2010 School Middle School and High School Summer Reading Lists
Middle School Summer Reading List
(download entire summer reading assignment here)
Grade 6
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Bloomabilty by Sharon Creech
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
Grade 6 Honors
Thief of Always by Clive Barker
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Memories of Summer by Ruth White
Grade 7
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger
Grade 7 Honors
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Grade 8
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Grade 8 Enriched
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Pirates! by Celia Rees
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Grade 8 Honors
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
Dreams and Visions (14 Flights of Fantasy) edited by M.Jerry Weiss and Helen Weiss
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
High School Summer Reading List
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English 9 (formerly Essentials and CP)
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
English 9 Honors
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
English 10 (formerly Essentials and CP)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
English 10 GL
Roots by Alex Haley
English 10 Honors
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
English 11 (formerly Essentials and CP)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
English 11 Gilder Lehrman
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
English 11 Honors
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
English 11 AP
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Writing by Stephen King
English 12 (formerly Essentials and CP)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
English 12 Honors
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Stranger by Albert Camus
English 12 AP
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Mythology and Allusion
The Odyssey translation by Robert Fagle
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan