Humble ISD requires ALL high school students who are enrolled in Pre-AP and AP English
to read over the summer to build a base of literature from which students will draw when
completing advanced placement assessments.
Summer Reading Goals
Humble ISD recognizes the importance of developing life-long reading habits in its students.
Primary Objectives of the HISD Summer Reading Program
 Reading for Exposure to Quality Literature
 Reading to Promote Independent Reading, Inquiry, and Scholarship
 Reading to Develop and Maintain Necessary English Language Arts Skills
Text Selections
(Before Reading)
Assignment/Activity
(During Reading)
Assessment
(After Reading)
Students are expected to read one fiction or
non-fiction book from the relevant
grade-level campus list.
(See page 2 of this handout)
During the summer, students are encouraged
to complete a skills-based reading guide
provided by their campus, if one is available.
If completed, the guide will serve as a valuable
resource for the summer reading assessment.
During the first three weeks of school,
students will be given a writing assessment
directly related to their summer reading. The
type of written assessment will be determined
at the campus level, and the assessment will
count as a formative grade.
Campus
Contact
Information
Atascocita HS
Humble HS
Kingwood HS
Kingwood Park HS
Summer Creek HS
Danna Adkins
Tanae Phipps
Lauren Kerbow
Cathey Buck
Matt Frost
Academic Lead Teacher
[email protected]
Academic Lead Teacher
[email protected]
Academic Lead Teacher
[email protected]
Academic Lead Teacher
[email protected]
Academic Lead Teacher
[email protected]
QUEST ECHS CONTACT INFO: Kim Mouser - Academic Lead Teacher – [email protected]
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AHS
GRADE
9
GRADE
10
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
GRADE
11
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien
GRADE
12
The Theban Trilogy (AP)
By Sophocles (translation
by Fagles,
ISBN#
9780140444254)
TBD
(Dual Credit)
HHS
360 degrees Longitude
by Melba Patillo Beals
A Long Way Gone
By Ishmael Beah
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Complications: A Surgeon's
Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
The (Honest) Truth About
Dishonesty: How We Lie to
Everyone
by Dan Ariely
(AP)
Plato at the Googleplex: Why
Philosophy Won't Go Away
by Rebecca Newberger
Goldstien
(Dual Credit 1301)
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Feed
by M.T. Anderson
(Dual Credit)
KHS
Ender’s Game (PAP)
By Orson Scott Card
Hiroshima (PAP)
by John Hersey
The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-Time (G/T)
by Mark Haddon
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Road (AP)
by Cormac McCarthy
Into the Wild
(Dual Credit)
by Jon Krakauer
KPHS
SCHS
We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
Sleeping Freshmen
Never Lie
by David Lubar
A Long Way Gone
by Ishmael Beah
Enders Game
by Orson Scott Card
How to Read Literature Like
a Professor
by Thomas C. Foster
A Thousand Splendid
Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
Complications: A
Surgeon's Notes on an
Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Genesis, Exodus, and
Matthew
(Any version of the Bible)
Outliers: The Story of
Success (Dual Credit)
by Malcolm Gladwell
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
The Curious Incident of the
Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
NOTE: For Quest Early College High School, please check the campus website for summer reading lists.
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