Most of the required reading titles are available as eBooks/audiobooks free to SHS students through the Sora app, from the public library or students may purchase the required books wherever books are sold. The Seekonk Public Library has this booklist and can assist families in obtaining books. Watch the tutorial (right) on how to take eBook notes.
Students will submit Honors English assignments and/or complete Honors biology assignments on the first day that their class meets in Fall 2026.
9 Honors English - Choose & Read One (Links are to free eBooks/Audiobooks available through the student Sora platform)
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by M. Haddon 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
9 Honors Biology - Double Helix by Nancy Werlin 📖 (Ebook through Sora). Honor Biology students should be prepared for an in-class quiz on the reading on the first day of school.
10 Honors English - Choose & Read One (Links are to free eBooks/Audiobooks available through the student Sora platform)
The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan 📖 (Ebook through Sora)
11 Honors English- Choose & Read One (Links are to free eBooks/Audiobooks available through the student Sora platform)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 📖 (Ebook through Sora)
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan 📖 (Ebook through Sora)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 📖 (Ebook through Sora)
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)
12 Honors English - Choose & Read One (Links are to free eBooks/Audiobooks available through the student Sora platform)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai. Students should select the adult version (ISBN: 978-0316322409) 📖 🎧(Ebook/Audio through Sora)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie and Ina Rilke 🎧 (Audiobook through Sora)
Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston 📖 (Ebook through Sora)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 📖 🎧 (Ebook/Audio through Sora)