Your assignment this summer is to read a book you have not read before from the following list. You will be making an oral report on it the first week of school. 

Content warning: Just as movies, television, and everyday life may expose you to a non Christian worldview and depictions of immorality, so may the reading of literature. Even the Bible contains depictions of sinful lifestyles. Books in this list may contain objectionable language and behaviors. If you find reading a particular book troubling to your conscience, please stop reading it and choose another. Each one of these books is significant to the study of literature, but each of them may not be right for you, or at least for you at this point in your life. You are responsible to make the right moral decision about what you do and do not read. 

• Alcott Little Women 

• Burnett A Little Princess 

• Burnford Incredible Journey 

• D’Adamo Iqbal 

• Forbes Johnny Tremain 

• Grahame The Wind in the Willows 

• Hamilton Mythology 

• Keller The Story of My Life 

• L’Engle Meet the Austins 

• Lamb Tales from Shakespeare 

• Lewis Narnia series 

• London Call of the Wild 

• Lowry The Giver 

• MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin 

• Montgomery Anne of Green Gables 

• Paulsen Hatchet 

• Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows 

• Sachar Holes 

• Sheinkin Bomb 

• Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond 

• Stevenson Treasure Island 

• Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

• TenBoom The Hiding Place 

• Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 

• Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 

• Weissman The Length of a String 

Your assignment this summer is to read a book you have not read before from the following list. You will be making an oral report on it the first week of school. 

Content warning: Just as movies, television, and everyday life may expose you to a non Christian worldview and depictions of immorality, so may the reading of literature. Even the Bible contains depictions of sinful lifestyles. Books in this list may contain objectionable language and behaviors. If you find reading a particular book troubling to your conscience, please stop reading it and choose another. Each one of these books is significant to the study of literature, but each of them may not be right for you, or at least for you at this point in your life. You are responsible to make the right moral decision about what you do and do not read. 

• Adams Watership Down 

• Austen Emma 

• Bronte Jane Eyre 

• Buck The Good Earth 

• Carroll Alice in Wonderland 

• Cather My Antonia 

• Christie And Then There Were None 

• Dickens Oliver Twist 

• Doyle Cases of Sherlock Holmes 

• Eliot Silas Marner 

• Frank Diary of a Young Girl 

• Gibson Miracle Worker 

• Golding Lord of the Flies 

• Hamilton Mythology 

• Herriott All Things Bright and Beautiful 

• Hugo Les Miserables 

• Keegan Small Things Like These 

• Keyes Flowers for Algernon 

• L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time 

• Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 

• Lewis Screwtape Letters 

• Orwell Animal Farm 

• Satrapi Persepolis 

• Shakespeare Julius Caesar 

• Shaw Pygmalion 

• ten Boom The Hiding Place 

• Tolkien The Hobbit 

• Wallace Ben Hur 

• White The Once and Future King 

 Your assignment this summer is to read a book by a British author, preferably one of the books (or authors) on the following list. You will be making an oral report on it the first week of school. If you plan to take honors English, read two books. 

Content warning: Just as movies, television, and everyday life may expose you to a non Christian worldview and depictions of immorality, so may the reading of literature. Even the Bible contains depictions of sinful lifestyles. Books in this list may contain profanity, violence, sex, and other bad behaviors. If you find reading a particular book troubling to your conscience, please stop reading it and choose another. Each one of these books is significant to the study of literature, but each of them may not be right for you, or at least for you at this point in your life. You are responsible to make the right moral decision about what you do and do not read. 

Adams Watership Down 

Austen Persuasion 

Bronte Jane Eyre 

Carroll Alice in Wonderland 

Christie And Then There Were None 

Dickens David Copperfield 

Eliot Silas Marner 

Fry Mythos 

Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane 

Golding Lord of the Flies 

Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles 

Harris Conclave 

Ishiguro The Remains of the Day 

Keegan Small Things Like These 

Lamb Tales from Shakespeare 

Lewis Screwtape Letters 

Orwell Animal Farm 

Orwell 1984 

Shakespeare Julius Caesar 

Shaw Pygmalion 

Tolkien Lord of the Rings 

Truss Eats Shoots and Leaves 

White The Once and Future King 

Wilde The Picture of Doran Gray 

DO NOT READ: Macbeth, Hamlet, Utopia, or A Tale of Two Cities , since you will be reading them in class.