School Required Reading Lists

Kingsport City Schools

Summer Reading List: 2019-2020

Please select at least one book from the appropriate list below.

Parents: please use parental discretion when helping your child select summer reading books. If for any reason you would like to select an alternate text for your student, please contact the school and they will make arrangements for an alternate choice.

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6th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)

• 11 Birthdays – Wendy Mass
• Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
• The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
• The Running Dream – Wendelin Van Draannen
• Strong Inside – Andrew Maraniss
• Woods Runner – Gary Paulsen

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7th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)

• Booked – Kwame Alexander
• Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson
• Cinder – Marissa Meyer
• Fish in a Tree – Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer – John Grisham
• Titanic: Voices from the Disaster – Deborah Hopkinson

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8th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)

• Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys
• The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Edition) – Daniel James Brown
• The Contender – Robert Lipsyte
• Milkweed – Jerry Spinelli
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs

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Dobyns-Bennett High School

Summer Reading List: 2019-2020

From the appropriate lists below, choose one book, unless noted, to read over the summer. Summer reading selections will be assessed during the first nine weeks through essay or project based methods.

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 9th Grade Reading List (Read the following)

• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

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10th Grade Summer Reading List

10 CP (Read the Following)

• Enclave – Anne Aguirre

10 Pre-AP (Read the Following)

• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

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11th Grade Summer Reading List

11 CP (Choose one from the list below)

• The Greatest Generation – Tom Broakaw
• The Storyteller – Jodi Picoult
• Life is So Good – George Dawson
• Have a Little Faith – Mitch Albom
• The Traveler’s Gift – Andy Andrews

11 Pre-AP (Read the Following)

• The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

11 AP

Students enrolled in Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (11 AP English) should consider the question, “What is Truth?” Students are expected to read:

• The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien

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12th Grade Summer Reading List

12 CP (Choose one from the list below)

• 1984 – George Orwell
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

12 AP

Students enrolled in Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (12 AP English) should consider the question, “Who am I in the world?” Students must read both:

• A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
• How to Read Literature like a Professor – Thomas C. Foster

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Sullivan County Middle Schools

Summer Reading List: 2019-2020

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6th Grade Summer Reading List

Required

• The Egypt Game – Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer – James Swanson
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis

Professional Choice

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
• The Wednesday Wars – Gary Schmidt
• A Single Shard – Linda Sue Park
• Among the Hidden – Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
• Boy of the Painted Cave – Justin Denzel
• Prisoner B-3087 – Alan Gratz
• A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle

7th Grade Summer Reading List

Required (Choose one for the second Quarter)

• I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
• The Giver – Lois Lowry
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Professional Choice

• The Call of the Wild – Jack London
• Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
• Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie – Jordan Sonnenblick
• The Cay – Theodore Taylor
• The Maze Runner – James Dashner
• Daniel’s Story – Carol Matas
• Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry
• The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
• Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys

8th Grade Summer Reading List

Required (Choose one for the second Quarter)

• Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

Professional Choice

• Farewell to Manzanar -Jeane Wakatsuki Houston
• A Separate Peace – John Knowles
• Boy – Roald Dahl
• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad – Ann Lane Petry
• The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – C. Alan Bradley
• Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Glory Field – Walter Dean Myers
• The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
• Girl Stolen – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch