School Required Reading Lists
Kingsport City Schools Summer Reading List: 2018-2019
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
- Heat – Mike Lupica
- Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
- The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
- The Running Dream – Wendelin Van Draannen
- Woods Runner – Gary Paulsen
7th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)
- Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Cinder – Marissa Meyer
- The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
- Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer – John Grisham
- Titanic: Voices from the Disaster – Deborah Hopkinson
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
8th Grade Summer Reading List (Choose one from the list below)
- Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys
- The Contender – Robert Lipsyte
- Milkweed – Jerry Spinelli
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
Dobyns-Bennett High School Summer Reading List:
2018-2019
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 (Read the following)
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
10th Grade Summer Reading List
10 CP (Read the Following)
- Enclave – Anne Aguirre
10 Pre-AP (Read the Following)
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
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
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
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
Sullivan North High School Summer Reading List:
2017-2018
9th Grade
Required reading not until 2nd semester.
10th Grade (Read Both)
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Animal Farm – George Orwell
11th Grade
No Required reading for 11th grade English.
12th Grade
No required reading for 12th grade English.
