The objective of summer reading for the students is to assist them in cultivating skills that have been built upon throughout their academic year. It is the hope that reading will strengthen and reinforce those skills that are vital to all aspects of academics and beyond. Students entering 10 Honors are REQUIRED to read a book that is appealing to them and that they will enjoy. We hope that this will foster the love of reading while still allowing students to strengthen their reading and comprehension skills.. In September, each student will construct a persuasive essay that focuses on their summer reading experience!
Listed below are resources for students:
A video explaining how to access online reading and audiobooks from SORA: SORA Instructions
Make sure to check out your school’s library:
PBHS: https://sites.google.com/pinebushschools.org/pbhs-library/home
Don’t forget your local libraries!
- Pine Bush Area Public Library- 223-227 Maple Ave, Pine Bush, NY https://pinebusharealibrary.org/
- Middletown Thrall Library- 12 Depot Street, Middletown, NY https://www.thrall.org/WelcomeHome.html
- Mamakating Library- 128 Sullivan Street, Wurstboro, NY https://mamakatinglibrary.org/
You can check the availability of each text from the following merchants:
Grade 10 Honors Reading Suggestions: The following are merely suggestions. The book you select should be on your grade level, and it should be a work that appeals to you (novels, graphic novels, autobiographies, memoirs, etc.). Many Young Adult works carry strong thematic elements that may be triggering. It is suggested that students review possible warnings for the works they select.
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Birdbox by Josh Malerman
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Marvel 1602 by Niel Gaiman
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
- Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirely Jackson
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Long Walk by Stephen King
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- The Power by Naomi Alderman