Wharton Public Schools' Approved Summer Reading Authors

Names in bold are authors in the Wharton Public Library's collection. Clicking on the name will take you to the library catalog.

Grades 6-8

Suggested Authors:

Suggested Titles:
The Hunger Games (Collins)
Percy Jackson (Riordan)
Eragon (Paolini)
So B. It (Weeks)
Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall (Mass)
The Crossroads (Grabenstein)
Chasing Lincoln's Killer (Swanson)
Savvy (Law)
Waiting for Normal (Connor)
Secrets of the Immortal
        Nicholas Flamel (Scott)
Shadow Children: Among the Hidden (Haddix)

Grades 9-12

Required District Reading:

Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life - Eric LeGrand

Academy 9 (Summer)

The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

AVID 9H / Academy 9 / English 9H

To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

Academy 10/English 10H

The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne)

English 11H

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)

English 12H

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Sijie)

AP Lang. & Comp.

1984 (Orwell)
The Things They Carried (O'Brien)

AP Lit. & Comp.

Beloved (Morrison)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)

IB English 1 (Grade 11)

Brave New World (Huxley)

The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)

IB English 2 (Grade 12)

Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

Death of a Salesman (Miller)