Summer Reading
All students are required to complete summer reading! There are no excuses!

English II Options


All Things Bright and Beautiful
by James Herriot

Angels Watching Over Me
by Lurlene McDaniel

Hard Ball

by Will Weaver

My Darling, My Hamburger
by Paul Zindel

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

by Ernest Gaines

Someone Like You
by Sarah Dressen

Night Hoops

by Carl Deuker

Speak
by Louis Halse Anderson

English I Options


A Time for Dancing
by Davida Wills Hurwin

Clover
by Dori Sanders

Mick Harte Was Here
by Barbara Park

Rite of Passage
by Richard Wright

Slam
by Walter Dean Myers

The Education of Little Tree

by Forrest Carter

Till Death Do Us Part
by Lurlene McDaniel

Dancing with an Alien

by Mary Logue

The Heart Calls Home
by Joyce Hansen
You must keep a response journal consisting of 10 entries of at least 100 words each! Be ready to be assessed on the books when you return!

English IV Options


Letters from Vinnie
by Maureen Stack Sappey

I am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot
by Nancy Springer

A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt

Kaffir Boy
by Mark Mathabane

Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie

The Client
by John Grisham

The Hiding Place
by Corrie Ten Bloom

The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien

Turnabout
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

English III Options


A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest Gaines

All My Sons
by Arthur Miller

Message in a Bottle
by Nicholas Sparks

Rocket Boys

by Homer Hickman, Jr.

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
by Fannie Flagg

Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts

Dreamland
by Sarah Dressen

On the Devil's Court

by Carl Dueker

Blood and Chocolate
by Annette Curtis Klause
Honors Level Requirements
Honors level students must read the marked book plus one book of their choice.
English III Honors

*Catch 22* by Joseph Heller

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
English II Honors

*The Joy Luck Club* Amy Tan

The Reivers by William Faulkner
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Color of Water  by James McBride
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My Anonia by Willa Cather
When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
English IVHonors

*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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