Required Summer Reading List 2026-2027
All students entering 6th through 11th must read the required book(s) from the list below. Students will have an assignment, based on their grade level book, given to them at the beginning of the school year.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
6th grade
Number The Stars - Lois Lowry
ISBN: 978-0-547-577709-8
* Students will have an assignment based on the book when they return to school.
7th grade
Island of Blue Dolphins - by Scott O'Dell
ISBN: 978-0-547-32861-4
* Students will have an assignment based on the book when they return to school.
8th grade
Where The Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls
ISBN: 978-0-440-41267-0
* Students will have an assignment based on the book when they return to school.
HIGH SCHOOL
9th/10th grades
Old Man and the Sea - by Ernest Hemmingway
ISBN: 978-0-684-80122-3
* Students will have an assignment based on the book when they return to school.
11th grade
Of Mice and Men - by John Steinbeck
ISBN: 978-0140177398
* Students will have an assignment based on the book when they return to school.