2008 SUMMER READING 2008

GRADES 7 - 12 --- PLEASE NOTE!!!!

ALL BOOKS ARE MANDATORY.

Students will be tested on all books during the first week

of the 2008—2009 school year.

Students in grades 9 - 12 will read 4 books each.

SENIORS :     Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury OR Brave New World  by Husley

(World             Night by Elie Wiesel

Literature)       Somehow Tenderness Survives:  Stories of Southern Africa by Hazel

                            Rochman

                        The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

 

JUNIORS :     The Bluest Eye  by Toni Morrison

(American       Their Eyes Were Watching God  by Zora Neale Hurston

Literature)       Hole in My Life  by Jack Gantos or Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch

                         Albom

                        Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

 

SOPHOMORES :       Beowulf (translated by Raffel) OR I Never Promised You a Rose

                                      Garden by Green

 (British Literature)     And Then There Were None by Christie

                                    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde OR Dracula by Stoker

                                    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson

 

FRESHMEN :            Tex  by Hinton

                         To Kill A Mockingbird  by Lee

                        Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

                        My Dog Skip by Willie Morris

 

EIGHTH GRADE  (Read any three of the following seven books)

                        I am the Cheese by Cormier

                        Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

                        The Giver by Lowry  (8th Academic MUST READ)

                        The Slave Dancer by Fox

                        Prince Caspian (Narnia) by C.S. Lewis

                        Old Yeller by Fred Gibson

                        Gathering Blue by Lowry (8th Honors MUST READ)

 

SEVENTH GRADE (Read any three of the following four books)

                        Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor

                        The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe  by Lewis

                        The Outsiders by Hinton

                        Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

 

PARENTS:    PLEASE NOTE!!!!

JUNE 6, 7, & 8 ARE ECOLE CLASSIQUE DAYS AT BARNES & NOBLES.  ECOLE WILL RECEIVE

A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR PURCHASE WHEN THE CASHIER IS PRESENTED THE ENCLOSED

VOUCHER AT TIME OF PURCHASE DURING THIS TIME.