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Freshman Reading List

Choose at least 2 of the following:

  • * The Alchemist - Paul Coehlo
  • *The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
  • The House of Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
  • Money Hungry (Jump at the Sun) - Sharon Flake
  • Velocity - Dean Koontz
  • Saving Francesca - Melina Marchetta
  • Touching Bear Spirit - Ben Mikaelson
  • Baseball in April and Other Stories - Gary Soto
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  • Can't Get There from Here - Todd Strasser
  • * Double Helix - Nancy Werlin

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* Suggested for honors

Sophomore Reading List

Choose at least 2 of the following

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

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* Suggested for honors

Junior Reading List

Choose at least 2 of the following:

  • A death in the Family - James Agee
  • H.G. Bissinger - Friday Night Lights - A Town, A Team, a Dream
  • *Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
  • Dunning, etc - Reflections on a Gift Pickles and Other Modern Verse
  • Jean Ferris - Bad
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
  • Jack Gantos - Hole in My Life
  • *Ernest Hemmingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • Johrn Irving - The Cider House Rules
  • Sebastian Junger - A Death in Belmont
  • Jumpara Lahiri - The Namesake
  • *Alice Munro - Runaway: Stories
  • *Tim O'Brien - Going After Cacciato
  • Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
  • *Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
  • **10 articles from The New Yorker and/or The Atlantic Monthly
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* Suggested for honors ** Required for AP Language and Composition

Incoming Seniors

Choose at least 2 of the following:

  • Russell Banks - Rule of the Bone
  • Paul Bowles - The sheltering Sky
  • Dan Brown - Angels and Demons
  • **Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
  • Pete Hautman - Invisible
  • Joseph Heller - Catch 22
  • Sue MOnk Kidd - The Mermaid Chair
  • Mary Lawson - Crow Lake
  • Chris Lynch - Inexcusable
  • Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
  • Terry Trueman - Cruise Control
  • Robert Penn Warren - All the King's Men
  • **15 poems by the poet of your choice
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** Required for the AP Literature and Composition

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