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1 Edgewood ISD- May 30, 2014 Dear Parents, This list includes titles of books thatt your child will enjoy. Thesee titles were selected by the Language Artss Department of the Edgewood Independent School District because they are interesting, engaging, and award winning books. Independent reading is one of the most influential factors for student educational success. For preschoolers, an indicator of their future school success is the involvement of parents reading to their children. In high school independent reading produces increases in vocabulary, which in turn improves student performance and helps them to meet the demands of college. We are providing this list as a starting point to assist you in selecting grade appropriate books for your child. Please help your child select several of these books to read throughout the summer. Your involvement and review of their selections is also an important factor in a successful reading experience. This summer we our asking our students to READ! READ! READ! This will assist in effective literacyy development and lifelong learning. Please help us. Encourage your child to read every day. It really does make a difference! Sincerely, The Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Department of the Edgewood Independent School District

2 Entering English I Across Five Aprils By Irene Hunt Touching Spirit Bear By Ben Mikaelsen The Old Man and The Sea By Ernest Hemingway Animal Farm By George Orwell Great Expectations By Charles Dickens Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler The Chosen By Chaim Potok The Good Earth By Pearl S. Buck The Watsons Go to Birmingham By Christopher Paul Curtis Of Mice and Men Seeing Redd By Frank Beddor To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee Both Sides of Time By Caroline Cooney Franny and Zooey By J.D. Salinger Friday Night Lights By H.G. Bissinger In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex By Nat Philbrick Johnny Tremain By Esther Forbes Timeline By Michael Crichton A Tree Grows in Brooklyn By Betty Smit The Chocolate War By Robert Cormier Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod By Gary Paulsen The Perfect Storm: The True Story of Men Against the Sea By Sebastian Junger

3 Entering English II The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet By Shakespeare The Odyssey By Homer A Separate Peace By John Knowles Lord of the Flies By William Golding The Pearl Of Mice and Men In the Time of the Butterflies By Octavia Butler The Beekeper s Apprentice or On the Segregation of the Queen By Laurie King Everything Rises Must Converge By Flannery O Conner The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Being There By Jerzy Kosinski Cry, The Beloved Country By Alan Paton Great Expectations By Charles Dickens The Accidental Tourist By Anne Tyler Lost Moon: the Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 By Jim Lovell Ordinary People By Judith Guest Pilgrim at Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe Shoeless Joe By W.P. Kinsells A Walk to Remember By Nicholas Sparks The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

4 Entering English III The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald The Grapes of Wrath Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller The Crucible By Arthur Miller The Jungle By Upton Sinclair The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne Anthem By Ayn Rand The Awakening By Kate Chopin The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison A Lesson Before Dying By Ernest Gaines In Country The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien My Antonia By Willa Cather The Crystal Cave By Mary Stewart The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane Sophie s World By Jostein Gaardner Walk in the Woods By Bill Bryson The Girl in Hyacinth Blue By Susan Vreeland Gone with the Wind By Margaret Mitchell Tiger Moon By Antonia Michaelis Me, the Missing and the Dead By Jenny Valentine Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (graphic novel) By Ariel Schrag In Country By Bobbi Ann Mason

5 Entering English IV Alive By Piers Paul Read All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque Among Grizzlies: Living with Wild Bears in Alska By Timoth Treadwell The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman By Ernest Gaines Beloved By Toni Morrison Between a Rock and a Hard Place By Alden Carter Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky Education of Little Tree By Forrest Carter 1984 By George Orwell The Endurance: Shackleton s Legendary Antarctic Expedition By Caroline Alexander White Oleander By Janet Fitch The Merchant of Venice By Shakespeare The Hobbit By JRR Tolkien Mousetrap By Agatha Christie Henderson the Rain King By Saul Bellow The Hunt for Red October By Tom Clancy Teen Angst? Naaah A Quasi autobiography By Ned Vizzini The Tempest By William Shakespeare Tomorrow: When the War Began By John Marsden War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The Book: On the Taboo Against knowing Who You Are By Alan Watts Dracula By Bram Stoker