The students nominated this year’s school-wide summer reading selections. Students should research the titles to select one of the four books (listed on the right) that most interests them. During the first week of school, students will complete a variety of assignments in class addressing the areas identified in the purpose statement provided on the full summer reading link.
Honors and AP English courses have other required reading in addition to the selection of a book from the list of four. To see all of the required summer reading assignments, click HERE or view the slide show below.
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Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman |
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive. |
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Boy 21 by Matthew Quick |
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences. |
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Cinder by Marissa Meyer |
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle. |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah |
Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. |
