QO Recommends
This summer, spend time reading for JOY!
No formal written assignment for English class accompanies summer reading; however, these book recommendations will enrich your life. We hope that you will check at least one out this summer!
Navigate the site to see recommendations and find your first book!
When we return to school, you'll have a chance to share what books you've read and even win some prizes!
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” – Maya Angelou
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglass
“That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
“Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” – Barack Obama