2019 Summer Reading Lists
- Students should be prepared for an assessment on their assigned text(s) during the first week of school.
- Please note that 8th graders (Honors), Honors students, and AP students will read TWO books.
Grade 8
CP1: Coin Toss by Brian Amado
Honors:
Call of the Wild by Jack London
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Grade 9
CP: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
CP1: Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Honors:
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of WWII by Joseph Bruchac
Grade 10
CP: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
CP1: Call Me By My Name by John Ed Bradley
Honors:
Call Me By My Name by John Ed Bradley
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Grade 11
CP: Maus: Vol I, My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
CP1: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Honors:
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
AP:
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Grade 12
CP: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
CP1: A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
Honors:
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
AP:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney