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AHHS Summer Reading Lists

The Summer Reading lists for Abington Heights High School can be found below. Items may be put on hold and picked up via curbside pickup. To access curbside pickup, follow the directions below. Additionally, some materials may be available on the Libby app (download for free from your app store and plug in your library card number) as audiobooks and ebooks. Beginning in July, teens will have the chance to attend a virtual book discussion on select summer reading books. This program will happen each Thursday in July and into mid-August from 4-5 PM. See below for the schedule.

Curbside Pickup Details: 

Curbside pickup is available to you from Monday – Friday 10 AM to 6:30 PM. Access your account at https://lackawanna.sparkpa.org/ to place items on hold. 

When you arrive, contact us via one of these options:
  1. Text “PICKUP” to 570-302-4780
  2. Call: 570-587-3440
After you contact us, staff will collect your items, check them out to your account, and place your items on the table across from the book drop.  Your Library Card number is required for pick up.  Please remain in your car until your items have been placed on the table for your personal safety and the safety of our staff. 
Summer Reading Lists: 

Eng I H Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng I L2 Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng I L3 Summer Assignments (2020)

 

Eng II H Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng II L2 Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng II L3 Summer Assignments (2020)

 

Eng III AP Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng III H Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng III L2 Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng III L3 Summer Assignments (2020)

 

Eng AP Seminar Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng IV AP Summer Assignments(2020)

Eng IV H Summer Assignments 2020.docx

Eng IV L2 Summer Assignments (2020)

Eng IV L3 Summer Assignments (2020)


Many titles are available on the Libby app as either an ebook or an audiobook. Look below to see what titles are available in what format; more may be added this summer!

1984 by George Orwell (Audiobook, Ebook)

A Separate Peace by John Knowles (Ebook)

American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins (Ebook)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Audiobook)

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (Ebook)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Audiobook)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Audiobook, Ebook)

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (Ebook)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Ebook)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Ebook)

Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly (Ebook)

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance (Audiobook)

Into the Wild, by John Krakauer (Audiobook)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Ebook)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Audiobook, Ebook)

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Ebook)

Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare (Ebook)

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Ebook)

On The Road, Jack Kerouac (Audiobook)

Othello by William Shakespeare (Audiobook, Ebook)

Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell (Audiobook, Ebook)

Paradise Lost by John Milton (Ebook)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Audiobook, Ebook)

Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (Audiobook, Ebook)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Ebook)

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (Ebook)

The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho (Audiobook, Ebook)

The Awakening, Kate Chopin (Ebook)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Audiobook, Ebook)

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics, Daniel James Brown (Audiobook, Ebook)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Audiobook)

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (Audiobook, Ebook)

The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison (Ebook)

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (N/A)

The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (Audiobook)

The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Ebook)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Ebook)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Audiobook, Ebook)

Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom (Audiobook, Ebook)

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand (Audiobook, Ebook)


Book Review Dates

Email RRoberts@albright.org to register for any of the following book reviews.

July 9
Into the Wild, by John Krakauer 
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom 
 
July 16
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
 
July 23 
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly 
A Separate Peace by John Knowles 
 
July 30
Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night, Barbara Taylor 
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho 
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 
 
August 6 
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance 
American Dirt, by Jeanine Cummins 
 
August 13 
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan 
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, also published as October Sky 
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry 
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