2008
SUMMER READING LIST

Grades 6-8

6th

Required Reading:

The Giver, Lois Lowry

 

plus one (1) of the following:

 

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli

The Island, Gary Paulsen

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

Lyddie, Katherine Paterson

Absolutely Normal Chaos, Sharon Creech

 

7th

Required Reading:

Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes

 

plus one (1) of the following:

 

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Homecoming, Cynthia Voight

Hatchet, Gary Paulson

My Brother Sam is Dead, James & Christoper Attlier

Small Steps, Louis Sachar

 

8th

Required Reading:

Flowers for Algernon, D. Keyes

 

plus one (1) of the following:

 

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The House on  Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

Nothing But the Truth, Avi

 

Grades 9-12

 

English 9

Required Reading:

Animal Farm,  G. Orwell

 

plus one of the following:

 

The Ring of Endless Light  -  M. L’Engle

Of Mice and Men  -  J. Steinbeck

The Best Little Girl in the World  -  S. Levenkron

Bodega Dreams  -  E. Quinonez

Black Like Me  -  J. Griffin

After the First Death  -  R. Cormier

I Know What You Did Last Summer  -  L. Duncan

 

 

 

English 10

Required Reading:

Night  -  E. Weisel

 

Plus one of the following:

 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – A.C. Doyle

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden  -  H. Green

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  -  B. Smith

The Chosen  -  C. Potok

Uncle Tom’s Cabin  -  H. Beecher Stowe

Hiroshima – J. Hersey

A Death in the Family – J. Agee

 

American Literature

Required Reading:

A Farewell to Arms  -  E. Hemingway

 

Plus one of the following:

The Color Purple – A. Walker

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  -  K. Kesey

The Grapes of Wrath  -  J. Steinbeck

Watership Down  -  R. Adams

Interview with the Vampire  -  A. Rice

Time and Again  -  J. Finney

In The Time of the Butterflies  -  J. Alvarez

 

British Literature

Required Reading:

The Lord of the Flies -  W. Golding

 

Plus one of the following:

Dracula  -  B. Stoker

Brave New World  -  A. Huxley

Tess of the D’Ubervilles  -  T. Hardyl

Wuthering Heights  -  E. Bronte

Rebecca  -  D. duMaurier

Papillon  -  H. Charriere

The Count of Monte Cristo – A. Dumas