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Required School Reading
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Required School Reading Lists
Grade 5 – Tolerance
2 Books Required
Students entering 5th grade are required to read 2 books over the summer, the first book has to come from the list below, the second can be from the list or a book with the same theme of Tolerance. Students are also required to complete a summer reading project based on the chosen books. Please ask at the Circulation Desk for a list of the projects.
Title | Author | Available Formats |
Wonder | RJ Palacio | Book e-book download Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
My Name is Brain Brian | Jeanne Betancourt | Book Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | Book e-book download Book on CD Audio Download Book on Cassette Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
El Deafo | Cece Bell | Graphic Novel Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Savvy | Ingrid Law | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
The One and Only Ivan | Katherine Applegate | Book Book on CD e-Book Download Available on our kids Kindle Audio Playaway Amazon |
Out of My Mind | Sharon M. Draper | Book Available on our kids Kindle Book on CD e-Book Download Amazon |
Rules | Cynthia Lord | Book e-Book Download Large Print Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Grade 6– Peer Pressure
Students entering 6th grade are required to read 2 books over the summer, the first book has to come from the list below, the second can be from the list or a book with the same theme of Tolerance. Students are also required to complete a summer reading project based on the chosen books. Please ask at the Circulation Desk for a list of the projects.
Title | Author | Available Formats |
It’s Not Easy Being Mean | Lisi Harrison | Book Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Blubber | Judy Blume | Book e-Book Book on CD Large Print Book on Cassette Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt | Book Book on CD Large Print Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
The Misfits | James Howe | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
We Beat the Street | Sampson Davis | Book Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Wonder | RJ Palacio | Book e-book download Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | Jeff Kinney | Book Book on CD e-Book Download Audio Playaway Available on our kids Kindle Spanish Book Amazon |
Middle School: My Brother is a Big, Fat, Liar | James Patterson | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! | James Patterson | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Grade 7: Identity – Who am I?
Students entering 7th grade are required to read 2 books over the summer, the first book has to come from the list below, the second can be from the list or a book with the same theme of Tolerance. Students are also required to complete a summer reading project based on the chosen books. Please ask at the Circulation Desk for a list of the projects.
Title | Author | Available Formats |
Firegirl | Tony Abbott | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
The Wednesday Wars | Gary D. Schmidt | Book e-Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Sorry I’m Not Sorry | Nancy Rue | Book Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Jungle of Bones | Ben Mikelsen | Book Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Ghost Hawk | Susan Cooper | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
The List | Siobhan Vivian | Book Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Husky | Justin Sayre | Book Book on CD Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
The Giver | Lois Lowery | Book e-Book Book on CD Large Print Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Grade 8 – Drugs and Alcohol
All students entering 8th grade are REQUIRED to read Bottled Up by Jaye Murray. The second book may come from the list below or you may choose a different book that still matches the theme. A summer reading project is required, please see front desk for copies of the assignment.
Title | Author | Available Formats |
Bottled Up – REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS | Jaye Murray | Book Amazon |
That Was Then, This Is Now | SE Hinton | Book Amazon |
Go Ask Alice | Anonymous | Book Book on Cassette Amazon |
Gym Candy | Carl Deuker | Book Book on CD Amazon |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Steven Chbosky | Book e-Book Book on CD Book on Cassette Amazon |
Grade 9
Students entering 9th grade must read 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey (no written assignment required for this book) and then choose a book from the recommended list below or another carefully chosen selection for their summer reading assignment.
Grade 10
Title | Author | Available Formats |
The Things They Carried | Tim O’Brien | Book e-book download Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
I Am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban | Malala Yousafzai | Book e-Audiobook download Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
Survival in Auschwitz | Primo Levi | Book Amazon |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | Book e-Book e-Audiobook Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
Manchild in the Promised Land | Claude Brown | Book Amazon |
The Book Thief | Marcus Zusak | Book Book on CD e-Book Download e-Audiobook Download Large Print Amazon |
The Hundred Secret Senses | Amy Tan | Book Large Print Book on Cassette Amazon |
Little Bee | Chris Cleave | Book Book on CD e-Audiobook Download Large Print Available on our kids Kindle Amazon |
Atonement | Ian McEwan | Book e-Book Book on CD Large Print Book on Cassette Amazon |
Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | Book e-Book e-Audiobook Book on CD Amazon |
The Murder at the Vicarage | Agatha Christie | Book e-Book Large Print Book on CD Amazon |
A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | Book e-Book Book on CD Amazon |
Grade 11
Title | Author | Available Formats |
19 Minutes | Jodi Picoult | Book Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | Book Book on CD Amazon |
Plot Against America | Philip Roth | Book Book on CD eBook Large Print Amazon |
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution | Natalie Bober | Book Amazon |
A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | Book Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
Chiefs | Stuart Woods | Book Book on CD e-Book Download Large Print Amazon |
Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | Book eBook Large Print Book on Cassette Amazon |
Inicidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | Harriet Jacobs | Book Amazon |
The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | Book e-Book Book on CD Book on Cassette Amazon |
Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Book Book on CD Book on Cassette Amazon |
1776 | David McCullough | Book e-Book e-Audiobook Large Print Book on CD Amazon |
My Dearest Friend: Letters of John and Abigail Adams | Margaret Hogan, C. James Taylor Joseph Ellis |
Book Amazon |
*any book by David McCullough, Mark Kurlansky, or Bill Bryson |
Grade 12
Title | Author | Available Formats |
Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Book eBook eAudiobook Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | Book eAudiobook Book on CD Amazon |
Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | Book Book on CD eBook Amazon |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Book eBook Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich | Book Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
Q & A: a Novel | Vikas Swarup | Book Amazon |
Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | Book eAudiobook Large Print Book on CD Amazon |
Freakonomics | Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt | Book Book on CD eBook eAudiobook Large Print Amazon |
Omnivore’s Dilemma | Michael Pollan | Book e-Book Book on CD Large Print Amazon |
I Am Charlotte Simmons | Tom Wolfe | Book Book on CD Amazon |
Up From Slavery | Booker T. Washington | Book Amazon |
The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B DuBois | Book Book on CD Amazon |
The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James | Book e-Book Large Print Book on CD Amazon |
The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | Book e-Book e-Audiobook Book on CD Amazon |