Sleepy Hollow Middle School English 7

AUTHOR TITLE

Adam, Paul Max Cassidy Escape From Shadow Island

Allison, Jennifer Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator

Asher, Jay The Future of Us

Avi The Fighting Ground

Baskin, Nora Raliegh The Summer before Boys

Bauer, Joan Close to Famous

Beil, Michael The Red Blazer Girls (Series)

Bennett, Cherie Life in the Fat Lane

Birdsall, Jean The Penderwicks (Series)

Black, Holly Doll Bones

Blume, Judy Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself

Brewer, Heather The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd

Broach, Elise Shakespeare’s Secret

Bruchac, Joseph Skeleton Man

Bruchac, Joseph Sacagawea

Buyea, Rob Because of Mr. Terrupt

Byng, Georgia Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Carson, Rae The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Carter, Ally I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill

You (Series)

Chainand, Soman The School For Good and Evil

Chapman, Fern Is it Night or Day?

Choldenko, Gennifer No Passengers Beyond this Point

Christie, Agatha Murder in Mesopotamia

Cisneros, Sandra House on Mango Street

Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games (Series)

Cooper, Michael *Remembering Manzanar

Cormier, Robert After the First Death

Cooper, J. California *Family

Cushman, Karen Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Coy, John Love of the Game

Dashner, James The Maze Runner

Davis, J. Checking on the Moon

Di Camillo, Kate Flora and Ulysses

Dowd, Siobhan The London Eye Mystery

Ferraiolo, Jack Big Splash

Flood, Nancy Bo Warriors in the Crossfire

Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain

Freedman, Benedict & Nancy *Mrs. Mike

Funke, Cornelia The Thief Lord

Gantos, Jack Dead End in Norvelt

Gantos, Jack From Norvelt to Nowhere

Gidwitz, Adam A Tale Dark and Grimm

Haddix, Margaret Peterson Among the Hidden (Series)

Hiaasen, Carl Chomp

Hicks, Deron Secrets of Shakespeare’s Grave

Holm, Jennifer L. Turtle in Paradise

Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Series)

Korman, Gordon Chasing the Falconers

LaFleur, Suzanne Eight Keys

Lee, Tanith Wolf Tower (Series)

L’ Engle, Madeline A Wrinkle in Time

Lethcoe, Jason Wings (Series)

Levine, Gail Carson Fairest

Lowry, Lois The Willoughbys

Mc Caughrean, Geraldine The Death Defying Pepper Roux

Mely, Maile The Apothecary

Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables

Nixon, Joan Lowery The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore

O’Brien, Robert Z For Zachariah

Palacio, R. C. Wonder

Parry, Rosanne Heart of a Shepherd

Pashley, Hilton Gabriel’s Clock

Paterson, Katherine Bread and Roses Too

Paulsen, Gary Hatchet

Pearson, Ridley Kingdom Keepers

Perkins, Lynne Rae As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth

Riordan, Rick Maze of Bones

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (Series)

Saldana, Rene The Whole Sky Full of Stars

Selznick, Brian Wonderstruck

Sharra, Michael *Killer Angels

Sleator, William *House of Stairs

Smith, Roland Tentacles

Snyder, Laurel Bigger Than a Bread Box

Sonnenblick, Jordan Curveball: the year I lost my grip

Spinelli, Jerry Stargirl

Spratt, R.A. The Adventures of Nanny Piggins

Stead, Rebecca When You Reach Me

Stewart, Paul Beyond the Deep Woods (Series)

Tashjian, Janet My Life as a Book

Van Draanen, Wendelin Swear to Howdy

Wearver, Will Memory Boy; The Survivors

Whelan, Gloria Small Acts of Amazing Courage

Williams-Garcia, Rita One Crazy Summer

Willner-Pardo, Gina Figuring Out Frances

Zusak, Markus Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Short Stories

Soto, Gary SC Sot Baseball in April and other stories

Jimenez, Francisco SC Jim *The Circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child

Martinez, Rueben SC Mar Once Upon a Time: Traditional Latin American Tales

Poe, Edgar Allan SC Poe Tales of Mystery and Madness

Non-Fiction

Bolden, Tanya 973.7 Bol Emancipation Proclamation:Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Croy, Anita 985 Cro Solving the Mysteries of Machu Picchu

Davis, Ossie 812 Dav Escape to Freedom

Freedman, Russell BIOG Fra Becoming Ben Franklin

Freedman, Russell BIOG Laf Lafayette and the American Revolution

Lagos, Alexander 741.5 Lag Sons of Liberty

Mc Cann, Michelle 920 Boy Boys Who Rocked the World

Mc Cann, Michelle 920 Mcc Girls Who Rocked the World

Macy, Sue 796.6082 Mac Wheels of Change: how Women Rode the Bicycle to

Freedom

McPherson, James M. BIOG Lin Abraham Lincoln

Murphy, Jim 973.891 Mur Across America on an Emigrant Train

O’Connell, Caitlin 599.67 Oco The Elephant Scientist

Reit, Seymour BIOG Edm Behind Rebel Lines

Rondina, Catherine 398.9 Ron Don’t Touch that Toad & Other Strange Things Adults

Tell You

Rusch, Elizabeth Eruption

Sheinkin, Steve 973.7092 She Lincoln’s Grave Robbers

Sheinkin, Steve BIOG Arn The Notorious Benedict Arnold

Turck, Mary 613.2 Tur Healthy Snack and Fast-Food Choices

Walker, Sally 971.6 Wal Blizzard of Glass: the Halifax Explosion of 1917

*More Challenging

(Series) indicates there is more than one book by the same author in the series. Students may read any or all in the series. English 7 students must read three books from the English 7 list.

Sleepy Hollow Middle School English 8

AUTHOR TITLE

Asher, Jay Thirteen Reasons Why

Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker

Baldwin, James *Go Tell it on the Mountain

Bauer, Joan Best Foot Forward

Benn, James Billy Boyle: a World War II Mystery

Bennett, Jay Dark Corridor

Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Blume, Judy Tiger Eyes

Bradley, Kimberly Jefferson’s Sons

Brahmachari, Sita Mira in the Present Tense

Bruchac, Joseph Code Talkers

Bruchac, Joseph Wolf Mark

Choldenko, Gennifer Notes From a Liar and Her Dog

Christie, Agatha The Body in the Library

Clarke, Judith One Whole and Perfect Day

Clayton, Emma The Roar

Cormier, Robert *Heroes

Cormier, Robert *Beyond the Chocolate War

Doctorow, Cory Little Brother

Doyle, Arthur Conan A Study in Scarlet

Evans, Richard Michael Vey

Flanagan, John The Ruins of Gorlan (or other from Ranger’s Apprentice series)

Flanagan, John The Outcasts (or other from Brotherhood Chronicles Series)

Friesner, Esther Threads and Flames

Frost, Helen Hidden

Gier, Kerstin Ruby Red

Giff, Patricia Reilly Pictures of Hollis Woods

Green, John The Fault in Our Stars

Harris, Joanne Runemarks

Hautman, Pete Snatched

Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea

Herlong, M.H. The Great Wide Sea

Hobbs, Valerie Sonny’s War

Horrowitz, Anthony Raven’s Gate (or other from the Gatekeeper series)

Jones, Kari Storm Tide

Kelly, Jacqueline The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Kerr, Phillip The Winter Horses

King, Stephen The Body

Klass, David You Don’t Know Me

Konigsburg, E.L. Silent to the Bone

Korman, Gordon Pop

Lore, Piticus I Am Number Four (or others from Lorien Legacy series)

Lloyd, Saci The Carbon Diaries 2015

Lupica, Mike Summer Ball

Lupica, Mike Shoot Out

Lynch, Chris The Right Fight

Mankell, Henning *When the Snow Fell

Marsh, Katherine The Night Tourist (Series)

McNamee, Graham Bonechiller

Mullin, Mike Ashfall

Myers, Walter Dean Kick

Myers, Walter Dean Somewhere in the Darkness

Na, An Wait for Me

Naidoo, Beverley Burn my Heart

Noel, Alyson Evermore (Series)

Patterson, James Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment (Series)

Peck, Richard The River Between Us

Peck, Richard A Year Down Yonder

Pierce, Tamora Circle of Magic (Series)

Pullman, Philip The Golden Compass (Series)

Rennison, Louise Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Series)

Riggs, Ransom Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Ritter, John The Boy Who Saved Baseball

Runcie, James The Discovery of Chocolate

Schmidt, Gary Okay for Now

Spinelli, Jerry Milkweed

Stewart, Trenton The Mysterious Benedict Society

Stone, Phoebe The Romeo and Juliet Code

Strasser, Todd Fallout

Valentine, Jenny Me. the Missing, and the Dead

Veciano-Suarez, Ana Flight to Freedom

Vanderpool, Clare Moon over Manifest

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima So Far From the Bamboo Grove

Westerfeld, Scott The Uglies

Wolff, Virginia Euwer Make Lemonade

Wynne-Jones, Tim The Maestro

Short Stories

Bruchac, Joseph (ed) SC Lay Lay-ups and Long Shots

Card, Orson Scott SC Ors Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show

Dahl, Roald SC Dah Tales of the Unexpected

Doyle, Arthur Conan SC Doy The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Poe, Edgar Allan SC Poe Eight Tales of Terror

Soto, Gary SC Sot Help Wanted

Vande Velde, Vivian SC Van Being Dead

Non-Fiction

Baldwin, James 301.45 Bal The Fire Next Time

Bullard, Lisa 808.5 Bul Your Oral or Multimedia Presentation

Carson, Mary Kay 599.4 Car The Bat Scientists

Coffey, Mark BIOG Riv The Closer (Mariano Rivera)

Dawson, George BIOG Daw Life is Good

Earl, Esther BIOG Ear The Star Won’t Go Out

Freedman, Russell 323.1196 Fre Freedom Walkers

Hamen, Susan 338.7 Ham Google: the company and its founders

Hanger, Trudy 796.357 Han The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Hinds, Gareth 741.5 Hin The Odyssey

Jenks, Andrew 791.4302 Jen Andrew Jenks: My Life as a Young Filmaker

Krull, Kathleen 133.3 Kru They Saw the Future

Lake, Matthew 973 Lak Weird U.S.: a freaky field trip through the 50 states

Lang, Lang BIOG Lan Lang Lang

Lewis, John BIOG Lew March

Mack, Jim 649 Mac Be a Great Babysitter

Marrin, Albert 974.7 Mar Flesh and Blood So Cheap

Myers, Walter Dean BIOG Mye Bad Boy: A Memoir

Napoli, Donna Jo 398.2093 Nap Treasury of Greek Mythology

Nava, Yolanda (ed.) 170 Nav It’s All in the Frijoles

Oarwardine, Mark 591 Car Natural History Museum Book of Animal Records

Prins, Marcel 920 Pri Hidden Like Anne Frank

Raczka, Bob 704 Rac Before They were Famous: how seven artists got their start

Spiegelman, Art 940.53 Spi Maus

Sheinkin, Steve 623.4 She Bomb

TenNapel, Doug GrN FIC Ten Ghostopolis

Tohe , Laura 940.54 Toh Code Talker Stories

Wells, H.G. 741.5 Hel The Time Machine

*More Challenging

(Series) indicates there is more than one book by the same author in the series. Students may read any or all in the series.

English 8 students must read three books from the English 8 list.

Sleepy Hollow High School English 9

AUTHOR TITLE

Austen, Jane Emma

Austen, Jane Sense and Sensibility

Barnes, Jennifer The Naturals

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell The Boy Who Dared

Benway, Robin Going Rogue

Benway, Robin Also Known As

Blundell, Judy Strings Attached

Brashares, Ann The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Series)

Bronte, Charlotte *Jane Eyre

Brown, Ryan Play Dead

Bruchac, Joseph Killer of Enemies

Buck, Pearl S. *The Good Earth

Caine, Rachel Prince of Shadows

Carmichael, Clay Wild Things

Charbonneau, Joelle The Testing

Christie, Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl (Series)

Curtis, Christopher Paul Bucking the Sarge

Dickens, Charles *David Copperfield

Doctorow, Cory For the Win

Du Maurier, Daphne *Rebecca

Garcia, Kami Beautiful Creatures

Garcia, Kami Beautiful Darkness

Gardner, Sally Maggot Moon

Garfinkle, Debra Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl

Green, John Looking For Alaska

Haas, Abigail Dangerous Girls

Halam, Ann Snakehead

Hamilton, Steve The Lock Artist

Harmon, Michael The Last Exit to Normal

Harper, Karen Down River

Hautman, Pete The Big Crunch

Hautman, Pete Godless

High, Linda Sister Slam

Higson, Charles By Royal Command (Series)

Hijuelos, Oscar Dark Dude

Johnson, Maureen 13 Little Blue Envelopes (Series)

Jones, Traci Silhouetted by the Blue

Kidd, Susan Monk The Secret Life of Bees

Kittredge, Caitlin The Iron Thorn

Leck, James The Adventures of Jack Lime

Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

London, Jack Call of the Wild

Lowry, Lois Gossamer

Lupica, Mike Heat

McBride, Lish Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

McCall, Guadalupe Under the Mesquite

McNicoll, Sylvia Last Chance for Paris

Marillier, Juliet Daughter of the Forest (Series)

Medina, Meg Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Mullin, Caryl Rough Magic

Myers, Walter Dean Riot

Oates, Joyce Carol Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

Oppel, Kenneth The Dark Endeavor

Potok, Chaim *The Chosen

Reeve, Philip Here Lies Arthur

Reinhardt, Dana The Summer I Learned to Fly

Riordan, Rick The Lightning Thief (Series)

Riordan, Rick The Lost Hero (Series)

Rosoff, Meg Picture Me Gone

Rosoff, Meg There is No Dog

Roth, Veronica Divergent or other books by this author

Ryan, Carrie The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Series)

Schrefer, Eliot Endangered

Scott, Michael The Alchemyst

Sepetys, Ruta Between Shades of Gray

Sharenow, Robert The Berlin Boxing Club

Smith, Roland Peak

Staples, Suzanne Fisher Under the Persimmon Tree

Steinbeck, John The Red Pony

Stewart, Trenton The Mysterious Benedict Society

Stiefvater, Maggie Shiver (Series)

Talkington, Amy Liv Forever

Thompson, Kate Creature of the Night

Twain, Mark *The Prince and the Pauper

Volponi, Paul The Final Four

Volponi, Paul Rooftop

Walker, Alice The Color Purple

Wells, H.G. *The Invisible Man

Wiggins, Bethany Stung

Wilson, Daniel Robopocalypse

Yancey, Rick The Curse of the Wendigo (Series)

Zevin, Gabrielle Elsewhere

Short Stories

Kaminky, Stuart (ed) SC On On a Raven’s Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe

Mercado, Nancy (ed.) SC Eve Every man for Himself: Ten Stories About Being a Guy

Noyes, Deborah (ed.) SC Got Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales

Non-Fiction

Bartoletti, Susan 322.4 They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an

American Terrorist Group

Bligh, William 919.504 Bli *The Bounty Mutiny

Blumenthal, Karen 796 Blu Let Me Play: the Story of Title IX

Blumenthal, Karen BIOG Job Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different

Capek, Michael 931 Cap Emperor Qin’s Terra Cotta Army

Cruz, Victor BIOG Cru Out of the Blue

Deraniyagala, Sonali BIOG Der Wave

Duncan, Lois 364.1 Dun Who Killed My Daughter?

Higashida, Naoki BIOG Hig The Reason I Jump

Hoose, Phillip M. 598. 072 Moonbird

Hurston, Zora Neale BIOG Hur Dust Tracks on a Road

Johnson, Rebecca 591.77 Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures

Kamkwamba, William BIOG Kam *The Boy who Harnessed the Wind

Moss, Wendy L. 158.1 Mos Being Me: a kid’s guide to boosting self-esteem

Pele BIOG Pel Why Soccer Matters

Perez, Chris BIOG Sel To Selena With Love

Platt, Richard 974.7 Pla New York City: an illustrated history of the Big Apple

Ross Michael 920 Ros A World of Her Own: 24 Amazing Women Explorers

Sandler, Martin 979.803 San The Impossible Mission

Sands, Emily 932.02 San The Egyptology Handbook

Schlosser, Eric 394.1 Sch Chew on This

Scott, Elaine 522 Sco Space, Stars and the Beginning of Time: what the Hubble

Telescope Saw

Shields, Charles J. BIOG Lee I am Scout

Shone, Rob 930.1 Sho Ancient Treasures

Sobol, Dava BIOG Gal *Galileo’s Daughter

Yolen, Jane 920 Yol Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murdresses…

*More Challenging

(Series) indicates there is more than one book by the same author in the series. Students

may read any or all in the series.

English 9R and 9H students must read three books from the above list.

Sleepy Hollow High School English 10

AUTHOR TITLE

Agee, James *A Death in the Family

Allende, Isabel City of the Beasts

Allende, Isabel Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies

Alcott, Louisa May Little Women

Avasthi, Swati Chasing Shadows

Black, Holly Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Booth, Coe Bronxwood

Card, Orson Scott Ender’s Game

Cather, Willa *Death Comes for the Archbishop

Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Cole, Teju Every Day is for the Thief

Cohen, Joshua Leverage

Connor, Leslie Waiting for Normal

Cooper, Michelle A Brief History of Montmaray (Series)

Crutcher, Chris Ironman

de la Pena, Matt Mexican White Boy

Diaz, Junot The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Hound of the Baskervilles

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel *One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gardner, John Grendel

Gibson, Marley Radiate

Grant, Helen The Vanishing of Katharina Linden

Green, John An Abundance of Katherines

Green, John Paper Towns

Griffin, Paul The Orange Houses

Hersey, John *A Bell for Adano

Hidier, Tanuja Desai Born Confused

Holub, Josef Innocent Soldier

Hopkins. Ellen Crank

Hopkins, Ellen Glass

Hughes, Mark Peter Lemonade Mouth

Johnson, Angela The First Part Last

Kinsella, Sophie Confessions of a Shopaholic

Krech, Bob Rebound

Kwok, Jean Girl in Translation

Laybourne, Emmy Monument 14

McCullers, Carson *The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Matson, Morgan Amy & Roger’s Epic Tour

Monaghan, Annabel A Girl Named Digit

Morris, Mary McGarry The Lost Mother

Mosley, Walter Fortunate Son

Moyer, Kermit The Chester Chronicles

Mullin, Mike Ashfall

Myers, Walter Dean Sunrise Over Fallujah

Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go (Series)

Oppel, Kenneth The Dark Endeavor

Palahniuk, Chuck *Pygmy

Paolini, Christopher Eragon (Series)

Paulsen, Gary Soldier’s Heart

Perker, M.K. Insomnia Café

Reinhardt, Dana How to Build a House

Reinhardt, Dana The Things a Brother Knows

Richter, Conrad *The Sea of Grass

Riordan, Rick The Red Pyramid (Series)

Ryan, Carrie The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising

Schraff, Anne Unforgiven or other titles by this author

Sedgwick, Marcus Midwinter Blood

Tucker, Todd Over and Under

Turner, Ann Warren Hard Hit

Twain, Mark *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Van Diepen, Allison Snitch

Vonnegut, Kurt *Cat’s Cradle

Wartski, Maureen Crane A Boat to Nowhere

Wasserman, Robin The Book of Blood and Shadow

Weisberger, Lauren The Devil Wears Prada

White, T.H. *The Once and Future King

Williams-Garcia, Rita Jumped

Wouk, Herman The Caine Mutiny

Zarr, Sara How to Save a Life

Zeller, Florian Julien Parme

Zink, Michelle This Wicked Game

Zuzak, Markus *The Book Thief

Short Stories

Black, Holly et.al. SC Zom Zombies vs. Unicorns

Diaz, Junot SC Dia Drown

Soto, Gary SC Sot Petty Crimes

Mazer, Anne SC Wal A Walk in my World: international stories about youth

Non-Fiction

Abbott, Jim BIOG Abb Imperfect

Anderson, Kristen 808.88 Dea Dear Teen Me

Angelou, Maya BIOG Ang Gather Together in My Name

Burch, Jennings M. 362.7 Bur They Cage the Animals at Night

Eastham, Chad 248.8 Eas Guys Are Waffles, Girls Are Spaghetti

Fleischman, Sid BIOG Twa The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the

Wild, Wild West

Glenn, Mel 811 Gle Split Image: a story in poems

Hauser, Brooke 373.18 Hau The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a

High School for Immigrant Kids

Laurenza, Domenico 629.13 Leonardo on Flight

Macaulay, David 612 Mac The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing

Human Body

Mandela, Nelson BIOG Man Long Walk to Freedom

McDougall, C. 796.4209McD Born to Run

Moore, Wes 920 Moo Discovering Wes Moore

Myers, Walter Dean 940.4 Mye Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride met Courage

Owen, Mark BIOG Owe No Easy Day

Rigsby, Mike 641.042 Rig Doable Renewables

Rivera, Mariano BIOG Riv The Closer

Rockliff, Mara 174 Roc Get Real: what kind of world are you buying?

Rodriguez, Luis J. BIOG Rod Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Rubin, Robert Alden 821.008 Love Poetry Out Loud

Santiago, Esmeralda BIOG San When I was a Puerto Rican

Silver, Maya 616.99 Sil My Parent Has Cancer and It Sucks

Suarez, Ray 973 Sua Latino Americans

Tardi, Jacques 741.5 Tar It was the War of the Trenches

Winchester, Simon 551.21 Win Krakatoa

Yousafzai, Malala BIOG Mal I Am Malala

*More Challenging (Series) indicates there is more than one book by the same author in the series. Students may read any or all in the series.

English 10R and 10H students must read three books from the above list.

Sleepy Hollow High School English 11

AUTHOR TITLE

Allende, Isabel Daughter of Fortune

Atkins, Ace The Ranger

Anderson, M.T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing (Series)

Beam, Cris I Am J

Beaudoin, Sean Wise Young Fool

Bradbury, Ray *Something Wicked This Way Comes

Brezenoff, Steve Brooklyn Burning

Bruchac, Joseph Code Talker

Burgess, Melvin Smack

Christie, Agatha Murder on the Orient Express

Cleave, Chris Little Bee

Colfer, Eoin Airman

de la Pena, Matt I Will Save you

Dole, Mayra Lazara Down to the Bone

Donoghue, Emma Room

Faulkner, William *The Sound and the Fury

Flake, Sharon You Don’t Even Know Me

Ford, Jamie Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Frank, Hillary The View From the Top

Fredericks, Mariah Season of the Witch

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Hawthorne, Nathaniel *The House of the Seven Gables

Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms

Hesse, Hermann Siddhartha

Holt, Elliot You Are One of Them

King, Stephen Full Dark, No Stars

King, Stephen The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe

Kizer, Amber A Matter of Days

Koryta, Michael The Ridge

Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake

Letts, Billie The Honk and Holler Opening Soon

Letts, Billie Where the Heart Is

Linko, Gina Indigo

Lockhart, E. Dramarama

Mc Cormick, Patrick Never Fall Down

McDonell, Nick *An Expensive Education

Moore, Graham The Sherlockian

Morrison, Toni Paradise

Mosley, Walter Devil with a Blue Dress

Murphy, Julie Side Effects May Vary

Myers, Walter Dean Hoops

Oates, Joyce Carol High Crime Area

Ondaatje, Michael *The English Patient

Oppel, Kenneth Airborn (Series)

Perez, Ashley What Can’t Wait

Peters, Julie Ann she loves you, she loves you not

Picoult, Jodi My Sister’s Keeper

Ritter, John Under the Baseball Moon

Roskos, Evan Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets

Schmidt, Gary D. Trouble

Shoup, Barbara Everything You Want

Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sparks, Nicholas The Last Song

Steinbeck, John *East of Eden

Steinbeck, John *The Grapes of Wrath

Tintera, Amy Reboot

Valentine, Jenny Broken Soup

Venkatraman, Padma Climbing the Stairs

Volponi, Paul Rikers High

Voorhees, Coert The Brothers Torres

Ward, Jesmyn Salvage the Bones

Wells, Rebecca Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Whaley, John Where Things Come Back

Wright, Richard *Native Son

Zuzak, Markus I am the Messenger

Short Stories

Anderson, Sherwood SC And *Winesburg, Ohio

Link, Kelly SC Lin Pretty Monsters

Cortez, Sarah SC You You Don’t Have a Clue:Latino mystery stories for teens

Non-Fiction

Beah, Ishmael BIOG Bea Long Way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier

Boyd, Danah 004.67 It’s Complicated

Byrne, David 780.9 How Music Works

Cafaro, Phillip 363.7 Lif Life on the Brink

Carnevale, Linda 378.1 Car Hot Words for the SAT

Collins, Billy (ed.) 811 Poe Poetry 180: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems

Crooks, Clayton 794.8 Cro !Phone Game Development for Teens

Davis, William 973.7 Dav The Fighting men of the Civil War

de la Bedoyere 609 Ide Ideas That Changed the World

Deng, Ayuel et. al. 920 Den Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys’ Path

from the Sudan to America

Foner, Eric 973.7092 Fon The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American

Slavery

Galeano, Eduardo 796.334 Gal Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Hall, Shyima BIOG Hal Hidden Girl

Harden. Blaine BIOG Shi Escape from Camp 14

Hillenbrand, Laura BIOG Zam Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survival…

Jay-Z BIOG Jay Jay-Z Decoded

Krakauer, Jon 796.522 Kra Into Thin Air

Kurlansky, Mark 323.1196 Kur Ready for a Brand New Beat

Lewis, Michael BIOG Ohe The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

McGough, Matthew BIOG McG Bat Boy (Coming of Age with the New York Yankees)

Nafisi, Azar 820.9 Naf *Reading Lolita in Tehran

Orlean, Susan 636.737 Orl RinTinTin

Pfarrer, Chuck 958.104 Pfa Seal Target Geronimo

Robbins, Alexandra 303.3 Rob The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

Skloot, Rebecca BIOG Lac The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Twain, Mark 818 Twa *Life on the Mississippi

Youngs, Jennifer Leigh 613.7 You Feeling Great, Looking Hot and Loving Yourself

*More Challenging (Series) indicates there is more than one book by the same author in the series. Students may read any or all in the series.

English 11R students must read two books from the above list and the assigned short stories. English 11H students must read The Crucible by Arthur Miller and two books from the above

list, one of which must be a non-fiction title. The 11H summer assignment given by Ms. Donahue

must also be completed. A.P. English Language and Composition students must complete the summer assignment given by Mrs. Rosenwasser.

Sleepy Hollow High School English 12

AUTHOR TITLE

Anderson, Laurie Halse Chains

Brashares, Ann The Here and Now

Burd, Nick The Vast Fields of Ordinary

Caletti, Deb Stay

Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None

Cortez, Sarah You Don’t Have a Clue

Doller, Trish Where the Stars Still Shine

Donnelly, Jennifer Revolution

Egan, Jennifer *A Visit from the Goon Squad

Eggers, Dave *A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Fesperman, Dan The Prisoner of Guantanamo

Fletcher, Christine Ten Cents a Dance

Fuentes, Carlos The Eagle’s Throne

Gaiman, Neil Ocean at the End of the Lane

Gill, David Macinnis Soul Enchilada

Green, John An Abundance of Katherines

Green, John Paper Towns

Heller, Joseph *Catch 22

Irving, John The World According to Garp

Islas, Arturo The Rain God

Jackson, Shirley We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Joyce, James *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kass, Pnina Moed Real Time

Keegan, Marina The Opposite of Loneliness

Kesey, Ken *One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

King, Stephen 11/22/63

Konigsburg, Bill Openly Straight

Lamb, Wally She’s Come Undone

Larsson, Stieg The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Series)

Lockhart, E. We Were Liars

Lupton, Rosamund Sister

McGuane, Thomas *Driving on the Rim

Morgenstern, Erin The Night Circus

Morrison, Toni *A Mercy

Murray, Paul Skippy Dies

Myracle, Lauren Shine

Niffenegger, Audrey The Time Traveler’s Wife

O’Breht, Tea The Tiger’s Wife

O’Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

Ondaatje, Michael *Anil’s Ghost

Paton, Alan *Cry, The Beloved Country

Perkins, Stephanie Anna and the French Kiss

Powers, Richard The Echo Maker

Pynchon, Thomas Bleeding Edge

Rebeck, Theresa Three Girls and their Brother

Riggs, Ransom Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Russell, Karen Swamplandia!

Sparks, Nicholas Dear John

Stork, Francisco Marcelo in the Real World

Taylor, Laini Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Tolstoy, Leo *War and Peace

Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five

Walls, Jeanette Half Broke Horses

Werlin, Nancy Impossible

Whitehead, Colson Zone One

Wilson, Edward Anthill

Zarr, Sara Sweethearts

Short Stories

Lahiri, Jhumpa SC Lah Interpreter of Maladies

Lahiri, Jhumpa SC Lah Unaccustomed Earth

Matheson, Richard SC Mat Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Millhauser, Steven SC Mil *Dangerous Laughter

Non-Fiction

Angelou, Maya BIOG Ang The Heart of a Woman

Aronson, Marc 810.8 War War Is…Soldiers, survivors, and storytellers talk about

war

Boo, Katherine 305.5 Boo *Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and

Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Byrne, David 796.6 Byr *Bicycle Diaries

Davis, Sampson, et. al 920 Dav The Pact: Three Young Men make a Promise and

Fulfill a Dream

Dawkins, Richard BIOG Daw An Appetite for Wonder

Driver, Stephanie 332.024 Per Personal Finance: a guide to money and business

Feinstein, John 796.323 Fei Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four

The Freedom Writers 305.235 Fre The Freedom Writers’ Diary

Gladwell, Malcolm 155.2 Gla David and Goliath

Hillenbrand, Laura BIOG Zam Unbroken: a WWII story of survival, resilience and

redemption

Isaacson, Walter BIOG Job Steve Jobs

Johnson, Steven 612.8 Joh *Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of

Everyday Life

Junger, Sabastian 910.453 Jun The Perfect Storm

Katz, Jon 338.7 Kat Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho

Kyle, Chris BIOG Kyl American Sniper

Mc Bride, James BIOG McB The Color of Water

Pausch, Randy BIOG Pau *The Last Lecture

Quinones-Hinojosa, A BIOG QUI Becoming Dr. Q

Randall, Lisa 500 Ran Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How physics and

scientific thinking illuminate the universe

Schiff, Stacy BIOG Cle Cleopatra

Spiegelman, Art BIOG Spi MetaMaus

Tabor, James M. 796.52 Tab Blind Descent: the quest to discover the deepest place

on earth

Wahab, Saima BIOG Wah In My Father’s Country

Wright, Richard BIOG Wri *Black Boy

*More Challenging

(Series) indicates there is more than one book by the same author in the series. Students may read any or all in the series. English 12R & 12 ELA students must read three books from the above list (or the ESL list if appropriate).

English 12H students must read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1984 by George Orwell, and do the summer assignment given by Mrs. McGough-Choi. A.P. English students must read Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, and complete the summer assignment given by Mrs. Meyer.

Sleepy Hollow Middle and High School -- ESL

Alvarez, Julia Before We Were Free

12 year old Anita’s life under the harsh rule of a Dominican dictator

Anaya, Rudolph Bless Me, Ultima

Young Antonio is forced to choose between two opposing ways of life

Freedman, Russell Children of the Wild West

A history with original photos, showing life for whites and Native Americans in the U.S.

Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street

A sensitive novel about a Mexican-American girl growing up in Chicago

Saldana, Rene Jr. Finding Our Way

Stories of love, danger, loyalty and pride

Ancona, George Murals: Walls that Sing

A beautiful art book about murals

Greenberg, Keith Erik Erik Is Homeless

A real-life story of a boy and his mom, who are homeless

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (Series)

The exciting continuing story of a young English boy with magic powers

Sachar, Louis Holes

A troubled boy with a weird family is sent to a very strange detention camp

Harness, Cheryl Rabble Rousers: 20 Women Who Made a Difference

Inspiring biographies of women who stood up for what was right

Jimenez, Francisco Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child

Autobiographical account of a young Mexican boy’s struggle for education in a migrant

family

Jimenez, Francisco Breaking Through

Jimenez finishes telling the story of his childhood as a boy in a migrant family

Johnson, Angela The First Part Last

Teenagers confront the realities of pregnancy and responsibilities

Fleischman, Paul Whirligig

High School student Brent kills a girl when driving drunk and is offered an unusual way to

make amends for his mistake

Portis, Charles True Grit

14 year old Mattie Ross and cranky old U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn go into the Indian

Territories to avenge

her father’s death

Salinas, Eva 609.8 Latin Americans Thought of It.

Schwartz, Alvin, Helquist, Brett Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Frightening stories of horror, revenge, the supernatural, graveyards, and darkness

Hiassen, Carl Hoot

A funny mystery with some ideas on ecology

Cameron, Ann Colibri

A girl kidnapped in Guatemala tries to find her family

Ochoa, Annette Pina Night Is Gone, Day Is Still Coming: Stories and Poems

Find out how some Native American young people feel about their lives

Hoobler, Dorothy We Americans: Voices of the Immigrant Experience

The variety of immigrants in America

Conrad, Pam Pedro’s Journal

A fictional tale of a boy who sailed with Columbus on the Pinta, Nina, and the Santa Maria

Hinton, S.E. That Was Then, This Is Now

If you liked The Outsiders (or Los Rebeldes), you’ll like this too

Myers, Walter Dean 145th Street

Stories about people who live in Manhattan; you’ll feel like you live there too

Fritz, Jean China Homecoming

True stories of a young American girl who grew up in China in the 1920’s, feeling homesick

and out of place. Eventually she comes to the U.S., but as an adult, returns to visit China

Steinbeck, John The Red Pony

If you’ve ever had a pet you loved, this is a book you’ll enjoy

Steinbeck, John The Pearl

Kino, a young pearl diver, enjoys his simple life with his family until his son is stung by a

scorpion and their lives change forever

Richter, Conrad The Light in the Forest

Immigrants have always faced problems in America; even in the 1700’s, Native Americans

and whites had their differences

Schaefer, Jack Shane

You might be surprised to learn that all the conflicts in the Old West were not between

cowboys and Native Americans

Spinelli, Jerry Stargirl

16 year old Leo loves Stargirl, even though she is different and the other students make fun

of her

Sparks, Nicholas A Walk to Remember

Total opposites Landon and Jamie struggle to keep their love strong despite disapproval and

secrets