Summer Reading 2024
Watchung Hills Regional High School
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Summer Reading 2024
Please see grade and course level guidelines for summer reading below. As always, we want you to read actively. Write down your favorite passages - those you find memorable and those that raise questions for you - and remember to do your part in September to keep the conversation going as you interact with your new peers and teachers at WHRHS.
In-class essays on summer reading will take place during the first weeks of class and will count as part of the first semester grade. For audio versions of these books, download the Libby app and use your valid local library card number to borrow audio files.
School-Wide-Read, required of all grade levels:
The Eyes & the Impossible, Dave Eggers |
Grade 9
Grade 9 book options:
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho |
The Color of Water, James McBride |
The Playbook, Kwame Alexander |
English 1 |
Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers |
English 1 College Prep |
Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers |
English 1 Accelerated |
Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers |
English 1 Honors |
Read one (1) of the grade 9 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel (available online). |
Grade 10
Grade 10 book options:
Lord of the Flies, William Golding |
They Called Us Enemy, George Takei |
Untwine, Edwidge Danticat |
English 2 |
Read one (1) of the grade 10 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 2 College Prep |
Read one (1) of the grade 10 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 2 Accelerated |
Read two (2) of the grade 10 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
AP Language and Composition |
Read one (1) of the grade 10 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson |
Grade 11
Grade 11 book options:
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown |
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner |
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer |
English 3 |
Read one (1) of the grade 11 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 3 College Prep |
Read one (1) of the grade 11 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 3 Accelerated |
Read two (2) of the grade 11 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
AP Literature and Composition |
Read one (1) of the grade 11 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri |
Grade 12
Grade 12 book options:
The Defining Decade, Meg Jay |
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro |
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt |
English 4 |
Read one (1) of the grade 12 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 4 College Prep |
Read one (1) of the grade 12 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 4 Accelerated |
Read two (2) of the grade 12 book options and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers. |
English 4 Honors and AP Literature and Composition (Gr. 12) |
Read one (1) of the grade 12 book options, The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri |