Summer Reading List 2023

Required Summer Reading

7th and 8th Grades

Refugee by Alan Gratz

9th and 10th Grades

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

11th and 12th Grades and Postgraduates

Legacy: 15 lessons in Leadership
What the All Blacks Can Teach us About the Business of Life by James Kerr

AP Course Summer Reading

Required for all students who are enrolled in any Advanced Placement (AP) course for the 2023-2024 school year.

AP Biology

AP Chemistry

AP American History

AP English Literature

Assignment: Read TWO of the following (these titles were drawn from the last three lists of options to use on the open questions on the exam):

The Awakening
The Bluest Eye
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A Gesture Life
The Handmaid’s Tale
Invisible Man
My Antonia
Native Son
The Portrait of a Lady
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Sound and the Fury
Dracula
A Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein
Beowulf
Heart of Darkness
Man and Superman
Midnight’s Children
The Power of One
To the Lighthouse
A Passage to India

AP English Language

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Questions? Reach Out!

If you have any questions about the required summer reading, please reach out to the Academic Office at 845-855-4819. Thank you!

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Everyone should read another book of your choice this summer - try something that is unlike anything you’ve read before! A graphic novel, biography of someone you know nothing about, poetry, a novel in verse, or another genre you like. Need ideas? Check out this Goodreads List of the Best Books of the 21st Century.Amy Foster, Director of Gardiner Library and learning commons