English Summer Reading List
The following books are highly recommended for students to read over the summer. Pick one of the titles listed in the grade level you will be in for the 2019-20 school year (NOT the one you are in now)
9th grade
House on Mango Street - Cisneros
Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
10th Grade
Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
The Joy Luck Club - Tan
The Stranger - Camus
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
11th Grade
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
The Pearl - Steinbeck
12th Grade
Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year - Beyer
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi W. Dunrow