Oak Hall Middle School and Upper School Summer Reading 2012-2013

Our Mission:

In every academic discipline, reading is a skill that is fundamental to success. Skills, however, may only

be improved through consistent practice. In addition to providing such practice, our Summer Reading

program aims to accomplish to following:

To create a community of readers with a shared frame of reference

To instill a genuine appreciation of reading independent of the classroom environment

To provide a lens through which students see themselves and others more clearly

English 6

Read the required book and at least one book from the list below. Parents are encouraged to help

choose the summer reading selections with their children. It would be a good idea for students to

take summary notes on each novel since they will have an assignment for the required book and one

other book from this list when school starts.

Required: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Choose at least one more from this list:

Artemis Fowl (any book in the series) by Eoin Colfer

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary D. Hahn

Eragon (any book in the series) by Christopher Paolini

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (2011 Newbery Honor book)

Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

Howl’s Moving Castle (series) by Dianna Wynne Jones

I, Q: Independence Hall (I.Q. series) by Roland Smith

Inkheart (any book in the series) by Cornelia Funke

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (2012 Newbery Honor Book and 2011 National Book Award)

Into the Volcano (graphic novel) by Don Wood

Joey Pigza Swallowed a Key by Jack Gantos

Maniac Magee: a novel by Jerry Spinelli

Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool (2011 Newbery Award winner)

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (2011 Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor book)

Scat (Flush or Hoot) by Carl Hiassen

Schooled by Gordon Korman

Septimus Heap series (any book in the series) by Angie Sage

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

The Edge Chronicles (any book in the series) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

The Lost Hero Series by Rick Riordan

The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake

Through My Eyes: A Quarterback’s Journey (Young Reader’s Edition) by Tim Tebow

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

English 7

Read the required book and at least one book from the list below. Parents are encouraged to help

choose the summer reading selections with their children. It would be a good idea for students to

take summary notes on each novel since they will have an assignment for the required book and one

other book from this list when school starts.

Required: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Choose at least one more from this list:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Bad Island by Doug TenNapel

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

Brightness Reef by David Brin

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II by Joseph Bruchac

Down Sand Mountain by Steve Watkins

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Huston and James D. Huston

Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger

Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel

Isadora Duncan by Sabrina Jones

Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan by Aimee Major

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Lewis and Clark by Nick Bertozzi

Pitch Black by Youme Landown and Anthony Hathaway

Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Kane series by Rick Riordan

The Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale

The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan

Unwind by Neil Shusterman

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

English 8

Read the required book and one additional book from the list below. Students are encouraged to

choose books from the eighth grade list that seem most interesting. Parents are encouraged to help

choose summer reading selections with their children. It would be a good idea to take notes on the

two books since you will have assignments for each when school starts.

Required: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose

Crash by Jerry Spinelli

Dark Life by Kat Falls

Ender’s Shadow (or any sequel to Ender’s Game) by Orson Scott Card

Everlost (Skinjacker Trilogy) by Neal Shusterman

Football Hero by Tim Green

Graceling (any book in series) by Kristin Cashore

Heat by Mike Lupica

I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee by Charles Shields

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (2012 Printz Honor Book)

La Linea by Ann Jaramillo

Leviathan by Scott Westerfield (Steampunk)

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Peak by Roland Smith (National Book Award)

Stormbreaker (any book of Alex Rider series) by A. Horowitz

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

The Alchemist: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (series) by Michael Scott

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Enola Holmes Mystery Series (any of the five books in the series by Nancy Springer)

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Great Wide Sea by M. H. Herlong

The Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Sons of Liberty by Alexander and Joseph Lagos (graphic novel)

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (2010 Newbery Award)

Oak Hall Upper School Summer Reading 2012-2013

English I and English I Honors: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage. All Freshmen

should have their books on the first day of class.

Throughout the school year and over the summer, students are encouraged to choose books from the

Ninth Grade Choice List below that seem most interesting to them. Parents are encouraged to discuss

reading selections with their children. Each marking period, students will have the opportunity to

present on/talk about a book they have read for extra credit.

Crank by Ellen Hopkins Graceling by Kristen Cashore Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Host by Stephenie Meyer The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld Wake by Lisa McMann English II and English II Honors: 1984 by George Orwell. Students should have their books on the first

day of class.

Students are encouraged to choose books from the list below that seem most interesting to them.

Parents are encouraged to discuss reading selections with their students. At the beginning of the

academic year, students will have the opportunity to present a book they have read for extra credit.

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

Good Omens : The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry

Prachett

High Fidelity or Slam by Nick Hornby

Life of Pi by Yan Martel

Looking for Alaska or any book by John Green

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Maisie Dobbs or any book by Jacqueline Winspear

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Saturday by Ian McEwan

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Vol. 1 and/or 2 by M.T. Anderson

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Monstrumologist or any book in the series by Rick Yancey

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency or another book from the series by Alexander McCall Smith

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption or any book by Laura

Hillenbrand

AP English Language 10 (for sophomores only): 1984 by George Orwell and Atonement by Ian McEwan.

Students should have their books on the first day of class.

Students are encouraged to choose books from the list below that seem most interesting to them.

Parents are encouraged to discuss reading selections with their students. At the beginning of the

academic year, students will have the opportunity to present a book they have read for extra credit.

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

Good Omens : The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry

Prachett

High Fidelity or Slam by Nick Hornby

Life of Pi by Yan Martel

Looking for Alaska or any book by John Green

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Maisie Dobbs or any book by Jacqueline Winspear

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Saturday by Ian McEwan

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Vol. 1 and/or 2 by M.T. Anderson

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Monstrumologist or any book in the series by Rick Yancey

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency or another book from the series by Alexander McCall Smith

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption or any book by Laura

Hillenbrand

English III and English III Honors: My Antonia by Willa Cather. Students should have their books on the

first day of class.

Students are encouraged to choose books from the list below that seem most interesting to them.

Parents are encouraged to discuss reading selections with their students. At the beginning of the

academic year, students will have the opportunity to present a book they have read for extra credit.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A Good Man is Hard to Find (short story collection) by Flannery O’Conner A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Consider the Lobster, and other essays by David Foster Wallace Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Kindred by Octavia Butler Naked by David Sedaris Native Son by Richard Wright On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin The Thurber Carnival (essay/ story collection) by James Thurber The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon When Everything Changed by Gail Collins Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

AP English Language 11 (for juniors only): My Antonia by Willa Cather and For Whom the Bells Tolls by

Earnest Hemingway. Students should have their books on the first day of class.

Students are encouraged to choose books from the list below that seem most interesting to them.

Parents are encouraged to discuss reading selections with their students. At the beginning of the

academic year, students will have the opportunity to present a book they have read for extra credit.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway A Good Man is Hard to Find (short story collection) by Flannery O’Conner A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Consider the Lobster, and other essays by David Foster Wallace Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Kindred by Octavia Butler Naked by David Sedaris Native Son by Richard Wright On the Road by Jack Kerouac The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin The Thurber Carnival (essay/ story collection) by James Thurber The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon When Everything Changed by Gail Collins Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

AP English Literature: Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Folger Library edition) and Heart of Darkness by

Joseph Conrad. Students should have their books on the first day of class.

AP Literature –Students are encouraged to choose books from the AP Literature list below that seem most interesting to them. These books in the AP Literature list have appeared more than once on the AP Literature exam. Parents are encouraged to discuss reading selections with their students. At the beginning of the academic year, students will have the opportunity to present a book they have read for extra credit. Alternatively, if a student reads a book from the College Bound list, which appears above, he or she may present on/talk about that book.

AP Literature Titles

Candide by Voltaire

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Equus by Peter Shaffer

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

King Lear by William Shakespeare or any other play by the Bard not taught in the curriculum Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee

Obasan by Joy Kagawa

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Plague by Albert Camus

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Typical American by Gish Jen

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

College Bound Titles

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff AND/OR Tweak: Growing Up

on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

Blackout, All Clear or To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by

Dava Sobel

Lucky by Alice Sebold

Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter

Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones

Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, or American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (a graphic novel)

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel by Dave Eggers

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Required Summer Reading for other Departments

Honors Biology: The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

AP Biology: Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by

William R. Maples

AP US History: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis

Latin IV / AP Latin Vergil: Aeneid by Vergil and De Bello Gallico by Caesar, both in English

Reading Resources

The links below will take to the Alachua County Library’s Teen Good Reads and Adolescent Literacy’s

Award winning Books for Tweens and Teens pages:

http://www.aclib.us/teens/good-reads

http://www.adlit.org/books_authors/award_winning_books_for_tweens_and_teens/