Summer 2016 Reading List

  • Feel free to locate summer reading books at your nearest library.
  • For Incoming 8th Graders:
  • Purpose: Scholars will be given lessons for the literary review which detail the importance of writing and defending a claim. Oppositely, when writing a summary, students will be instructed to choose important details from the novel all while avoiding passive voice and 1st person pronouns. This assignment sets academic language and rules to follow which will be applied throughout the entire school year.
  • Assignment: Upon returning to school in August of 2016 scholars willcompose one literary review, and one detailed summary for the novels read over the summer.
  • Books: Choose two from the list below to read

Title/Author Lexile

  • The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger 790
  • Call of the Wild , Jack London 990
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 870
  • The Circuit, Francisco Jimenez 880
  • Breaking Through, Francisco Jimenez 750
  • Dove, Robin Lee Graham 1020
  • Monster, Walter Dean Myers 670
  • *She’s So Money, Cherry Cheva 920
  • Slam, Walter Dean Myers 750
  • *Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson 690
  • *Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson 680
  • *Ellen Foster, Kaye Gibbons 870
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith 810
  • Walk Two Moons,Sharon Creech 770
  • *Deadline, Chris Crutcher 880
  • Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher 920
  • *Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher 550
  • *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie 600
  • *Flight, Sherman Alexie 550
  • *The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky 720
  • *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon 1180
  • Lord of the Flies, William Golding 770
  • The Yearling, Marjorie Rawlings 750
  • Wonder, RJ Palacio 790
  • *Looking for Alaska, John Green 930
  • *Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin 1030
  • Black Boy, Richard Wright 7.4 UG (RennLearn)
  • *All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy 940
  • *Always Running, Luis Rodriguez 830
  • The Skin I’m In, Sharon Flake 670
  • Crystal, Walter Dean Myers 610
  • Before We Were Free, Julia Alvarez 890
  • Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, Victor Martinez 1000
  • *Crank, Ellen Hopkins 720
  • *Impulse, Ellen Hopkins 680
  • 1984, George Orwell 1090
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 890
  • *A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah 920
  • Little Brother, Doctorow Cory 900
  • My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult 840
  • Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult 890
  • *Candy, Kevin Brooks 640
  • The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 1140
  • The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer 660
  • *By the Time You Read This, I’ll be Dead, by Julie Ann Peters 460
  • Malcolm X, Alex Haley 1120
  • Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers 650
  • *Cut, Patricia McCormick 4.6 (RenLearn)
  • *Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card 780
  • *The First Part Last, Angela Johnson 790
  • *Shooter, Walter Dean Myers 690
  • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls 1010

  • NOTE TO PARENTS: *A star indicates the book is recommended for mature students. Parents, these books are optional and alternative books will be allowed. Please be aware of what your child is reading, and of the appropriateness of the reading material for your child.*