Summer Reading Assignments for 2015
A. C. Flora High School
All students at A. C. Flora High School are encouraged to complete summer reading assignments. Parents, please
review the selections with your child. If you object to a selection for any reason, have your child select a different
author/book. If a student is signed up for Honors level English, Advanced Placement English, or IB English, he or she
MUST complete additional readings as directed in #2 below.
1. ALL FLORA STUDENTS are encouraged to read one book by one of the award-winning young adult authors listed
on the back of this sheet. Students who read one of these books and insightfully complete the graphic organizer attached
will receive a classwork grade of 100 upon arriving to class in August. The graphic organizer should reflect your thinking
about the plot and your thinking about the larger issues (conflicts, themes) raised by the book. Your writing on the
graphic organizer should consist of your own original work.
2. HONORS, AP, AND IB STUDENTS must read an additional book or books as directed below. Please make sure
you consult the correct list for your level of English. Your reading of the following books will be assessed on in-class
essays during the first two weeks of school. You will be asked to identify and analyze various literary elements about the
book(s) and discuss them in an essay format. The topics of those essays will be decided by the teachers at each level (e.g.
all English 1 Honors students will take the same assessment, all AP Lit students will take the same assessment, etc.).
Summer reading assessments will be counted in the minor assessment category.
Honors I (Choose 1)
Lay That Trumpet in our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by MT Anderson
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir… by Melba Pattillo Beales
The Once and Future King (Book 1) by T. H. White
Honors II (Choose 1)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Honors III (Choose 1)
On Writing by Stephen King
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
The New Kings of Nonfiction ed. by Ira Glass (select EIGHT essays from this compilation)
Honors IV (Choose 1)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
AP Lang (Choose 1)
Never let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
O’Brien
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Schwartz
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
AP Lit (Choose 1)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim
The Paradox of Choice by Barry
What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd
Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
IB English 1
Please refer to the assignment you received from Mr. Barrett
(Questions? Email jesse.barrett@richlandone.org or
virginia.tate@richlandone.org)
The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
IB English 2
Please refer to the assignment you received from Mrs.
Davis. (Questions? Email eleni.davis@richlandone.org or
virginia.tate@richlandone.org)
All students who complete summer reading
assignments will be entered to win a Nook!
We have two Nooks we’ll be raffling off to summer readers; drawings will be held in August.
Questions? Suggestions? Email us at flora.summer.reading@gmail.com
Approved Authors for Summer Reading
You may read a young adult novel from any of the following authors:
Sherman Alexie
Laurie Halse Anderson
Jay Asher
Coe Booth
Libba Bray
Meg Cabot
Rachel Caine
Sandra Cisneros
Cassandra Clare
Suzanne Collins
Ally Condie
Sarah Dessen
Sharon Draper
Becca Fitzpatrick
Sharon Flake
John Flanagan
Michael Grant
John Green
Nikki Grimes
Lauren Kate
Lois Lowry
Patricia McCormack
Toni Morrison
Courtney Allison Moulton
Walter Dean Myers
Garth Nix
Lauren Oliver
Christopher Paolini
Rick Riordan
Veronica Roth
Neal Shusterman
Maggie Stiefvater
Paul Volponi
Scott Westerfeld
Jacqueline Woodson
Marcus Zusak
Feel free to contact us with any questions
and/or if you have a different book you’d like to read for fun.
You may email flora.summer.reading@gmail.com