MIDDLE SCHOOL
Middle School (Grades 6-8) Summer Reading 2020
HIGH SCHOOL
High School (Grades 9-12) Summer Reading List 2020
Summer Reading Smackdown Titles:
- Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eBook (hoopla) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook
- Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Whistling Past the Graveyard, by Susan Crandall || eBook (OverDrive) ||eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Dear Evan Hansen, by Val Emmich || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eBook (hoopla)
- Dear Martin, by Nic Stone || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- One of Us is Lying, by Karen McManus || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
All AP and Honors students must read the above selection as well as the following:
Freshman Honors:
- Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook ||eAudiobook (Overdrive
- The Most Dangerous Game (short story), Richard Connell || eBook (hoopla)
Sophomore Honors:
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Between Shades of Gray, Ruth Sepetys || eBook (Overdrive) || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
Junior Honors
- choose two additional books from the Smackdown list
AP Language:
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King || eBook (Overdrive)|| audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
Then read ONE of the following:
- The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Educated, Tara Westover || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
Senior Honors:
- chose one additional book from the Smackdown list
- An additional memoir/biography of choice; see below
AP Literature:
- The Nightingale, Kristen Hannah || eBook (Overdrive)|| audiobook || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare || eBook (Overdrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla) || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
Suggested Memoirs and Biographies
- A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson || eBook (Overdrive)|| audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Becoming, Michelle Obama || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- Every Falling Star, Sungju Lee || eBook (OverDrive) || eBook (hoopla) || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb || audiobook || eBook (Overdrive)|| eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Into Thin Air, John Krakauer || eBook (Overdrive)|| audiobook
- Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicles of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Anthony Swofford ||eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- Thanks to My Mother, Schoschana Rabinovici || eBook (Overdrive)
- The Color of Water, James McBride || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
For the most up-to-date information and assignments, visit the WHRSD website, select your school, and look under the ‘For Parents and Students’ tab for ‘Resources.’