Summer Reading List

List of 6 items.

• English 6

  All students are required to read Holes by Louis Sachar. Reading at least one other book from the list below is recommended.

  Among the Hidden	Margaret Peterson Haddix
  Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson
  Charlotte's Web	E.B. White
  From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	E.L. Konigsburg
  Holes	Louis Sachar (Required)
  I Heard the Owl Call My Name	Margaret Craven

  Little House on the Prairie

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Matilda	Roald Dahl
  Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls

• English 7

  All students are required to read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.  Reading at least one other book from the list below is recommended.
  

  A Separate Piece	John Knowles
  A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle (Required)
  Absolutely Normal Chaos	Sharon Creech
  In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse	Joseph Marshall
  Feed	Matthew Tobin Anderson
  The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier
  The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman
  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis
  The Phantom Tollbooth	Norton Juster

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  Harper Lee

• English 8

  All students are required to read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.  Reading at least one other book from the list below is recommended.
  

  A Wizard of Earthsea	Ursula LeGuin
  As Brave as You	Jason Reynolds
  Booked	Kwame Alexander
  Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury (Required)
  Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary	Gail Jarrow
  I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition)	Malala Yousafzai
  Samurai Rising	Pamela S. Turner
  The Girl Who Drank the Moon	Kelly Barnhill
  The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman
  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis

• English 9

  All 9th grade students are required to read at least two books from the list below and to be ready to write about them on the first day of class.
  

  Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood	Trevor Noah
  East of Eden	John Steinbeck
  Harry Potter Series	JK Rowling
  Little Brother	Cory Doctorow
  Lunar Chronicles Series	Marissa Meyer
  Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series	Michael Scott
  The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon
  The Kane Chronicles Series	Rick Riordan
  The Omnivore's Dilemma (Young Readers Edition)	Michael Pollan

• English 10

  All 10th grade students are required to read Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans and Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Reading at least one other book from the list below is recommended.
  
  

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
  Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut (Required)
  Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life	Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Required)
  Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card
  Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton
  Flowers of Algernon	Daniel Keys
  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Franklin
  The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan
  The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane
  The Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien
  Tuesday with Morrie	Mitch Albom

• English 11 & 12

  AP students are required to read at least three books from the list below and to be ready to write about them on the first day of class
  
  College prep students are required to read at least two books from the list below and to be ready to write about them on the first day of class.
  

  All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy
  Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy
  Beloved	Toni Morrison
  Ceremony	Leslie Marmon Silko
  Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Democracy in America	Alexis de Tocqueville
  Educated	Tara Westover
  Go Tell it on the Mountain	James Baldwin
  Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
  Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
  Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
  Light in August	William Faulkner
  Moby Dick	Herman Melville
  Moonwalking with Einstein	Joshua Foer
  Nickel and Dimed	Barbara Ehrenreich
  Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell
  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce
  Slouching Toward Bethlehem	Joan Didion
  Speak, Memory	Vladimir Nabokov