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1 English 9 Reading List Possibly Covered: To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Animal Farm by George Orwell Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez A Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech A Midsummer Night s Dream by William Shakespeare Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Covered: The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fitzgerald Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (required for honors classes) (English 9 Honors Summer Reading Assignment List) Recommended for all ninth grade students A Lesson Before Dying by Gains Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury The Thing They Carried by O Brien Tuesday s with Morrie by Albolm I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou Chinese Cinderella by Mah Speak by Anderson The Lovely Bones by Sebold Cold Sassy Tree by Burns 1984 by Orwell Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr Unwind by Neal Shusterman The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by King The Perks of being a Wallflower by Chbosky The Golden Compass by Pullman Castaway of the Flying Dutchman by Jacques Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O Brien Call of the Wild by Jack London Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Assassin by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

2 The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Out of a Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis Black Boy by Richard Wright Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain You Don t Know Me by David Klass Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Any book from the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Shadowmancer by Taylor The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins Peak by Roland Smith The Pact by Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt Homeboyz by Sitomer

3 English 10 Reading List (possibly covered and recommended reading) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald The Crucible by Miller Death of a Salesman by Miller Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury A Raisin In The Sun by Hansberry The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (required for honors classes)

4 English 11 Reading List (possibly covered and recommended reading) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson The Invisible Man by Wells Brave New World by Huxley Jane Eyre by Bronte Frankenstein by Shelley Wuthering Heights by Bronte Lord of the Flies by Golding The Sunflower by Wiesenthal Why We Can t Wait by King Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave by Frederick Douglass Cold Blood by Capote The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (required for AP classes) Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (required summer reading for AP classes) The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston (required summer reading for AP classes)

5 English 12 Reading List Required reading: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Night by Elie Wiesel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (AP and JT classes) David Madden s The Fiction Tutor (required summer reading for AP classes) A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway (required summer reading for JT classes) Recommended reading: The Stranger by Albert Camus Frankenstein by Mary Shelley One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez No Exit by John Paul Sartre

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