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English Department

Summer Reading Lists for 2004

Grade 9

English I - 101
Read both novels

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Rebecca, Daphne DuMaurier

English I - 102
Read one of the following books

After the First Death, Roberth Cormier
Cujo, Stephen King
Summer of '49, David Halberstam
Go Ask Alice, ed. Beatrice Sparks
Call of the Wild, Jack London
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George


Grade 10

English II - 121
Read both novels

My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

English II - 122
Read one of the books

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Having Our Say, Bessie and Sadie Delaney
Seabiscuit LauraHillenbrand
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
Little Big Man, Thomas Berger

English II - 123
Read the following book

This Boy's Life: A Memoir


Grade 11

English III - 131
Read both novels from Group A, and one from group B

Group A
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
1984, George Orwell

Group B
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Rober Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde


English III - 132
Read one of the following books

1984, George Orwell
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Cat's Eye, Marget Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Collector, John Fowles
Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
Marth's Quest, Doris Lessing
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Timeline, Michael Crichton

English III - 133

Animal Farm, George Orwell


Grade 12

English IV - 141 AP
Read three novels

Everyone reads:
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

Select one from two of the categories below

Category 1
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Tess of the d'Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy
br /> Category 2
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Plague, Albert Camus
Category 3
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

English IV - 142 and 143
Read one book listed below

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Catch 22, Josheph Heller
Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler
She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
A Lesson Before Dying, Earnest Gaines
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

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