Summer Reading List for 2007-2008
Following is the required summer reading for all grades – assessment
will be posted on the web page and through EdLine. Students’ first major
assessment at the beginning of the school year will depend on a thorough knowledge
and understanding of their assigned novel.
7th Grade Summer Reading Options
Regular students are to choose two books to read. Pre-AP students choose three
books to read.
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Publisher: Barnes & Noble (September
2001) ISBN: 061815082X
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck Publisher: Barnes & Noble (October
1992) ISBN: 014017737X
- The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill Publisher: Barnes & Noble
(May 1987) ISBN 0440471478
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
(November 1, 2003) ISBN-10: 1593080565, ISBN-13: 9781593080563
8th Grade Summer Reading Options
Regular students are to choose two books to read. Pre-AP students choose three
books to read.
- Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella Publisher: Mariner Books; 1st Mariner
Books Ed edition (April 28, 1999) ISBN 0395957737
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines Publisher:
Bantam; Reissue edition (July 1, 1982) ISBN 0553263579
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Publisher: Vintage;
Reissue edition (April 3, 1991) ISBN-10: 0679734775
ISBN-13: 9780679734772
- The Chosen by Chaim Potok Publisher: Fawcett ISBN 0449213447 Night
by Elie Weisel Publisher: Hill and Wang (January 16, 2006) ISBN-10: 0374500010
- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Publisher
Yale University Press; New Ed edition (March 1, 2001) ISBN-10: 0300087012
ISBN-13: 978-0300087017
9th Grade Pre-AP – Course #015 (Human Geography) Summer Reading
Students are to read both books. Either translation of Homer is acceptable.
- Dove by Robin Lee Graham Publisher: Harper Paperbacks ISBN: 0060920475
- The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Lombardo Publisher: Hackett
Publishing Company ISBN: 0872204847 or
- The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Rouse Publisher: Signet Classics
ISBN: 0451527364
9th Grade Regular and Pre-AP Summer Reading
Students are required to read this book:
- Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card Publisher: a Tor book
Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN: 0812550706 10
9th grade students are also required to read one of the following books:
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou Publisher, Bantam
Books ISBN: 0553279378
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Publisher, Hyperion
ISBN: 1401308589
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury Publisher, Del Rey Book—Ballatine
Publishing Group ISBN: 0345342968
- Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid, Publisher, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux. ISBN: 0374525102
10th Grade Regular and Pre-AP Summer Reading
Students are to read this book:
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Publisher: Riverhead Books
(a division of Penguin) ISBN 1594480001
10th Grade Students are also required to read one of the following books.
- Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Publisher: Mira Max Publishers
ISBN 0786887842
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk-Kidd Publisher: Penguin ISBN
0142001740
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Publisher: Sagebrush ISBN 0
385474547 ISBN 0 80859277-7
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Publisher:
Anchor Books ISBN 0-38572220-6
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN 0-38542016-1
11th Grade AP Required Summer Reading
Students are to read both books:
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Publisher Penguin edition only (the
one with the intro by Eric Schlosser) ISBN 9780143039587
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Publisher Harper Perennial
Reissue (2006) ISBN 9780060838584
11th Grade Required Summer Reading
Students are to read both books:
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Publisher,
Penguin edition ISBN 0618711651
- How to Read Literature Like a Professor by T.C. Foster Publisher,
Harper Paperbacks ISBN 978-0060009427
12th Grade Regular Summer Reading
Students are to read this book:
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White Publisher: Putnam ISBN
0441627404
12th Grade Summer Reading Options
Students are to read one of these books:
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by K. Rowling Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing (hardcover only available) ISBN 0747573609
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and Pauline
Baynes Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-140942-2
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brönte Publisher: Penguin ISBN 01424-37204
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Publisher: Avon Books ISBN 0380-77855-6
- 1984 by George Orwell Publisher: Signet Classics ISBN 978-0451524935
12th Grade AP Required Summer Reading
Students are to read both books:
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN 0-316-92634-5
- The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Publisher: Scribner Paperback
Fiction ISBN 0-684-800713 11
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06-May-2007