Students Entering Grade 9: Recommended/Required Summer Reading List

Required Reading:
Incoming Ninth Grade Honors Students

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 
  An incredible young adult novel about how a young girl’s love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust.

Ninth Grade Honors students: As you read The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, please complete the following assignment. Make a copy of the Google Doc into your school Google Drive account and then fill in the sections. You will submit this assignment to Canvas during the first week of school in August. Make sure to include page numbers where indicated. This sheet will help you prepare for class discussions in the fall as well as the summer reading assessment that you will take within the first week or two.

Please click here for The Book Thief test study guide. 

Recommended Reading:
All Ninth Grade

Please click here to view the Reading Olympics book list recommended by the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit for high school students. 

If you are having difficulty finding and acquiring a text for summer reading,  please click here to email Lori Jolley in the Curriculum Department.