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