Summer reading has been proven to help maintain reading skills and to improve literacy and vocabulary. Students should read for pleasure, enrichment, and/or information during the summer months. Students must read at least one book at an appropriate grade/reading level in order to fulfill the summer reading requirement. Contracts signed by parent/guardian and student will be accepted by homeroom teachers between Aug. 29th and September 11th. Participation in the Summer Reading Program will be recorded on student report cards.
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RECOMMENDED HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST*
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Grade 9
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Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start
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Appelt, K.
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Every Second Counts
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Armstrong, L.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
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Covey, S.
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Wait till Next Year: A Memoir
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Goodwin, D.
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The Man without a Country
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Hale, E.
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Beyond the Burning Time
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Lasky, K.
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Touching Spirit Bear
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Mikaelsen, B.
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Hoops
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Myers, W.
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When the Emperor Was Divine
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Otsuka, J.
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Eragon
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Paolini, C.
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Kim: Empty Inside
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Sparks, B.
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Grade 10:
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Electric Universe
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Bodanis, D.
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Applachian Trail
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Bryson, B.
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Battle of Jericho
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Draper, S.
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River Thunder
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Hobbs, W.
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Flatbellies
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Hollingsworth, A.
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Profiles in Courage
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Kennedy, John F.
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The Cage
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Sender, R.
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A Summer Life
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Soto, G.
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A Girl’s Life Online
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Tarbox, K.
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
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Volavkova, H.
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New Found Land: a Novel
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Wolf, A.
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Grade 11:
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Tuesdays with Morrie
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Albom, M.
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Undaunted Courage
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Ambrose, S.
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Warriors Don’t Cry
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Beals, M.
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The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
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Brashares, A.
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
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Collins, B.
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Middlesex
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Eugenides, J.
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The Kite Runner
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Hosseini, K.
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Bel Canto
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Patchett, A.
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When I Was Puerto Rican
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Santiago, E.
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The Lovely Bones
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Sebold. A.
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The Killer Angels
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Shaara, M.
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Grade 12:
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Centaur Aisle
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Anthony, P.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America
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Ehrenreich, B.
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Peace Like a River
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Enger, L.
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A Lesson Before Dying
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Gaines, E.
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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
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Grogan, J.
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
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Keller, E.
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Fallen Angels
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Myers, W.
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Red Suitcase: Poems
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Nye, N.
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Ceremony
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Silko, L.
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Solzhenitsyn, A.
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Native Son
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Wright, R. |