This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. - Psalms 119:50

Summer Reading Program

Reading Lists - Titles in bold-faced type are required.

Sixth Grade

  • Trumpet of the Swan—E. B. White
  • The Incredible Journey—Sheila Burnford
  • My Side of the Mountain—Jean Craighead George
  • On the Far Side of the Mountain—Jean Craighead George
  • The Foundling—Linda Hayner
  • Captains Courageous—Rudyard Kipling
  • Big Red—Jim Kjelgaard
  • Indian Captive—The Story of Mary Jemison—Scott O’Dell
  • Strawberry Girl—Lois Lenski
  • The Hawk that Dare Not Hunt by Day—Scott O’Dell
  • The Yearling—Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins—Scott O’Dell
  • The Bronze Bow—Elizabeth George Speare
  • Number the Stars—Lois Lowry
  • Where the Red Fern Grows—Wilson Rawls
  • Bridge to Terabithia—Katherine Paterson
  • The Secret Garden—Frances Burnett
  • Holes—Louis Sachar
  • Bud, not Buddy—Christopher Curtis
  • Call it Courage—Armstrong Sperry
  • Julie of the Wolves—Jean C. George
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall—Patricia MacLachlan
  • The Sign of the Beaver—Elizabeth George Speare
  • Stowaway—Karen Hesse
  • Little Women—Louisa May Alcott

Seventh Grade

  • Witch of Blackbird Pond—Elizabeth George Speare
  • I Am David—Anne S. Holm
  • Whose Side Are You On?—Emily Moore
  • Voyages of Doctor Dolittle—Hugh Lofting
  • Anne of Avonlea—L. M. Montgomery
  • Isobel Kuhn—Lois Hoadley Dick
  • The Boy Who Spoke Dog—Clay Morgan
  • Haunted Waters—Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Loser—Jerry Spinelli
  • Redwall – Brian Jacques

Eighth Grade

  • Johnny Tremain—Esther Forbes
  • Mercy at Midnight—Lois Hoadley Dick
  • King’s Fifth—Scott O’Dell
  • God’s Smuggler—Brother Andrew; John and Elizabeth Sherrill
  • Stargirl—Jerry Spinelli
  • A Wrinkle in Time—Madeline L’Engle
  • Rifles for Watie—Harold Keith
  • Wheel on the School—Meindert DeJong
  • Crash—Jerry Spinelli
  • Amos Fortune, Free Man—Elizabeth Yates


Ninth Grade

  • Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
  • Hounds of the Baskervilles—Doyle
  • The Time Machine—Wells
  • Three Musketeers—Dumas
  • A Farewell to Arms—Hemmingway
  • Around the World in 80 Days—Verne
  • Picture of Dorian Gray—Wilde
  • Pearl—Steinbeck
  • Prince and the Pauper—Twain
  • Outsiders—Hinton
  • Last of the Mohicans—Cooper
  • Hatchet—Paulsen
  • Sword in the Stone—White
  • War of the Worlds—Wells
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Twain
  • Captains Courageous—Kipling
  • I, Robot—Asimov
  • The Little Prince – St. Exupiry
  • Ivanhoe – Scott
  • Treasure Island – Stevenson
  • Scarlet Pimpernel – Orczy
  • Navajo Code Talkers – Aaseng


Tenth Grade

  • Night—Elie Wiesel
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die—Peck
  • Cassie Bernall:  She Said Yes
  • Gifted Hands—Ben Carson, M. D.
  • The Atonement Child—Francine Rivers
  • Death, Be Not Proud—John Gunther
  • The Giver—Lois Lowry
  • Phantom of the Opera—Leroux
  • The Man In the Iron Mask—Alexandre Dumas
  • Lost World—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Adventures of S. H.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Flowers for Algernon—Keyes
  • Three Musketeers—Dumas
  • The Count of Monte Cristo—Dumas
  • Silas Marner – Eliot
  • Evidence Not Seen – Rose


Eleventh Grade

  • Up From Slavery—Booker T. Washington
  • Daisy Miller—Henry James
  • To Kill a Mockingbird—Harper Lee
  • The House of the Seven Gables—Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Age of Innocence—Edith Wharton
  • My Antonia—Willa Cather
  • The Promise—Chaim Potok
  • The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gone with the Wind—Margaret Mitchell
  • Innocents Abroad—Mark Twain
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court—Mark Twain
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • The Killer Angels—Jeff Shaara
  • Little Women—Louisa May Alcott
  • Little Men—Louisa May Alcott
  • The Story of My Life—Helen Keller
  • The Divine Romance—Gene Edwards
  • Candle in the Darkness—Lynn Austin
  • Last of the Breed—Louis L’Amour
  • Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad


Twelfth Grade

  • Wuthering Heights—Bronte
  • Gulliver’s Travels—Jonathan Swift
  • Jane Eyre—Charlotte Brontë
  • Great Expectations—Charles Dickens
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories—Leo Tolstoy
  • Idyllis of the King—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen
  • Emma—Jane Austin
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel—Baroness Orczy
  • The Vicar of Wakefield—Oliver Goldsmith
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge—Thomas Hardy
  • Rebecca—Daphne DuMaurier
  • The Promise—Chaim Potok
  • My Name is Asher Lev—Chaim Potok
  • The Curate’s Awakening—George MacDonald
  • The Lady’s Confession—George MacDonald
  • The Baron’s Apprenticeship—George MacDonald
  • Robinson Crusoe - Defoe


Twelfth Grade AP Students

  • Gulliver’s Travels—Jonathan Swift
  • Tartuffe and Don Juan—Molière
  • Brave New World—Aldous Huxley
  • Crime and Punishment—Feodor Dostoevsky
  • Obasan—Joy Kogawa
  • Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead—T. Leo Stoppard
  • Great Expectations—Charles Dickens
  • The Glass Menagerie—Tennessee Williams
  • Tale of Two Cities—Charles Dickens
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Miami, FL 33183
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