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ARS Summer Reading Assignments

All Rising 9th-12th graders will choose one book from the following lists. Find the class you will be in next year and follow the link in red for the book page count and the corresponding assignment.

If you are a virtual student, please email your completed assignment to my School Email address: leigh.boulineau@acs-k12.org by August 17th, 2020.

If you have English second semester, you will need to complete your Summer Reading assignment by August 17th, and your grade will be applied to your English class in the Spring.

You may be able to check the book out of your local library or download a free version online. If not, each book title below has a link to Amazon, where you can buy the book online.

9th Standard

True Grit by Charles Portis

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline Cooney

9th Honors

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

10th Standard

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

Night by Elie Weisel

10th Honors

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

11th Standard

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

11th Honors

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

Walden by Henry Thoreau

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

12th Standard

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

12th Honors

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

1984 by George Orwell

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

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