade.