2014 Keyport High School Summer Reading List
All students are required to complete a summer reading assignment that will be turned in on the first week of
school to your English teacher. Below are the titles to choose from and your assignment. Make sure you
complete the assignment for the English class you will be taking in the 2014-2015 school year. Complete this
assignment to the best of your ability as it will count as a major grade. All responses should be typed and
double-spaced. Public computers are available at the Keyport Library if you need access.
English I - Theme: Tolerance
Fiction:
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Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
How I Found the Strong: A Civil War Story by Margaret McMullan
Incantation by Alice Hoffman
Nonfiction:
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William
Kamkwamba
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream by Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John
ASSIGNMENT:
English I: All students entering Grade 9 (English I) must read one book from the list above. As you read, take notes,
create post-its, or use another way to record ideas and incidents from the book to develop an essay on its given theme
of tolerance. Your essay should include five paragraphs (an introduction/thesis paragraph, three support paragraphs,
and a closing paragraph). You should cite textual evidence that proves your theme.
English I Honors: All ninth grade students entering English I Honors must read two books from the list above. One
should be from the fiction list, and the second from the nonfiction list. You must craft an essay in which you compare
how the theme of tolerance is shown throughout both books. Your essay should be at least five paragraphs in length.
Textual evidence is required to support your ideas in each body paragraph.
2014 Keyport High School Summer Reading List
All students are required to complete a summer reading assignment that will be turned in during the first week
of school to your English teacher. Below are the titles to choose from and your assignment. Make sure you
complete the assignment for the English class you will be taking in the 2014-2015 school year. Complete this
assignment to the best of your ability as it will count as a major grade. All responses should be typed and
double-spaced. Public computers are available at the Keyport Library if you need access.
English II-- Theme: Self-Discovery
Fiction:
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
American Born Chines by Gene Luen Yang
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Resolver by Marcus Sedgwick
A Step from Heaven by An Na
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Nonfiction:
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The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly by Doug Stewart
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne
R. Coffey
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
ASSIGNMENT:
English II: All students entering this class must read one book from the list above. As you read, take notes, create postits, or use another way to record ideas and incidents from the book to develop an essay on its given theme of selfdiscovery. Your essay should include five paragraphs (an introduction/thesis paragraph, three support paragraphs, and a
closing paragraph). You should cite textual evidence that proves your theme.
English II Honors: All students entering English 10 Honors must read two books from the list above. One should be from
the fiction list, and the second from the nonfiction list. You must craft an essay in which you compare how the theme of
self-discovery is shown throughout both books. Your essay should be at least five paragraphs in length. Textual
evidence is required to support your ideas in each body paragraph.
2014 Keyport High School Summer Reading List
All students are required to complete a summer reading assignment that will be turned in during the first week
of school to your English teacher. Below are the titles to choose from and your assignment. Make sure you
complete the assignment for the English class you will be taking in the 2014-2015 school year. Complete this
assignment to the best of your ability as it will count as a major grade. All responses should be typed and
double-spaced. Public computers are available at the Keyport Library if you need access.
English III-- Theme: Conformity / Nonconformity
Fiction:
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Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: A Novel by E. Lockhart
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
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The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars: A Memoir by Lauralee Summer
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
ASSIGNMENT:
English III: All students entering this class must read one book from the list above. As you read, take notes, create postits, or use another way to record ideas and incidents from the book to develop an essay on its given theme of conformity
or nonconformity (your choice based on the evidence you find to support it). Your essay should include five paragraphs
(an introduction/thesis paragraph, three support paragraphs, and a closing paragraph). You should cite textual evidence
that proves your theme.
English III Honors: All students entering English III Honors must read two books from the list above. One should be from
the fiction list, and the second from the nonfiction list. You must craft an essay in which you compare how the theme of
conformity/nonconformity is shown throughout both books. Since you’re reading two books, you can choose to prove
one as conformity, and the second as nonconformity. Or, you can compare the two as the same; the choice is yours.
Your essay should be at least five paragraphs in length. Textual evidence is required to support your ideas in each body
paragraph.
2014 Keyport High School Summer Reading List
All students are required to complete a summer reading assignment that will be turned during the first week of
school to your English teacher. Below are the titles to choose from and your assignment. Make sure you
complete the assignment for the English class you will be taking in the 2014-2015 school year. Complete this
assignment to the best of your ability as it will count as a major grade. All responses should be typed and
double-spaced. Public computers are available at the Keyport Library if you need access.
English IV --- Theme: Memoir
Fiction:
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In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: A Novel: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari by Fabio Geda
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Nonfiction:
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The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
Marzi: A Memoir by Marzena Sowa
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma
Senior Year: A Father, a Son, and High School Baseball by Dan Shaughnessy
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
ASSIGNMENT:
English IV: All students entering this class must read one book from the list above. As you read, take notes, create postits, or use another way to record ideas and incidents from the book to develop an essay on an important theme shown
in the memoir of your choice. Your essay should include five paragraphs (an introduction/thesis paragraph, three
support paragraphs, and a closing paragraph). You should cite textual evidence that proves your theme.
English IV Honors: All students entering English IV Honors must read two books from the list above. One should be
from the fiction list, and the second from the nonfiction list. You must craft an essay in which you compare the themes
and their development throughout both books. Your essay should be at least five paragraphs in length. Textual
evidence is required to support your ideas in each body paragraph.