Find information about Whitman Hanson Regional School District and South Shore Vocational 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 ‘For Parents and Students’ tab for ‘Resources.’
WHRHS Smackdown Titles
All WHRHS student should select one book to read from the Smackdown list and be prepared to complete a reflective writing assignment in the fall. See all information about summer work here.
- Clap When You Land, Elizabeth Acevedo || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo || eBook (OverDrive) || eBook (Hoopla) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- The Crossover, Kwame Alexander || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Close Your Eyes Hold Hands, Chris Bojalian || eBook (OverDrive)
- Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Woodlawn: One Hope, One Dream, One Way, Todd Gerelds || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley
- Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eBook (hoopla) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Every Day, David Levithan || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- One of Us Is Lying, Karen McManus || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- There There, Tommy Orange || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Uglies, Scott Westerfeld || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
Freshmen Honors
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Smackdown list as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (Overdrive
- The Most Dangerous Game (short story), Richard Connell || eBook (hoopla)
Sophomore Honors
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Smackdown list as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Between Shades of Gray, Ruth Sepetys || eBook (Overdrive) || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
Junior Honors
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Smackdown list as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley
- One classic novel from the list below
Classic Novels: Suggested Titles
- 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
AP Language
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Smackdown 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
Classic Novels: Suggested Titles
- 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
Senior Honors
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Smackdown list as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- Choose one additional book from the Smackdown list
- 1 memoir/biography from the list below
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)
AP Literature
All AP and Honors students must choose one book from the Smackdown list as well as the following books/short stories and/or posted assignments. See all information about summer work here.
- The Nightingale, Kristen Hannah || eBook (Overdrive) || audiobook || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla)
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare || eBook (Overdrive) || eAudiobook (Hoopla) || eAudiobook (Overdrive)
Hanson Middle School
Indian Head Elementary School
Information Coming Soon!
SSVT Incoming Grade 9
Choose one book from the list below to read and complete the written assignment. See all information about summer work here.
- Calvin, Martine Leavitt
- The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, Neal Bascomb || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- We Were Liars, E. Lockhart || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher
- The Talk-funny Girl, Roland Merullo || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)
- Wires and Nerve, Marissa Meyer
SSVT Incoming Grade 10
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)
- The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, Sarah Miller || eBook (OverDrive)
- Eliza and Her Monsters, Francesca Sappia || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- I Will Always Write Back, Caitlin Alifirenka || eAudiobook (OverDrive)
- Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (OverDrive) || eBook (hoopla)
- Soundless, Richelle Mead || eBook (OverDrive)
- A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass || eBook (OverDrive) || eAudiobook (hoopla)z