Boca Raton Community High School’s
Summer Reading List
2024 - 2025
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved,
strengthened, and invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive,
cherished, and confirmed. - Joseph Addison
The following is a list of required summer reading for each English Language Arts course. Please
read the selection for your course before the beginning of the new school year. Your teacher will
provide more information on the first day of school.
Please refer to the assignment list per course below:
Creative Writing - Elective - All grades
● Sense and Second Degree Murder by Tirzah Price
9
th
Grade
● Regular and Pre-AICE- Peak: A Novel by Roland Smith
● AICE General Paper (standalone) - Fast Food Nation (The Dark Side of the
All-American Meal) by Eric Schlosser
● AICE General Paper/AICE Global/Seminar Block - Summer News Project (Click the
link for the assignment details.)
10
th
Grade
● Regular - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
● AICE General Paper – The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
● AICE English Language - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
● AICE Global/Seminar Block - Sense and Second Degree Murder by Tirzah Price
11
th
Grade
● Regular, AICE General Paper, and AICE English Language - The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald
● Ms. Call’s sections – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
● AP English Language and Composition - Choose (1) from the following:
o The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
o 1984 by George Orwell
o Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
o The Road by Cormac McCarthy
12
th
Grade
● Regular - The Five People You Meet in Heaven – by Mitch Albom
● AICE General Paper - A biography or autobiography of your choice (req. 175+ pages in
length.)
● AP English Language and Composition - Choose (1) from the following:
o Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
o Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
AP English Literature and Composition – Choose (1) of the following:
o The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
o The Long Goodbye - by Raymond Chandler
o In the Time of Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
o Emma - Jane Austen
