The CBA Summer Reading Program allows students to explore compelling and topical works associated with the various subject disciplines they will encounter during the school year.
All students will be assessed on their Summer Reading books in the opening weeks of the new school year. This assessment grade will equal 10% of the first academic quarter grade in each of these classes. It is recommended that your son begins reading by July 1 so he can thoroughly read and prepare for his assessments and classroom discussions.
Assessment may be tests or may be other projects or types of assessments. Specific expectations will be explained in September.
ISBN numbers have been provided below to help you locate the correct title. You may purchase whatever format (paperback, hardcover, e-reader, audiobook, etc.) that you prefer to use.
We are confident each student can do well on his assessments if he prepares accordingly:
Note: Students who change courses over the summer are still responsible for the summer reading for that new course.
The courses listed below as ‘College Prep’ were previously identified as “Standard.’ Please consider ‘College Prep’ and ‘Standard’ to mean the same thing for the books on this list.
All freshmen read this book:
All freshmen read one of these books, depending on their English placement:
All freshmen read one of these books, depending on their History placement:
AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser,
ISBN: 978-0547750330 Please see Guided Summer Reading Questions
located on your Class Page under Summer Reading.
ISBN: 978-0547750330 – link located on your Class Page under Summer Reading.
THEOLOGY II HONORS: He Leadeth Me, Walter Ciszek,
ISBN: 978-0804141529
JUNIORS (CLASS OF 2027)
-Book two: Mapping America, Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Neil Asbury,
ISBN: 978-1948062763
ISBN:978-1400033355
SENIORS (CLASS OF 2026)