ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Elementary Schools Summer Reading Suggested Authors and Titles Brochure 2019
Elementary Schools Summer Reading Log 2019
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Middle School (Grades 6-8) Summer Reading 2019
HIGH SCHOOL
High School (Grades 9-12) Summer Reading List 2019
Summer Reading Smackdown Winner:
- Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook ||eAudiobook (Overdrive
All AP and Honors students must read the above selection as well as the following:
Freshman Honors:
- Animal Farm, George Orwell || 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
- Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook
- The 57 Bus, Dashka Slater || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook
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:
- Reconstructing Amelia, Kimberly McCreight || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Hoopla) eAudiobook (Overdrive)
- 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.’