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The Voorhees High School English department has revised the summer
\n\treading program for this summer. All students will be required to read at
\n\tleast two books \u2013 one from the list for your grade level and one book of
\n\tyour own choice. Summer reading is a requirement for all students, including
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      \n\t\tappropriate for school and for your reading level. This book can be
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      • On a 1-10 scale (with 10 being the highest), what score
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      • Why did you give the book that score? Write one paragraph
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      • Do you think other students would enjoy this book? Explain
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        Many of the books on the summer reading list are
        \n\tavailable in the Voorhees High School media center and your local library.
        \n\tYou can check these books out from the Voorhees media center on June 3 and
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\n\tDownload the Entire Summer Reading List with Summaries (PDF)<\/a> \n<\/div>\n


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9th Grade<\/a><\/div>\n

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10th Grade<\/a><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t9th Grade – Summer Reading List<\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n

Students must read one book
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Among the Barons (Haddix)<\/div>\n

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Among the Betrayed (Haddix)<\/div>\n

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After the Dancing Days (Rostkowski)<\/div>\n

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Airborn (Oppel)<\/div>\n

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The Andromeda Strain (Crichton)<\/div>\n

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The Body of Christopher Creed (Plum-Ucci)<\/div>\n

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Companions of the Night (Vande Velde)<\/div>\n

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The Iliad (Homer, Trans. Fagles) <\/div>\n

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The Lost Years of Merlin (Barron)<\/div>\n

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\n\tThe Pearl (Steinbeck)<\/div>\n

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The Pox Party (Anderson)<\/div>\n

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The Prince and the Pauper (Twain)<\/div>\n

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Private Peaceful (Morpurgo)<\/div>\n

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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury)<\/div>\n

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The Lightning Thief (Riordan)<\/div>\n

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Whale Talk (Chris Crutcher)<\/div>\n

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Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
\n\t\tAmong the Barons<\/i><\/b>

\nIn a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. \n<\/td>\n


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Haddix, Margaret Peterson.
\n\t\tAmong the Betrayed<\/i><\/b>

\nThirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal “third-born” children, or facing death. \n<\/td>\n


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Rostkowski, Margaret.
\n\t\tAfter the Dancing Days<\/i><\/b>

\nA forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old
\nAnnie to redefine the word “hero” and to question conventional ideas of patriotism. \n<\/td>\n


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Oppel, Kenneth. Airborn<\/i><\/b>

\nMatt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface. \n<\/td>\n


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Crichton, Michael.
\n\t\tThe Andromeda Strain<\/i><\/b>

\nA deadly microorganism enters Earth’s atmosphere with a returning satellite, and a team of medical specialists must discover how to battle it before time runs out. \n<\/td>\n


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Plum-Ucci, Carol. Body of Christopher Creed<\/i><\/b>

\nTorey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. \n<\/td>\n


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Vande Valde, Vivian.
\n\t\tCompanions of the Night<\/i><\/b>

\nWhen sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she faces some bizarre and dangerous choices. \n<\/td>\n


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Homer. The Iliad<\/i><\/b>

\nThe greatest of Greek epics, The Iliad is the story of Achilles’ withdrawal from battle and his return to kill the Trojan hero Hector. \n<\/td>\n


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Barron, T.A. The Lost Years of Merlin<\/i><\/b>

\nFantasy lovers will relish this first book in Barron’s Merlin trilogy. It begins with Merlin washing up on the rocks near death and with no memory. He is cared for by Branwen and called Emrys. He then sets out on a quest to solve the mysteries of his name and where he spent his early years. His quest leads him to magical lands inhabited by magical beings. \n<\/td>\n


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Steinbeck, John. The Pearl<\/i><\/b>

\nKino, a poor fisherman, finds a magnificent pearl. After a series of terrible events, and the unfolding of greed and envy around him, Kino must decide what to do with the pearl. \n<\/td>\n


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Andersen, M.T., Pox Party<\/i><\/b>

\nVarious diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. \n<\/td>\n


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Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper<\/i><\/b>

\nEdward VI of England and a little pauper change places for a few days before Henry VII’s death. The prince wanders in rags, while Tom Canty suffers the horrors of princedom. \n<\/td>\n


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Morpurgo, Michael.
\n\t\tPrivate Peaceful<\/i><\/b>

\nWhen Thomas Peaceful\u2019s older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. \n<\/td>\n


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Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/i><\/b>

\nTwo boys in a small midwestern town are changed forever when a “dark carnival” arrives in the town one autumn evening. \n<\/td>\n


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Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief<\/i><\/b>

\nAfter Percy Jackson finds out that he is the son of a Greek god, he and his friends must find and return what was stolen from Zeus to prevent a war on Mount Olympus.<\/td>\n


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Crutcher, Chris. Whale Talk<\/i><\/b>

\nIntellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school’s less popular students. \n<\/td>\n


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\n\t\t10th Grade – Summer Reading List<\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n

Students must read one book
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)<\/div>\n

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And Then There Were None (Christie)<\/div>\n

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Armageddon Summer (Yolen & Coville)<\/div>\n

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The Bean Trees (Kingsolver)<\/div>\n

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Bless the Beasts and Children (Swarthout)<\/div>\n

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Circle of Friends (Binchy)<\/div>\n

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A Cry in the Night (Clark)<\/div>\n

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The Eyes of the Dragon (King)<\/div>\n

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The Glass Castle (Walls)<\/div>\n

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (McCullers)<\/div>\n

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The Hunger Games (Collins)<\/div>\n

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How I live Now (Rosoff)<\/div>\n

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Peeling the Onion (Orr)<\/div>\n

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Sledding Hill (Crutcher)<\/div>\n

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World Made by Hand (Kunstler)<\/div>\n

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Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front<\/i><\/b>

\nFour German youths are pulled abruptly from school to serve at the front as soldiers in World War I. Although the young men of this novel are German, the message is universal in its delineation of the feelings of the common soldier.
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Christie, Agatha. And Then There Were None<\/i><\/b>

\nThis is one of the earliest and the best of this prolific writer’s mysteries. \n<\/td>\n


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Yolen, Jane and Bruce Coville. Armageddon Summer<\/i><\/b>

\nThe followers of a religious cult have gathered on a mountaintop to await
\nthe end of the world. Among them are two teenagers who, for different reasons,
\n have accompanied their parents. Marina and Jed fall in love and must come to terms
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Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees<\/i><\/b>

\nTaylor Greer hits the road and inherits a three-year-old Cherokee girl who manages
\nto slowly wind her way into Taylor’s heart. \n<\/td>\n


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Swarthout, Glendon. Bless the Beasts and Children<\/i><\/b>

\nSix troubled teenagers group together, develop self-esteem, and eventually heal their psychological wounds at an Arizona summer camp that specializes in “turning boys into cowboys.” \n<\/td>\n


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Binchy, Maeve. Circle of Friends<\/i><\/b>

\nBinchy transports readers to the village of Knockglen in Ireland to meet Benny, the only child of doting parents, Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns, and a host of local characters. \n<\/td>\n


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Clark, Mary Higgins. A Cry in the Night<\/i><\/b>

\nIn this mystery, Jenny finds that the home of her new husband contains a terrible secret. \n<\/td>\n


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King, Stephen. The Eyes of the Dragon<\/i><\/b>

\nThis story is a horror fantasy featuring dragons, princes, evil wizards, an enchanted castle, and a terrible secret. \n<\/td>\n


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Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle<\/i><\/b>

\nThe author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcohol father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.
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McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter<\/i><\/b>

\nJohn Singer, a deaf-mute, becomes the confidante of four very different people in a small Southern town. Biff Brannon, the owner of a caf\u00e9, Mick Kelly, an adolescent girl, Jake Blout, a radical, and Benedict Copeland, the town’s black doctor, all desire to escape from the boredom of the town and find that Singer understands and cares for them. \n<\/td>\n


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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games<\/i><\/b>

\nIn order for the Capitol to show its power, every year it makes 24 young people enter an arena, but only one comes out alive. This year, Katniss and Peeta are two of the contestants.<\/td>\n


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Rosoff, Meg. How I live Now<\/i><\/b>

\nTo get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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Orr, Wendy. Peeling the Onion<\/i><\/b>

\nAnna Duncan has just won a karate championship when her neck is broken in a car accident. Anna must adjust to vast changes in life. Pain, uncertainty, and fear become her companions as she moves toward the future. Loyalty and disloyalty, love and separation, true friendship and fair-weather friendship are all addressed in this complex novel. \n<\/td>\n


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Crutcher, Chris. Sledding Hill<\/i><\/b>

\nBilly, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge. \n<\/td>\n


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Kunstler, James Howard. World Made By Hand<\/i><\/b>

\nA novel about what could happen when we run out of our natural resources and have to rebuild society.<\/td>\n


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\n\t\tThe Grapes of Wrath*<\/span>. <\/span>
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\n\t\tComposition <\/i>must read the required books**(<\/span>Eats,
\n\t\tShoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation<\/span>;
\n\t\tNotes of a Native Son<\/span>; <\/span>
\n\t\tand <\/span>Narrative of the
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The Fixer (Malamud)<\/div>\n

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Girl with a Pearl Earring (Chevalier)<\/div>\n

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The Good Earth (Buck)<\/div>\n

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The Hot Zone (Preston)<\/div>\n

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Into the Wild (Krakauer)<\/div>\n

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\n\tThe Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)*Required for Honors*<\/font><\/div>\n

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A Lesson Before Dying (Gaines)<\/div>\n

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Little Women (Alcott)<\/div>\n

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My Sister\u2019s Keeper (Picoult)<\/div>\n

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**<\/font>Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass (Douglass)
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**<\/span>Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
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The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)<\/div>\n

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Ordinary People (Guest)<\/div>\n

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Our Town (Wilder)<\/div>\n

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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)<\/div>\n

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The Things They Carried (O’Brien)<\/div>\n

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Card, Orson Scott.
\n\t\tEnder\u2019s Game<\/i><\/b>

\nThis exciting science fiction novel introduces Andrew \u201cEnder\u201d Wiggin. He is a genetically bred child who is the hope of the government to save earth from aliens.
\nThey train him by playing military games and he always wins. Now the question is can he win the \u201cgame\u201d to save the earth from the aliens? \n<\/td>\n


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Malamud, Bernard.
\n\t\tThe
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\n\t\tYakov Bok, a Jewish handyman, is wrongly accused of murdering a
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Chevalier, Tracy.
\n\t\tGirl
\n\t\twith a Pearl Earring<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThe fictional story of the 16-year-old girl who is the model for
\n\t\tVermeer\u2019s famous painting. 17th century Delft comes alive with the
\n\t\tdetails of everyday life in the household of this famous painter.
\n\t\tProblems emerge as Vermeer draws Griet into his world of painting. A
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Buck, Pearl S. The
\n\t\tGood Earth<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tSet in pre-Revolutionary China, The Good Earth won universal acclaim for
\n\t\tits sympathetically authentic picture of Chinese life. Wang Lung and his
\n\t\twife O-lan rise from peasants to rich landowners through their own
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Preston, Richard.
\n\t\tThe Hot Zone<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThe Hot Zone reads more like a horror novel than the true account it is
\n\t\tof a hot virus that nearly burned through the suburbs of Washington,
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Krakauer, Jon. Into
\n\t\tthe Wild<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tTells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked
\n\t\tinto the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead
\n\t\tof starvation four months later. Attempts to discover what led the young
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\n\t\tSteinbeck, John.
\n\t\tThe Grapes of Wrath
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\n\t\tWinner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize, this novel follows the move of a
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Gaines, Ernest J.
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\n\t\tLesson Before Dying<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tIn a small Louisiana community in the late 1940s, Jefferson, a retarded
\n\t\tAfrican-American youth, is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to
\n\t\tdie. Wiggins, another African-American, is called upon to forge a bond
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Alcott, Louisa. Little
\n\t\tWomen<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tLittle Women is the story of the March family, whose daughters are
\n\t\tgrowing up in New England in the mid-1800s. There are numerous sequels.<\/td>\n


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Picoult, Jodi. My
\n\t\tSister\u2019s Keeper<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone
\n\t\tmarrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of
\n\t\tleukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of
\n\t\ther body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.<\/td>\n


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Douglass, Fredrick. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written
\n\t\tby famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass.

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Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tNotes of a Native Son is a non-fiction book by James Baldwin. It was Baldwin’s first non-fiction book, and was published in 1955.

\nNotes of a Native Son collects ten of Baldwin’s essays, which had previously appeared in such magazines as Harper’s Magazine,
\nPartisan Review, and The New Leader. The essays mostly tackle issues of race in America and Europe.

\nSummary Source: Wikipedia<\/a> \n<\/td>\n


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Hemingway, Ernest.
\n\t\tThe Old Man and the Sea<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThe story chronicles Santiago’s fight with a huge marlin and his
\n\t\tstruggle to bring it back to his village.<\/td>\n


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Guest, Judith.
\n\t\tOrdinary People<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThe death of one of two sons in an “ordinary” family proves disastrous
\n\t\tto the remaining son and brings the family to crisis and disintegration.<\/td>\n


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Wilder, Thornton.
\n\t\tOur
\n\t\tTown<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tOur Town is a drama of life in a small New Hampshire village called
\n\t\tGrover’s Corners. The people of the village go about their lives during
\n\t\ta few years in the early 1900s.<\/td>\n


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Irving, John. A
\n\t\tPrayer for Owen Meany<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThis is a terrifying story of what happens in Owen Meany’s life as a
\n\t\tresult of hitting

\n\t\ta foul ball that kills his best friend’s mother.<\/td>\n


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O’Brien, Tim. The
\n\t\tThings They Carried<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThe Vietnam War is personalized through the brief episodes that make up
\n\t\tthis book. The men of Alpha Company battle the enemy and sometimes each
\n\t\tother in this intimate look into the world of the soldier during the
\n\t\tVietnam War.<\/td>\n


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\n\t\t12th Grade – Summer Reading List<\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n

Students must read one book
\n\t\tfrom the below list.\u00a0 Students taking AP English Literature and
\n\t\tComposition must read the required books**<\/font>.<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Read)<\/div>\n

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Angela’s Ashes (McCourt)<\/div>\n

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Autobiography of a Face (Grealy)<\/div>\n

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**<\/font>The Awakening (Chopin) Required for AP**<\/font><\/div>\n

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Black and Blue (Quindlen)<\/div>\n

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Garcia Marquez)<\/div>\n

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Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)<\/div>\n

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**<\/font>A Doll’s House (Ibsen) Required for AP**<\/font><\/div>\n

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The Fifth Child (Lessing)<\/div>\n

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The Fountainhead (Rand)<\/div>\n

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Grendel (Gardner)<\/div>\n

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Hiroshima (Hersey)<\/div>\n

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**<\/span>The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood) Required for AP**<\/font><\/div>\n

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Inexcusable (Lynch)<\/div>\n

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Jane Eyre (Bronte)<\/div>\n

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Light in August (Faulkner) <\/div>\n

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People’s Choice (Greenfield)<\/div>\n

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Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)<\/div>\n

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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)<\/div>\n

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A Thief of Time (Hillerman)<\/div>\n

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Watership Down (Adams)<\/div>\n

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Wuthering Heights (Bronte)<\/div>\n

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View All Summaries<\/div>\n

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Read, Piers Paul.
\n\t\tAlive: The Story of the Andes Survivors<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tOne of the greatest survival stories of all time, Alive relates the
\n\t\texperiences of the survivors of a plane that crashed in the Andes
\n\t\tMountains.<\/td>\n


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McCourt, Frank.
\n\t\tAngela’s Ashes<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tFrank McCourt’s memoirs of growing up in the slums of Limerick, Ireland,
\n\t\tearned him the Pulitzer Prize. He recalls his alcoholic father, the loss
\n\t\tof his siblings, the power of the Irish Catholic Church, and the shame
\n\t\tof poverty in this engaging story.<\/td>\n


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Grealy, Lucy,
\n\t\tAutobiography of a Face<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tA memoir in which award-winning poet Lucy Grealy recalls her experiences
\n\t\twith a potentially terminal cancer that required she have a third of her
\n\t\tjaw removed when she was nine years old, and discusses the suffering she
\n\t\tendured as she was growing up from classmates, strangers, and other
\n\t\tpeople because of her looks.<\/td>\n


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Chopin, Kate. The
\n\t\tAwakening<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tTells of a woman’s desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana
\n\t\tresort owner whom she meets on vacation.<\/td>\n


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Quindlen, Anna. Black
\n\t\tand Blue<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tBlack and Blue is a suspenseful novel about Fran Benedetto’s abusive
\n\t\trelationship with her husband, Bobby, a New York City policeman. After
\n\t\ther passionate marriage turns into a nightmare, Fran runs away to
\n\t\tFlorida with her ten-year-old son and starts a new life under a new
\n\t\tname, living in fear yet with increasing hope that Bobby will not track
\n\t\ther down.<\/td>\n


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Garcia Marquez,
\n\t\tGabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tAn isolated Latin American town is the setting for this dark thriller,
\n\t\twhich features a spectacular wedding, a sudden scandal,

\n\t\tand a murder to which the entire town appears to be an accessory before
\n\t\tthe fact. <\/td>\n


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Frazier, Charles.
\n\t\tCold
\n\t\tMountain<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tInman, a wounded Confederate soldier, leaves the hospital where he is
\n\t\tbeing treated and determines to walk home. The story of Ada, his
\n\t\tsweetheart, is intertwined with Inaman\u2019s. Based on the story of the
\n\t\tauthor\u2019s great-great grandfather who deserted during the Civil War.<\/td>\n


\n\t<\/tr>\n

Ibsen, Henrik. A
\n\t\tDoll’s House<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tIn this three-act psychological drama, Nora Helmer is pampered by her
\n\t\tcomplacent husband, Torvald, who treats her like a scatterbrained child.
\n\t\tUnknown to him, she borrows money to finance a trip necessary for her
\n\t\thusband’s health, and when he finds out, his convention-bound reaction
\n\t\thas surprising repercussions.<\/td>\n


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Lessing, Doris. The
\n\t\tFifth Child<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tBen, the fifth child of Harriet and David Lovett, puts an end to the
\n\t\tidealistic homelife and harmony of the Lovett household. This child,
\n\t\tfrom before birth until his teenage years, is not normal by any societal
\n\t\tstandards.<\/td>\n


\n\t<\/tr>\n

Rand, Ayn. The
\n\t\tFountainhead<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tThe novel is a brilliant story of society’s attempt to stifle the
\n\t\tcreativity of one person.<\/td>\n


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Gardner, John.
\n\t\tGrendel<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tGrendel retells the Beowulf legend from the monster’s point of view.<\/td>\n


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Hersey, John.
\n\t\tHiroshima<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tHiroshima is the story of six ordinary people – a clerk, a physician, a
\n\t\tminister, a widowed seamstress, a young surgeon, and a German priest –
\n\t\tstarting at 8:15, when the first atom bomb was dropped. The author
\n\t\tfollows the course of their lives after the bomb was dropped, hour by
\n\t\thour and then day by day.<\/td>\n


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Atwood, Margaret.
\n\t\tThe Handmaid’s Tale<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tAtwood explores the consequences of a reversal of women’s rights in a novel which fits squarely in the genre of dystopian novels such as Huxley’s Brave New World or Orwell’s 1984.<\/td>\n


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Lynch, Chris.
\n\t\tInexcusable<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tHigh school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on
\n\t\tgraduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date
\n\t\thas left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.<\/td>\n


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Bronte, Charlotte.
\n\t\tJane Eyre<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tJane Eyre, a timid orphan who was mistreated at her uncle’s home, is
\n\t\tsent to a boarding school, where she stays on to become a teacher. Tired
\n\t\tof teaching, Jane takes a position as governess for Adele Varens, a ward
\n\t\tof Edward Rochester. Jane eventually falls in love with Rochester and
\n\t\tdoes not learn of his insane wife until the day she is to be married.<\/td>\n


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Faulkner, William.
\n\t\tLight In August<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tRace, religion, and the southern community are dominating themes of this
\n\t\tcompelling novel from the 1930s. The central character, Joe Christmas,
\n\t\tis an orphan with mixed bloodlines, antisocial tendencies, and a harsh
\n\t\tpersonal history.<\/td>\n


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Greenfield, Jeff.
\n\t\tPeople’s Choice<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tWhen the newly elected president falls off a horse and dies of an
\n\t\tembolism, it is assumed that the vice-president elect will take his job
\n\t\tuntil one of the electors begins an insurrection and constitutional
\n\t\tchaos breaks out. This is a humorous, cautionary tale.<\/td>\n


\n\t<\/tr>\n

The Poisonwood Bible<\/b><\/i>

\n\t\tNathan Price and his family move to the Belgian Congo in 1959. This
\n\t\tnovel presents the experiences they have while living in Africa and how
\n\t\tthey affect each member of the family in a different way.<\/td>\n


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Hurston, Zora Neale.
\n\t\tTheir Eyes Were Watching God<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tJanie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eton, Florida during
\n\t\tthe 1930s, is independent and articulate. Married three times and accused
\n\t\tand tried for the murder of one of her husbands, she continues to search for her
\n\t\treal identity.<\/td>\n


\n\t<\/tr>\n

Hillerman, Tony.
\n\t\tA
\n\t\tThief of Time<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tChilling discoveries unearthed at a dig for Navajo pottery bring Lt. Joe
\n\t\tLeaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to the site and put them on the trail of
\n\t\tstolen artifacts, a missing woman, and bizarre and mystifying murders.<\/td>\n


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Adams, Richard.
\n\t\tWatership Down<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tFaced with the annihilation of its warren, a small group of rabbits sets
\n\t\tout across the English downs in search of a new home.<\/td>\n


\n\t<\/tr>\n

Bronte, Emily.
\n\t\tWuthering Heights<\/i><\/b>

\n\t\tMr. Lockwood, forced to spend a stormy night at Wuthering Heights,
\n\t\tencounters the spirit of Catherine. Heathcliff, an unsociable man who
\n\t\twas taken off the streets by Catherine’s father and who fell in love
\n\t\twith Catherine, continues to work his revenge against all those who had
\n\t\tinjured him before his inheritance.<\/td>\n


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