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Posted on: July 15, 2023

Access AISD Summer Reading List

Summer Reading List

The Abilene Independent School District offers a College Prep Summer Reading List for their students, and your Abilene Public Library would like to connect you to those items if you’re looking to check them out this summer. Below is the reading list, along with links to their search results in the library’s catalog, as well as the formats they’re available in. Feel free to check them out and keep up with some great reads over the summer.

12th Grade AP Literature

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (AHS)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (CHS)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (ATEMS)

11th Grade AP Language and Composition

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick (AHS & CHS)

10th Grade Honors

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

9th Grade Honors

Animal Farm by George Orwell

8th Grade Honors

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

7th Grade Honors

Refugee by Alan Gratz

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