Summer Reading List

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Heritage Christian School’s summer reading program is designed to enrich and broaden the reading of students and to reinforce the college preparatory curriculum of the English Department. During the summer break, students will have the opportunity to choose one book they would like to read from the list of options for their grade level in the fall.

After reading the book of their choice, students will type up ten one-to-two-sentence insights (including the page number of the insight) they enjoyed about the book which may relate to the themes, characters, plot, setting, etc. An insight includes a specific observation and then the reason it is significant to you. If the students would like to earn extra credit, then they may choose only one additional book and complete the same assignment that they did for the required book. These assignments will be due on the first day of school.

Reading Lists

6th Grade
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Robert C. O’Brien
A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
7th Grade
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Voyage of the Dawn Treader*
C.S. Lewis
8th Grade
The Old Man and the Sea*
Ernest Hemingway
The Bronze Bow*
Elizabeth George Speare
9th Grade
This Present Darkness*
Frank Peretti
The Hiding Place*
Corrie ten Boom
10th Grade
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Gospel*
J.D. Grear
Through Gates of Splendor*
Elisabeth Elliot
11th Grade
Of Mice and Men
John Stienbeck
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Mere Christianity*
C.S. Lewis
AP English 11
The Shallows
Nicholas Carr
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinback
Confessions*
St. Augustine
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
12th Grade
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Profound Good: See God through the Lens of Love*
Blake Healy
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
And then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life
Louis Zamperini
Peace Like a River*
Leif Enger
AP English 12
Peace Like a River*
Leif Enger
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Perelandra*
C.S. Lewis
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich*
ALexander Solzhenitsyn
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Profound Good: See God through the Lens of Love*
Blake Healy
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life*
Louis Zamperini

*These books contain overt Christian themes.