2008 High School Summer Reading List

Good Reads                                      Challenging Good Reads   

Grade 9

Eclipse  Meyer

Isaac’s Storm Larson

A Northern Light Donnelly

Joy Luck Club Tan

Skellig  Almond

The Glass Castle Walls

Staying Fat for Sarah Burns Crutcher

Zorro Allende

Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko

 

Silent to the Bone Konigsburg

 

Chinese Cinderella Yen Mah

 

Inexcusable Lynch

 

 

Grade 10

Ironman Crutcher

Autobiography of a Face Grealy

My Sister’s Keeper Picoult

The Mists of Avalon Bradley

The Color of Water McBride

Animal Dreams Kingsolver

Speak     Anderson

Founding Mothers Roberts

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent Alvarez

Peace Like a River Enger

Angela’s Ashes McCourt

In Cold Blood Capote

Sphere Crichton

 

                                                                       

Grade 11*

 

Shadow Divers Kurson

The Lovely Bones Sebold

Devil in the White City Larson

Cold Mountain Frazier

Whale Talk  Crutcher

Emma’s War Scroggins

Bag of Bones King

1776 McCullough

Kitchen Confidential Bourdain

Bel Canto Patchett

Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom

The Greatest Generation   Brokaw

In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez

Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut

Hole in My Life Gantos

 

Dispatches from the Edge Cooper

 

Freakonomics Levitt

 

Blessings Quindlen

 

                                                                                   

Grade 12*

 

Dune Herbert

Caramelo  Cisneros

Namesake  Lahiri

The Poisonwood Bible  Kingsolver

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water  Dorris

The World Is Flat Friedman

Under the Banner of Heaven   Krakauer

The Innocent Man Grisham

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  Haddon               

 

Eaters of the Dead Crichton

 

The Firm Grisham

 

The Poet Connelly

 

                                                                                               

*AP teachers at grades 11 and 12 require students to read 2 books from the appropriate grade level list.