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2012-13 Summer Reading Lists
6th Grade English Essentials
Teacher: Alex Thomas
Please choose one book from this list to read over the summer. On the first day of school, you will write an in-class
essay on the novel of your choice.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Diary by Nicole Bennett
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Juniper by Monica Furlong
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon
Gone by Michael Grant
Schooled by Gordon Kormon
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Holes by Louis Sachar
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
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7th & 8th Grade English
Teacher: Virginia Reeves
Please read at least one book from this list, and come prepared to write about it on the first day of class.
The Absolutely True Diary of Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
9th & 10th Grade American Literature
Teachers: Sam Jones and Joe Sokolik
Please choose one book from each column, and come prepared to write about these books on the first day of class.
Literature
1. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
2. Ride the Wind by Lucia St. Claire Robsen
3. Two for Texas by James Lee Burke
4. Giant by Edna Ferber
5. The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
6. Blood of Texas by Will Camp
7. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
8. True Women by Janice Woods Windle
History
1. The Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynn
2. The Blood of Heroes by Jim Donovan
3. Lone Star by T.R. Fehrenbach
4. Comanches: The History of a People by T.R.
Fehrenbach
5. Lone Star Nation by H.W Brands
6. Gone to Texas by Randolph Campbell
7. Sleuthing the Alamo, by James Crisp
12th Grade Contemporary Literature & Critical Theory
Teacher: Virginia Reeves
During the summer, please read both of these books:
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
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11th Grade Advanced Composition
Teacher: Ashleigh Pedersen
Assignment #1: Journaling
It is important for us to become more aware of ourselves as writers, whether that writing is ugly, messy, filled with
grammatical errors or misspellings, doodled-on, or--if your name happens to be Ashleigh Pedersen--sometimes
splashed with coffee stains. Messiness is almost always a part of an artist’s process, and so is developing a sense of
self-awareness. This assignment requires you to engage with both of these concepts.
Over the summer, please keep a handwritten journal in a wide rule composition notebook. Each entry qualifies as
one side of one full page (single spaced). To receive full credit, you must have forty full pages written. Please number
the page at the upper right hand corner.
To make this assignment meaningful, rather than the worst headache of your young lives, it is important to
consistently write entries each week. Waiting until the last minute will not serve you in many ways, except to cause
your hand to severely cramp.
I will collect these journals on the first day of class, in class. If you do not have your journal in class that day, you
will receive a zero on the assignment. I do not accept late work. Please note that I will not read your journals, only
count the pages. The grade will be based on completion. The content is for your eyes only.
Assignment #2: Reading
Please read the following books. On the second day of class, you will be asked to write a short in-class essay on
each of them, based on a prompt I will give you in class. To earn full credit on this essay, you must demonstrate you
read the book and are familiar with its characters, events, as well as the beginning, middle, and end.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (nonfiction)
Swamplandia by Karen Russell (fiction)
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (nonfiction)
11th & 12th grade AP Literature and Composition
Teacher: Ashleigh Pedersen
*Note to AP students: Summer reading is a very important part of our year together, as it asks you to stay in the habit
of reading consistently.
Please read the following novels this summer. On the first day of class, you will be asked to write a short in-class
essay on each of them, based on a prompt I will give you in class. To earn full credit on this essay, you must
demonstrate you read the book and are familiar with its characters, events, as well as the beginning, middle, and
end.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (who used to go by E. Annie Proulx)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginedes
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