Required Summer Reading
Summer Reading 2024-2025 Grades 6th-12th
For general questions, please contact Jason Gough, Chair of the English Department: jgough@seattleacademy.org.
Additionally, we want to make sure that all students have access to summer reading texts. If you need financial support to purchase the summer reading texts for English or History, please email Jason Gough at the email address above and include the following information:
(1) Your name.
(2) Your grade level during the 2024-2025 school year and the course you are enrolled in (for example: 6th grade/English 6 or 12th grade/English 12:Books to Film).
(3) Your full address (number, street, city, state, and zip code) where your text(s) should be mailed.
- 6th Grade Required Reading
- 7th Grade Required Reading
- 8th Grade Required Reading
- 9th Grade Required Reading
- 10th Grade Required Reading
- 11th Grade Required Reading
- 12th Grade Required Reading
6th Grade Required Reading
7th Grade Required Reading
8th Grade Required Reading
9th Grade Required Reading
10th Grade Required Reading
11th Grade Required Reading
12th Grade Required Reading
Summer Enrichment
Students are always highly encouraged to read more than is required, and the English department has provided a number of book recommendations for curious readers, as well as a host of other academic enrichment opportunities. Please peruse the following:
Click the links below to view and print Summer Enrichment Opportunities for both Middle and Upper School.
Middle School
Upper School
- Optional Academic Enrichment Opportunities English and History (Page 2)
- Books recommended by Upper School students for Upper School students (though generated a couple of years ago, it still includes some great reading recs; if you have any book recs you’d like to pass along, please forward those to Jason Gough, whose email is above)