LCA’s Summer Reading Requirement 2015
Purpose
The works of literature on the summer reading lists have been carefully selected to help prepare
students for subject matter they will encounter in their history and literature courses in the fall.
Summer reading encourages independent reading outside of school, provides students with a
shared experience that can serve as a reference point for discussion and writing in the coming
school year, and reinforces Lighthouse Christian Academy’s mission to promote academic
excellence.
Reading Materials
Each reading list has been designed to coincide with the history and literature curriculum of the
indicated grade level and to avoid overlap with literature that students may be assigned during
the school year or may have encountered in previous school years.
Incoming students in grades 9 through 12 will be required to read two books during the summer:
one book assigned by the faculty and one book of their choice from the reading list below. This
system allows students both structure and flexibility. Students should read unabridged, unedited
editions.
Assessment/Grading
Students will be accountable for their summer reading according to teachers’ instructions.
Assessments for summer reading may include written assignments or oral presentations.
Policy for late enrollees
Students who enroll after August 1 are required to read one book.
9th Grade:
All students must read To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and one book from the list below:
C. S. Lewis, Space Trilogy, Screwtape Letters
Elie Weisel, Night
George Orwell, 1984
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small
Pearl Buck, The Good Earth
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Don Richardson, Peace Child
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Shakespeare, Macbeth
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
John Knowles, A Separate Peace
Elizabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor
Catherine Marshall, Christy
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations or Hard Times
10th Grade:
All students must read Mythology by Edith Hamilton and one book from the list below: :
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility or Persuasion Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Chaim Potok, The Chosen or other
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life
Mrs. Howard Taylor, Borden of Yale
Erich Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
John G. Peyton’s autobiography
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Homer, The Iliad
Alexander Dumas, The Three Musketeers
Sophocles, Antigone
Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
11th Grade:
All students must read Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and one book from the list below:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letters from Jail
Iaian Murray, Jonathan Edwards
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography
Charles Colson, Born Again
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Prince and the Pauper
12th Grade:
All students must read The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild and one of the following
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Shakespeare, King Lear, Hamlet
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Winston Churchill, My Early Life
W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Ring
Luther, Bondage of the Will
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield
Garth Lean, God’s Politician: William Wilberforce’s Struggle
Peter Lillback, George Washington’s Sacred Fire
7th and 8th Grades
Students will choose two books to read from the following list:
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Louis Sachar
Holes
Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time and others
Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain
Esther Forbes
Johnny Tremain
Corrie ten Boom
The Hiding Place
Mildred D. Taylor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Jean Fritz
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt
James Herriot
All Creatures Great and Small and others
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Jeanne Watkazuki Houston
Farewell to Manzanar
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
David Macaulay
Cathedral: The Story of its Construction
Jim Murphy
The Great Fire
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes Stories
Willa Cather
O! Pioneers
Barbara Leonie Picard
Odyssey of Homer
Kate Douglas Wiggen
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Jennifer Westwood
Stories of Charlemagne
Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Lew Wallace
Ben Hur and others
George Du Maurier
Trilby
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Leo Tolstoy
Nikolenka’s Childhood
William McGuffey
McGuffey’s Sixth Reader
Dorothy L. Sayers (translator)
Song of Roland
Samuel E. Morison Admiral of the Ocean Sea: Life of Christopher Columbus & others
John Buchan
Adventures of Richard Hannay and others
Roland H. Bainton (editor)
Martin Luther’s Christmas Book
Brother Andrew (with J. and E. Sherrill)
God’s Smuggler
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous
Forrester
Hornblower books
Charles Portis
True Grit
G. A. Henty
any book