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 grade 12 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.
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 12 Regents Summer Reading:
Please feel free to choose a book of your choice! It cannot be a book that you read for school before, but anything else is fine.
Below are some suggestions for your consideration.
Non-Fiction:
- Abramson, Jeffrey B.; We, The Jury
- Alderman, Allen; Caroline Kennedy; The Right to Privacy
- Carson, Rachel; Silent Spring
- Fallows, James; Breaking the News
- Golden, Marita; Saving Our Sons
- Hunter, Evan; The Blackboard Jungle
- Korem, Danny; Suburban Gangs
- Kozol, Jonathan; Amazing Grace
- Kozol, Jonathan; Savage Inequalities
- Larson, Erik; Lethal Passage
- Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff; When Elephants Weep
- Setterberg, Fred; Toxic Nation
- Sykes, Charles J.; Dumbing Down our Kids
FICTION
- Adams, Douglas; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Bradbury, Ray; The Illustrated Man
- Bradbury, Ray; The Martian Chronicles
- Doyle, Roddy; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
- Herbert, Frank; Dune
- Hoffman, Alice; Second Nature
- Kerr, M.E.; Deliver Us from Evie
- Lipsyte, Robert; The Brave
- Oates, Joyce Carol; The Assignation
- Rand, Ayn; The Fountainhead
- Reynolds, S; Rapture of Canaan.
- Sharp, Paula; Crows Over a Wheatfield
- Tolkien, J.R.R.; The Fellowship of the Ring
- Wells, H.G.; The Time Machine
- Wells, H.G.; The War of the Worlds