Summer reading

Summer Reading: A compilation of area schools required summer reading lists.

6th and 7th Grade:

Ghosts I have Been by Richard Peck

Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Acorn People by Ron Jones

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Maniac Magee by Spinelli

 Invention of Hugo Cabret by Selznick

Maze of Bones: 39 Clues by Rick Riordan

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Kinney

Watsons Go To Birmingham by Curtis

The Egypt Game by Snyder

Walk Two Moons by Creech

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

The Acorn People by Ron Jones

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
The Incredible Journey bySheila Burnford

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Bartoletti

Seven Sons and Seven Daughters by Barbara Chen

The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander

Ordinary Magic by Malcolm Bosse

the Conch Bearer by Chitra Bannerjee Divakauruni

Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher

The Broken Tusk by Uma Krishnaswami

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Blizzard by Jim Murphy 
The Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi

Anna of Byzantium by Tracey Barrett

Year of Wonder: A Novel about the Plaque by Geraldine Brooks

Lady with an Alien by Michael Resnick 

Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopald

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Wonder, R.J. Pallacio

 First Test, Pierce

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Rowling

Number the Stars, Lowry

Ella Enchanted, Levine

The Wednesday Wars, Schmidt

Artemis Fowl, Colfer

Liar and Spy, Stead

The One and Only Ivan, Applegate

Dead End in Norvelt, Gantos

Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls

8th Grade 

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Outsiders by Susan Hinton

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

The Young Man and the Sea, Rodman Philbrick

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Carl

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples

White Fang by Jack London
Taking Sides, by Soto
Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Stargirl byJerry Spinelli

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Giver by Lois Lowery
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 

9th  Grade

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach

The Pigman, Paul Zindel

A Day No Pigs Would Die, Newton Peck

The Hobbit by JR Tolkein

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury

Into the Wild by Krakauer

The Hobbit by Tolkien

Rebecca by du Maurier
Matched by Condie
Bleachers by Grisham
Thirteen Reasons Why by Asher
The Fault in our Stars by Green
Bless Me Ultima by Anaya
Days of Grace by Ashe
Copper Sun by Draper
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Maus I by Spiegelman 

 10^th Grade:

Nickled and Dimed, Ehrenreich

Blessings, Anna Quindlen

The Bean Trees, Kingsolver

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey

•    The Speed of Dark , Moon

•       “Death of a Salesman,” Miller

 How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent, Alvarez

•       Angela’s Ashes, McCourt

•       The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck

•       The Joy Luck Club, Tan

•       The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers

•       The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky

•       Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, Blumenthal

•       Looking for Alaska, Green

•       Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck

American Born Chinese, Yang

 11^th Grade:

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Paula Gun Allen

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Angelou

The Bluest Eye, Morrison

If I Die in the Combat Zone, O’Brien

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Picture of Dorian Gray byWilde
Invisible Man by Ellison
Catch-22 by Heller
The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night by Haddon
The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury
Daughter of Fortune by Allende
Candyfreak: a Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of Hemingway in America, by Almond
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bryson
The Color Purple by Walker
Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood from the Football Field to the Fields of Honor by Sielski
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole
A Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature by Haskell

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12^th Grade:

The Glass Castle, Walls

The Metamorphosis, Kafka 

Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson

The Kitchen God’s Wife, Tan

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy

Catch-22, Heller

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

Dracula, Stoker

The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood

Frankenstein, Shelley
Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig
Oryx and Crake by Atwook
Utopia by Moore
The Road by McCarthy
Childhood's End by Clarke
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Dick
World War Z by Brooks
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Blindness by Saramago
On the Road by Kerouac
Siddhartha by Hesse
The Alchemist by Coehlo
Ready Player One by Cline




Anything by: 
Roald Dahl
Gary Paulson
Andrew Clements
Rick Riordan

Series: 
Peter and the Star Catchers
Narnia
Magik
100 Cupboards
The Book without Words

Classics/Award Winners: 
Of Mice and Men
Bud Not Buddy
The House on Mango Street
Out of the Dust
Roll Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Giver
Animal Farm
The Pigman
Things Fall Apart
To Kill A Mockingbird