
MGM Summer Reading List 2020-2021

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers OR The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Directions: Choose ONE novel. There is a guide below that contains things to pay attention to as you read. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.

Night by Elie Weisel OR Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Directions: Choose ONE nonfiction book. There is a guide below that contains things to pay attention to as you read. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.

Matched by Ally Conde AND ONE from the REGULAR list
Directions: Choose TWO novels. There is a guide below that contains things to pay attention to as you read. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.

Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voight
OR
The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher
Directions: Choose ONE novel. There is a guide below that contains things to pay attention to as you read. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.

Directions: Choose TWO novels. There is a guide below that contains things to pay attention to as you read. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.

- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Burke and John Rendall
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
- They Cage the Animals at Night by James Michael Burch
Directions: Choose ONE novel from the fiction list and ONE book from the nonfiction list. Read and take notes based on the note-taking guide for your course level. You can find the guide below. The test will cover aspects addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.
Note-Taking Guide

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen OR Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Directions: Choose ONE novel. There is a guide below that contains things to pay attention to as you read. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor
by Thomas Foster (nonfiction)
AND
ONE from the REGULAR list
Directions: Choose ONE novel to read with the nonfiction selection.
FOR AP STUDENTS: Read and take notes based on the note-taking guide for your AP course. You can find the guide below. You will be expected to apply concepts discussed in How to Read Literature Like a Professor to an aspect of your novel choice.
FOR BOTH HONORS AND AP STUDENTS: The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. HONORS STUDENTS will use portions of How to Read Literature Like a Professor based on the teacher’s choice. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.
Note-Taking Guide
Please be aware that these novels and books are choices. If there is a problem with a novel or book on the list, please follow the Mobile County Public School System’s appeal process. See the English department chair for further details. Before your son or daughter chooses a novel, be sure to research them to learn more about the novel’s content. Students will be expected to have all notes on their selected books once they begin their grade level English course. Teachers will provide specific guidelines on how those notes will factor into their Summer Reading assessment and into their grade for the course. If a student takes an English course the second semester of the school year, they still must be prepared with notes and to take an assessment within the first two weeks of the course. Lastly, all summer reading assessments will be counted as a quiz grade. If you find that your son or daughter’s assessment is counted as a test grade, be sure to contact the grade level teacher.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
By the end of grade 9-12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades’ text complexity band independently and proficiently.