Summer Reading Lists

Grades K to 5

Whitman-Hanson Elementary Summer Reading Suggestions 2013

Grades 6 to 8

All students will be required to read two novels written by any authors on the DESE Common Core Standards List of Authors. There is no written component to summer reading; however, students should be prepared to write a reflection on the characters upon returning to school in the fall.

The ELA teachers ask that students do not read the following books, as they are part of the grade level curriculum:
Grade 6: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Holes by Louis Sachar, Something Upstairs by Avi
Grade 7: The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm, Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Grade 8: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Grades 9 to 12

Links are provided to copies in the Hanson Public Library as well as to titles available in Overdrive, our eBook and digital audiobook service.

All students must choose ONE of the following selections:

• The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
• The Help – Kathryn Stockett | eBook | digital audiobook
• Matched – Ally Condie | eBook | digital audiobook
• Survival of the Sickest – Sharon Moalem | digital audiobook
• Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand | eBook | digital audiobook

All Freshman Honors students must ALSO read:

• Animal Farm – George Orwell | eBook | digital audiobook
• “Harrison Bergeron” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• “The Most Dangerous Game” – Richard Connell

All Sophomore Honors students must ALSO read:

• My Name Is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne | digital audiobook

All Junior Honors students must ALSO read:

• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien | eBook
• The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom
• The Education of Little Tree – Forrest Carter

All Senior Honors students must ALSO read:

• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin | eBook | digital audiobook
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens | eBook | digital audiobook

All AP Language students must ALSO read:

• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak | eBook | digital audiobook
• The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King

All AP Literature students must ALSO read:

• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• The Awakening – Kate Chopin | eBook | digital audiobook
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens | eBook | digital audiobook
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy | eBook | digital audiobook