Academics
Summer Reading
Summer reading is an important part of the Eaglebrook curriculum, and every student is required to read three books over the summer. Each Form reads one required book, and students are asked to select two additional books of their choice from a longer list of titles. The common book for each Form provides a foundation of shared experience, serving as a powerful way to build a sense of community through conversation.
All of the summer reading books will be available on Sora from July 1-September 12, 2025.
As you begin your summer break, please map out a plan for completing the reading before the first day of classes on Friday, September 12.
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Faculty Summer Reading
Each summer, Eaglebrook faculty members read a book that will help them better understand boys in middle school and provide a common ground for discussion.
In the summer of 2025, the Eaglebrook faculty will read one of four titles and discuss them during the school year.Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning by Pooja Agarwal and Patrice BainMake It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by David YeagerPast Faculty Summer Reading Titles:
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Learning to Depolarize by Kent Lenci
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents, by Lisa Damour, Ph.D.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds, by Viorica Marian
The Unlikely Art of Parental Pressure, by Dr. Christopher Thurber and Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D.
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds by Ruth E. Van Reken, Michael V. Pollock, and David C. Pollock
Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success by Marc Brackett
Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel.
Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James Lang.
The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain by Joann Deak, Terrence Deak, and Freya Harrison.
I Can Learn from You: Boys as Relational Learners by Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley.
We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools
Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities by David Flink.
Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education by Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner, and Shirley Veenema.
Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen.
What Does Math Have to do With It? by Jo Boaler.
Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music by Tricia Tunstall.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher by Rick Wormeli.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
The Multiplier Effect: Tapping Genius Inside Our Schools by Liz Wiseman, Lois N. Allen, & Elise Foster.
It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd.
LGBTQ Youth in American Schools by Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill.
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough.
Imagine: How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehrer.
Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12, by Rick Wormeli
The Purpose of Boys by Michael Gurlan.
If Holden Caulfield Were in My Classroom by Bernard Schein.
Whose Game is it, Anyway? by Richard Ginsburg, Stephen Durant, and Amy Baltzell.
The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv.
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
Raising Cain by Dr. Michael Thompson.
Family Matters by Robert Evans.
Why Do They Act That Way? by Dr. Davis Walsh.
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