AHHS Summer Reading 2023Please be sure to choose "Pick up at store" as the delivery option if you do not wish to pay for shipping!
● Below is a list of 2023 Summer Reading Assignments for each course in the AHHS English Language Arts Department.
● Select the summer reading assignment for the course that you have signed up to take during the 2023-24 school year.
● Please contact Ben Keenan (bkeenan@ahisd.net) with questions, clarifications and/or requests for modified materials (e.g. large print, audio).
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English I - Advanced/GT
English I - Grade Level
English II - Advanced/GT
English II-Grade Level
English III Grade Level
AP Language & Composition (11th grade)
English IV Grade Level
AP Literature & Composition (12th grade)
Dual Credit 1301 (students starting Dual Credit for the first time)
Dual Credit 2322 (students who have taken DC 1301)
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during t
Golding’s iconic 1954 novel, now with a new foreword by Lois Lowry, remains one of the greatest books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of any age.
This edition includes a new Suggestions for Further Reading by Jennifer Buehler.
"The Most Dangerous Game" is Richard Connell's best known story and has spawned many imitations and a number of film adaptations.
* COMING IN NOVEMBER AS A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti *
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestsel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
The journey through Middle-earth begins here with J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
New York Times Bestseller • An Oprah Book Club Pick
“Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review