DACULA HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING 2010
Students are to choose one book from the list below from their appropriate grade level. These
titles have been chosen based on interest level as well as thematic and social relevancy to high
school students. Please note: Books marked with an * are ones which either deal with mature
subject matter, have strong language, and/or realistic descriptions. We have attempted to mark all
books that we feel some parents may have concerns about; however, we encourage parents to review
any book your child chooses. A synopsis for each title can be found on the Dacula High School
website. A list of assessment projects to be completed before the third school week is also on the
school webpage.
Students taking more than one Language Arts class should read the book for the grade level they
SHOULD be in, not the grade being made up.
9TH
Private Peaceful by
Michael Morpurgo
10TH`
Unwind by Neal
Shusterman
11TH
12TH
A Certain Slant of Interred With Their
Light by Laura
Bones by Jennifer
Whitcomb
Lee Carrell
The Chosen by Chaim The Poisonwood Bible *A Prayer for Owen *A Thousand
Potok
by Barbara Kingsolver Meany by John
Splendid Suns by
Irving
Khaled Hosseini
Cold, Sassy Tree by Ender’s Game by
*The Catcher in theThe Life of Pi by Yann
Olive Ann Burns
Orson Scott Card
Rye by J.D. Salinger Martel
The Autobiography of Things Fall Apart by
Miss Jane Pittman by Chinua Achebe
Ernest Gaines
*Family Tree by
Inexcusable by Chris Barbara Delinsky
Lynch
*Staying Fat for
*Ironman by Chris
Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
Crutcher
Monster by Walter
Dean Meyers
Sleeping Freshmen
Never Lie by David
The Rag and Bone
Shop by Robert
Cormier
*Buried Onions by
Gary Soto
The Bean Trees by The Alchemist by
Barbara Kingsolver Paulo Coelho
* The Water is
Frankenstein: City of
Wide by Pat Conroy Night by Dean Koontz
*Fallen Angels by
*The Heretic’s
My Jim by Nancy
Rawls
in the Nighttime by
Mark Haddon
*Handle With Care by
Jodi Picoult
Walter Dean Myers Daughter by Kathleen
Kent
Watchers by Dean *The Curious
Koontz
Incident of the Dog
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
Lubar
The Crossing by Gary Ties That Bind, Ties
That Break by Lensey
Paulsen
Namioka
Dicey’s Song by
House on Mango
Street by Sandra
Cynthia Voigt
Cisneros
* a long way gone:
* Persepolis: The
Memoirs of a Boy
Story of a Childhood
Soldier by Ishmael
by Marjane Satrapi
Beah
*Bad Boy: A Memoir Swimming to
by Walter Dean Myers Antarctica
by Lynne Cox
*The Bluest Eye by *Prodigal Son (Dean
Koontz's
Frankenstein, Book 1)
March by Geraldine Light on Snow by
Brooks
Anita Shreve
Toni Morrison
Call of the Mall by Stolen Innocence by
Paco Underhill
Elissa Wall
Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara
Ehrenreich
* Stiff: The Curious
Lives of Human
Cadavers by Mary
Roach