Summer Reading

Honors English 9
Required: The Hobbit  by  J.R.R. Tolkien (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - includes adult themes which may be disturbing
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• To be Young, Gifted, and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
• Trouble by Gary Schmidt
• When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
 

Communications Arts CP English 9
Required: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
• When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
• Black Like Me by J. H. Griffin
• Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Yearling by M. K. Rawlings
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
• Trouble by Gary Schmidt
• The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

 

English 1 - Communication Arts
Required: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

 

 
Honors American Literature (Sophomore)
Required: The Color of Water – James McBride (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose TWO books to read from the following list; only one may be a play.
• A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
• The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (Includes adult themes which may be disturbing.)
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
• A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest Gaines
• The Last of the Mohicans – J. F. Cooper (for the advanced reader)
• My Antonia- Willa Cather
• Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
 

American Literature (Sophomore)
Required: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Jim, the Boy by Tony Earley
• The Final Four by Paul Volponi
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
 

English 10: Communication Arts (Sophomore)
Required: A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 

Honors British Literature (Junior)
Required: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde AND Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list: 
• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• The Once and Future King by T. H. White
• The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks
 

British Literature CP (Junior)
Required: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Grendel by John Gardner
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah
 
English 3 Composition and Literature (Junior)
Required: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)

 

English 4 Composition and Literature (Senior)
Required: The Boy Who Dared by Campbell Bartoletti
 
A.P. English Literature and Composition (Senior)
Required: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Purchase, read both, and bring to class.)
 
Choose two books to read from the following list; only one may be a play.
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dostoevsky
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by G.G. Marquez
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Snow in August by Pete Hamill
 
Dual Credit English Composition/Communications (Senior)
Required:

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien (Purchase, read both, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
 
World Literature CP (Senior)
Required: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
• The Color of Water by James McBride
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• I am Malala by Malala Yousofzai
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The Carrying by Ada Limone
• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
• Devil and the White City Erik Larsen