1. District Curriculum Specialist
Secondary Programs
Summer Reading
Antoinette Parker
District Curriculum Specialist
April 04, 2019

2. Summer Reading
The purpose of summer reading is to encourage students to develop an enjoyment for reading.
An information packet will be shared (digital and hardcopies) with parents, students, and teachers to include: expectations, commonly asked questions, suggested novels, how to access novels, and “book talk” framework.
Students will read one of the novels from the list for their grade span or a novel of their choice.

3. Summer Reading
Students in Honors and AP English will have an additional reading assignment, which will also be posted on the HCS website.
Students will complete a “Book Talk” on the book they select and submit no later than August 23, 2019.
A “Book Talk” convinces or persuades a person to read the book. The essence of a “Book Talk” is to “sell, don’t tell.”

4. Middle School Selection
Pinned by Sharon Flake
Patina by Jason Reynolds
The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Bradley
The River by Gary Paulsen

5. Middle School Selection
Lost in Outer Space: by Todd Olson
Merci Suárez by Meg Median
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

6. High School Selection Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
March Book Three By John Lewis
Reached by Ally Condie
Ashes by Laurie H. Anderson

7. High School Selection The Boy In The Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Harbor Me by Jaqueline Woodson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

8. Honors and AP Selection
Grade 6: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Grade 7: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L ’Engle
Grade 8: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

9. Honors and AP Selection
Grade 9: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Grade 10: Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beals
Grade 11: (AP English Language); The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Grade 12: (AP English Literature): Life of Pi by Yann Martel