Recommended Summer Reading List for 2007-2008
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What will everyone in your grade be reading this summer?
All students are responsible for reading two books from the Summer Reading List. If you are entering grades nine and ten, You will be reading We Beat the Street by Sampson Davis as well as one book from the list below.
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Entering the tenth or eleventh grade?
You will be reading The Pact by Sampson Davis as well as one additonal selection from the appropriate list. |
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Incoming 9th Graders
Hoops by Walter Dean Meyers
Derek Jeter: Daring to Dream by Stew Thornley
Ellen Fosterby Kaye Gibbons
Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Celine by Brock Cole |
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Incoming 10th Graders
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
Who am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives by Sharon G. Flake
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
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Incoming 11th Graders
After by Francine Prose
And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students by Miles Corwin
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You by Naomi Shihab Nye
Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Incoming 12th Graders
The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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