Summer Reading List for 2009
6th grade: 7th grade: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Choose two of the following. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick Hidden Talents by David Lubar Madapple by Christina Meldrum Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeves Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Optional novels for extra credit: 1984 by George Orwell Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 10th grade: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Choose one of the following: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron Diary of a Teenage Girl: Becoming Me by Caitlin O'Connor by Melody Carlson 11th grade: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Three by Ted Dekker Optional novels for extra credit: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner The Shack by William Young Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
8th grade: 9th grade:
12th grade:
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Optional novel choices for extra credit: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Silas Marner by George Eliot Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
AP English: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontee A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad A fourth novel from the choices below is also required: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Plague by Albert Camus Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
*For AP English, a reflective reading journal over each novel is required and due on the 1st full day of school.