Summer Reading List 2014
Below is a list of recommended novels for summer reading. Students are strongly encouraged to read at least one book, as there will be an
assessment upon return in the fall. All books can be purchased and downloaded in iBooks.
Middle School
5th Grade (Rising From 4th) Dear Mr. Henshaw / Beverly Cleary Johnny Swanson / Eleanor Update The Girl Who Could Fly / Victoria Forester True (...Sort Of) / Katherine Hannigan The Willoughbys / Lois Lowry
6th Grade (Rising From 5th) Travel Team / Mike Lupica The Circuit / Francisco Jimenez The Lightning Thief / Rick Riordan Socks / Beverly Cleary
7th Grade (Rising From 6th) Baseball Crazy / Nancy Mercado Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare Withering Tights / Louise Rennison Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf / Jennifer L. Holm & Elicia Castaldi Among the Hidden / Margaret Peter
8th Graders (Rising From 7th) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe / C.S. Lewis Criss Cross / Lynne Rae Perkins Peak / Roland Smith The Alchemyst / Michael Scott
Upper School
9th Grade (Rising From 8th) Cat’s Cradle / Kurt Vonnegut Cannery Row / John Steinbeck Timeline / Michael Crichton Anthem / Ayn Rand The Color of Water / James McBride 10th Grade (Rising From 9th) Brave New World / Aldous Huxley Catcher In The Rye / J.D. Salinger The Chosen / Chaim Potok Deathwatch / Robb White Going After Cacciato / Tim O’Brien
11th Grade (Rising From 10th) A Farewell To Arms / Ernest Hemingway A Prayer For Owen Meany / John Irving The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne Giants In The Earth / O.E. Rolvaag The Hot Zone / Richard Preston
12th Grade (Rising From 11th) A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe A Passage to India / E.M. Forster Dawn / Elie Wiesel