The faculty in the English department would like you to swim, bike, camp and hang out with your friends and family over the summer months. We would also like you to read the following book corresponding to your grade. For each book there is an outline and questions to guide and focus your reading. Find the outline and questions below. 

6th Grade:        Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

7th Grade:        Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

8th Grade:  A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

English 9:        Night by Elie Wiesel

English 10:      October Sky by Homer Hickam

American Literature & Composition:  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

11/12 Writing and Thematic Literature:  Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

AP English Language and Composition: Educated by Tara Westover

AP English Literature and Composition:  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
(must read one of two editions: Penguin Classics ISBN # 978-0-14-044926-6 or the Modern Library edition ISBN # 978-0-37-576030-0)

World Literature: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini