Summer Reading

Please read below for summer reading assignments for students by division: 

Lower School

  • Form I: The Girls by Lauren Ace (to be read alone or with a grownup)
  • Form II: The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de La Peña (to be read alone or with a grownup)
  • Form III: Any book from the Calpurnia Tate Girl Vet series by Jacqueline Kennedy and/or Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
  • Form IV: When you Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller, Because of the Rabbit by Cynthia Lord, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart, Measuring Up by Lily Lamotte, Patina by Jason Reynolds (read at least one)
  • Form V: Blended by Sharon M. Draper, A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser, Willodeen by Katherine Applegate, The Year I Flew Away by Marie Arnold, Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Middle School

  • Form VI: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World, Young Readers Edition (ISBN: 978-0316327916) (more details here)
  • Form VII: The Elephant in the Room (ISBN: 978-0-7352-2994-5) (more details here)
  • Form VIII: Two books of the students’ choice (more details here)

Upper School

  • A minimum of 500 pages across one or more books (recommendations here)
  • AP Literature and Composition: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, Revised Edition (ISBN:  978-0062301673)
  • AP U.S. History: Facing East from Indian Country by Daniel Richter 
  • AP Euro: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (online version available here)