Ball Don’t Lie - Matt de la Pena

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Dear Martin - Nic Stone

Pride - Ibi Zoboi

You Asked For Perfect - Laura Silverman

Booked - Kwame Alexander

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes - Chris Crutcher

The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo

Everything Everything - Nicola Yoon

Grown - Tiffany D. Jackson

Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Jumped - Rita Williams-Garcia

Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom

Monster - Walter Dean Myers

Bad Boy - Walter Dean Myers

The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

A Wreath for Emmett Till - Marilyn Nelson

Dragon Hoops - Gene Luen Yang

Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell

All But My Life - Gerda Klein

One of Us Is Lying - Karen McManus

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

Looking For Alaska - John Green

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

The Nickel Boys - Colton Underwood

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Daniel James Brown

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

The Lovely Bones: A Novel – Alice Sebold

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie

Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver

The Color of Water - James McBride

Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston

Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman

Where the Crawdads Sings - Delia Owens

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang

The Martian - Andy Weir

One of Us Is Next - Karen M. McManus (sequel to One of Us is Lying)

Some Assembly Required - Arin Andrews

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out - Susan Kuklin

TroubleMaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington - Jacqueline Houtman

Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertelli

Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertelli

Attack on America: The Day the Twin Towers Collapsed - Mary Gow

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In The Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez

Before We Were Free - Julia Alvarez

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

Dawn - Elie Wiesel

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Candide - Voltaire

Girl with the Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier

When the Emperor Was Divine -Julie Otsuka

Broken Paradise – Cecilia Samartin

The Kitchen Boy - Richard Alexander

Chinese Cinderella -Adeline Yen Mah

Eragon - Christopher Paolini

The Samurai’s Tale - Erik Haugaard and F. Hau

The Hitchhiker Series - Douglass Adams

Briar Rose -Jane Yolen

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez

Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi

Alive: Airplane Crash in the Andes Mountains - Scott Werther

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 - Carolyn Myer

Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition - Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

The Lines We Cross - Randa Abdel-Fattah

Academic Courses

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah

The Butler: A Witness to History - Wil Haygood

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

Courage to Soar - Simone Biles

The Freedom Writers Diary - Erin Gruwell

Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson - Doreen Rappaport

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Western Lit Honors

(REQUIRED)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (must complete by Friday 9/10)

Honors Journalism

(REQUIRED)

Choose one of the options from the linked list. Students will be expected to create and present a presentation on their selected journalist a few weeks into the start of the school year.

AP Courses

(REQUIRED)

Please use this document to access the summer assignments for all AP courses.