Summer Reading Choices 2009

Grades 5-6 List

Grade 7 List

Grade 7 Enriched List

Grade 8 List

Grades 9-10 List

Grades 11-12 List

  • Entering Grade 9/9E:
    • Select one from the 9-10 list and one of these:
      • Uncommon Champions by Marty Kaminsky
      • The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
      • How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
  • Entering Grade 10:
    • Select one from the 9-10 list and one of these:
      • The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
      • Hiroshima by John Hersey
      • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
      • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -time by Mark Haddon
  • Entering Grade 10E:
    • Select one from the 11-12 list and one of these:
      • Hiroshima by John Hersey
      • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
      • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
      • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Entering Grade 11:
    • Select one from the 11-12 list and one of these:
      • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
      • Dawn by Elie Wiesel
      • In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
      • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  • Entering Grade 11AP:
    • Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez and
    • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Entering Grade 12:
    • Select one from the 11-12 list and one of these:
      • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
      • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
      • The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
      • The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again  by J.R.R. Tolkien
      • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  • Entering Grade 12AP:
    • Select two of these:
      • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
      • Beloved by Toni Morrison
      • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
      • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
      • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
      • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
      • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
      • Man and Superman : a Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw
      • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  by Ken Kesey
      • Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
      • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 
      • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
      • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare