Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Summer Reading List - High School

Chrysalis Experiential Academy
Summer Reading List 2007 for Grades 9 - 12

Each student id to read a total of five (5) books during the summer of 2007.

9th grade (read 3)

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bradbury, Ray

Cannery Row
Steinbeck, John

The Andromeda Strain
Crichton, Michael

Choose 2 more from the following list:

The Pearl
Steinbeck, John

The Pigman
Zindel, Paul

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Sir Srthur Conan

Billy Budd
Melville, Herman

The Caves of Steel
Asimov, Isaac

Animal Farm
Orwell, George

The Lost Horizon
Hilton, James

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith,

The Day of the Jackal
Forsyth,

Of Mice & Men
Steinbeck, John

10th grade (read 3)

Things Fall Apart
Achebe, Chinua

The Dragonbone Chair
Williams

Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray

Choose 2 more from the following list:

The Life of Pi
Martel, Yann

Angela's Ashes
McCourt, Frank

The Lovely Bones
Sebold, Alice

Mythology
Hamilton, Edith

Windtalkers
Collins, Max Allen

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Angelou, Maya

Cold Sassy Tree
Burns,


A Separate Peace
Knowles, Ralph

The Killer Angels
Shaara

The Chosen
Potok

The Eye of the Elephant
Owens & Owens

11th Grade (read 3)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark

Brave New World
Huxley, Aldous

Awakening
Chopin, Kate

Choose 2 more from the following list:

For Whom The Bell Tolls
Hemingway, Ernest

Invisible Man
Ellison, Ralph

On The Road
Kerouac, Jack

The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Ragtime
Doctorow, E.L.

The Water is Wide
Conroy, Pat

Raisin in the Sun
Hansbury

The Secret Life of Bees
Kidd, Susan

The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John

The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy

All the King's Men
Warren

The Winter of our Discontent
Steinbeck, John

12th Grade (read 3)

Grendel
Gardner, John

1984
Orwell, George

Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hurston, Zora Neale

Choose 2 more from the following list:

A Doll House
Ibsen

Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde

The Glass Menagerie
Williams

Winterdance
Paulsen, Gary

The Screwtape Letters
Lewis, C.S.

Madame Bovary
Flaubert

My Name is Asher Lev
Potok, Haim

Lord Jim
Conrad, Joseph

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ooh -- My Name is Asher Lev and Life of Pi are two of my favorite books! The latter is a great story wrapped in another great story. Any CEA student who reads Pi this summer is encouraged to email me (Megan) to discuss the book -- I love talking about this one :)