School Required Reading Lists
Kingsport City Schools
Summer Reading List: 2023-2024
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.
6th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)
- 11 Birthdays – Wendy Mass
- Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
- Heat – Mike Lupica
- The Running Dream – Wendelin Van Draannen
- Restart – Gordon Korman
- Woods Runner – Gary Paulsen
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
- Brian’s Winter – Gary Paulson
8th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)
- Ashes in the Snow/Between Shade of Gray – Ruta Sepetys (same book, different titles)
- The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Edition) – Daniel James Brown
- The Contender – Robert Lipsyte
- Milkweed – Jerry Spinelli
Dobyns-Bennett High School
Summer Reading List: 2022-2023
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.
9th Grade Reading List (Choose one from the list below)
9 Pre-AP (Read one of the Following)
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- Dear Martin – Nic Stone
- The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas
9 CP (Read one of the Following)
- Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson
- With the Fire on High – Elizabeth Acevedo
- A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
- Crossover – Kwame Alexander
- Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
- The Long Way Down – Jason Reynolds
- Everything Everything – Nicola Yoon
- We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
- Ten – Gretchen McNeil
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
10th Grade Summer Reading List
10 CP (Read one of the Following)
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
10 Pre-AP (Read one of the Following)
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
11th Grade Summer Reading List
11 CP (Choose one from the list below)
- The Greatest Generation – Tom Brokaw
- 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 Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
12th Grade Summer Reading List
12 CP (Read the Following)
- 1984 – George Orwell
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
