Summer Reading Assignment

The list of authors, series, and books below are recommendations from current AHS students and teachers. With the exception of Advanced Placement* classes, STUDENTS HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE ACCORDING TO THEIR INTERESTS.

During the summer, keep a reading log on each book as you read. (See the link on the left side of this screen to view and print the reading log, either in PDF or Word format.)

On the first day of school, return with your reading logs and be prepared to share your books with other students in a "book chat." This will not be a formal report but rather a discussion designed to spread the word about good books. All students who participate by reading at least two books will receive reading FABULOUS PRIZES.

*Advanced Placement students will follow a different reading program, which will be outlined by Mrs. Ancelet and Mrs. Savoie before the end of the school year.

Reading Recommendations

Short summaries of each book are available by clicking on either of the following links and typing in the title about which you want more information:
         www.barnesandnoble.com
              www.amazon.com

Please note:
Because the recommendations in this brochure cover a wide range of maturity and reading levels, it is suggested that STUDENTS and PARENTS reveiw the lists and make the appropriate selections for summer reading together.

Students and teachers recommend books by ANY of these authors:

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers
Ball Don’t Lie, Matt De La Pena
Beastly, Alex Flinn
Black and White, Paul Volponi
Blossom: A Novel, Queen Pen
Breathing Underwater, Alex Flinn
Brute, Mike Klaassen
Burn Journals, Brent Runyon
Choice, Nicholas Sparks
Copper Sun, Sharon Draper
Deadline, Chris Crutcher
Double Identity, Margaret Haddix
Dreadful Sorry, Kathryn Reiss
Dreamland, Sarah Dessen
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Financial Literacy for Teens, Chad Foster & Misty Elliot
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story, Lila Perl
Getting Hooked, Nyomi Scott
Give a Boy a Gun, Todd Strasser
Glass, Ellen Hopkins
Harley, Like a Person, Cat Bauer
Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx
Hurricane, Terry Trueman
I Heard That Song Before, Mary Higgins Clark
Innocent Man, John Grisham
Just Listen, Sarah Dessen
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Life in the Fat Lane, Cherie Bennett
Lightning, Dean Koontz
Love, Cajun Style, Diane Les Becquets
Magic Street, Orson Scott Card
Maximum Ride: The Manga, James Patterson
Miracle’s Boys, Jacqueline Woodson
My Brother’s Keeper, Patricia McCormick
Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
No Place Like Home, Mary Higgins Clark
Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
Pretty Tough, Liz Tigelaar
Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
Secret Hour, Scott Westerfield
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
Shadow of a Doubt, S.L. Rottman
Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
Skin, Ted Dekker
Sold, Patricia McCormick
Someone Like You, Sarah Dessen
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz
Stay with Me, Garret Freymann-Weyr
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Tyrell, Coe Booth
What Happened to Cass McBride?, Gail Giles
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

Series

Alex Rider Adventures, Anthony Horowitz
Bluford High, Anne Schraff
Cirque du Freak, Darren Shan
Clique, Lisi Hiarrison
Demonata, Darren Shan
Ender’s, Orson Scott Card
Fire Star Trilogy, Chris D’Lacey
Gossip Girl, Von Ziegesar
Hazelwood High, Sharon Draper
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron
Maximum Ride, James Patterson
Nancy Drew, Carolyn Keene
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan
Redwall, Brian Jacques
Runestone Saga, Chris Humphreys
Shamer Chronicles, Lene Kaaberol
The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, Douglas Adams
The Uglies, Scott Westerfield
Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer
Vampire Plagues, Sebastian Rook
Women’s Murder Club, James Patterson
Xanth, Piers Anthony