Academics
Summer Reading 2008-2009
Click
here for .pdf version
Have
Fun with Summer Reading! 2008-2009
1. Choose and read two books from your
assigned grade level list.
2. Choose a different project for each
book from the Project Choices.
3. Complete projects before the FIRST
DAY OF SCHOOL and be prepared to orally present them during the first
week of school.
4. Use the rubric as a guide
to prepare your projects and presentations.
5. Keep your projects at home until your
English teacher tells you to bring them to school.
NOTE: Because schedules may change,
all students should complete their Summer Reading projects by August
11, 2008.
Attention Parents
Some of the titles on this list contain mature
content. Parental discretion is advised.
9th Grade Reading List
A Child Called It—David Pelzer
Black Boy—Richard Wright
Bless Me, Ultima—Rudolfo A. Anaya
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood— Janisse Ray
Eragon—Christopher Paolini
Giver—Lois Lowery
Monster—Walter Dean Myers
Rebecca –Daphne du Maurier
Romiette and Julio—Sharon Draper
Speak—Laurie Halse
Tears of a Tiger—Sharon Draper
The Afterlife—Gary Soto
The Bean Trees—Barbara Kingsolver
The Beast—Walter Dean Myers
The Skin I’m In—Sharon Flake
Twilight—Stephenie Meyer
10th Grade Reading List
An Abundance of Katherines—John
Green
Born Confused—Tanuja Desai Hidier
Copper Sun—Sharon Draper
Ender’s Game—Orson Card
Feed--M.T. Anderson
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence— Doris Pilkington
Into The Wild—Jon Krakauer
My Sister’s Keeper—Jodi Picoult
Never Let Me Go—Kazu Ishiguru
Obasan—Joy Kogawa
Riding the Bus with My Sister— Rachel Simon
Shattering Glass—Gail Giles
Slam—Walter Dean Myers
Song of Solomon—Toni Morrison
The Color of Water--–James McBride
The Count of Monte Cristo— Alexandre Duman
The Life of Pi—Yann Martel
The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri
Eleventh Grade List
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier—Ishmael
Beah
A Thousand Splendid Suns—Khaled Hosseini
All of the Above—Shelley Pearsall
Impulse—Ellen Hopkins
Kindred—Octavia Butler
Lovely Bones—Alice Sebold
Native Son—Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest— Ken Kesey
Purple Hibiscus—Chimamanda Adichie
The Bridge of San Luis Rey— Thornton Wilder
The Grapes of Wrath—John Steinbeck
The Hours—Michael Cunningham
The Sun Also Rises—Ernest Hemingway
This Side of Paradise—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whale Talk—Chris Crutcher
Twelfth Grade List
Angela’s Ashes—Frank McCourt
As I Lay Dying—William Faulkner
Blood and Chocolate—Annette Curtis Klause
Catch 22—Joseph Heller
Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
Mrs. Dalloway—Virginia Woolf
One Hundred Years of Solitude— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Roots—Alex Haley
The Autobiography of Malcolm X— Alex Haley
The Burn Journals—Brent Runyon
The Color Purple—Alice Walker
The House of Spirits—Isabel Allende
The Secret Life of Bees—Sue Monk Kidd
The Time Traveler’s Wife—Audrey Niffenegger
|
