Required Summer Reading

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This summer reading list is for all students taking a regular English class for the 2011‐2012 academic year. The students will select at least ONE novel from the list for their appropriate grade level. A project or test will be given by the teacher within the first two weeks of school

9th grade Reading list
A Prayer for Owen Meany‐Irving
The Giver‐Luis Lowry
Touching Spirit Bear‐Ben Mikaelsen
Copper Sun‐Sharon Draper
Tangerine‐Edward Bloor
Freak the Mighty ‐ Rodman Philbrick
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas –John Boyne
Tortilla Flats – John Steinbeck
The Hobbit‐ J.R.R. Tolkien
Speak‐ Laurie Halse Anderson
Hunger Games (series)‐ Collins
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Time Machine- Wells
The House of the Scorpion‐Farmer

10th Grade Reading List
The Catcher in the Rye‐ Salinger
Siddhartha – Hesse
Fahrenheit 451‐ Bradbury
Lord of the Flies‐ Golding
Slaughterhouse Five‐ Vonnegut
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‐ Adams
1984‐ Orwell
The Old Man and the Sea‐ Hemingway
Lord of the Rings‐ Tolkien
The Natural‐ Malamud

11th Grade Reading List
The Great Gatsby‐ Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God‐ Hurston
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‐ Twain
A Farewell to Arms‐ Hemingway
Into the Wild‐ Krakauer
The Devil in the White City‐ Larson
The Scarlet Letter‐ Hawthorne
Ishmael‐ Quinn
A Lesson Before Dying‐ Gaines
Life of Pi‐ Martel

12th Grade Reading List
Frankenstein‐ Shelley
Wuthering Heights ‐ Bronte
Things Fall Apart‐ Achebe
Dracula‐ Stoker
Pride and Prejudice‐ Austen
2001: A Space Odyssey‐ Clarke
Water for Elephant‐Gruen
the curious incident of the dog in the night‐time‐ Haddon
the namesake‐ Lahiri
About a Boy‐ Hornby

 

This summer reading list is for all those taking honors or advanced classes. The students must read ALL of the novels from the list for their appropriate grade level. A project or test will be given within the first
two weeks of school.

AP English 12th Grade
Frankenstein ‐ Mary Shelley
Invisible Man ‐Ralph Ellison
The Stranger ‐ Albert Camus

AP English 11th Grade
The Devil in the White City ‐ Eric Larson
Rights of Man- Thomas Paine
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

 Pre-AP
The Scarlet Letter‐ Hawthorne
Into the Wild‐ Krakauer

10th Grade Honors English
Lord of the Flies ‐ William Golding
Fahrenheit 451 ‐ Ray Bradbury

9th Grade Honors
The Pearl ‐ John Steinbeck
Ender’s Game- Orson Scott Card

10th Grade Cambridge (AICE)
Fahrenheit 451 ‐ Ray Bradbury
1984- George Orwell
“Dover Beach” –Matthew Arnold

9th Grade Cambridge (AICE)
The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck
Seabiscuit- Hillenbrand

 

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