11th Grade American Studies Summer Reading List
Books About American History
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Civil War - Slavery- Fiction
Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
Colbert, C. C. - Booth (Graphic Novel)
Draper, Sharon - Copper Sun
Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
Paulsen, Gary - Sarny: A Life Remembered
Zimmerman, Dwight - The Hammer and the Anvil: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln,
and the End of Slavery in America
Native American History - Fiction
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Alexie, Sherman - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Marshall, Joseph - Hundred in the Hand
1920’s/1930’s - The Jazz Age and the Great Depression - Fiction
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Larkin, Jillian - Vixen: Book 1 - eBook available on Overdrive
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath - eBook available on Overdrive
World War I & World War II Fiction
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Doig, Ivan - The Eleventh Man
Fletcher, Christine - Ten Cents a Dance
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Morpurgo, Michael - Private Peaceful
Shaara, Jeff - The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II: Book 1
Smith, Sherri - Flygirl
1960’s - Vietnam - Anti-War Movement - Kennedy - Fiction
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Coker, Rachel - Chasing Jupiter
Myers, Walter Dean - Fallen Angels
Wiles, Deborah - Countdown
Wolfe, Tom - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Civil Rights Movement - Fiction
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Levine, Kristin - The Lions of LIttle Rock
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
(Keep looking. There are more! →)
9/11 - Afghanistan War - Fiction
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Foer, Jonathan - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Myers, Walter Dean - Sunrise Over Fallujah
Reinhardt, Dana - The Things a Brother Knows
9/11 - Afghanistan War - Non-Fiction
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Beamer, Lisa: Let’s Roll! : Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
Dwyer, Jim - 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin
Towers
Kopelman, Jay - From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
Krakauer, Jon - Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Luttrell, Marcus - Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the
Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Thoms, Annie, ed. - With Their Eyes: September 11th: The View from a High School at
Ground Zero
Women’s Rights - Fiction
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Efaw, Amy - Battle Dress
Levine, Ellen - In Trouble
Famous Disasters- Crimes - Fiction
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Haddix, Margaret - Uprising
Vernick, Shirley - The Blood Lie: A Novel
Bernstein, Carl - All the President’s Men
Bowden, Mark - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Bugliosi, Vincent - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Crowe, Chris - Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Cullen, David - Columbine
Sports - Fiction
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Myers, Walter Dean - Down to the Last Out: The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro
Leagues
Non-Fiction
Freedman, Samuel - Breaking the LIne: The Season in Black College Football that
Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights
Graham, Tom - Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of
College Basketball
Moore, Gary - Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of
Broken Dreams
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(Keep looking. There are more! →)
American History X - Important Events that Don’t Fall Under Other Categories (Fiction)
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Godbersen, Anna - The Luxe: Book 1
Gruen, Sara - Water for Elephants: A Novel
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Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
Aronson, Marc - Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies
Chang, Jeff - Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Edge, Laura - From Jazz Babies to Generation Next: The History of the American
Teenager
Kennedy, Robert - Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Obama, Barack - Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Spitz, Bob - The Beatles: The Biography
Stefoff, Rebecca - A Young People’s History of the United States: Columbus to the War
on Terror