Notre Dame Academy | Summer Book Club 2025
Here’s the Summer Reading Book Club List! Please read the book assigned to your grade and come ready to participate in a small, mixed-grade “Book Club” discussion when we return in the fall. To prepare, choose any 4 of the 6 discussion prompts and write your responses by the first week of school.
Grades 7 and 8: Watership Down by Richard Adams
Grades 9 and 10: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracey Chevalier
Grades 11 and 12: The Happiest Man on Earth - The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
Book Club Discussion Prompts
1) Would you have chosen this book for yourself if you had seen it at the library or bookstore? Why or why not?
2) Have you read this genre before? What do you like or dislike about it (7th/8th: Fiction, 9th/10th: Historical Fiction, 11th/12th: Memoir)?
3) What was your favorite or most impactful moment of the book?
4) What would you have changed about the plot if you could rewrite the story?
5) Have you ever experienced a challenge like the one described in this book or can you make any parallels to your life?
6) If you could give any of the main characters a piece of advice, what would you say?