Summer Reading 2008

SUMMER READING – 9^th GRADE ENGLISH  

English 9 General

 General English: All students enrolled in the general level course must read one of the following five books.

English 9 College Prep and Honors

College Prep English: All students enrolled in College Preparatory English 9 are required to read two books.

REQUIRED:  Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom

Honors English:
REQUIRED:  Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
REQUIRED:  Sweet Summer – Bebe Moore Campbell
Your choice of a fictional novel

SUMMER READING – 10^TH GRADE

English 10 General (1 book required)

 
English 10 College Prep (2 books required)

 REQUIRED:  A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (spelled Beal on the official list)
AND
Any book of your choice
(Your choice must be grade-appropriate.)

 English 10 Honors (3 books required)

 REQUIRED:  A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (spelled Beal on the official list)
AND
Any TWO books of your choice
(Your choices must be grade-appropriate.)

SUMMER READING – 11^TH GRADE

11th GRADE GENERAL

 Choose one of the following five books:
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
Grind by Eric Walters
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Shock Point by April Henry

 11th GRADE AMERICAN STUDIES

Required:
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

 
11th GRADE COLLEGE PREP and HONORS

Choice: You may choose a novel from the CBNA 11th grade novel list or select a novel by an AMERICAN author
(CHOOSE 1)
For Whom the Bells Toll – Ernest Hemingway
I know why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
In Cold Blood –Truman Capote
My Antonia – Willa Cather
Ahab’s Wife – Sena Geter Naslund
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

 11th GRADE HONORS:

REQUIRED:
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

11th GRADE COLLEGE PREP:

REQUIRED:
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

SUMMER READING – 12^TH GRADE

12th GRADE GENERAL

 MUST read one from this list. No other choices acceptable
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Hole in My Life – Jack Gantos
Witch Child – Celia Rees
Stuck in Neutral – Terry Trueman
19 Minutes – Jodi Picoult

 12th GRADE COLLEGE PREP

REQUIRED:
Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson

CHOICE BOOK:  ONE OF INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
Suggested Reading:
The Road – Mc Carthy
Screwtape Letters – C.S.Lewis
Stardust – Gaiman (Listed as Guiman in the official list)
Dr.Jekyl And Mr.Hyde – Stevenson (Listed as Wells in the official list)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven- Albom
19 Minutes - Picoult
Jane Eyre - Bronte
Sense And Sensibility - Austen
Treasure Island - Stevenson
The Girl With The Pearl Earring – Chevalier

 12th GRADE HONORS:

REQUIRED:
Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson
AND
Any TWO books of your choice.

AP Literature

Required:
Aeneid- Virgil (Listed As Vergil In The Official List)
Beowulf

ONE BOOK FROM THE LIST BELOW:
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Jane Eyre – Bronte

• Books on the Coe-Brown Summer Reading Lists Circulate for Three (3) Weeks
• There is a limit of Two (2) books Per Family
• Books on the Coe-Brown Summer Reading List cannot be renewed.
• We do not own the books that have been crossed out.
• If the book you want is not one we own, we can try to inter-library loan it for you.
• If the book you want is not on the shelf, ask at the front desk and we will put you on the reserve list
• Copies of the Summer Reading Lists are at the library