Summer Reading

Core Reading Book List

Honors Reading

Students must read two books over the course of the summer. The first book on the list is required reading. Students may choose one additional book from the list to read before the start of the school year.

Students will be evaluated on this reading with an objective test the second day of school and a written assignment during the first two weeks of school.

The following books will be read by all students during the school year.

Honors students will read between two and four books from the following list during the school year. Students may choose to get a head start by beginning their reading over the course of the summer.

Book Title

Author

Discipline

Book Title

Author

Book Title

Author

The Hiding Place

Ten Boom

Bible / Literature

The Sun Also Rises

Hemingway

Literature

This Present Darkness

Peretti

Literature

Out of the Silent Planet

Lewis

Literature

Perelandra

Lewis

Literature

That Hideous Strength

Lewis

Literature

Hinds' Feet in High Places

Hurnard

Bible / Bible Study

The Other Side of the Mountain

Valens

Literature

The Talisman

Scott

Literature

Dandelion Wine

Bradbury

Literature

Farewell to Arms

Hemingway

Vienna Prelude

Theone

Literature / Bible

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Pyle

The Bronze Bow

Speare

Literature

Antigone

Sophocles

The Prince and the Pauper

Twain

Literature

Animal Farm

Orwell

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Doyle

Cry, The Beloved Country

Paton

Literature / Social Studies

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare

Robinson Crusoe

Defoe

The Light & The Glory 

Marshall

Social Studies / History

Odyssey

Homer

Brave New World

Huxley