Dear Evangel Christian Academy Parents and Students,

In our constant effort to improve education and reading at Evangel, we will continue our summer reading program.  It is vital that you, as parents and students, know that we select books based on research of other top schools, college reading requirements, and classic books or authors who are often referenced in secondary schools or society. 

We strongly suggest that the student look over the reading guides, which include plot summaries of the stories as well as the questions to be answered before he or she begins to read.

We hope that summer reading not only introduces our students to classic novels but also supplements their personal reading.  With this goal in mind, we offer a program of reading that allows our students some personal choices in their book selection through the Christian fiction choices (9 & 10), nonfiction choices (11 & 12), and a required classic novel (see list below).

With each book, a required reading guide is assigned.

The requirements for the reading guide are as follows:

1. Students should answer each question neatly and in full-sentence response.  The responses should be no more than a paragraph in length (unless otherwise stated).
2. It must be the student’s own work and words.
3. It is due the first half day of the 2007-2008 school year.

A list of the books will be given to local bookstores; however, we cannot assure that they will always be in stock.  Please consider checking early in the summer just in case they need to be ordered.  We also recommend checking online bookstores for better bargains or for hard-to-find books.

Each student must read TWO books (according to upcoming grade level) and answer the reading guide questions.

7^th Graders-

Treasure Island - Robert Lewis Stevenson or The Tale of Desperaux- Kate DiCamillo

The Bronze Bow -Elizabeth George Speare

8^th Graders-

The Outsiders -S.E. Hinton

The Hiding Place -Corrie ten Boom

9^th Graders-

The Pearl -John Steinbeck

A Christian fiction novel from the list on back which student has not previously read

10^th Graders-

            Animal Farm -George Orwell

            A Christian fiction novel from the list on back which student has not previously read

11^th Graders-

            The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

            A nonfiction book from the list on back

12^th Graders-

            Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

            A nonfiction book from the list on back

Christian fiction: