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The English Department has implemented a required summer reading program for students in all four years. During the summer months, students should refer to the following lists and choose the appropriate number and titles required for his/her level.
Students should keep a hand written journal. The purpose of this assignment is to encourage a more immediate process of reflection and response and to minimize the use of online study guides in meeting summer reading requirements. We hope to foster an enjoyably independent reading experience.
Students should keep their journals with them as they read, taking notes and making ongoing commentary—including questions if there is any confusion on the student’s part. Each student is required to make a minimum of five hand-written entries per novel, three of which must be from the suggested list of prompts below. Each entry should be dated and include a minimum of eight sentences. (Students who write more entries may elect to keep their individual entries shorter in length, but forty sentences per novel should be considered the bare minimum.)
Students must also include at least two significant quotes from the novel and a discussion on their meaning as part of their journal entries.
Entries must demonstrate students’ personal reflections on the novel and represent their own thoughts and ideas presented in their own words. Avoid the temptation of copying or paraphrasing from online sources or book reviews (especially websites like Spark Notes and commentary listed on, or in, the book itself.)
In addition to these journal entries, students must include a list of at least five vocabulary words from the novel in their journals. For each word, students must include the sentence or phrase in which the word appears in the novel and also the word’s definition(s).
Student journals will be collected on the first full of day of class (not orientation days). These are worth a test grade and penalties can be expected for lateness.
Please find a list of prompts drawn from the following sources: pmms.msdpt.k12.in.us/imc/preddy/writing%20prompts.pdf
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/readexpert/journals.htm
Each student must respond to at least three of the provided prompts per novel in addition to their own personal free responses. Remember, at least two of these responses must involve discussion of a quoted passage from the text.
For those entering 9 CPA and CPB - Select any two (2) books from this list.
| Card, Orson Scott |
Ender's Game |
| Carroll, Louis |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| Coy, John |
Box Out or Crackback |
| Crutcher, Chris |
Running Loose |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conn |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Eliot, Eve |
Insatiable |
| Flinn, Alex |
Nothing to Lose |
| Frank, Anne |
The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Giles, Gai |
Playing in Traffic |
| Hesse, Karen |
Out of the Dust |
| Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Mermaid’s Chair |
| Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers for Algernon |
| Korman, Gordon |
Born to Rock |
| Ji Li Jiang |
Red Scarf Girl |
| Martel, Yann |
The Life of Pi |
| Oyeyemi, Helen |
The Icarus Girl |
| Paolini, Christopher |
Eragon |
| Paulsen, Gary |
Hatchet, Harris and Me (or any book in series) |
| Perel, David |
Bat Boy Lives |
| Potok, Chaim |
The Chosen |
| Rawles, Nancy |
My Jim: A Novel |
| See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
| Tan, Amy |
The Joy Luck Club |
| Vizzini, Ned |
Be More Chill |
| Volponi, Paul |
Black and White |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Sirens of Titans |
For those entering 9 HONORS - Select any two (2) books from this list and two (2) additional from the list below.
| Brown, Dan |
Digital Fortress |
| Binchy, Maeve |
Scarlet Feather |
| Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
The Tortilla Curtain |
| Castellani, Chris |
A Kiss from Maddalena |
| Chbosky, Stephen |
The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| Crichton, Michael |
Timeline |
| Cussler, Clive |
Shock Wave |
| Earley, Tony |
Jim the Boy |
| Evans, Nicholas |
The Smoke Jumper |
| Grealy, Lucy |
The Autobiography of a Face |
| Klass, David |
Danger Zone |
| Martel, Yann |
The Life of Pi |
| Martini, Steve |
The List |
| McGhee, Alison |
Shadow Baby |
| Pelzer, Dave |
Child Called It |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister’s Keeper, Vanishing Acts |
| Quindlen, Anna |
Object Lessons |
| Salzman, Mark |
The Laughing Sutra |
| Shield, Carol |
The Stone Diaries |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Sirens of Titans |
| Vreeland, Susan |
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue |
9 HONORS - Choose an additional two (2) books from this list.
| Austen, Jane |
Emma |
| Bellow, Saul |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Cisneros, Sandra |
The House on Mango Street |
| Conway, Jill Ker |
The Road from Coorain |
| Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles |
Great Expectations |
| Gibbons, Kay |
Ellen Foster |
| Orwell, George |
Animal Farm |
| Saroyan, William |
The Human Comedy |
| Simon, Neil |
Biloxi Blues |
| Twain, Mark |
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson |
For those entering 10 CP-A and 10 CP-B - Select any two (2) books from this list.
| Adams, Douglas |
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| Aronson, Sarah |
Purge |
| Bissinger, H.G. |
Friday Night Lights |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Dandelion Wine |
| Clark, Arthur |
2001 Space Odyssey |
| Colfer, Eoin |
Artemis Fowl |
| Doherty, P.C. |
Mask of Ra |
| Gaiman, Neil |
Coraline |
| Gill, David |
Soul Enchilada |
| Golden, Arthur |
Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Grisham, John |
The Painted House |
| Halls, Kelly Milner |
Albino Animals |
| Murrie, Steve |
Every Minute on Earth |
| Rice, Anne |
The Tale of the Body Thief |
| Scott, Elizabeth |
Living Girl Dead |
| Sleator, William |
The Boy Who Couldn’t Die |
| Stewart, Mary |
Crystal Cave |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Galapagos |
| Wells, H.G. |
The Time Machine |
10 HONORS- Select any four (4) books from this list.
| Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
| Austen, Jane |
Sense and Sensibility |
| Bellow, Saul |
Henderson the Rain King |
| Bradbury, Ray |
The Illustrated Man |
| Caldwell, Ian |
The Rule of Four |
| Carroll, Lewis |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| Coelho, Paula |
The Alchemist |
| Esquivel, Laura |
Like Water for Chocolate |
| Faulkner, William |
The Sound and the Fury |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The House of the Seven Gables |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
The Old Man and the Sea |
| Hilton, James |
Lost Horizon |
| Orwell, George |
1984 |
| Picoult, Jodi |
Nineteen Minutes |
| Rice, Anne |
The Queen of the Damned |
| Salinger, J.D. |
Franny and Zooey |
| Shaara, Michael |
The Killer Angels |
| Shakespeare, William |
As You Like It |
| Steinbeck, John |
The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle |
| Wharton, Edith |
Summer |
For those entering 11 CP and American Studies – Select any two (2) books from this list.
| Capote, Truman |
In Cold Blood |
| Crichton, Michael |
Timeline |
| Bradbury, Ray |
Something Wicked this Way Comes |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby |
| Frey, James |
A Million Little Pieces |
| Green, John |
Looking for Alaska |
| Gruen, Sara |
Water for Elephants |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Pigs in Heaven |
| Lahiri, Jhumpra |
The Namesake |
| Lamb, Wally |
She’s Come Undone |
| McCullers, Carson |
Member of the Wedding |
| Morrison, Toni |
The Bluest Eye |
| Schlosser, Eric |
Fast Food Nation |
| Steinbeck, John |
Cannery Row |
| Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Wharton, Edith |
Ethan Frome |
| Wharton, Edith |
Summer |
| Wiesel, Elie |
Night |
11 HONORS – Select two (2) starred books AND two (2) that are not starred from this list.
| Baldacci, David |
Wish You Well |
| Follett, Ken |
Code to Zero |
| Hamill, Pete |
Snow in August |
| *Hurston, Zora Neale |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Mc Bride, James |
The Color of Water |
| *Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible |
| *Morrison, Toni |
The Bluest Eye |
| O’Brien, Tim |
The Things They Carried |
| Plath, Sylvia |
The Bell Jar |
| Rice, Anne |
Interview with the Vampire |
| Sebold, Alice |
Lucky |
| Setterfield, Diane |
The Thirteenth Tale |
| Shreve, Anita |
The Pilot’s Wife |
| *Steinbeck, John |
The Grapes of Wrath |
| *Twain, Mark |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple |
| *Wright, Richard |
Native Son |
For those entering 12CP - Select any two (2) books from this list.
| Baldacci, David |
The Camel Club |
| Brown, Dan |
Angels and Demons |
| Chevalier, Tracy |
The Girl With the Pearl Earring |
| Crichton, Michael |
Eaters of the Dead |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
| Gaines, Ernest |
A Lesson Before Dying |
| Guterson, David |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
| Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog In Night-Time |
| Heller, Joseph |
Catch 22 |
| Hesse, Herman |
Siddhartha |
| Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
| Kafka, Franz |
The Metamorphosis |
| Kusson, Robert |
Shadow Divers |
| O’Brien, Tim |
In the Lake of the Woods |
| Orwell, George |
1984 |
| Rodriquez, Luis |
Always Running |
| Tucker, Neely |
Love in the Driest Season |
12 HONORS and AP Literature - Select two (2) starred books AND two (2) from the following lists.
| *Achebe, Chinua |
Things Fall Apart |
| *Allende, Isabel |
Daughters of Fortune |
| *Atwood, Margaret |
The Handmaid’s Tale |
| *Doctorow, E. L |
Ragtime |
| *Hardy, Thomas |
The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| *Heller, Joseph |
Catch 22 |
| *Kingston, Maxine Hong |
Woman Warrior: A Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |
| *Lewis, C.S. |
Till We Have Faces |
| *Paton, Alan |
Cry the Beloved Country |
| *Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
12 HONORS and AP Literature- Select two (2) from this list also.
| Baldacci, David |
The Camel Club |
| Brown, Dan |
Deception Point |
| Chevalier, Tracy |
1.Falling Angels
2.The Lady and the Unicorn |
| Clinch, Jon |
Finn |
| Coban, Harlan |
Tell No One |
| Deane, Seamus |
Reading in the Dark |
| DeMille, Nelson |
1.Charm School
2. Plum Island
3.Up Country
4. Nightfall |
| Follett, Ken |
1.Code to Zero
2.Jack Daws
3.Pillars of the Earth |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth |
Eat, Pray, Love |
| Hosseini, Khaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| Kidd, Sue Hamm |
The Secret Life of Bees |
| Kingsolver, Barbara |
Poisonwood Bible |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Lamb, Wally |
She’s Come Undone |
| Lauck, Jennifer |
Blackbird |
| Laurence, Margaret |
Stone Angel |
| Martini, Steve |
Shadow of Power |
| Rodriquez, Luis |
Always Running |
| Roth, Philip |
A Plot Against America |
| Russo, Richard |
Empire Falls |
| Schwarz, Christina |
Drowning Ruth |
| Sebold, Alice |
The Lovely Bones |
| Tan, Amy |
The Bonesetter’s Daughter |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Cat’s Cradle |
| Vreeland, Susan |
The Passion of Artemisia |
| Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle |
| White, Michael |
A Brother’s Blood |
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