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ardinal Newman School recognizes that summer reading and other intellectual activities serve to stimulate, enrich and reinforce academic skills when students are on hiatus during the summer vacation months.

Additionally, appropriate reading provides the best long-range preparation for the SAT/ACT, which our students will take over the course of their high school years.

Below is a listing of required summer reading for all Cardinal Newman students. Find your/your child’s grade to locate the selections to be read this summer. Links to study guides for each selection are located under the book titles.

While test dates may vary from class to class, all students should expect to be tested on their designated selections as early as the first day of the 2007-2008 school year.

English Department Summer Reading Selections*

*Please note: To aid in comprehension, students are to keep a reading journal. Information regarding the journal is explained in the study guide. All English students will use the same study guide. All College Preparatory English students will read one required novel. All Honors English students will read two required novels.

On the first day of school, students will submit their reading journals to their English teachers. On the second day of class, students may utilize their journals during the assessment. The type of assessment may include: short answer responses or multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank or timed essays or a combination of these examples.

View the English Department Summer Reading Study Guide PDF

(26 KB)

Seventh Grade CP

The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien

Seventh Grade Honors

The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Animal Farm
by George Orwell

Eighth Grade CP

My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Eighth Grade Honors

Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck

Ninth Grade CP

And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie

Ninth Grade Honors

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck

Tenth Grade CP

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams

Tenth Grade Honors

The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller

Eleventh and Twelfth Grade CP

Anthem
by Ayn Rand

Eleventh Grade Honors

Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Dual Enrollment English (Twelfth Grade Honors)

The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

Science Department Summer Reading Selections*

*Please note: Selections for each grade have their own study guide and test/assessment dates. If testing/assessment information is not mentioned in the study guides, students should be prepared for testing/assessment exercises as early as the first day of the 2007-2008 school year.

Seventh Grade

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
by Russell Freedman
View the Seventh Grade Science Summer Reading Study Guide (40 KB)

Eighth Grade

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
View the Eighth Grade Science Summer Reading Study Guide (9 KB)