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Summer Reading List 9th and 10th
SUMMER READING
All students must read ONE book from the grade level they will be entering in September. If students wish to read a book not listed below or wish to read another book for extra credit, they must get written authorization from their current English teacher. Students are expected to select books they have not read in class. A written assignment will be given in September based on the Summer Reading requirement. Note that the books for ENG 11AP and ENG 12AP are mandated as listed. Grade 9
Title
| Author
| | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime | Mark Haddon | | The Chosen | Chaim Potok | | Hiroshima | John Hersey | | A Northern Light | Jennifer Donnelly | | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes | Chris Crutcher | | The Color of Water | James McBride | | Kiss the Dust | Elizabeth Laird | | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | | Book of a Thousand Days | Shannon Hale | Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
| Adeline Yen Mah |
| Criss Cross | Lynne Rae Perkins | Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters
| Gail Giles |
| Ehthusiasm | Polly Shulman |
Grade 9 RX
Title
| Author
| | Day of Tears : A Novel in Dialogue | Julius Lester | | No More Dead Dogs | Gordon Korman | | The Five People you Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | | Alicia, My Story | Appleman-Jurman | | The Summer of My German Soldier | Bette Green |
Grade 9H
Title
| Author
| | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | | For Whom the Bells Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | | The Stranger | Albert Camus | | Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein | | On the Beach | Nevil Shute | | Under the Lake | Stuart Woods | | Chiefs | Stuart Woods |
Grade 10
| Title | Author | | The House Of Spirits | Isabelle Allende | | Emma | Jane Austen | | The Eater | Gregory Benford | | All Over But the Shoutin’ | Rick Bragg | | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | | Years of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague | Geraldine Brooks | | Monkey Bridge | Lan Cao | | Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | Orson Scott Card | | My Antonia | Willa Cather | | Girl With a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier | | Sailing Alone Around the Room | Billy Collins | | Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Dandicat | | Reading in the Dark | Seamus Deane | | The Sign of Four | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | | A Study in Scarlet | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | | Rebecca | Daphne DuMaurier | | Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters | Mark Dunn | | White Oleander | Janet Fitch | | Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | | Neverwhere | Niel Giaman | | Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons | | Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd | | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | | Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer | | My Forbidden Face: Growing up Under the Taliban | Latifa, Linda Coverdale (Translator) | | Ultra-Marathon Man | Dean Karnaz | | Chinese Cinderella | Adeline Yen Mah | | Brave Companions | David McCullough | | Nectar in a Seive | Kamala Markandaya | | West With the Night | Beryl Markham | | The Moon and Sixpence | W. Somerset Maugham | | The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR | Joe Menzer | | We Band of Angels | Elizabeth Norman | | Stolen Lives | Malika Oufkir | | In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick | | The Pilot's Wife | Anita Shrieve | | Prospero’s Children | Jan Siegel | | The Bonesetter’s Daughter | Amy Tan | | Women of the Silk | Gail Tsukiyama | | Silent Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce | Stanley Weintraub |
Grade 10 RX
Title
| Author
| | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | Jack Gantas | | That Was Then, This Is Now | S. E. Hinton | Crash
| Jerry Spinelli | Make Lemonade
| Virginia Euwer Wolff | Tangerine
| Edward Bloor |
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