Check out some free-choice book recommendations from our English teachers:

To access full-length E-Books through the Sora App (by Overdrive) login into Clever on the Samohi homepage using your smmk12 credentials.

If you are looking for a full-length text for your student to read on their own, please encourage them to read one of our previous "All-Samo" texts.

Here are all of our All-Samo summer reading selections to date:

• 2020 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• 2019 The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

• 2018 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

• 2017 The Martian by Andy Weir

• 2016 How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon

• 2015 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

• 2014 Every Day by David Levithan

• 2013 The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

• 2012 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

• 2011 Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

• 2010 A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

• 2009 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

• 2008 Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

• 2007 Fast Food Nation/Chew On This by Eric Schlosser

• 2006 Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

• 2005 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

• 2004 A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

Honors/AP

There is no "required reading" for students going into an AP level English course. However, in the past, our students enjoyed reading the following texts:

• Incoming 9HP: Warriors Don’t Cry - Melba Beals

• Incoming 10HP: Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

• Incoming 11AP: The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

• Incoming 12AP: Candide - Voltaire; Othello - William Shakespeare