2023-2024 SUMMER READING

2023-2024 SUMMER READING

Westford Academy Summer Reading - 2023-2024

2023-2024 SUMMER READING-ELA Website

SORA

Many titles are available to borrow in ebook or audiobook format in SORA! (Log in with your Westford Academy Google SSO)

Grade 9

  • Students entering grade 9 college preparatory classes should select and read one work from the list below. 
  • Students entering grade 9 honors classes should read The Chosen by Chaim Potok AND one work from the list below. 
  • All students are advised to take notes on elements including characters, conflicts, main events, connections, important quotations, and themes.
Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikaelsen
Here To Stay - Sara Farizan
Wolf Hollow - Lauren Wolk
Kindred - Octavia Butler
Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
The Other Wes Moore - Wes Moore (non-fiction)
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team - Christina Soontornvat (non-fiction)
 
Grade 10
 
  • Students entering grade 10 college preparatory classes should select and read one work from the list below. 
  • Students entering grade 10 honors classes should read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri AND one work from the list below.
  • All students are advised to take notes on literary elements including characters, conflicts, main events, connections, important quotations, and themes. 
Simon Vs. the Homosapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli 
A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Long Walk - Richard Bachman (a.k.a Stephen King)
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Breaking Night (nonfiction) - Liz Murray
 
Grade 11
 
  • Students entering grade 11 college preparatory classes should select and read one work from the list below. 
  • Students entering grade 11 honors classes should read The Awakening by Kate Chopin AND one work from the list below. 
  • All students are advised to take notes on literary elements including characters, conflicts, main events, connections, important quotations, and themes. 
American Road Trip - Patrick Flores-Scott
What If It's Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
Pride - Ibi Zoboi
The Round House - Louise Erdrich
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
We'll Fly Away - Bryan Bliss
Between the World and Me (nonfiction) - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Educated (nonfiction) - Tara Westover
 
Grade 12
 
  • Students entering grade 12 college preparatory classes should select and read one work from the list below. 
  • Students entering grade 12 honors classes should read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini AND one work from the list below. 
  • Students entering grade 12 Advanced Placement Literature and Composition classes should read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and How to Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster. 
  • All students are advised to take notes on literary elements including characters, conflicts, main events, connections, important quotations, and themes. 
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
Behold the Dreamers - Imbolo Mbue
The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
Born a Crime (nonfiction) - Trevor Noah