Summer book lists are ready! Summer reading requirements are provided by grade for all English and some History classes (listed after the English classes at the bottom of the form). Please read over the requirements carefully with your student as some include both reading and writing assigments. There is an additional 'free choice' list from which 6th graders will choose one of the summer reads, so 6th graders need to look at both lists. click on the links below to access the lists. They are also available under Quicklinks/School Forms.

Summer Required Reading List by Grade (English AND History)

6th Grade Free Choice Summer Reading Options

Students of local non-profit Light House Studio received high honors this Spring in a contest against filmmakers of all ages, from around the world. Tandem alums Reid Hildebrand (TFS '11), Conor Kyle (TFS '11) and Greg Nachmanovtich (TFS '15) and their team won the Grand Jury’s Bronze World Medal at the New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards for their documentary, Better Than Baghdad.

The film was produced with grant support from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation-Community Endowment, and collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Light House Studio, which provides education and professional-grade equipment and editing software for young Charlottesville filmmakers.

Better Than Baghdad is a five-minute short, featuring Palestinian refugee Majed Alsruar, and his recollections of the Al-Waleed refugee camp on the Iraqi-Syrian border, where he and his family lived for five years before emigrating to Charlottesville. Hildebrand’s team compiled footage shot by Al-Waleed residents, news clips, and conversations with Alsruar, to effectively begin a larger conversation among viewers about, according to Hildebrand, “a part of humanity that is under-reported and misrepresented by the media and popular attention.”