Regular Board Meeting 06/11/26 - View Agenda
Summer Reading Information
Best Practices for Summer Reading Programs
- Give students choice.
- Encourage parents to be involved in helping students select summer reading books.
- Clearly communicate summer reading expectations to students and parents.
- Provide a clear, detailed description of the summer reading program on the school’s website.
- Provide a brief description for each title on the list.
Fiction
The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate The Boy on the Porch, Sharon Creech The Great Unexpected, Sharon Creech The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo Flipped, Wendelin Van Drannen The Skin I’m In, Sharon G. Flake Travel Team, Mike Lupica Wonder, R. J. Palacio I Survived Series, Lauren Tarshis Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
Nonfiction
Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart, Dion Leonard Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Meyers
The Selection Series, Kiera Cass The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton Amina’s Voice, Hena Khan The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Swallowing Stones, Joyce McDonald Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park
Homeless Bird, Gloria Whelan
Fiction
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II, Alan Garatz Refugee, Alan Gratz Hero, Mike Lupica Soldier’s Heart, Gary Paulsen Keeper, Mal Peet The Last Book in the Universe, Rodman Philbrick Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
Nonfiction
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah
Fiction
The Crossover, Kwame Alexander Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper Foul Trouble, John Feinstein The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest Gaines Lord of the Flies, William Golding (Honors) The Princess Bride, William Goldman Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (Honors) Dear Martin, N. Stone To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Falling for Hamlet Michelle Ray
Nonfiction
Jim Thorpe, Original All-American, Joseph Bruchac
Fiction
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiei The Crossover, Kwame Alexander Mosquitoland, David Arnold Tyrell, Coe Booth Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini Big Mouth and Ugly Girl, Joyce Carol Oates I Feel Like Going On: Life, Game, and Glory, Daniel Paisner and Ray Lewis I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sanchez White Teeth, Zadie Smith The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
Nonfiction
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Fiction
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou The Awakening, Kate Chopin The Onion Presents:Our Dumb Century, Scott Dikkers (editor) The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway 47, Walter Mosley The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan The Rule of Four, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Nonfiction
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, H.G. Bissinger Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Great Speeches by African Americans, James Daley (editor) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:An American Slave, Frederick Douglass Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer 12 Years a Slave, Solomon Northup The Witches:Salem, 1692, Stacy Schiff The Perfect Storm:A True Story of Men Against the Sea, Junger Sebastian
BBC News (website) The Dallas Morning News (newspaper/website) Los Angeles Times (newspaper/website) Newsweek (magazine/website) The New York Times (newspaper/website) Slate (online magazine) USA Today (newspaper/website) The Washington Post (newspaper/website)
Fiction
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Bronxwood, Coe Booth The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon The Impossible Knife of Memory, Laurie Halsey The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart The Things a Brother Knows, Dana Reinhardt
Fiction
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood In Cold Blood, Truman Capote The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution, Jeff Shaara Color Purple, Alice Walker
Nonfiction
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, Eliot Asinof Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil, Misty Bernall Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival, Anderson Cooper
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life, Jasmin Darznik Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite, William Deresiewicz David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front, Mary Jennings
Hegar Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, Jon Krakauer The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Wes Moore The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School,
Alexandra Robbins Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy,
Happy, and Fulfilling Lives, Rachel Simmons The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives, Dashka Slater Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It, Trish Wood
(Author), Bobby Muller (Contributor) The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
Fiction
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen Chronicle of Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez 1984, George Orwell The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Nonfiction
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster
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