The Scranton School District
Summer Reading List
2015-2016
Scranton High School
West Scranton High School
All incoming FRESHMEN and CURRENT SOPHOMORES, JUNIORS, and SENIORS to
both Scranton High School and West Scranton High School are required to read ONE WORK.
Students must choose their selection from the comprehensive list. There is a varied selection of
works to allow students choices in topics, genres and readability.
Upon returning to school, students will be assessed using a district, standardized assessment tool.
The summer reading assessments will count as one exam grade for the first marking period,
which cannot not be dropped or curved.
Students entering the school district after the first day of school and before the beginning of the
second quarter will have the entire first quarter to complete the reading and assessment of the
work.
Fiction
After - Amy Efaw
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Allegiant – Veronica Roth
All the Pretty Horses - Cormic McCarthy
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
Because I am Furniture - Chaltas, Thalia
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Berlin Boxing Club – Robert Sharenow
Between Shades of Grey – Ruta Sepetys
The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
Bound - Donna Jo Napoli
Brisingr (3rd in Inheritance series) - Christopher Paolini
Bronx Masquerade - Nikki Grimes
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catching Fire - (2nd in Hunger Games series) Susan Collins
Chain Reaction - (3rd in the Perfect Chemistry series) Simone Elkeles
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams
City of Ashes - (2nd of Mortal Instruments series) - Cassandra Clare
City of Bones - (1st of Mortal Instruments series) - Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels - (4th of Mortal Instruments series) - Cassandra Clare
City of Glass - (3rd of Mortal Instruments series) - Cassandra Clare
City of Lost Souls– (5th of Mortal Instruments series) - Cassandra Clare
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown – Holly Black
Crossed - Ally Conde
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
Dead to You - Lisa McMann
Dear John – Nicholas Sparks
Dirty Little Secrets - Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
Divergent - Veronica Roth
A Dog’s Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron
Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
Eldest (3rd in Inheritance series) - Christopher Paolini
Ellen Foster - Kaye Gibbons
Eragon (1st in Inheritance series) - Christopher Paolini
Esperanza Rising - Pam Munoz Ryan
Extras (4th in Uglies series) - Scott Westerfeld
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The First Part Last - Angela Johnson
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Flash Burnout - L.K. Madigan
For One More Day – Mitch Albom
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
The Grimm Legacy -Polly Shuman
Heaven - Angela Johnson
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Hold Still - Nina LaCour
Hunger Games (1st in Hunger Games series) - Suzanne Collins
Hush: an Irish princess’ tale - Donna Jo Napoli
If I Stay - Gayle Forman
If You Find Me - Emily Murdoch
The Impossibe Knife Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson
I’m with Stupid - Geoff Herbach
Inheritance (4th in Inheritance series) - Christopher Paolini
Ironside: a modern faery’s tale – Holly Black
It’s Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini
Kindred - Octavia Butler
The Lilies of the Field - William E. Barrett
The Living - Matt Pena
Looking For Alaska - John Green
The Madman’s Daughter – Megan Shepherd
Matched - Ally Condie
Mockingjay (3rd in Hunger Game series) - Susan Collins
Montana 1948 - Lawrence Watson
The Natural - Bernard Malamud
Num8ers - Rachel Ward
Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys
Perfect Chemistry - Simone Elkeles
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Steven Chbosky
Pick-up Game - Various Young Adult Writers including; Walter Dean Myers, Rita WilliamsGarcia, Joseph Bruchac, Sharon Flake, and Adam Rapp
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Pictures of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff
A Plague Year - Edward Bloor
Plainsong - Kent Haruf
Please Ignore Vera Dietz - A.S. King
Pretties (2nd in Uglies series) - Scott Westerfeld
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rapture Practice – Aaron Hartzler
Reality Boy – A. S. King
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party - Ying Chang Compestine
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
Rotten – Michael Northrop
Rules of Attraction – (2nd in the Perfect Chemistry series) Simone Elkeles
Scorpions - Walter Dean Myers
Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kid
The Secret to Lying - Todd Mitchell
Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
Shoeless Joe - Ray Kinsella
A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
Soccerland - Beth Choat
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Specials (3rd in Uglies series) - Scott Westerfeld
Stay With Me- Paul Griffin
Stolen - Lucy Christopher
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf - Sonya Harnett
Summer of Fear - Lois Duncan
Sunrise Over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas - James Patterson
Sweetgrass Basket - Marlene Carvell
Sweet, Hereafter - Angela Johnson
Tears of a Tiger - Sharon Draper
The Thin Executioner - Darren Shan
Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood - Jame Richards
Tiger Lily - Jodie Lynn Anderson
Transall Saga - Gary Paulsen
Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
Uglies (1st in Uglies series) - Scott Westerfeld
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts
Wrestling Sturbridge - Wallace, Rich
Nonfiction and Biography
All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop - Jan Greenberg
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game - Michael Lewis
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon - Steve Sheinkin
Breaking Night: a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to
Harvard - Liz Murray
The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: a Memoir of Music, Love, and
Survival - Mona Golabek
Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther
First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Luong Ung
A Girl’s Life Online or Katie.com - Katherine Tarbox
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali - Walter Dean Myers
Having Our Say – Sarah & Elizabeth Delaney, with Amy Hill
Heaven Is for Real – Todd Burpo
Hitler Youth: growing up in Hitler’s shadow – Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hole in My Life - Jack Gantos
I Am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban – Malala
Yousafzai, with Christina Lamb
I Don’t Want to Be Crazy - Samantha Shultz
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
John Lennon: all I want is the truth - Elizabeth Partridge
Last Chance in Texas : the redemption of criminal youth - John Hubner
Moonbird: a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 - Phillip Hoose
Rapture Practice – Aaron Hartzler
Relish: my life in the kitchen - Karen Blumental
Steve Jobs: the man who thought different: a biography - Karen Blumenthal
Three Little Words - Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Travels with Charley: in search of America - John Steinbeck
Tree Shaker: the story of Nelson Mandela - Bill Keller
Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience and redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
Vincent Van Gogh Portrait of an Artist – Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan