Stamford High School

Summer Reading List 2007

• INCOMING FRESHMEN (choose at least two selections)
  (*suggested for honors )
  
  

  
  *Paul Coehlo The Alchemist
  Cinda Williams Chima, The Warrior Heir
  *Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
  Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion
  Sharon Flake Money Hungry (Jump at the Sun)
  Cornelia Funke TheThief Lord
  Dean Koontz Velocity
  Melina Marchetta Saving Francesca
  Catherine Murdock Dairy Queen
  Gary Soto Baseball in April and Other Stories
  *Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  Todd Strasser Can’t Get There from Here
  *Nancy Werlin Double Helix

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INCOMING SOPHOMORES (choose at least two selections)
(*suggested for honors )

*Douglas Adams Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
*Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
Carl Deuker Night Hoops
Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
Don R. Gallo First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants
John Grogan Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
Margaret Peterson Haddix Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Michelle Jaffe Bad Kitty
Jonathan Lethem Fortress of Solitude
*Yan Martel The Life of Pi
Victor Martinez The Parrot in the Oven
*J. D. Salinger Franny and Zooey
Alexander McCall Smith The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency

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INCOMING JUNIORS (choose at least two selections)
(*suggested for honors, ** required for AP Language and Composition)

James Agee A Death in the Family
H. G. Bissinger Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream
*Truman Capote In Cold Blood
Jean Ferris Bad
*F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the Night
Jack Gantos Hole in My Life
*Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls
John Irving The Cider House Rules
Sebastian Junger A Death in Belmont
Jumpara Lahiri The Namesake
Wally Lamb Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the                   Women of the York Correctional Institution
*Tim O’Brien Going After Cacciato
Jodi Picoult choose any title
*Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle
**10 articles from The New Yorker and/or The Atlantic Monthly
**E. B. White Essays of E.B. White

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INCOMING SENIORS (choose at least two selections)
(** required for AP Language and Composition)

Russell Banks Rule of the Bone
Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky
Dan Brown Angels and Demons
Pete Hautman Invisible
Sue Monk Kidd The Mermaid Chair
Mary Lawson Crow Lake
Chris Lynch Inexcusable
Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
**Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King
Terry Trueman Cruise Control
Robert Penn Warren All the King’s Men
Marcus Zusak The Book Thief
**15 poems by the poet of your choice

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