Grades 9-12 Summer Reading

Teachers have recommended several books at each grade level to help students who may be looking for different texts to read. You can also reach out to your child’s current teacher to determine their “Lexile Score” which is a measurement of a student’s current reading comprehension level based on their most recent testing scores. This number will help you find additional books that are appropriately challenging for your child.

Here are the books teachers in Grades 9-12 recommend*: 

• 1776 by David McCullough
• Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
• Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• Hidden Systems by Dan Nott
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Beyond Fast by Sean Brosnan
• Patron Saints of Nothing Randy Ribay
• Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
• Shake Hands With The Devil by Romeo Daillaire
• Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

*Students enrolled in an AP course may have additional required reading over the summer as part of the AP Curriculum. 

• AP Language and Composition
• AP English Literature
• AP European History
• AP US History
• AP Chemistry