2011-2012 Required Summer Reading
7th & 8th Grades
Required Reading Assignment
All 7th & 8th Grade students must read one book from the Required Reading list and one book from the Alternate Reading list for a
total of two books. A one page report is required for each book. The report must include the book title, author, book’s setting and
two summarization paragraphs. Students will be awarded one 100 test grade in English during the first nine weeks grading period.
Both book reports must be completed for the one 100 test grade. Students who do not complete the assignment will receive one "0"
to affect the daily quiz average and one "0" to affect the homework average during the first nine weeks reporting period.
Extra Credit Assignment
For each additional book read and completed book report, from either the Required Reading list or the Alternate Reading list, one
point will be awarded to the student's choice of averages during the first nine weeks - either to the quiz average or to the homework
average. The one page report for each book read must include the title, author, setting and two summarization paragraphs.
7th Grade
Required Reading
One of the following “Christian Heroes: Then & Now”
series by Geoff Benge & Janet Benge
Amy Carmichael, Rescuer of Precious Gems
Eric Liddell, Something Greater Than Gold
Nate Saint, On a Wing and a Prayer
Lottie Moon, Giving Her All For China
William Carey, Obliged to Go
Corrie Ten Boom, Keeper of the Angel’s Den
George Muller, The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans
Jim Elliot, One Great Purpose
Hudson Taylor, Deep in the Heart of China
8th Grade
Required Reading
The Hobbit; J.R. Tolkien
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Alternate Reading
The Red Badge of Courage; Stephen Crane
The Giver; Lois Lowry
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
The Bronze Bow; Elizabeth George Speare
Anne of Green Gables; L. M. Montgomery
National Velvet; Enid Bagnold
Incredible Journey; Shelia Bumford
The Yearling; Marjorie Rawlings
Bridge to Terabithia; Katherine Peterson
The Call of the Wild, White Fang; Jack London
Alternate Reading
The Chronicles of Narnia; C.S. Lewis
Up From Slavery; Booker T. Washington
The Journals of Lewis & Clark; John Bakeless
The Screwtape Letters; C.S. Lewis
The Killer Angels; Michael Shaara
Hiding Place; Corrie Ten Boom
The Chosen; Chaim Potok
George Washington Carver; Gene Adair
Little Women; Louisa May Alcott
Little Men; Louisa May Alcott
Tom Sawyer; Mark Twain
The Whipping Boy; Sid Fleischman
Born Free; Joy Adamson
The Diary of Anne Frank; Anne Frank
Wrinkle in Time; Madeleine L’Engle
Revised 6/13/11
2011-2012 Required Summer Reading
9th – 12th Grade Academic English Assignment
Required Reading Assignment
All 9th – 12th Grade students in an Academic English class must read one book from the Required Reading list and one book from
the Alternate Reading list for a total of two books. A one page report is required for each book. The report must include the book
title, author, book’s setting and two summarization paragraphs. Students will be awarded a 100 test grade in English during the first
nine weeks grading period. Both book reports must be completed for the one 100 test grade. Students who do not complete the
required reading assignment will receive a 0 test grade in English during the first nine weeks grading period.
Extra Credit Assignment
For each additional book read and completed book report, from either the Required Reading list or the Alternate Reading list, one
point will be awarded to the student's choice of averages during the first nine weeks - either to the quiz average or to the homework
average. The one page report for each book read must include the title, author, setting and two summarization paragraphs.
Required Reading
9th Grade: The Beloved Disciple; Beth Moore
10th Grade: From Sea to Shining Sea; Peter Marshal
11th Grade: Confessions; St. Augustine
12th Grade: Love and Honor; Randall Wallace
Alternate Reading
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul;
John Eldredge
Ethics; Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Gilead; Marilynne Robinson
Redeeming Love; Francine Rivers
Hard Times; Charles Dickens
Robinson Crusoe; Daniel Defoe
Moby Dick; Herman Melville
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Robert Louis Stevenson
Biblical Decision Making; Gary G. Cohen
Christian Perspective on Creation vs. Evolution; Michael
L. McCoy
For the Beauty of the Earth, A Christian Vision for
Creation; Steven Bouma-Prediger
Case for Christ; Lee Strobel
The Light and the Glory; Peter Marshal
The Old Man and the Sea; Ernest Hemingway
Farenheit 451; Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies; William Golding
In Cold Blood; Truman Capote
The Great Gatsby; F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens
Captivating; John & Stasi Eldredge
Secrets of the Vine for Teens; Bruce Wilkinson
Lies Young Women Believe; Nancy Leigh DeMoss &
Dannah Gresh
Faith Unplugged; David Cook
Smart Faith: Loving Your God With All Your Mind; J.P.
Moreland & Mark Matlock
The Case for the Real Jesus; Lee Strobel
Practical Happiness; Bob Schultz
Revised 6/13/11
2011-2012 Required Summer Reading
9th – 12th Grade PreAP or AP English Assignment
Required Reading Assignment
All 9th – 12th Grade students in a PreAP or AP English class must read one book from the Required Reading list and two books from
the Alternate Reading list for a total of three books. A one page report is required for each book. The report must include the book
title, author, book’s setting and two summarization paragraphs. Students will be awarded a 100 test grade in English during the first
nine weeks grading period. All three book reports must be completed for the one 100 test grade. Students who do not complete the
required reading assignment will receive a 0 test grade in English during the first nine weeks grading period.
Extra Credit Assignment
For each additional book read and completed book report, from either the Required Reading list or the Alternate Reading list, one
point will be awarded to the student's choice of averages during the first nine weeks - either to the quiz average or to the homework
average. The one page report for each book read must include the title, author, setting and two summarization paragraphs.
Required Reading
9th Grade: The Screwtape Letters; C.S. Lewis
10th Grade: The Christian Mind; Harry Blamires
11th Grade: The Everlasting Man; G.K. Chesterton
12th Grade: A Practical View; William Wilberforce
Alternate Reading
All the King’s Men; Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses; Cormac McCarthy
Antigone; Sophocles
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Beloved; Toni Morrison
The Blind Assassin; Margaret Atwood
The Bonesetter’s Daughter; Amy Tan
Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Merchant of Venice; William Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral; T.S. Eliot
Native Son; Richard Wright
No Country for Old Men; Cormac McCarthy
Oedipus Rex; Sophocles
The Poisonwood Bible; Barbara Kingsolver
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Tom Stoppard
Set This House On Fire; William Styron
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle; David Wroblewski
The Stranger; Albert Camus
Things Fall Apart; Chinua Achebe
A Thousand Acres; Jane Smiley
A Thousand Splendid Suns; Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee
The Trial; Franz Kafka
In Cold Blood; Truman Capote
Middlemarch; George Eliot
A Gathering of Old Men; Ernest J. Gaines
The God of Small Things; Arundhati Roy
The Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck
Invisible Man: H.G. Wells
King Lear; William Shakespeare
A Lesson Before Dying; Ernest J Gaines
Light in August; William Faulkner
Medea; Euripides
Revised 6/13/11