Find information about Whitman Hanson Regional School District and South Shore Technical High School’s required summer reading assignments below. For the most up-to-date information and assignments for WHRSD students, visit the WHRSD website, select your school, and look under the ‘Student/Guardian Resources’ tab then ‘General Resources.’
All WHRHS students should select one book to read from the 2024 Summer Reading List and be prepared to complete a reflective writing assignment in the fall. See all information about summer work here.
- Rez Ball, Byron Graves || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Mosquitoland, David Arnold || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Home Home, Lisa Allen-Agostini || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Turtles All the Way Down, John Green || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Girl the the Blue Coat, Monica Hesse || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Girl Code, Andrea Gonzales & Sophie Houser || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Nathaniel Philbrick || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Poe: Stories and Poems, graphic novel adapted by Gareth Hinds || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- They Called Us Enemy, George Takei || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla)
- The Emperor’s Railroad, Guy Haley || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Starfish, Lisa Fipps || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Weight of Blood, Tiffany Jackson || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- The Last Ranger, Peter Heller || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
updated 6/3/24
- Whistling Past the Graveyard, Susan Cranfell || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury || eBook (Overdrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Between Shades of Gray, Ruth Sepetys || eBook (Overdrive/Libby) || Audiobook (Overdrive/Libby)
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Summer Reading List as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- one classic novel from the list below
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- The Awakening, Kate Chopin
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Cider House Rules, John Irving
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Fences (play), August Wilson
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
- Watchmen, Alan Moore
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Summer Reading List as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- one classic novel from the list below
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- The Awakening, Kate Chopin
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Cider House Rules, John Irving
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Fences (play), August Wilson
- The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
- The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
- Watchmen, Alan Moore
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Summer Reading List as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- 1 memoir/biography from the list below
- “Sweat Equity” from Talking As Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
Memoirs and Biographies
- A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Becoming, Michelle Obama || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Educated, Tara Westover || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Every Falling Star, Sungju Lee || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Into Thin Air, John Krakauer || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy Kaling || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Thanks to My Mother, Schoschana Rabinovici || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Color of Water, James McBride || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances, Kwame Alexander || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Summer Reading List as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
Summer Reading Suggestions Grades K-1
Summer Reading Suggestions Grades 2-3
Summer Reading Suggestions Grades 4-5
updated 6/6/24
Choose one book from the list below to read and complete the written assignment. See all information about summer work here.
- Calvin, Martine Leavitt || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, Neal Bascomb || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- We Were Liars, E. Lockhart || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Foolish Hearts, Emma Mills || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Elevation, Stephen King || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Wires and Nerve, Marissa Meyer || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
For students who have an Individualized Education Plan, choose one book from the list below to read and complete the written assignment. See all information about summer work here.
- Foolish Hearts, Emma Mills || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Elevation, Stephen King || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Wires and Nerve, Marissa Meyer || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
Choose one book from the list below to read and complete the written assignment. See all information about summer work here.
- Ashfall, Mike Mullin || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, Sarah Miller || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Eliza and Her Monsters, Francesca Sappia || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- I Will Always Write Back, Caitlin Alifirenka
- The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
For students who have an Individualized Education Plan, choose one book from the list below to read and complete the written assignment. See all information about summer work here.
- Ashfall, Mike Mullin || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, Sarah Miller || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby)
- Eliza and Her Monsters, Francesca Sappia || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- I Will Always Write Back, Caitlin Alifirenka
- The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
- Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (OverDrive/Libby) || eBook (hoopla)
- Soundless, Richelle Mead || eBook (OverDrive/Libby)
- A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass || eBook (OverDrive/Libby) || Audiobook (hoopla)
updated 6/3/24
For English 11 honors, students must select an American novel OR memoir of your choice published between 2021-2024. Find recommendations and more information about the assignment here.
For English 12 honors, students must read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (specifically the Penguin Classic Edition ISBN 9780141439471) and complete the written assignment. Find more information about the assignment here.