HS Summer Reading
9th Grade
Read one of the following:
A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
PreAP 9th Grade
Required: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
PLUS one of the following (your choice):
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Half Broke Horses by Janette Walls
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
10th Grade – Regular and PreAP
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (2014, Revised Edition)
Complete the corresponding assignment.
11th Grade
Read one of the following:
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Alchemist by Paula Coelho
Complete the corresponding assignment.
AP English Language & Composition (11th grade)
Choose one of the following texts:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Complete the corresponding assignment.
12th Grade
Read one of the following:
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman
Alexie
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
AP English Literature & Composition (12th grade)
Choose one of the following:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Required for new students to LSA within the last two years (in addition):
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (2014, Revised Edition)
Complete the corresponding assignment.