6th Grade Summer Reading List

Biographies

• Amy Carmichael, Abandoned to God, Wellman
• Jim Elliot, Missionary to Ecuador, Miller
• Billy Graham, the Great Evangelist, Wellman
• C.S. Lewis, author of Mere Christianity, Wellman
• Eric Liddell, Olympian and Missionary, Caughey
• David Livingstone, Missionary and Explorer, Wellman
• George Müller, Man of Faith, Harvey
• Watchman Nee, Man of Suffering, Laurent
• Florence Nightingale, Lady with the Lamp, Wellman
• Mother Teresa, Missionary of Charity, Wellman
• Joni, an Unforgettable Story, Tada

Fiction

• Burnford, Incredible Journey
• Cleaver, Where the Lilies
• BloomGeorge, My Side of the Mountain
• Gipson, Old Yeller
• Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Lowry, Number the Stars
• North, Rascal
• Paulsen, Hatchet
• Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Voight, Dicey’s Song

9th Grade Summer Reading List

Texts:

• Required Text 1: Bruchko, Bruce E. Olson
• Required Text 2: Select ONE of the following:
  • Black Boy, Richard Wright
  • Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
  • Til We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • The Sword in the Stone (Part I of The Once and Future King), T.H. White

Entering 9th Honors Summer Reading List
Required texts:

• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• A Separate Peace, John Knowles
• “Revelation,” Flannery O’Connor (from the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge)

Entering 10th Grade Summer Reading List
Required texts:

• My Antonia, Willa Cather
• The Crucible, Arthur Miller

Entering 10th Grade Honors Summer Reading List
Required texts:

• My Antonia, Willa Cather
• The Crucible, Arthur Miller
• Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway

Entering 11th Grade Summer Reading List
Required texts:

• 1984, George Orwell*
• Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
• The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
• * If you are doing summer reading in a foreign language, you may omit this text.

British Literature & Composition-H
Requirements: Read four works:

• Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy*
• The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
• Dubliners, James Joyce (New York: Penguin Group, 1992)
• Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
• *If you are reading a work for foreign language, you may omit Tess of the D’Urbevilles.

Senior Summer Reading
Reading requirements:

• A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
• Silence, Shusaku Endo
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) OR Cry the Beloved Country (Paton)
• 1 spiritual work (choice below)*
• * If you are reading a book for foreign language, you may omit the spiritual work.

Choice Spiritual Read:
Choose at least one work you’ve not read before:

Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanlauken
Mother Teresa: The Authorized Biography, Navin Chawla
Salvation on Sand Mountain, Dennis Covington
Proverbs & Ecclesiastes (OT)
Tim LeHaye series (any)
Frank Peretti series (any)

12th Grade AP English Summer Reading List
Texts:

• A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
• Silence, Shusaku Endo
• The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
• Getting Even, Woody Allen

Literature 7 Summer Reading List (Merville/Springman)
Required texts:

• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Return with Honor, Scott O’Grady

One of the following:

• The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
• The Two Towers, Tolkien
• The Return of the King, Tolkien
• The Once and Future King, White
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain
• The Cross & the Switchblade, Wilkinson
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Verne
• Little Women, Alcott
• Christy, Marshall
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
• Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery
• Treasure Island, Stevenson
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith
• Rebecca, DuMarier
• Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls

Rising 8th Grade Summer Reading List

CHOOSE ONE. You cannot choose a book that you have already read, one that has been read to you, or one whose movie you have seen (even the cartoon). THE OTHER TWO BOOKS THAT ARE REQUIRED ARE TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and THE HIDING PLACE. In all, you must read THREE books this summer.

• Safely Home, Randy Alcorn
• Blessed Child, Bill Bright
• The Education of Little Tree, Forest Carter
• Born Again, Charles Colson
• Ten Little Indians and other titles, Agatha Christie
• Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
• Johnny Tremaine, Esther Forbes
• Hiroshima, John Hersey
• Kon-Tiki, Thor Hyerdahl
• The Outsiders, That Was Then, This is Now, S.E. Hinton
• Green Mansions, W.H. Hudson
• Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt
• Walk Across America or The Walk West or Walk Across China, Peter Jenkins
• Left Behind and the other five books in the series, Tim LeHaye
• Kim, Rudyard Kipling
• The Call of the Wild or White Fang, Jack London
• Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
• The Hatchet or The River, Gary Paulsen
• Any of the Cooper Family books by Frank Peretti
• This Present Darkness or Piercing the Darkness or The Prophet or The Oath or The Visitation, Frank Peretti (written parental permission is required for you to read any of these books)
• In His Steps, Charles Sheldon
• Heidi, Johanna Spyri
• Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin, H.B. Stowe
• The Thread That Runs So True, Jesse Stuart
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry or Road to Memphis, Mildred Taylor
• Tramp for the Lord, Corrie Ten Boom
• The Hobbit or one of the books from the ring trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King, but read them in order
• The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkinson