Summer Reading & Book Lists

Students: Summer Reading lists for 2025 will be available June 1*

Summer 2025-2026 Reading & Book List

Honors Literary Genre & Composition (9th)

Honors Literary Genre & Composition Summer Reading Assignment

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

CP Literary Genre & Composition (9th) 

"Students are highly encouraged to take notes as they read Animal Farm to best prepare for a summer reading quiz administered during the first week of school."

Animal Farm by George Orwell


Honors Worldview Literature & Language (10th)

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka
A Room with a View by E.M. Forrester
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

CP Worldview Literature & Language (10th)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

AP Language & Composition (11th)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Supplemental Reading & Notetaking in Advanced English textbook – posted to summer course page

AP Literature (12th)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Honors British Literature (11th and 12th)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
1984 by George Orwell

CP American Literature (11th)

American Lit Book Choice

CP British Literature (12th)

British Lit Book Choice

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