Zachary High School ~ 2009 ~ Summer Reading List
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9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade regular English students are required to read one title from their
respective list.
Titles with an asterisk (*) are available for checkout from Mrs. Littles.
Comprehensive assessments will be made immediately after school begins. Assessments will
NOT include standard AR tests.
All students are strongly encouraged to read beyond what is required.
9th Grade
Aaseng, Nathan
Navajo Code Talkers
Almond, David
Skellig
Avi
Wolf Rider
Bauer, Joan
Rules of the Road
Card, Orson S.
Ender’s Game*
Carlson, Melody
My Name Is Chloe
Deuker, Carl
Painting the Black
Draper, Sharon
Tears of a Tiger
Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater
Gantos, Jack
Hole in my Life
Hite, Sid
King of Slippery Falls
Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
Korman, Gordon
Jake, Reinvented
L’Amour, Louis
Sackett
Langan, Paul
Summer of Secrets
Lipsyte, Robert
The Contender
Myers, Walter D.
Monster
Myers, Walter D.
145th Street Stories
Picoult, Jodi
My Sister’s Keeper
Schraff, Anne
Someone to Love Me
Steinbeck, John
The Pearl*
Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*
Wallace, Rich
Wrestling Sturbridge
9th grade honors
Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men*
Choose one additional book from the regular list.
11th Grade
Anderson, L.H.
Speak
Anderson, L.H.
Prom
Avi
The Man Who was Poe
Bennett, James
The Squared Circle
Bryant, Jen
The Trial
Burns, Olive
Cold Sassy Tree
Carlson, Melody Deep Green: Color Me Jealous
Crutcher, Chris
Deadline
Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun
Farmer, Nancy
The House of Scorpion
Griffin, John
Black Like Me
L’Amour, Louis Haunted Mesa
London, Jack
Call of the Wild*
Oates, Joyce C.
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
Paulsen, Gary
The Crossing
Peck, Richard
The Teacher’s Funeral
Picoult, Jodi
Vanishing Acts
Rawlins, Marjorie The Yearling*
Rinaldi, Ann
Break with Charity
Werlin, Nancy
Double Helix
Thornton Wilder Our Town*
11th grade honors
Williams, T.
A Streetcar Named Desire*
Gaines, Ernest
A Lesson Before Dying*
11th grade AP
Heller, Joseph
Catch 22*
Chopin, Kate
The Awakening*
10th Grade
Anderson, L.H.
Twisted
Avi
Crispin: Cross of Lead
Bauer, Joan
Hope Was Here
Boas, Joan
We Are Witnesses
Carlson, Melody
Just Ask
Cisneros, Sandra
House on Mango Street*
Curtis, Chris
Bucking the Sarge
Dash, Joan
The Longitude Prize
Farmer, Nancy
A Girl Named Disaster
Friedman, Aimee
Breaking Up
Grisham, John
Bleachers
Halam, Ann
Dr. Franklin’s Island
Korman, Gordon
No More Dead Dogs
L’Amour, Louis
Rivers West
Peck, Richard
Remembering the Good Times
Reinhardt, Dana
Harmless
Spinelli, Jerry
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock
Stevenson,Robert Treasure Island
VanVelde, V.
Companions of the Night
Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine*
10th Grade Honors
Camus, Albert
The Stranger*
Zusak, Marcus
I Am the Messenger*
12th Grade
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice*
Blackwood,Gary
The Shakespeare Stealer
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Burt, Guy
The Hole
Chan, Gillian
The Turning
Dickens, Charles
A Tale of Two Cities*
DuMaurier, D.
Rebecca
Gardner, John
Grendel
Grey, Christophe
Leonardo’s Shadow
Kingsolver,B.
The Bean Trees
Lawrence, Iain
B. for Buster
Lawrence, M.
A Crack in the Line
Magorian, M.
Goodnight, Mr. Tom
Marchetta, M.
Saving Francesca
McCaughrean, G.
Cyrano
Meyer, Carolyn
Loving Will Shakespeare
Naidoo, Beverly
The Other Side of Truth
Shakespeare, William Hamlet*
Shaw, Bernard
Pygmalion*
Springer, Nancy
I Am Mordred
Stoker, Bram
Dracula*
Wilde, Oscar
Picture of Dorian Gray
ENGLISH IV-AP
Shakespeare, William Othello*
Dickens, Charles
Great Expectations*