Tindley Accelerated Schools
Summer Reading List -2015
The expectation of every Tindley Accelerated scholar is to complete the required summer reading.
Scholars are expected to read a book (or books) and be prepared for an assignment once the school year
begins. These books were chosen to help prepare scholars for the type of close reading and interpretive
and inferential thinking required for the upcoming school year.
We would like to thank you in advance for your support in making sure your child completes the
required summer reading.
Grade 8
Grade 7
Grade 6
Grade 5
Tindley Collegiate and Tindley Prep
Title
The Westing Game
Author
Ellen Raskin
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
Christopher Paul Curtis
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Harlem Summer
Walter Dean Myers
Tindley Accelerated Schools
Summer Reading List -2015
The expectation of every Tindley Accelerated scholar is to complete the required summer reading.
Scholars are expected to read a book (or books) and be prepared for an assignment once the school year
begins. These books were chosen to help prepare scholars for the type of close reading and interpretive
and inferential thinking required for the upcoming school year.
We would like to thank you in advance for your support in making sure your child completes the
required summer reading.
Grade 9
Required
Grade 9
Recommended
10th grade
Required
Grade 10
Recommended
Grade 11
Required
Grade 12
Recommended
The Crucible
The Joy Luck Club
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent
House on Mango Street
The Chocolate War
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Lord of the Flies
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Grendel
Brave New World
Amani Boys
Cloud Atlas
Some Kind of Fairytale
Room
Angela's Ashes
About a Boy
Midnight's Children
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Time
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Arthur Miller
Amy Tan
Julia Alvarez
Sandra Cisneros
Robert Cormier
James Baldwin
Junot Diaz
William Golding
Rebecca Skloot
John Gardner
Aldous Huxley
Neil Gagman
David Mitchell
Graham Joyce
Emma Donoghue
Frank McCourt
Nick Hornby
Salman Rushdie
Alex Haley
Mark Haddon
Edwidge Danticat
Gabriel Garcia Marquez