South Hadley High School
SUMMER 2009 READING LIST
 
  • Synopses of each of the books on the Summer Reading List can be downloaded here: PDF
 

South Hadley High School
2009 Summer Reading List

Complete Summer Reading List can be downloaded here: PDF

Students are required to do summer reading and will be tested in early September on the literature as­signed for their upcoming grade. Each student should read the appropriate number of texts for the English course he or she has elected for the 2009-2010 school year. Failure to do the reading will adversely impact the first quarter grade.  Many of these books will be available at the town libraries or may be purchased at local bookstores. In addition, second hand copies of many of the books are available online. Asterisked books denote mature content.
   
 

Grade 9:
Students electing ACCELERATED ENGLISH 9, COLLEGE ENGLISH 9, or CORE English 9 should select and read two of the following books. CORE ALTERNATE ENGLISH 9 students should read The Contender and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian.

The Contender (Lipsyte)
How I Live Now (Rosoff)
Ender’s Game (Card)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Alexie) *
Briar Rose (Yolen)
A Child Called It (Pelzer)
 
    Grade 10:
Students electing ACCELERATED ENGLISH 10, COLLEGE ENGLISH 10, or CORE ENGLISH 10 should select and read two of the following books. CORE ALTERNATE ENGLISH 10 students should read Twisted and Twilight.

My Sister’s Keeper (Picoult) or Nineteen Minutes * (Picoult)
(NOTE: Reading both Picoult novels will not fulfill the Accelerated/College 10 requirements of two books. A second author needs to be read.)
The Color of Water (McBride)
The Road (McCarthy)
The Truth about Forever (Dessen)
Persepolis (Satrapi)
Twisted (Anderson)
Twilight (Meyer)
 
   

Grade 11:
 Students electing ACCELERATED ENGLISH 11 or AMERICAN LITERATURE should select and read two of the following books; students electing CORE ALTERNATE ENGLISH 11 should read Eleven Seconds and Montana 1948.

The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)
Into the Wild (Krakauer)
The Lovely Bones * (Sebold)
Eleven Seconds * (Roy and Swift)
Montana 1948 (Watson)
When I Was Puerto Rican (Santiago)

AP English 11: (All 3 Required)
When I Was Puerto Rican (Santiago)
Mao's Last Dancer (Li)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
 
   

Grade 12:
 ACCELERATED ENGLISH 12 and WORLD LITERATURE students should select and read two of the following books; CORE ALTERNATE ENGLISH 12 should read two of these three books: The Bean Trees, Friday Night Lights, and/or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

The Bean Trees (Kingsolver)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Friday Night Lights (Bissinger)
The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Fleming)
Long Way Gone (Beah)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

AP English 12: (All 4 Required)
The Bean Trees (Kingsolver)
The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
Beloved (Morrison)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)