2015 Required Summer Reading List
Grades 7-10
ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL.
NEW STUDENTS NEED TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS WITH THEIR
ENGLISH TEACHER THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR THE DUE DATE
OF THEIR ASSIGNMENT.
7th Grade
Read one book from the list below. Turn in a neatly written or typed paper which lists the title, author,
and characters, and a question and its answer on each chapter. Your parent’s signature is required on
your paper.
8th Grade
Read one book from the list below. Turn in a neatly written or typed paper which lists the title, author,
characters, and includes a one paragraph summary of the book. Your parent’s signature is required on
your paper.
9th Grade
Read one book from the list below. Turn in a typed paper which lists the title, author, characters, and
includes a one-page summary. In addition, include an informative paragraph on the author. Then you
must choose to read or watch a live performance of one of the plays listed below OR read a selection of
poetry by Cummings, Dickinson, Frost, Poe, or Neruda and the Spanish language poets. If you choose
to see a play, you must turn in the playbill as proof. Whether you choose to read the play, see the play,
or read the poetry, you must then write a one-page opinion paper that includes a summary and answers
the questions: What did you like and what did you not like about the play or poems?
10th Grade:
Read one book from the following list. Create a visual poster with information on the author and the
book. On the back of the poster, list the primary characters, theme, conflict, and resolution. You must
also write a one-page summary of your book. Then you must choose to read or watch a live
performance of one of the plays listed below OR read a selection of poetry by Cummings, Dickinson,
Frost, Poe, or Neruda and the Spanish language poets. If you choose to see a play, you must turn in the
playbill as proof. If you choose to read the play, see the play, or read the poetry, you must then write a
one-page opinion paper that includes a summary and answers the questions: What did you like and what
did you not like about the play or poems?
Novels for 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade assignments:
(* denotes books eligible for 7th and 8th grades only)
* Armstrong, William H. - Sounder
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Buck, Pearl - All Men Are Brothers
Carroll, Lewis - Alice’s Adventure in
Wonderland
Colson, Charles - Born Again
Colson, Chuck - Kingdoms in Conflict
Crockett, Davey - Life of David Crockett
Dickens, Charles - Old Curiosity Shop
Douglas, Lloyd C. - The Robe
Dumas, Alexander - The Count of Monte Cristo
Grey, Zane - Call of the Canyon
Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
Helton, James - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Henderson, Dee - The “O’Malley Series”
Herriot, James - All Creatures Great and
Small
Herriot, James - All Things Bright and
Beautiful
Herriot, James - All Things Wise and
Wonderful
Hunt, Irene – Across Five Aprils
* Keller, Helen - Story of My Life
Kelly, Eric P. - Trumpeter of Krakow
Lewis, C.S. - Prince Caspian
Lewis, C.S. - The Horse and His Boy
Lewis, C.S. - The Last Battle
Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe
Lewis, C.S. - The Magician’s Nephew
Lewis, C.S. - The Silver Chair
Lewis, C.S. - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
London, Jack - Call of the Wild
London, Jack London - White Fang
* Lowry, Lois - Gathering Blue
* Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars
* Lowry, Lois - The Giver
MacDonald, George - The Princess and Curdie
Marshall, Catherine - Christy
Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Green
Gables
Morrison, Lucile - Lost Queen of Egypt
Parkman, Francis - Oregon Trail
Rawlings, Marjorie - Yearling
Rivers, Francine - (any book)
* Sachar, Louis - Holes
Speare, Elizabeth George - Calico Captive
Speare, Elizabeth George - Witch of
Blackbird Pond
* Spyri, Johanna - Heidi
* Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver’s Travels
Twain, Mark - The Prince and the Pauper
Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
* Wiggen, Kate Douglas - Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm
York, Alvin - The Autobiography of
Sergeant Alvin York
Plays for 9th and 10th grade assignments:
Anouilh, Jean - Antigone
Chase, Mary - Harvey
Giraudoux, Jean - The Madwoman of
Chaillot
Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
Kesselring, Joseph - Arsenic and Old Lace
Miller, Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
Miller, Arthur Miller - The Crucible
O’Neill, Eugene - Ah, Wilderness!
Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being
Ernest
William, Tennessee - Glass Menagerie
Poetry Selections for 9th and 10th grade assignments:
Any 30 poems by Emily Dickinson
A Boy’s Life by Robert Frost OR the following poems:
Mending Wall
The Death of the Hired Man
After Apple-Picking
The Wood-Pile
The Pasture
Fire and Ice
The Road Not Taken
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
“Out, Out—“
A Patch of Old Snow
Birches
A Time to Talk
An Encounter
The Last Word of a Bluebird
In A Disused Graveyard
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The Runaway
Not To Keep
Misgiving
Fireflies in the Garden
Devotion
The Figure in the Doorway
Acquainted with the Night
Tree at My Window
The Sound of Trees
The Armful
Desert Places
Two Tramps in Mud Time
The Oven Bird
Spring Pools
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Dreamland
Evening Star
Fairy-Land
The City in the Sea
A Dream within a Dream
Sonnet—To Science
The Conqueror Worm
Israfel
Romance
Spirits of the Dead
The Happiest Day the Happiest Hour
To My Mother
To One Departed
The Valley of Unrest
Eldorado
A Dream
Alone
In the Greenest of Our Valleys
e. e. cummings
[somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond]
[maggie and milly and molly and may]
[if there are any heavens my mother,]
[now comes the good rain farmers pray for (and)]
[Chansons Innocentes: I]
[Thy fingers make early flowers]
[the sky was]
[the wind is a Lady with]
[anyone lived in a pretty how town]
[i shall imagine life]
[since feeling is first]
[O sweet spontaneous]
[i carry your heart with me]
[your little voice]
[this is the garden: colors come and go,]
[you shall above all things be glad and young]
[all nearness pauses, while a star can grow]
[Buffalo Bill’s]
[The Eagle]
[I(a]
[a man who had fallen among thieves]
[i was sitting in mcsorley’s]
[All in green went my love riding]
[a connotation of infinity]
[in the rain--]
[it may not always be so; and i say]
[as is the sea marvelous]
[i have found what you are like]
[if]
[i will wade out]
Spanish Language Poets
Pablo Neruda
XVII (I do not love you…)
Come with Me I Said and No One Knew
(VII)
If You Forget Me
Don’t Go Far Off Not Even For a Day
I Like For You to Be Still
Your Laughter
Ode to the Artichoke
The Queen
And Because Love Battles
I Do Not Love You Except Because I
Love You
The Light Wraps You
My love, if I die and you don’t--,
Ah Vastness of Pines
Bird
Poetry
Aleixandre, Vicente. The Visitor
Alonso, Damaso. The Star Counters
Argote, Luis de Gongora. Madrigal
Becquer, Gustavo Adolfo. Rhyme I, Rhyme X,
and Rhyme LXVI
Cernuda, Luis. Where Oblivion Dwells
Hernandez, Miguel. The Train of the Wounded
Machado, Antonio. I Go Along Dreaming
Roads
Manrique, Jorge. Two Songs
Mendoza, Diego Hurtado de. Stanza
Jimenez, Juan Ramon. Yellow Spring
Prados, Emilio. Faithful Page
Salinas, Pedro. Deaths
Vega, Lope de. Soneto XVIII
Vega, Lope de. Various Effects of Love
Villegas, Francisco de Quevedo. To A Nose