Northbrook Summer Reading List 2008

 

Grade 9

Good Reads                                                                         Challenging Good Reads   

 

 

Eclipse  Meyer                                                                            Ender’s Game Card

A Northern Light Donnelly                                                        Isaac’s Storm Larson

Skellig Almond                                                                            Joy Luck Club Tan

Staying Fat for Sarah Burns Crutcher                                   The Glass Castle Walls

Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko                                   Zorro Allende

Silent to the Bone Konigsburg                                                 The Book Thief   Zusak

Chinese Cinderella Yen Mah                                                    American Born Chinese  Yang

Inexcusable Lynch  

Twisted  Anderson

The Lightning Thief   Riordan

Any Cirque du Freak book

 

 

Grade 10

Good Reads                                               Challenging Reads

 

Ironman Crutcher                                                                    The Kite Runner Hosseini

My Sister’s Keeper Picoult                                                    Autobiography of a Face  Grealy

New Moon    Meyer                                                                 The Mists of Avalon Bradley

The Color of Water McBride                                                 Animal Dreams Kingsolver

Speak  Anderson                                                                      Founding Mothers Roberts

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent Alvarez              Peace Like a River Enger

Angela’s Ashes McCourt                                                        In Cold Blood Capote

Sphere Creighton                                                                     Going After Cacciato   O’Brien

Freakonomics Levitt                                                                                                                                  

 

 

 

Grade 11*

Good Reads                                                 Challenging Reads

 

Blessings  Quindlen                                                                   A Thousand Suns   Hosseini         

Shadow Divers Kurson                                                             The Lovely Bones Sebold

Devil in the White City Larson                                                 Cold Mountain Frazier

Whale Talk  Crutcher                                                                  Emma’s War Scroggins

Bag of Bones King                                                                     1776 McCullough

Kitchen Confidential Bourdain                                                 Bel Canto Patchett

Five People You Meet in Heaven Albom                               The Things They Carried O'Brien 

In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez                                     The Greatest Generation Brokaw

Hole in My Life Gantos                                                               Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut 

Dispatches from the Edge Cooper                                            

 

 

 

Grade 12*

Good Reads                                                 Challenging Reads

 

Dune Herbert                                                                               Caramelo  Cisneros

Namesake  Lahiri                                                                       The Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver 

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water  Dorris                                       The World Is Flat Friedman

Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer                                A Confederacy of Dunces Toole      

Oryx and Crake Atwood                                                           The Innocent Man Grisham

The Firm Grisham

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Haddon 

Eaters of the Dead Crichton                                                  

The Poet Connelly

The Awakening   Chopin

 

                                                                                               

*AP teachers at grades 11 and 12 may have students read one selection from the list of texts used on previous Literature and Composition tests instead of a text listed here.  The list is hyper-linked at the bottom of the AP Curriculum Plans and titled as Works appearing on the AP Literature Exam.                                                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        

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