2020 Summer Reading

Summer reading is required for all students entering 1st through 12th grades. There are two components to each grade-level assignment - a required book and a student-choice book. Required books are listed below. However, please look at the packets on the sidebar to see the required book assignment and all the specifics about the student-choice book.

	Rising 4^th Grade Required Book Charlotte's Web - E. B. White In this endearing story, a little girl and Charlotte, a beautiful gray spider, struggle to save their friend Wilbur, an affectionate but bashful pig, from being butchered.
	Rising 5^th Grade Required Book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien When Timothy, the youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the help of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow.
	Rising 6^th Grade Required Book The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis In this beginning to the Narnia series, two friends are hurled into another world where they encounter an evil sorceress and witness the creation of the Land of Narnia as it is sung into being by the Great Lion, Aslan.
	Rising 7^th Grade Required Book The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene du Bois Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But he lands on Krakatoa and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.
	Rising 8^th Grade Required Book Black Beauty - Anna Sewell The story of Black Beauty, a horse with a heart of unyielding courage, is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his peaceful days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse.
	Rising 9^th Grade Required Book The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle Has the Baskerville family fallen victim to a family curse? A terrifying specter in the shape of a hound was said to have hunted an ancestor across the moors, and recent events suggest that the hound has returned.
	Rising 10^th Grade Required Book Animal Farm - George Orwell Politically-minded farm animals undergo a revolution against their human master and establish a new government that fails because of a corrupt leader tempted by greed and power.
	Rising 11^th Grade Required Book The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne This classic tale is about the effect of sin on the mind and spirit of Hester Prynne, her lover, their child, and Hester's husband.
	Rising 12^t^h Grade Required Book A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Charles Dickens portrays life in Paris and London during the oppressive and turbulent years leading up to the French Revolution.

2020 Choice Books - Middle School

2020 Choice Books - High School