Zachary High School ~ 2008 ~ 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. Tests on titles will be administered soon after school begins.
Honors 9th grade English students are required to read at least two books.
Honors 10th grade must read three books: at least two with an asterisk and one more with or
without an asterisk.
English III Pre-AP students are required to read all three titles with the asterisks.
Seniors in AP English are required to read three books: at least two with an asterisk and one more
with or without an asterisk.
All students are strongly encouraged to read beyond what is required.
9th Grade
Aaseng, Nathan
Almond, David
Avi
Bauer, Joan
Card, Orson S.
Carlson, Melody
Deuker, Carl
Draper, Sharon
Flinn, Alex
Gantos, Jack
Hite, Sid
Johnson, Angela
Korman, Gordon
L’Amour, Louis
Langan, Paul
Lipsyte, Robert
Myers, Walter D.
Myers, Walter D.
Picoult, Jodi
Schraff, Anne
Wallace, Rich
10th Grade
Navajo Code Talkers
Skellig
Wolf Rider
Rules of the Road
Ender’s Game
My Name Is Chloe
Painting the Black
Tears of a Tiger
Breathing Underwater
Hole in my Life
King of Slippery Falls
The First Part Last
Jake, Reinvented
Sackett
Summer of Secrets
The Contender
Monster
145th Street Stories
My Sister’s Keeper
Someone to Love Me
Wrestling Sturbridge
11th Grade
Anderson, L.H.
Anderson, L.H.
Avi
Bennett, James
Bryant, Jen
Burns, Olive
Carlson, Melody
Chopin, Kate
Crutcher, Chris
Draper, Sharon
Farmer, Nancy
Griffin, John
Heller, Joseph
L’Amour, Louis
Oates, Joyce C.
Paulsen, Gary
Peck, Richard
Picoult, Jodi
Rinaldi, Ann
Werlin, Nancy
Williams, T.
Speak
Prom
The Man Who was Poe
The Squared Circle
The Trial
Cold Sassy Tree
Deep Green: Color Me Jealous
The Awakening*
Deadline
Copper Sun
The House of Scorpion
Black Like Me
Catch 22*
Haunted Mesa
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
The Crossing
The Teacher’s Funeral
Vanishing Acts
Break with Charity
Double Helix
A Streetcar Named Desire*
Anderson, L.H.
Avi
Bauer, Joan
Boas, Joan
Carlson, Melody
Curtis, Chris
Dash, Joan
Farmer, Nancy
Friedman, Aimee
Grisham, John
Halam, Ann
Korman, Gordon
L’Amour, Louis
London, Jack
Orczy, Baroness
Peck, Richard
Reinhardt, Dana
Spinelli, Jerry
Stevenson,Robert
VanVelde, V.
Zusak, Marcus
Twisted
Crispin: Cross of Lead
Hope Was Here
We Are Witnesses*
Just Ask
Bucking the Sarge
The Longitude Prize
A Girl Named Disaster
Breaking Up
Bleachers
Dr. Franklin’s Island
No More Dead Dogs
Rivers West
Call of the Wild
The Scarlet Pimpernel*
Remembering the Good Times
Harmless
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock
Treasure Island
Companions of the Night
I Am the Messenger*
12th Grade
Achebe, Chinua
Blackwood,Gary
Bronte, Charlotte
Burt, Guy
Chan, Gillian
DuMaurier, D.
Gardner, John
Grey, Christophe
Kingsolver,B.
Lawrence, Iain
Lawrence, M.
Lord, Walter
Magorian, M.
Marchetta, M.
McCaughrean, G.
Meyer, Carolyn
Naidoo, Beverly
Pullman, Philip
Reeve, Philip
Springer, Nancy
Wilde, Oscar
Things Fall Apart*
The Shakespeare Stealer
Jane Eyre*
The Hole
The Turning
Rebecca
Grendel
Leonardo’s Shadow
The Bean Trees*
B. for Buster
A Crack in the Line
A Night to Remember
Goodnight, Mr. Tom
Saving Francesca
Cyrano
Loving Will Shakespeare
The Other Side of Truth
Ruby in the Smoke
Mortal Engines
I Am Mordred
Picture of Dorian Gray*
Please note: The summer reading books have Accelerated Reader quizzes and are administered soon
after school begins. If there is a title on the list which you have already read and taken the AR test at
ZHS, please make another selection. You will be blocked out if you attempt to retake a test.