During the summer, students entering Curriculum II
classes are required to read hole in my life, by Jack Gantos, one book from
the list below, and one book of their choice
Students entering Curriculum I are required to read The
Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle, one book from the list below,
and one book of their choice.
Students entering Honors English should read Cat's
Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut and Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and one book from the list
below.
At the beginning of the school year, students will be asked to
summarize, compare, discuss, or
respond to the books verbally and/or in written form. Students should bring either the books
or detailed notes to class
during the first weeks of school to enable them to respond to the books
with specifics.
Have a great summer and Read,
Read, Read
Akunin,
Boris, The Winter Queen
Alexie,
Sherman, Indian Killer or Reservation Blues
Allin, Michael, Zarafa (nonfiction)
Alvarez,
Julia, In the Time of the
Butterflies
Auel,
Jean, Clan of the Cave Bear
Auster,
Paul, Mr. Vertigo
Beatty,
Paul, White Boy Shuffle
Bott,
Robert, A Man for All Seasons (play)
Brashares,
Ann, Sisterhood of the Traveling
Pants
Bronte,
Emily, Wuthering Heights
Chevalier,
Tracy, Girl With a Pearl
Earring
Clarke,
Arthur, Childhood's End
Collignon,
Rick, Perdido
Coman,
Carolyn, Many Stones
Conroy,
Pat, The Lords of Discipline
Creamer,
Robert, Babe (autobiography)
Cross,
Donna Woolfolk , Pope Joan
Crutcher,
Chris, Chinese Handcuffs
Dangarembga,
Tsitsi, Nervous
Conditions
Enger,
Leif, Peace Like a River
Fischer,
Jackie, Moyer, An Egg On
Three Sticks
Fitch,
Janet, White Oleander
Fugard,
Athol, Master Harold and the
Boys(play)
Green,
John, Looking for Alaska
Greene,
Bob, Rebound: the Odyssey of
Michael Jordan
Hardy,
Thomas, Tess of the
D'Urbervilles
Harris,
Joanne, Five Segments of the Orange
Hayes,
David and Daniel, My Old Man
and the Sea
Heinlein,Robert,
Stranger in a Strange Land
Hemingway,
Ernest, A Farewell to Arms
Holthe,
Tess Uriza, When the Elephants
Dance
Jen,
Gish, Mona in the Promised Land
Kincaid,
Jamaica, Lucy
Kovaly,
Heda, Under a Cruel Star
Kozol,
Jonathan, Savage Inequalities
LeFarge,
Oliver, Laughing Boy
Lovejoy,
Dr. Thomas, Tropical Nature or Life and Death in the Rain
Forest
Mansbach,
Adam , Angry White Black Boy
McCullers,
Carson, The Heart
is a Lonely Hunter
Munroe,
Alice, Lives of Girls and
Women
Myers,Walter
Dean, Somewhere in
the Darkness
Ngugi,
Wa Thuion'o, Weep Not,
Child
Opdyke,
Irene Gut, In My Hands:
Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Picoult,
Jodi, My Sisteršs
Keeper
Pipher,
Mary, Reviving
Ophelia
Pope,
Denise Clark, Doing
School (nonfiction)
Potok,
Chaim, I Am the Clay
Preston,
Richard, Hot Zone
Remarque, Erich, All Quiet on the Western Front
Roberts,
Jack, The Importance of
Diane Fossey
Roy,
Arundhati, The God of Small
Things
Satrapi,
Marjane, Persepolis (parts I and II)
Sinclair,
April, Coffee Will
Make You Black
Smith,
Alexander McCall, The
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Tsukiyama,
Gail, The Samuraišs
Garden
Tyler,
Anne, Searching for Caleb
Uris,
Leon, Exodus, Mila 18
Valdez,
Luis, Zoot Suit (play)
Vonnegut,
Kurt, Welcome to the
Monkey House
Walker,
Alice, Can't Keep a
Good Woman Down
Wideman,
John Edgar, Hoop Roots
Wilder,
Thornton, The Bridge of San
Luis Rey
Windchester,
Simon, The Professor and the
Madman
Wolff,
Tobias, In Pharoah's Army
(nonfiction)
Wouk,
Herman, Marjorie
Morningstar
Revised
May 2006