Summer Reading 2025
St. Mary's Academy
Rising 2nd Grade through 12th Grade students are required to complete summer reading assignments before the first day of school for the new school year.
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2nd Grade Summer Reading
2nd Grade Summer Reading
(Current 1st Grade students)
Click this link to access the file for the Summer Reading for 2nd Grade
Mandatory Book
Madeline Finn and the Library Dog
by: Lisa Pepp
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Summer Reading
3rd, 4th, and 5th Grade Summer Reading
(Students going into Third through Fifth Grade)
Click this link to access the file for the Summer Reading for
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, and 5th Grade
Click the link above to view the book list and the report format.
Mandatory Books
Third Grade: Trouble Next Door by: Karen English
Fourth Grade: One Crazy Summer by: Rita Williams-Garcia
Fifth Grade: The Watson's Go to Birmingham by: Christopher Curtis
Middle School Summer Reading
Middle School Summer Reading
Students going to 6th, 7th, and 8th Grade next school year!
Each student is responsible for reading three novels. There is a mandatory novel for each grade level and there is a list to choose the other additional books.
Click the link to access the book list and the summer assignment report outline.
Sixth Grade: A Matter of Trust by: Anne Schraff
Seventh Grade: The Face on the Milk Carton by: Carolina Cooney
Eighth Grade: The Skin I'm In by: Sharon Flake
English I Summer Reading
English I Summer Reading
Students that will take English I next school year!
Click this link to access the English I Summer Reading Instructions and Book List.
Required Summer Reading
Long Way Down - by: Jason Reynolds
Brown Girl Dreaming - by: Jacqueline Woodson
Books for the First Day of School:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by: Phillip Hoose
Piecing Me Together by: Renee Watson
The Colored Museum by: George C. Wolfe
English II Summer Reading
English II Summer Reading
Students that will take English II next school year!
Click this link to access the English II Summer Reading Instructions and Book List.
Required Summer Reading
Persepolis I - by: Marjane Satrapi
The House on Mango Street - by: Sandra Cisneros
Books for the First Day of School:
Hidden Figures by: Margot Lee Shetterly
Things Fall Apart by: Chinua Achebe
Othello by: Shakespeare - (No Fear Version)
English III Summer Reading
English III Summer Reading
Students that will take English III next school year!
Click this link to access the English III Summer Reading Instructions and Book List.
Required Summer Reading
The Great Gatsby - by: F. Scott Fitzgerald
English IV Summer Reading
English IV Summer Reading
Students that will take English IV next school year!
Click this link to access the English IV Summer Reading Instructions and Book List.
Required Summer Reading
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by: Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen
AP English Summer Reading
AP English Summer Reading
Students that will take AP English next school year!
Click this link to access the AP English Summer Reading Instructions and Book List.
Required Summer Reading
1984 by: George Orwell
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