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1 SUMMER READING LIST ( ) AP Reading List AP Psychology : The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time by Mark Haddon AP US History: Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull by Gary Nash & Graham Russell Gao Hodges. (ISBN X) AP European History: TBD by Dr. Montgomery AP English (see IB English reading) Grades 6-12 Summer Reading List English Grades 6-8: All middle school students must read The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Additionally, they must read two books from their respective grade list over the summer. Students should also read a fourth book of their choosing; it does not have to be from this list.) Students must choose one book from their grade list to write a character study. Write 3 paragraphs (approximately 1 page) about one of the main characters in the book. Describe him/her (physical and personality). What role does the character play in the plot? How does s/he change and grow over the course of the novel? English Grades 9-12: All high school (non-ib) students must read Quiet by Susan Cain. Then, they should select an additional 2 books from their respective grade list. Students should read a fourth book of their choosing; it does not have to be from this list. Students Entering 6 th Grade ALL STUDENTS READ The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker The King of Shadows by Susan Cooper Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Tracking Trash by Loree Griffin Burns Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C. O'Brien Hana s Suitcase by Karen Levine Peak by Roland Smith When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Seer of Shadows by Avi Throwing Heat by Fred Bowen A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg

2 Powerless by Matthew Cody Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine Bound by Donna Jo Napoli How To Get Rich in the California Gold Rush by Tod Olson Students Entering 7 th Grade ALL STUDENTS READ The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements The Call of the Wild by Jack London Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara The Pearl by John Steinbeck Eragon by Christopher Paolini Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Maximum Ride by James Patterson The Giver by Lois Lowry The Keeper s Tattoo by Gill Arbuthnott Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux Ender s Game by Orson Scott Card Deadly by Julie Chibbaro The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li

3 Students Entering 8 th Grade ALL STUDENTS READ The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers The Help by Kathryn Stockett My Sister s Keeper by Jodi Piccoult Gulliver s Travels by Jonathon Swift The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Snow Bound by Harry Mazer Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Shattering Glass by Gail Giles A Rose for Melinda by Lurlene McDaniels Monster by Walter Dean Myers The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Brian Mealer Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris Going Bovine by Libba Bray A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Deadline by Chris Crutcher Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Students Entering 9 th Grade Beloved by Toni Morrison The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

4 Going Bovine by Libba Bray The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The Chosen by Chaim Potok A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein What They Found: Love on 145 th Street by Walter Dean Myers The African Queen by C.S. Forester Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Cross & Switchblade by David Wilkerson Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Dracula by Bram Stoker Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie The Good Earth by Pearl Buck Students Entering 10 th Grade The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Native Son by Richard Wright As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver The African Queen by C.S. Forester Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Dracula by Bram Stoker The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens The Color Purple by Alice Waters Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Story of My Life by Helen Keller Winds of Way by Herman Woulk Misfits by James Howe Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

5 The Crucible by Arthur Miller Students Entering 11 th Grade (Non IB) Uncle Tom s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell A Room of One s Own by Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The House of Mirth by Edith Warton Black Boy by Richard Wright As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Stranger by Albert Camus Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs East of Eden by John Steinbeck Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Honey Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Color Purple by Alice Waters The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas Students Entering 12 th Grade (Non-IB) Uncle Tom s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

6 A Room of One s Own by Virginia Woolf For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The House of Mirth by Edith Warton Black Boy by Richard Wright Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Catch 22 by Joseph Heller In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote Sailing Alone Around the Room (Poetry) by Billy Collins Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas IB Students should choose 2-3 books to read over the summer from their list of IB books below. Students Entering IB Year 1 SL/ AP Lang The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (ISBN: ) The Things They Carried, Tim O Brien (ISBN: ) Elements of Style, Strunk and White (ISBN: 13: ) 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (ISBN: ) The Short Prose Reader Ninth Edition (ISBN: ) Students Entering IB Year 1 HL/AP Lit The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston (ISBN: ) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (ISBN: Breath/Eyes/Memory, Edwidge Danticat (ISBN: X) The Stranger, Albert Camus (ISBN: ) Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (ISBN: )

7 Students Entering IB Year 2 HL/SL Hamlet, William Shakespeare (ISBN: ) In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (ISBN: ) The Things They Carried, Tim O Brien (ISBN: ) (SL/HL) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (ISBN: ) (SL/HL) Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Huston (ISBN: ) (SL/HL) The Glass Palace, Amitav Ghosh (ISBN: ) (HL Only)