Hello Hamilton-Wenham grades 6 to 12! Find your Fall 2025 grade below for your summer reading requirement. Click a book title to view copy availability in our catalog. Use place hold to request a copy. Have your library card barcode number (or user name if you've set one), and your PIN(password) ready. You will be notified when your hold is ready (notification method can be changed in your account). After notification, you have 7 days to pick it up. To view the status of your hold, log in to your library account.
FAQs:
I can keep the books all summer, right?
You may keep them for 3 weeks. Summer reading books are not renewable.
This is so other people have a chance to read the book before school starts.
Are these books available in digital format for download?
Many titles (not all) are available as downloads in E-Audio or E-Book format.
Miles River Middle School
2025 Summer Reading
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Entering Grade 6 : Click here for the Grade 6 summer reading assignment.
In preparation for 6th grade English language arts class, students are required to choose two books to read during the summer. You may choose any books that interest you. Only one of your choices may be a graphic novel. If you'd like help choosing books; try the Library's reading service: Your Next Great Read.
The following books are suggested by your teacher; you are not limited to these books:
As Brave As You, by Jason Reynolds
Blended, by Sharon Draper
Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan
Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fish in a Tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Fish in a Tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, by Stacy McAnulty
New From Here, by Kelly Yang
New From Here, by Kelly Yang
The Running Dream, by Wendelin Van Draanen
Small As An Elephant, by Jennifer Jacobson
Wishtree, by Katherine Applegate
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Entering Grade 7 : Click here for the Grade 7 summer reading assignment.
Entering Grade 8 : Click here for the Grade 8 summer reading assignment.
Students entering 7th grade are required to read at least two books over the summer. You may choose any books that interest you that you have not read before. If you'd like help choosing books; try the Library's reading service: Your Next Great Read
The following are suggested titles; you are not limited to these books:The Best At It, by Maulik Pancholy
City Spies, by James Ponti
Escape From Aleppo, by N.H. Senzai
Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull
Jelly, by Jo Cotterill
Kaleidoscope, by Brian Selznick
Ophie's Ghosts, by Justina Ireland
The Raft, by S.A. Bodeen
Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden
Stand Up, Yumi Chung!, by Jessica Kim
Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
When Stars Are Scattered, by Victoria Jamieson
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Students entering 8th Grade are required to choose two books to read. Only one of your choices may be a graphic novel. Each book should represent an authentic challenge to your reading level and should not be something you have read before.
Here are a few suggested titles that students have enjoyed in the past; you are not limited to these titles:
Nonfiction The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba
Chasing Space, by Leland Melvin
Americanized, by Sara Saedi
Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
Fiction
All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds
Amal Unbound, by Aisha Saeed
Code Talker, by Joseph Bruchac
Flygirl, by Sherri Smith
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary Schmidt
My Mother the Cheerleader, by Robert Sharenow
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, by Annabel Pitche
Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse
Starfish, by Lisa Fippe
The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Do you want help finding a book to read? Try the Library's reading service:
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Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School
2025 Summer Reading
Entering Grade 9 College Prep English
Read a book from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List.
Entering Grade 9 Honors English
-and- Read one:
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
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Entering Grade 10 College Prep English
Read a book chosen from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List.
Entering Grade 10 Honors English
Read a book from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List,
-and- Read: A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving.
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Entering Grade 11 College Prep English
Read a book chosen from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List.
Entering Grade 11 Honors English
Read a book from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List,
-and- Read one:
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of New America, by Gilbert King
Entering Grade 11 Honors Humanities: America and the World
Read a book chosen from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List,
-and- Read: Z, A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Fowler.
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Entering Grade 12 College Prep English
Read a book chosen from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List.
Entering Grade 12 Honors English
Read a book from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List,
-and- Read one:
A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini.
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Read a book from the 2025 HWRHS Community Read Book List,
-and- Read both:
The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri,
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston.