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 |
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Brown Girl Dreaming |
Jacqueline Woodson |
I Am Malala (Young Reader’s Edition) |
Malala Yousafzai |
An Ember in the Ashes |
Sabaa Tahir |
Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler | Philip M. Hoose |
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie |
Jordan Sonnenblick |
Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry |
Wonder |
R.J. Palacio |
The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
A Snicker of Magic |
Natalie Loyd |
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 |
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 |
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Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli |
Cold Sassy Tree |
Olive Ann Burns |
All Over but the Shoutin’ |
Rick Bragg |
The Mysterious Island |
Jules Verne |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Jules Verne |
Becoming |
Michelle Obama |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
Same Kind of Different as Me |
Denver Moore/Ron Hall |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
Rebecca Skloot |
Scythe |
Neal Schusterman |
Tattooist of Auschwitz |
Heather Morris |
Hillbilly Elegy |
J.D. Vance |
The Other Wes Moore |
Wes Moore |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
The Last Lecture |
Jeffrey Zaslow/Randy Pausch |
The 5th Wave |
Rick Yancey |
One of Us is Lying |
Karen McManus |
The Selection |
Kiera Cass |
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
Make Your Bed: Little Things that Can Change your Life and Maybe the World |
Admiral William H. McRaven |
The Jordan Rules |
Sam Smith |
The Blood of Emmett Till |
Timothy Tyson |
World War Z |
Max Brooks |
The Muse of Nightmares |
Laini Taylor |
Red Rising |
Pierce Brown |
The History of the World in Six Glasses |
Tom Standage |
1776 |
Tom McCollough |