Summer Reading

Summer Reading for English Department

6^th Grade: Student will choose 2 of 3 books. (They are Children' Crown Award winner, Calif. Young Reader Medalist,and /or Newberry medal winner). Test in Sept.

• Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

6^th Grade Honors All Students will read A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. And student will choose 1 of 2 books. Test in Sept.

• Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret

7^th Grade: Stand Tall AND Choose 1 of the following

• The Ravenmaster's Secret by Woodruff
• City of Ember by DePrau
• Impossible Journey by Whelan
• Saba: Under the Hyena's foot by Kurtz

7^th Grade Honors: Stand Tall and Choose 2 of the following

8^th Grade: Contender
8^th Grade Honors: Tom Sawyer; Contender

9^th Grade: The Old Man and the Sea; The Count of Monte Cristo(abridged) (abridged)
9^th Honors: The Good Earth: The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged); The Old Man and the Sea, The Pearl

10^th Grade: Cry, the Beloved Country; Tale of Two Cities;
10^th Honors: Scarlet Pimpernel; Cry, the Beloved Country; Tale of Two Cities

11^th Grade: The Great Gastby; Fahrenheit 451;
11^th Honor: The Great Gastby; Fahrenheit 451; The Great Gatsby: Huckleberry Finn
11^th AP Language: Uncle Tom's Cabin ; The Jungle

12^th Grade : The Importance of being Earnest; Twelfth Night
12th Grade Honors: The Importance of being Earnest; Twelfth Night
12^th AP Lit. Wuthering Height; The Importance of being Earnest; Twelfth Night;