Summer Reading
Middle School - Upcoming 6th - 8th Grade
RCSD will not have a required Summer Reading this summer due to the COVID-19 challenges everyone has encountered. The RCSD Secondary Curriculum Department STRONGLY encourages ALL Middle School students to continue reading during the months of June and July.
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
|
Brown Girl Dreaming |
Jacqueline Woodson |
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I Am Malala (Young Reader’s Edition) |
Malala Yousafzai |
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An Ember in the Ashes |
Sabaa Tahir |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| The Boys Who Challenged Hitler | Philip M. Hoose |
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie |
Jordan Sonnenblick |
| Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry |
|
Wonder |
R.J. Palacio |
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The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
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A Snicker of Magic |
Natalie Loyd |
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Milkweed |
Jerry Spinelli |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| The Maze of Bones | Rick Riordan |
| I Funny: A Middle School Story | James Patterson |
|
QB1 |
Mike Lupica |
| Story of Thieves | James Riley |
| Restart | Gordon Korman |
|
The Thing About Jellyfish |
Ali Benjamin |
| The Fill In Boyfriend | Kasie West |
| The Selection | Kiera Cass |
| The Crossover | Kwame Alexander |
|
Legend |
Marie Lu |
| Cinder | Marissa Meyer |
| If You’re Reading This | Trent Reedy |
| Unstoppable | Tim Green |
| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| Some Place More Than Others | Renee Watson |
| The Girl in the Blue Coat | Monica Hesse |
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The Looking Glass Wars |
Frank Beddor |
| Double Identity Margaret | Peterson Haddix |
|
The Red Badge of Courage |
Stephen Crane |
| Soldier's Heart | Gary Paulsen |
High School - Upcoming 9th - 12 Grade
RCSD will not have a required Summer Reading this summer due to the COVID-19 challenges everyone has encountered. The RCSD Secondary Curriculum Department STRONGLY encourages ALL High School students to continue reading during the months of June and July.
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|
| Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli |
|
Cold Sassy Tree |
Olive Ann Burns |
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All Over but the Shoutin’ |
Rick Bragg |
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The Mysterious Island |
Jules Verne |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Jules Verne |
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Becoming |
Michelle Obama |
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A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
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Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
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Same Kind of Different as Me |
Denver Moore/Ron Hall |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
Rebecca Skloot |
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Scythe |
Neal Schusterman |
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Tattooist of Auschwitz |
Heather Morris |
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Hillbilly Elegy |
J.D. Vance |
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The Other Wes Moore |
Wes Moore |
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
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The Last Lecture |
Jeffrey Zaslow/Randy Pausch |
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The 5th Wave |
Rick Yancey |
|
One of Us is Lying |
Karen McManus |
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The Selection |
Kiera Cass |
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things that Can Change your Life and Maybe the World |
Admiral William H. McRaven |
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The Jordan Rules |
Sam Smith |
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The Blood of Emmett Till |
Timothy Tyson |
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World War Z |
Max Brooks |
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The Muse of Nightmares |
Laini Taylor |
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Red Rising |
Pierce Brown |
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The History of the World in Six Glasses |
Tom Standage |
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1776 |
Tom McCollough |