Summer Reading Lists

Students are to choose novels from the list that corresponds to their CURRENT grade. For example, if you are currently in 5eme, choose novels from the 5eme list.

6ième

Adams. Born Free.

Alcott. Little Women.

Bradbury, Ray. The Illustrated Man.

Burnett. The Secret Garden.

Dahl. The BFG. (One of these books by Roald Dahl.)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

James and the Giant Peach.

Witches.

Eager, Edward. Half-Magic.

Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy.

George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain.

Hautzig. The Endless Steppe.

Konigsburg. The View From Saturday.

Lewis, C.S. The Lion. The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Lofting, Hugh. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle.

Lord, Bette Bao. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.

Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables.

Webster, Jean. Daddy-Long-Legs.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. ( Little House on the Prairie) (one of the series)

Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson.

5ième

Cushman. Catherine Called Birdy.

Dahl, Roald. Boy .

Enright. Return to Gone Away Lake .

Fuller. Bullfinch's Mythologv .

Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Smal l or Dog Stories .

Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders .

Houston. Farewell to Manzanar .

Janeczko, Paul. The Place My Words Are Looking For .

Marrin, Albert. Hitler .

Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie

Stevenson, Robert. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Taylor. The Cave

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man .

4ième

Asimov. Fantastic Voyage.

Auel. Clan of the Cave Bear.

Cather, Willa. ___________ 0 Pioneers.

Collier & Collier. Jump Ship to Freedom & War Comes to Willy Freeman.

Collier & Collier. My Brother Sam Is Dead.

Crew, Linda. Children of the River.

Fast, Howard. April Morninq.

Kroeber. Ishi, Last of His Tribe.

Lester. To Be A Slave.

Mowat, Farley. Never Crv Wolf.

O'Brien, Robert C. Z is for Zachariah.

O'Dell, Scott. Black Star. Bright Dawn.

O'Dell, Scott. Sing Down the Moon.

Paulsen, Gary. (Any book by this author.)

Peck, R. N. A Day No Pigs Would Die.

Petty, Ann. Tituba of Salem Village.

Sheaffer. Shane.

Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder. Hear My Cry.

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Hobbit

Voigt, Cynthia. Dicey's Sonq.

3ième

Christie, Agatha. A Murder is Announced or Murder on the Orient Express

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street

Hansberry, Lorraine. Raisin in the Sun (drama)

Head, Bessie. When Rain Clouds Gather

Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils

Knowles, John. A Separate Peace

LeGuin, Ursula. The Wizard of Earthsea or The Left Hand of Darkness

Peterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far From the Bamboo Grove

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wooldridge, Susan Goldsmith. Poem Crazy (for people who are interested in writing poetry),

2 nde

Achebe, Chirua. Things Fall Apart

Burns, Olive Ann. Cold Sassy Tree

Cather, Willa. My Antonia

Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Eliot, George. Adam Bede

Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman

Gardner, John. Grendel

Hardy, Thomas. Return of the Native

Harris, Eddy L. Native Stranger; A Black American's Journey into the Heart of Africa

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha

Kingsolver.Barbara. The Bean Trees

Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir Boy in America (non-fiction)

McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools

Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres

Vonnegut, Kurt. Player Piano or Slaughterhouse Five

Wilder, Thornton. O ur Town (drama)

Première

Austen, Jane. Emma

Brown, Rosellen. Before and After

Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood (non-fiction)

Gibbons, Kaye. Sights Unseen

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms or For Whom the Bell Tolls

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant

Marquez, Gabriel Gar cia. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye or Song of Solomon

Prejean, Sister Helen. Dead Man Walking (non-fiction)

Remarque, Erich-Marie. All Quiet on the Western Front

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea

Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (non-fiction)

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Updike, John. Rabbit Run

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple

West, Nathaniel. Miss Lonelyhearts

Woolf, Tobias. This Boy's Life (non-fiction)