Summer Reading Lists

Novels with a particular translation or ISBN specified must be purchased. Any edition of the other novels is acceptable as long as it is not an abridged version. Click on any of the book covers for more information about each book.

In addition to reading the books on your grade level list, please download the corresponding handouts from the following link:

CLICK HERE FOR: SUMMER READING HANDOUTS

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ENGLISH/LITERATURE:

Apart from timeless classics, students are also assigned a variety of contemporary novels. The novels on this list have been selected for their literary merit and the appropriate alignment with course objectives and thematic strands. Because of their postmodern nature, some of the books may include—within their historical and/or cultural context—language, events or descriptions that contain profanity, violence, sexual content or material that is intended for the mature reader.

6th Grade

Students are to read both books. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Book 1)
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Book 1)

7th Grade Pre-AP

Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options. Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

Required book:

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Choose one more from this list:

• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

• Tangerine by Edward Bloor

• London Calling by Edward Bloor

• Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa

7th Grade Regular

Choose two books to read from this list. Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

• Tangerine by Edward Bloor

• London Calling by Edward Bloor

• Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa

8th Grade Pre-AP

Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options. Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

Required book:

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Choose one more from this list:

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

8th Grade Regular

Choose two books to read from this list. Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

English I Pre-AP

Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options. Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

Required book:

• Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
  ISBN-10: 0143039954; ISBN-13: 978-0143039952

Choose one more from this list:

• Dove by Robin Lee Graham
• The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez

English I Regular

Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options. Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

Required book:

• Dove by Robin Lee Graham

Choose one more from this list:

• Gilead by Marilynne Walker

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The Natural by Bernard Malamud

• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

• Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• The World in Half by Cristina Henriquez

• Once Upon a Quinceanera by Julia Alvarez

English II Pre-AP

Students are to read both books. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

English II Regular

Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

Required book:

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Choose one more from this list:

• Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk-Kidd

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

English III AP

Students are to read both books. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  Publisher: Penguin Classics Deluxe edition only (with the intro by Eric Schlosser)
  ISBN-10: 014303958X ; ISBN-13: 9780143039587
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
  Publisher: Harper Perennial
  ISBN-10: 0060838582 ; ISBN-13: 9780060838584

Students are to rent and view Super Size Me, a documentary by Morgan Spurlock *OR* go to see Food Inc., a film by Robert Kenner that is opening in theaters in June.

English III Regular

Students are to read both books. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

English IV AP

Students are to read both books. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth’s Castle by Liza Campbell

English IV Regular

Students are to read the following book. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

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OTHER AP CLASSES:

AP Biology

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP Calculus

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP Chemistry

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP Economics

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP Environmental Science

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP French

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions.

AP Government

Please see the handouts (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions.

AP Latin

Students are to read The Aeneid by Vergil. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions. You must choose one of the following editions, listed by translator:

• Fagles, Robert
• Fitzgerald, Robert
• Lombardo, Stanley

AP Physics

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions.

AP Spanish Language

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions.

AP Spanish Literature

Students are to read selected stories from the following book. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific stories and instructions.

• Momentos Cumbres de las Literaturas Hispanicas (High School) by Rodriquez
  Edition: 04
  Publisher: Pearson
  ISBN-10: 0131016458; ISBN-13: 9780131016458

AP Statistics

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP Studio Art

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for specific instructions.

AP US History

Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions.

AP World History

Students are to read the following book. Please see the handout (link is at the top of this post) for the summer reading instructions.

• The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present by Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik

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