2019 Summer Reading
English
Directions:
- Choose ONE book from the following list for your grade level.
- What is the message, main idea, or author’s purpose of your chosen work? What did you learn as a result of reading your book?
- Bookmark or use Post- it notes to note at least THREE impactful or important sections and make annotations in the text so you can easily refer to these passages while working on your project when you return to school in August.
*Works denoted as a challenge read have been an option for writing on the English Advanced Placement exams.
Freshman
Fiction
- Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667.Boy - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1618.The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night_Time?ac=1&from_search=true - The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28691932-the-forgetting?ac=1&from_search=true - Call of the Wild by Jack London
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1852.The_Call_of_the_Wild?ac=1&from_search=true - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1934.Little_Women?ac=1&from_search=true - The Giver by Lois Lowry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1934.Little_Women?ac=1&from_search=true - My Antonia by Willa Cather (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17150.My_ntonia?ac=1&from_search=true - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief?ac=1&from_search=true - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052-the-hunger-games?ac=1&from_search=true - The Maze Runner by James Dashner
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6186357-the-maze-runner?ac=1&from_search=true - Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642663-navigating-early?ac=1&from_search=true
Non-Fiction
- Brian’s Song by William Blinn (A Piece of STA history)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/846533.Brian_s_Song?ac=1&from_search=true - We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286901.We_are_the_Ship?ac=1&from_search=true - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie?ac=1&from_search=true
Sophomore
Fiction
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693208.The_Absolutely_True_Diary_of_a_Part_Time_Indian?ac=1&from_search=true
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see?ac=1&from_search=true - The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431.The_Five_People_You_Meet_in_Heaven?ac=1&from_search=true - Our Town by Thornton Wilder
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205476.Our_Town - Wonder by R.J. Palacio
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11387515-wonder?ac=1&from_search=true - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings?ac=1&from_search=true - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139253.The_House_on_Mango_Street?ac=1&from_search=true
Non-Fiction
- 1968 by Michael Kaufman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3345.1968?ac=1&from_search=true - Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conklin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33590224-votes-for-women?ac=1&from_search=true - Under the Lights and In the Dark by Gwendolyn Oxenham
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33114524-under-the-lights-and-in-the-dark?ac=1&from_search=true - Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul Jabar
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32197594-coach-wooden-and-me?ac=1&from_search=true
Junior
Fiction
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4588.Extremely_Loud_and_Incredibly_Close?ac=1&from_search=true - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15745753-eleanor-park?ac=1&from_search=true - What the Night Sings by Vesper Samper
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35550152-what-the-night-sings?ac=1&from_search=true - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye?ac=1&from_search=true - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help?ac=1&from_search=true - The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37435.The_Secret_Life_of_Bees?ac=1&from_search=true - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany?ac=1&from_search=true
Non-Fiction
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Wood
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821284-brown-girl-dreaming?ac=1&from_search=true - Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068790-voices-in-the-air?ac=1&from_search=true - Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secrets of the VietNam War by Steve Sheinkin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23310694-most-dangerous?ac=1&from_search=true - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17851885-i-am-malala?ac=1&from_search=true - Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158542-the-boys-in-the-boat?ac=1&from_search=true
Senior
Fiction
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333223-the-goldfinch?ac=1&from_search=true - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16299.And_Then_There_Were_None?ac=1&from_search=true - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice?ac=1&from_search=true - The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit?ac=1&from_search=true - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14940.Who_s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf_?ac=1&from_search=true - Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32797614-twelve-steps-to-normal?ac=1&from_search=true - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Challenge Read)*
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights?ac=1&from_search=true
Non-Fiction
- Into the Wild by Krakauer
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild?ac=1&from_search=true - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air?ac=1&from_search=true - Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000990.Phineas_Gage?ac=1&from_search=true - Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35576416-boots-on-the-ground?ac=1&from_search=true - How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39933.How_to_Read_Literature_Like_a_Professor?ac=1&from_search=true - Where You Go Is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22675976-where-you-go-is-not-who-you-ll-be?ac=1&from_search=true
Science
Environmental Science AP
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227265.Ishmael...
Social Studies
World History AP
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germ...
United States History AP
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76401.Bury_My_...
comparative Government and Politics AP
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, and America by Timothy Snyder
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36217163-the-r...
Theology
Junior Dual Enrollment
Meeting Jesus in the Sacraments by Pope Francis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25305139-meeti...
Senior Honors and Dual Enrollment
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11138.Mere_Chr...
World Languages
Each of the world language courses has an assignment corresponding with the summer reading that must be completed at the start of school in August.
French Language and Culture AP
Le Comte de Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
https://www.teachersdiscovery.