Jackson HS Summer Reading

Choose 3 books to read over the summer. Two books should be from the Summer Reading List posted on the website, and the third can either be from that list, or can be any other book of your choice. Each book should represent a different genre.

Click here to download Summer Reading List assignment sheet.

Suggested Reading List

I'll Give You the Sun
  • Fiction
Jandy Nelson

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life.

  • Nutmeg 2017
Those Who Wish Me Dead
  • Fiction
Michael Koryta

The newest thriller from Michael Koryta, New York Times The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him.

  • Nutmeg 2017
A Torch Against the Night
  • Fantasy & Sci Fi
Sabaa Tahir

Elias and Laia are on the run. The Martials hunt traitors until they are captured, dead or alive. But the pair are determined to complete their mission – to break Laia’s brother Darin out of Kauf, the maximum security prison of the Empire.

  • Goodreads Choice

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