Summer Reading Lists

,Click the links below for each grade’s summer reading list. To search for the book in our library catalog, click here.

Some of the titles on the summer reading lists are available via e-book or e-audiobook format through Libby, the Library’s e-book lending app. The titles listed after “E=” are available in e-book, and the titles listed after “A=” are available in e-audiobook”.  To download Libby, search for the app in your app store.

Colonial School District

Grade 6

E= Hoot, Miracle on 29th Street, When You Reach Me, A Wrinkle in Time

A= Among the Hidden, Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini, Hatchet, Maniac Magee, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Grade 7

E= Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie, Ghost, Louisiana’s Way Home, Restart, Stormbreaker, We Beat the Street,

A= Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie, Ghost, The Looking Glass Wars, Louisiana’s Way Home, Stormbreaker

Grade 8

E= The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Other Wes Moore, Into Thin Air, Little Women, Pictures of Hollis Woods

A= The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Other Wes Moore, Little Women, Pictures of Hollis Woods

Grade 9

E = A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, Monster, The Book Thief

A = A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Monster, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Book Thief

Grade 10

E = Angela’s Ashes, The Color of Water, The Color Purple, How the Gracia Girls Lost Their Accents, The Jungle, The Awakening, Their Eyes Were Watching God

A = Angela’s Ashes, The Color of Water, The Jungle, Lost in Yonkers, The Awakening

Grade 11

E = Born a Crime, Educated: A Memoir, The Hate U Give, The Namesake, Ready Player One,

A = Educated: A Memoir, The Hate U Give, The Namesake, Ready Player One

Grade 12

E= Into Thin Air, Misery, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Outliers, Water for Elephants, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Last Lecture

A= Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Outliers, Water for Elephants, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Last Lecture

More school summer reading lists coming soon!