Summer Reading

Recommended and Required Texts

The Indiana Department of Education recommends the following reading list for high school students:

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens – Sean Covey

Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale – Dan Dye

An Abundance of Katherines – John Green

Candle in the Darkness (series) – Lynn Austin

Code Orange – Caroline Cooney

Dairy Queen – Catherine Murdock

Dreaming in Color: A Story of One Girl’s Triumph Over Blindness – Claudia Muttart Hammonds

Eggs – Jerry Spinelli

Found (The Missing) – Margaret Peterson Haddix

Game – Walter Dean Myers

Hattie Big Sky – Kirby Larson

Imponderables: Science (series) – David Feldman

In the Time of the Butterflies/En el tiempo de las mariposas (Spanish edition) – Julia Alvarez

In Code: A Mathematical Journey – Sarah Flannery

Indiana Legends: Famous Hoosiers from Johnny Appleseed to David Letterman – Nelson Price

Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (series) – John Feinstein

Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis – Pete Nelson

President’s House: 1800 to the Present, The Secrets and History of the World’s Most Famous Home – Margaret Truman

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life – Tony Dungy

The River Between Us – Richard Peck

Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics – Sue Macy

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Kearns Goodwin

Under the Same Sky – Cynthia DeFelice

Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation – John Canemaker

When I Was Puerto Rican/Cuando era puertorriquena (Spanish Edition) – Esmeralda Santiago

9-Adult Spanish selections:

In the Time of the Butterflies/En el tiempo de las mariposas (Spanish edition) – Julia Alvarez

When I Was Puerto Rican/Cuando era puertorriquena (Spanish edition) – Esmeralda Santiago
 

Our Theology Department recommends the following reading list:

A Summa of the Summa - Peter Kreeft

Complete Poems, The -  T.S. Elliott

Complete Short Stories -  Flannery O’Connor

Confessions -  St. Augustine

Jesus of Nazareth – Joseph Ratzinger

Long Loneliness, The  – Dorothy Day

Love and Responsibility – John Paul II

Mere Christianity – C. S.  Lewis

More Than a Carpenter – Josh McDowell

Orthodoxy – G. K. Chesterton

Seven Storey Mountain – Thomas Merton

Story of a Soul – St. Therese of Lisieux

Theology of the Body for Beginners - Christopher West

What it Means to be Christian -  Joseph Ratzinger

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