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2024 Summer Reading

Summer reading is required for all students entering 1st through 12th grades. Please see the sidebar packets for 1st-3rd grade assignments. For grades 4-12, there are two components to the assignment - a required book and a student-choice book. Required books are listed below. However, please use the sidebar packets for complete information about the required book and student-choice book assignments.
Charlotte's Web
Rising 4th 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.
Mrs. Frisby
Rising 5th Grade Required Book
 
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.
Magician's Nephew
Rising 6th Grade Required Book
The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
 
Two friends are hurled into another world where they encounter an evil sorceress and witness the creation of the land of Narnia by the Great Lion, Aslan.
A Wrinkle in Time
Rising 7th Grade Required Book
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
 
One dark and stormy night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin on a most dangerous adventure that will threaten their lives and our universe.
A Wrinkle in Time
Rising 8th Grade Required Book
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
 
One dark and stormy night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin on a most dangerous adventure that will threaten their lives and our universe.
Hound of the Baskervilles
Rising 9th Grade Required Book
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
 
A terrifying specter in the shape of a hound was once said to have hunted a Baskerville ancestor across the moors. A recent mysterious death suggests that the hound has returned.
Frederick Douglass
Rising 10th Grade Required Book
 
This 1845 autobiography provides a personal account of Douglass' childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave in Maryland, as well as his dramatic escape and eventual freedom.
Lost Horizon
Rising 11th Grade Required Book
Lost Horizon - James Hilton
 
When their plane crash-lands in the Tibetan Himalayas, the four passengers find themselves stranded outside the protective borders of the British Empire and discover access to the hidden paradise called Shangri-La.
1984
Rising 12th Grade Required Book
1984 - George Orwell
 
Winston Smith rewrites history to satisfy the Party, but with each lie he writes, he grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who commit thoughtcrimes. Big Brother is always watching, however.