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Summer reading is an important part of a student’s learning; serving to enrich the reader’s ideas about character and life issues, as well as illustrating how authors choose appropriate diction and vary methods to communicate his/her thoughts. All of this can enhance a student’s vocabulary and writing style.
This summer we challenge students to read two, three or four books (either
from the list below) or books of their own choosing. We still encourage students
to add one or two of the classics to their list.
While students are reading, they could annotate (for themselves) interesting
word choice, questions or comments they might have about issues presented,
and reflection on how the content of the book enhances their understanding (or
not). When school begins in fall 2010, we will have a “Book Chat” day when
students can share his/her most outstanding read.
English 9 CPA and CPB
| 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 |
English 9 HONORS
| 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 |
| 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 |
English 10 CP-A and 10 CP-B
| 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 |
English 10 HONORS
| 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 |
English 11 CP and American Studies
| 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 |
English 11 HONORS
| 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 |
English 12CP
| 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 |
English 12 HONORS and AP Literature
| 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 |
| 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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