Dear Lake Mary Prep students and parents,
Welcome to Summer Reading for the 2015-2016 school year. Once again this year, we are offering a
list of choices for students in our English classes. Here at LMP, we are lifelong readers, and our goal
is to foster a love of reading in all our students.
 Students going into ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade English will choose two books from each
list for the grade you will be entering in August.
 If you will be a senior next year, please note that you must read Thomas Foster’s How to Read
Literature Like a Professor. This is your only required summer reading.
 Students enrolled in the AP Language and Composition course must read all three books
listed for that course. You may wish to take notes as you read as these are challenging tests.
When you return to school in August, you will be demonstrating your understanding of the books
through an in-class assessment.
Ninth Grade--choose 2
The Future of Us-Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Elusion-Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam
City of Bones-Cassandra Clare
Uglies-Scott Westerfeld
Tenth Grade--choose 2
The Tao of Pooh-Benjamin Hoff
That Time I Joined the Circus-J.J. Howard
Delirium -Lauren Oliver
The Art of Racing in the Rain-Garth Stein
Eleventh Grade--choose 2
Thirteen Reasons Why-Jay Asher
Tracers-J.J. Howard
The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
Shiver-Maggie Stiefvater
Twelfth Grade—One book Required: How to Read Literature Like a Professor –Thomas Foster
AP English Language --(read ALL 3 BOOKS if you are enrolled in this course)
Language in Thought and Action-S.I. Hayakawa
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business– Neil Postman
The Poisonwood Bible—Barbara Kingsolver