Summer Reading List

List of 6 items.

• English 6

   

  All students are required to read at least two books from the list below. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

• English 7

  All students are required to read at least two books from the list below.

  • Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
  • Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
  • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
  • Tangerine by Edward Bloor

• English 8

   All students are required to read at least two books from the list below.  

  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
  • Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
  • Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

• English 9

  All students are required to read at least two books from the list below.
  
  

  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London

• English 10

  Honors students are required to read at least three books from the list below.
  College students are required to read at least two books from the list below.

  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • In The Time Before Light by Ian MacMillan
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • All I Asking For Is My Body by Milton Murayama
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

  
  
  

• English 11 & 12

  AP Students are required to read at least three books from the list below.
  College students are required to read at least two books from the list below.

  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  • Another Country by James Baldwin
  • The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
  • The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Overstory by Richard Powers
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
  • Nemesis by Philip Roth
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
  • All the Love in the World by Cathy Song
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesymn Ward