Bearwalker by Joseph Bruchac

The Name of this Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch

 

 

Grade 8

College Prep students should read two or more from this list

Honors students should read three or more from this list

 

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi   (Fantasy)

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Historical fiction)

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (Science fiction)

Shakespeare's Scribe by Gary Blackwood (Historical fiction)

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (Historical fiction)

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (Biography)

Monster by Walter Dean Myers (Realistic fiction)

The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner (Historical fiction)

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd  (Realistic fiction)

Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Rourke Dowell (Realistic fiction)

Scat by Carl Hiaasen (Realistic fiction)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Adventure fiction)

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Non-fiction)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Science fiction)

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher (Realistic fiction)

 

 

Grade 9

Grade 9 College Preparatory – Students are required to read one of the following:

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Hadden

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

 

Grade 9 Honors– Students are required to read one of the following:

 

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff

 

Grade 10

Grade 10 College Preparatory– Students are required to read one of the following:

                                         

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

21 Great Stories by Abraham Lass (Editor)

 

Grade 10 Honors– Students are required to read one of the following:

 

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Kite Runner by Khalid Hossieni

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

Grade 11

Honors:

Required: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

AND

A choice of one of the following:

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson  (Dover Thrift Edition)

100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor:

 

CP

One book of the student's own choice

AND

One of the following:

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Finn by John Clinch

My Jim by Nancy Rawles

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson (Dover Thrift Edition)

Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

 

CP2

One book of the student’s choice

 

 

Grade 12

AP:  Read two books from the list below and one book from the list of titles suggested for CP.

 

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Emma by Jane Austen

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

Poetry 

 

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry   Ed. Billy Collins

 

 

 

The Graphic Novel

Students taking The Graphic Novel for Honors credit must read the following:

 

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Ethel and Ernest: A True Story by Raymond Briggs

The 9/11 Report: A graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon

 

Students taking The Graphic Novel for College Prep credit must read the following:

Ethel and Ernest: A True Story by Raymond Briggs

The 9/11 Report: A graphic adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon

 

 

Monsters, Madness and Mayhem

If you have selected this course for College Prep credit, read one novel from the list below.  If you have selected this course for Honors credit, read two.

 

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

The Shining by Stephen King

It by Stephen King

 

 

Global Literature

CP students will select one of the following two titles:

 

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

 

Honors students will read one of the above titles in addition to:

 

The Accidental Asian by Eric Liu