WHS ELA Summer Reading
WHS Required Reads for AP English Courses Summer 2025
- AP Language & Composition
- AP Literature & Composition
WHS Recommended Reads for Honors English Courses Summer 2025
- Honors ELA 9 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Honors ELA 10 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Honors ELA 11 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Honors ELA 12 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
WHS Recommended Reads (Choice List) for Summer 2025
Freshmen
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Sophomores
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Juniors
- Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
- Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Seniors
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood