Please click on the headline above for PDF files of summer reading lists by grade. Listed below are the required books for grades 5-12. There is no required reading for students in Preschool-grade 4.
Grade 5: Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Grade 6: The Giver by Lois Lowery
Grade 7: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Grade 8: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith OR Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Grade 9: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid AND Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Grade 10: The Big Sea by Langston Hughes AND The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Highly recommended, though not required, is Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Grade 11: The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, AND One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, AND Uncle Tom's Children by Richard Wright
Highly recommended is at least one of the following: Krik?Krak! by Edwidge Danticat; The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai; The Bone People by Keri Hulme; A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry; Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Grade 12: Essays of E.B. White by E.B. White PLUS ONE of the following: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White; Stuart Little by E.B. White; The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White.