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Required reading lists
If a school in Madison County has a required summer reading list, we'll post it here. If yours isn't listed, send it to lrobinson [at] hmcpl [dot] org and we'll post it here!
This information is also available in our Required Reading Guide for Summer Reading.
Elementary Schools
Middle Schools and Junior Highs
- Huntsville City Middle School
- Madison Academy
- Madison city
- Meridianville Middle School
- Monrovia Middle School
- Randolph School 6th grade | 7th grade | 8th grade
- Sparkman Middle (just pick 1):
- The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia R. Giff
- Maze Runner by James Dashner
- City of Orphans by Avi
- Legend by Marie Lu
- Hourglass by Myra McEntire
High Schools
- Bob Jones and James Clemens High Schools
- Buckhorn High School
- Catholic High
- Hazel Green High School
- Huntsville City High School (*New Century School for Technology 9-AP additional required reading:)
- *Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Siefe
- Madison Academy
- Madison city
- Madison County High School
- New Hope High School
- Randolph School
- Sparkman High 9th grade | grades 10-12



