Freshmen Summer Reading List Students will choose books from those listed depending upon the course level (Honors, Honors: Course Number 0819 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok Choose One of the following: City of Thieves - David Benioff A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines Accelerated College Prep: Course Number 0817 The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Choose One of the following: The Day John Met Paul - Jim O Donnell April Morning - Howard Fast The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros College Prep: Course Number 0815 Choose Two of the following: Beastly - Alex Flinn The Mayan Mission - Karen B. Chapman Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
Sophomore Summer Reading List Student will choose books from those listed depending upon the course level (Honors, Honors: My Antonia - Willa Cather The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe Accelerated College Prep: Choose one book from each pair: Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer or The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls A Break with Charity - Ann Rinaldi or Knights of the Hill Country - Tim Tharp Bad - Jean Ferris or Gym Candy - Carl Deuker College Prep: The Pearl - John Steinbeck Choose one of the following: Monster - Walter Dean Myers Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
Junior Summer Reading List Student will choose books from those listed depending upon the course level (Honors, Honors: (All four books must be read) Victory - Joseph Conrad Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Accelerated College Prep: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Choose one: Dracula - Bram Stoker Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte College Prep: Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie Choose one: The Broken Bridge - Philip Pullman Storm Breaker - Anthony Horowitz
Senior Summer Reading List Student will read all of the following books depending upon the course level in which they are enrolled. Advanced Placement: (read all four books) A Passage to India - E. M. Forster Mythology - Edith Hamilton Gulliver s Travels - Jonathan Swift The Road - Cormac McCarthy Literature/Media Studies: (read all three books) All Over But the Shoutin - Rick Bragg Night - Eli Wiesel On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King Rhetoric and Dramatic Literature: (read both books) A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams An Enemy of the People - (Arthur Miller s adaptation) Modern Literature: Ship Breaker - Paola Bacigalupi ISBN-10:9780316056212 Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly ISBN 10-0385737637
Honors World Literature: (read first semester books for summer) Required : Nectar in a Siene - Kamala Markandaya Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton The Plague - Albert Camus Choose one of the following: Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Or Thousand Splendid Suns -Khaled Hosseini Children s Literature: (read all books) Moon over Manifest - Clare Vanderpool Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse The True Story of Hansel and Gretel - Louise Murphy The Little Prince - Antoine desaint- Exupery Briar Rose - Jane Yolen Detective Fiction: (read all books) On Writing, A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King ISBN-10: 0671024256 ISBN-13: 978-0671024253 The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett ISBN-10: 0679722645 ISBN-13:987-0679722649 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery - Agatha Christie ISBN:1579126278 ISBN-13: 978-1579126278 Revised April 5, 2011