Summer Reading

Students must select ONE from this list:

• Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
• Out of My Mind by Sharon R. Draper
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka
• The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

Students must select ONE from this list:

• A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle 
• The Giver - Lois Lowry (Digital Copy) (Audio)
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (Audio)
• The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier (Digital Copy)
• Monster - Walter Dean Myers

Choose One

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Dawn - Elie Wiesel
• Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• Rookie Yearbook One - Tavi Gevinson
• The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
• Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
• Every Day - David Levithan                
• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
• Ender’s Game -  Orson Scott Card

Students must read at least 1 full  novel OR 1 complete graphic novel series of their choosing. When classes begin they will use their chosen text to complete a project.

Student selected list:  

• The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
• Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
• My Sister’s Bones by Cathi Hanauer
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

Summer reading options (choose one):

• Read 1 non-fiction book
• Read 5 famous speeches
• View 5 argumentative presentations

When classes begin, students will use their chosen texts to complete a project.

Student selected list:

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger        
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult        
• The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak        
• Room by Emma Donoghue                
• The Night Circus by Elin Morgenstern

Students must read at least 1 full  novel OR 1 complete graphic novel series of their choosing. When classes begin they will use their chosen text to complete a project.

Suggested Text: How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster