Summer Reading Lists
2008 Summer Reading Lists
El Camino
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Montana, 1948 - Larry Watson
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Maus (v. I & II) - Art Spiegelman
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Othello - William Shakespeare
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
South San Francisco
9th grade College Prep or General:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime - Mark Haddon
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes - Chris Crutcher
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (not a shortened version)
Mythology - Edith Hamilton
10th grade College Prep or General:
Bad - Jean Ferris
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Winterdance - Gary Paulson
Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom - Krishna Dharma
The Song of the Nibelungs - translated by Frank Glessner Ryder
11th grade College Prep or General:
Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
China Boy - Gus Lee
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
12th grade College Prep or General:
1984 - George Orwell
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Famished Road - Ben Okri
White Noise - Don DeLillo
Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dosteoevsky
You should choose one of the following:
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Brothers K - David James Duncan
Middle Schools
Westborough
Child of the Owl - Lawrence Yep
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
Joshua Loper - Walter Dean Myers
Baseball in April - Gary Soto
Lyddie - Catherine Paterson
Egypt Game - Zilpha Snyder
The Watsons go to Birmingham - Paul Curtis
Hoop Girlz - Lucy Jane Bledsoe
The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
The Gold Cadillac - Mildred Taylor
Dateline: Troy - Paul Fleischman
Keeper of the Doves - Betsy Byars
Moon and I - Betsy Byars
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold - Jean Fritz
The Night Journey - Kathryn Lasky
Quake! - Joe Cottonwood
Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself -Catherine Andronik
Guts - Gary Paulsen
Mara: Daughter of the Nile - Eloise McGraw
Inside the Walls of Troy - Clarence McLaren
The Circuit - Francisco Jimenez
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh
Crash - Jerry Spinelli
Crispin - Avi
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi
Tangerine - Edward Bloor
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World - E. L. Konigsburg
Paint the Wind - Pam Munoz Ryan
The Scream Museum - Paul Zindel
The Queen of Attolia - Megan Turner
Summerland - Michael Chabon
A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era - Sterling North
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town - Kimberly Willis Holt
Hoot - Carl Hiassen
Dragon Slippers - Jessica Day George
Slam! - Walter Dean Myers
Down a Dark Hall and Other Mysteries - Lois Duncan
Redwall - Brian Jacques
Free the Children - Craig Kielburger
Ryan White: My Own Story - Ryan White
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
The Circuit - Francisco Jimenez
Red Cap - Whisler, G. Clifton
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This - Jacqueline Woodson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
On the Devil's Court - Carl Deuker
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle - Madeleine Blas
First Test - Tamora Pierce
I Am the Cheese - Robert Cormier
Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli
Like Sisters on the Homefront - Rita Williams-Garcia
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Hoop Dreams - Ben Joravsky
Warriors Don't Cry - Melba Pattillo Beals and Anne Greenberg
Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Taking Sides - Gary Soto
Buried Onions - Gary Soto
Scorpions - Walter Dean Myers
The Wish List - Eoin Colfer
Bad - Jean Ferris
Romiette and Julio - Sharon Draper
Rules of the Road - Joan Bauer
Mummy - Caroline Cooney
Witch Child - Celia Rees
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
The Circuit - Francisco Jimenez
Breaking Through - Francisco Jimenez
The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
Red Scarf Girl - Ji-Li Jiang