Summer Reading
2008
Note: If for any reason a parent feels a book/novel is
inappropriate for his son/daughter, please contact the teacher for an
alternative reading assignment.
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Grades 9-12
Suggested
Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting Into College by Sally P. Springer and Marion R. Franck
The authors explain college applications, what admission
counselors look for, how to prepare for the new tests, how to put together an
application package, early admissions, and financial aid. Sample application
forms and recommendation letters are included.
Entering 9th Grade
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Sports Fiction
T.J. Jones is a mixed race high school athlete. He heads a swim team and recruits some unlikely athletes. Subplots deal with racism, child abuse, adoption, prejudices, bullying, a father dealing with a past tragedy, gun violence and death.
Profanity
An
Entering 9th Grade Honors (Both are Required)
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
Sports Fiction
T.J. Jones is a mixed race high school athlete. He heads a swim team and recruits some unlikely athletes. Subplots deal with racism, child abuse, adoption, prejudices, bullying, a father dealing with a past tragedy, gun violence and death.
Profanity
An
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a
The author follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation’s most elite colleges.
Entering 10th Grade
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Explains what really happens to a body that is donated to the scientific community: dissection in medical anatomy classes, contemporary uses such as stand-ins for crash-test dummies, and considerable historical and background information.
OR
Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
An autobiography in which George Dawson, a
101-year-old man who learned to read when he was ninety-eight, offers his
firsthand view of
Christopher Award
Entering 10 Grade Honors (Two books are Required)
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (Required)
Historical Fiction
Death narrates the story set in a Nazi Germany town during and after World War Two.
The Association of Jewish Libraries Inaugural Teen Book Award
The Jewish National Book Award
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (Required)
Explains what really happens to a body that is donated to the scientific community: dissection in medical anatomy classes, contemporary uses such as stand-ins for crash-test dummies, and considerable historical and background information.
OR
If for any reason a parent feels Stiff is
inappropriate for his son/daughter, he/she may choose Life us so Good.
Life is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
An autobiography in which George Dawson, a
101-year-old man who learned to read when he was ninety-eight, offers his
firsthand view of
Christopher Award
Entering 11th Grade
A Raisin in the Sun by
This is a play about a middle class African American family
living in
Entering 11th Grade Honors
Roots by Alex Haley
It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village. It
ends seven generations later at a funeral in
Entering 12th Grade
The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today: 60 of the World’s
Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century
Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question “What will life be like 50 years from now?” to sixty of the world’s greatest minds. Their responses glimpse into the cultural, scientific, political, and spiritual moods of the times.
AP English Language and Composition (Both required)
The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a
The author follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation’s most elite colleges.
The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today: 60 of the World’s
Greatest Minds Share Their Vision of the Next Half Century
Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question “What will life be like 50 years from now?” to sixty of the world’s greatest minds. Their responses glimpse into the cultural, scientific, political, and spiritual moods of the times.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein was seeking the answers to life and death. He worked to create something the world had never seen. But he did not know that one day his efforts would destroy him and everything he had.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
In segregated rural