2023 Summer Reading
All students entering the 9th -12th grades are strongly encouraged to read for at least twenty minutes per day over the summer. It is suggested that students choose from the attached recommended list for class discussions at the start of the 2023 school year. If you plan to read any titles not listed here, please reach out to your ELA teacher prior to the first day of school and make sure they approve of the titles chosen.
It is also strongly recommended that students take notes on any books read, to help remember characters, conflict, plot sequence, and theme. There is a note-taking template provided which can be copied and added to google drive, or printed out for hand-written notes.
It is also strongly recommended that students take notes on any books read, to help remember characters, conflict, plot sequence, and theme. There is a note-taking template provided which can be copied and added to google drive, or printed out for hand-written notes.
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Junior Honors
Required Reading: Please select at least 1 text from the recommended SHS Summer Reading list and read it this summer. Please come prepared to utilize this text & share out in class when we return to school. Thank you! AP Literature AP Literature Summer Work 2023 AP Language AP Language Summer Work 2023 Translation Directions |
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The following titles are recommended to CP and Honors grades 9-12:
(Title Options for all HS grades)
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Fiction A Very Large Expanse of Sea … by Mafi Angel of Greenwood … by Pink Anger is a Gift … by Oshiro Born Confused … by Desai-Hidier Color Me In … by Diaz Darius The Great is Not Okay … by Khorram Dear Martin … by Stone Does My Head Look Big in This? … by Abdel-Fattah Fat Angie … by Charlton-Trujillo Felix Ever After … by Callender Fountains of Silence … by Sepetys Frankly In Love … by Yoon Gabi, A Girl In Pieces … by Quintero Girl Mans Up … by Girard Give Me Some Truth … by Gansworth Grasshopper Jungle … by Smith Let Me Hear a Rhyme … by Jackson On the Come Up…Thomas One Man Guy … by Barakiva Poet X…by Acevedo Rani Patel in Full Effect … by Patel Rules for a Knight ... by Ethan Hawke Slay … by Morris The Astonishing Color of After … by Pan The Downstairs Girl … by Lee The Education of Margot Sanchez … by Rivera The Love and Lies of Rukshana Ali … by Khan The Patron Saints of Nothing … by Ribay The Place Between Breaths … by Na The Rock and the River … by Magoon We are Not From Here Torres … by Sanchez White Rose … by Wilson With the Fire on High … by Acevedo Mystery & Suspense Fake ID … by Giles Jane Anonymous … by Stolarz Monday’s Not Coming … by Jackson One of Us is Lying … by McManus Sadie … by Summers Stork … by Disappeared Three Truths and a Lie … by Hartinger Science Fiction & Fantasy An Ember in the Ashes … by Tahir Ash … by Lo Children of Blood and Bone … by Adeyemi Labyrinth Lost … by Cordova Legendborn … by Deonn Leviathan / Behemoth / Goliath … by Westerfeld The City of Sand … by Bachang The Marrow Thieves … by Dimaline The Scorpio Races … by Stiefvater The Wrath & the Dawn / The Rose & the Dagger … by Ahdieh They Both Die at the End … by Silvera We Set the Dark on Fire … by Mejia Anthologies #NotYourPrincess … Charleyboy & Leatherdale (ed.) A Thousand Beginnings and Endings … Oh (ed.) All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories Of Queer Teens Through The Ages … Mitchell (ed.) Black Enough … Zoboi (ed.) Come On In Alsadi … by (ed.) Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices … Charleyboy & Leatherdale (ed.) Fresh Ink … Giles (ed.) Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World … Jensen (ed.) Once Upon an Eid … Ali (ed.) Take the Mic!: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance … by Morrow |
Graphic Novels Almost American Girl … by Ha Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World … by Bagieu March (series) … by Lewis Monster: A Graphic Novel … by Myers The Best We Could Do … by Bui The Magic Fish … by Nguyen The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel … by LaBoucane-Benson The Prince and the Dressmaker … by Wang They Called Us Enemy … by Takei Witch Hat Atelier … by Shirahama Biography & Autobiography All Boys Aren’t Blue … by Johnson Autobiography of Malcolm X … by X Becoming Maria … by Manzano Chadwick Boseman: Forever Our King … by Johnson From Broken Glass … by Ross I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban … by Yousafzai Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan … by Dau Notes of a Native Son … by Baldwin Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World … by Prager Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story … by Caren The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates … by Moore The Truths We Hold … by Harris Things That Make White People Uncomfortable … by Bennett What I Talk About When I Talk About Running … by Murakami Non-Fiction An Indigenous People’s History for Young People … by Reese Are Prisons Obsolete … by Davis Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out … by Kuklin Big Ideas Simply Explained (series) … by DK (pub.) Disability Visibility … by Wong Dragon Hoops … by Yang The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World … by Wohlleben Just Mercy (Young Readers edition) … by Stevenson Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny … by Harper Marvel Comics: The Untold Story … by Howe Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement … by Okamoto Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till … by Wright Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement … by Bowers Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism and You … by Reynolds & Kendi The 57 Bus … by Slater The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks … by Skloot Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team … by Sheinkin Voces sin fronteras: Our Stories. Our Truth / Nuestras historias, nuestra verdad … by Latin American Youth Center What if?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions … by Munroe Poetry A Time to Dance … by Venkatraman Between the Lines … by Grimes Burned / Smoke … by Hopkins Clap When You Land … by Acevedo Long Way Down … by Reynolds Punching the Air … by Zoboi The Sun and Her Flowers … by Kaur Under the Mesquite … by McCall |