High School
Summer Reading List
2007

All Grade Community Read:
Forbidden City by William Bell

Grade 9

Recommended Fiction

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
For One More Day - Mitch Albom
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez
Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
Light on Snow - Anita Shreve
Wrecked - E.R. Frank

Nonfiction

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream - Joseph Dorinson & Joram Warmund
This Boy's Life: A Memoir - Tobias Wolff

Grade 10

Recommended Fiction

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen

Nonfiction

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks - Susan Casey
The Greatest Game Ever Played - Mark Frost
Rocket Boys - Homer H. Hickam, Jr.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

Grade 11

Recommended Fiction

Beach Road - James Patterson
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Cell - Stephen King
Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin
The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Nonfiction

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog - John Grogan
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Grade 12

Recommended Fiction

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner
The Man of My Dreams - Curtis Sittenfeld
The Man Who Ate the 747 - Ben Sherwood
No Second Chance - Harlen Coben
When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka

Nonfiction

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming - Al Gore
The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America and the Search for a Missing Past - Karin Evans
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography - Sidney Poitier
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids - Alexandra Robbins
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations-One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love - Carole Radziwill
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M. Pirsig