Hey High Schoolers!
Congrats on making it through another year of school… and what a year of school it was! We are SO proud of all the hard work that you have put into shifting from traditional school to a digital classroom. And we want you to know that we are here to support you in your academic journey!
With summer fast approaching (and no homework or school to worry about), it’s the perfect time to relax and crack open a good book or a few (who’s counting?🤷). We love beach reads as much as the next person, but they can be more about style than substance. Summer is a great time to read those books that make you think deeply, with compelling stories and unforgettable characters, and have time to reflect on what you’ve read.
Check out the CCPS High Schools’ Summer 2020 Reading List and get some ideas… and maybe a head start on the 2020-2021 school year.
And yes, yes… we know that this might seem like a shameless plug for the high schools. But we know the value of reading throughout the summer to prevent that dreaded “summer slump” and if that gets you ready for next year, that’s a win in our books! (Just a little library humor there 😁)
Below you will find links to every book we have available in our digital collections that are on the high school lists, along with a copy of the CCPS High Schools’ Summer Reading List pdf for reference (or if the dog eats it!)
We have so many online resource offerings, we just know you will find something that you’ll love!Need a library card? Please visit Get a Library Card to sign up for one today!
CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING LISTS 2020-2021
The Charles County Honors/AP/Dual Enrollment English program requires students to complete summer reading to prepare them for the upcoming school year and to give teachers a common ground with which to begin instruction.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 1)
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 2)
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 3)
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 4)
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 5)
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 6)
Audiobook Available on Hoopla (Habit 7)
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Fever 1793 by Laurie H. Anderson
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Audiolibro Disponible en Overdrive
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Audibook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive (Trilogy)
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd*
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive (Trilogy)
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Game by Walter Dean Myers
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference by Warren St. John
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Radius of Us by Marie Marquardt
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive (Trilogy)
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Native Son by Richard Wright
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobooks Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini*
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Ebook Available on Hoopla
Audiolibro Disponible en Hoopla
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
AP Summer Reading Lists
Henry E. Lackey High School
1. Fences by August Wilson
2. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
1. Thank You for Arguing (3rd edition) by Jay Heinrichs
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
La Plata High School
1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
1. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on RBdigital
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Maurice J. McDonough High School
1. How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Revised Edition – copyright 2014) by Thomas C. Foster
2. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
1. 1984 by George Orwell
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
North Point High School
1. 1984 by George Orwell
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
2. AND choose one from the required list below:
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
Ebook Available on RBdigital
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
1. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
2. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
St. Charles High School
1. How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Revised Edition – copyright 2014) by Thomas C. Foster
2. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
1. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
2. The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Thomas Stone High School
1. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Audiobook Available on Hoopla
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
2. Fences by August Wilson
1. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
2. Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol
Westlake High School
1. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebooks Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Ebooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobooks Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
1. The Crucible by Authur Miller
Audiobooks Available on Hoopla
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
2. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Audiobook Available on Overdrive
Ebook Available on Overdrive
Audiobook Available on RBdigital
* This work has been approved by the CCPS Review Committee for its literary merit and its appropriate alignment with theme and course objectives. It may include, within its historical and/or cultural context, material or language such as violence, profanity, or sexual content that is intended for the mature reader. CCPS honors requests for alternative titles.