Ninth Through Twelfth

The Horlick High School Library invites students to select a book from the list provided. Summer provides a wonderful opportunity to bridge the knowledge and skills that you learned this year with the language arts content that you will encounter next year.

Incoming Grade 9

Classics: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules

Verne Contemporary Favorites: I Lived on Butterfly Hill - Marjorie Agosin The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

Incoming Grade 10

Classics: Scythe - Neal Shutterman Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

Contemporary Favorites: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng

Incoming Grade 11

Classics: The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Contemporary Favorites: The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant The Lost City of Z - David Grann

Incoming Grade 12

Classics: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez Watchmen - Alan Moore

Contemporary Favorites: Born A Crime - Trevor Noah Small Great Things - Jodi Picoult

AP Literature and Composition The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Seamus Heaney