McKinney ISD Incoming PreAP 9th & 10th Grade Recommended Summer Reading

May 2017

Dear Incoming PreAP 9th & 10th Grade English Student and Parent or Guardian,

Research shows that reading widely and deeply improves test scores and increases student success both in college and in their future careers. With this in mind, and in an effort to promote a passion for reading, McKinney ISD recommends that students continue to read over the summer months. At a minimum, we recommend reading at least 4-5 books they find interesting. For our PreAP English classes, we want our students to build a repertoire of fiction and nonfiction while continuing to think deeply, critically, and analytically while reading. We recommend that students choose a book from each attached list to read along with their choice texts.

Reading AP caliber texts over the summer allows students to see how long it will take them to read a book and will prepare them for the independent reading that takes place in an Pre-AP and AP English courses.

There are many ways for students to access books over the summer:

● Students can check out books from their home campus before heading out for summer. ● Students have 24/7 access to Overdrive, the McKinney ISD digital library, which students can access here: http://digitallibrary.mckinneyisd.net ​ ● McKinney Public Libraries: Roy & Helen Hall Memorial Library, and John & Judy Gay Library. Visit mckinneytexas.org and check out: Home > Culture & Recreation > Library for ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ information regarding booklists organized by interest, library addresses, and hours of operation.

If you or your child have any questions, please contact the following campus contact for your child’s campus:

McKinney Boyd High School: Karen Scanlan ([email protected]) ​ ​ McKinney High School: Kelly Armbruster ([email protected]) ​ ​ McKinney North School: Jennifer McClelland ([email protected]) ​ ​ As a district, McKinney ISD embraces the life-long love of reading; it is our goal to instill this love in our students. We also recommend that as a parent/guardian, you read along with your child, so you can discuss the books they read. Thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely, The Secondary English Team of McKinney ISD

MISD Summer Reading Recommendations- Fiction

® The following represent some of the most commonly referenced texts on the AP ​ English ​ Literature and Composition Exam (1971-2016). The titles are arranged by relevance to content for the course as well as with consideration to age-appropriate content. While no titles are ​ required, these texts represent the level of reading that students enrolled in Pre-AP and AP ​ courses should add to their literary canon throughout their high school career.

English 1 PreAP/GT: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08) ​ ​ The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08, 11, 13) ​ ​ Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09, 13, 15) ​ ​ Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 12) ​ ​ The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08, 13) ​ ​ *Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12, 13, 15) ​ ​ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10, 13, 16) ​ ​ The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03, 13) ​ ​ *Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03, 15) ​ ​ My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03) ​ ​ The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (13) ​ ​ A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07, 13) ​ ​ *The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10) ​ ​ English 2 PreAP/GT: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09, 16) ​ ​ The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07, 11, 16) ​ ​ The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09, 10) ​ ​ *Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11, 14, 15, 16) ​ ​ *Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09, 16) ​ ​ Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09) ​ ​ *Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04, 11) ​ ​ *Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08) ​ ​ An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07) ​ ​ Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09) ​ ​ Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05) ​ ​ Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11) ​ ​ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11) ​ ​ Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09) ​ ​ Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10) ​ ​ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04, 12) ​ ​ *Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11, 14, 15) ​ ​ Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06) ​ ​ A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07, 09, 12) ​ ​ *Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10) ​ ​ Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11, 13, 16) ​ ​ *The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04) ​ ​ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11, 14) ​ ​ AP Language and Composition: *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08, 11, ​ ​ ​ 13) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08, 12, 14) ​ ​ All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09, 11) ​ ​ All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13) ​ ​ Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08, 13, 15) ​ ​ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10) ​ ​ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 11, 15, 16) ​ ​ Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08) ​ ​ The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09, 12, 13, 16) ​ ​ Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07, 12, 14) ​ ​ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07, 14) ​ ​ A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09) ​ ​ Fences by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09, 10) ​ ​ For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06) ​ ​ A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, 11) ​ ​ The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12) ​ ​ The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13) ​ ​ Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09) ​ ​ House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09) ​ ​ The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10, 13) ​ ​ Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15,​ 16) ​ The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09) ​ ​ A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99, 11) ​ ​ Light in August by William Faulkner (71, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 95, 99, 03, 06, 11) ​ ​ The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10) ​ ​ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09) ​ ​ The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09, 14, 16) ​ ​ Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11, 12) ​ ​ 1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09) ​ ​ Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09) ​ ​ The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10, 12) ​ ​ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09, 12, 14) ​ ​ Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11, 14) ​ ​ Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07) ​ ​ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08, 15) ​ ​ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11, 14, 15) ​ ​ Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10, 15) ​ ​ Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04) ​ ​ The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08, 13) ​ ​ A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14) ​ ​ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05, 12) ​ ​ Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11, 13, 14) ​ ​ AP Literature (any from previous lists as well as the following): Atonement by Ian McEwan (07, 11, 13, 16) ​ The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09, 11, 14) ​ ​ Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10, 11, 14, 16) ​ ​ Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08) ​ ​ Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10) ​ ​ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (16) ​ ​ ​ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08) ​ ​ *Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16) ​ ​ ​ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10, 16) ​ ​ *King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 14) ​ ​ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07) ​ ​ Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09) ​ ​ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10, 16) ​ ​ The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10, 11) ​ ​ M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11, 12, 16) ​ ​ Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09) ​ ​ Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09) ​ ​ Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07, 11) ​ ​ *Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10, 16) ​ ​ ​ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02, 16) ​ ​ ​ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11, 12) ​ ​ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08) ​ ​ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10, 11) ​ ​ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10, 13) ​ ​ The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11, 13) ​ ​ A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 14) ​ ​ Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12) ​ ​ Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07, 12, 14, 15) ​ ​ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08) ​ ​ Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08) ​ ​ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08) ​ ​ Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09, 12) ​ ​ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07, 11, 15, 16) ​ ​ Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08) ​ ​ Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10) ​ ​ Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08, 13) ​ ​ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10, 12, 15, 16) ​ ​

*Denotes texts recommended for GT/Humanities Sections

MISD Summer Reading Recommendations-Nonfiction

The full-length works, compiled and recommended by NMSI, represent a range of nonfiction from approximately the last decade. While no texts are required, these titles represent reading that ​ ​ students enrolled in PreAP and AP Language courses should analyze and add to their nonfiction knowledge base.

Current Events

Detroit City is the Place to Be by Mark Binelli Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo ​ ​ Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys ​ an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People WHo Make this Country Work by Jeanne ​ Marie Laskas

The Long Walk: The Story of War and the Life Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat that Follows by Briar Castner Tillman by Jon Krakauer ​ ​ *Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer *In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ​ ​ Digital

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell by World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick ​ ​ Phil Lapsley

Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson

Sports

Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Muck City: Winning and Losing in Football’s Turbulent World of NFL Football by Nicholas Forgotten Town by Bryan Mealer ​ ​ Dawidoff

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and Over Time: My Life as a Sports Writer by Frank ​ the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Deford ​ Christopher McDougall

*Twelve Mighty Orphans by Jim Dent ​ Popular Culture

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes and Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain the Reinvention of the American Grownup by ​ ​ Christopher Noxon

The Know it All by A.J. Jacobs Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath ​ Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn ​ *Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell ​ History

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, those Who Survived the American Dustbowl by Resilience and Redemption by Laura ​ ​ Timothy Egan Hillenbrand

Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an ​ American Family in Berlin by Eric Larson ​ *Hiroshima by John Hersey ​ Biography, Autobiography, Memoir

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Blue Nights by Joan Didion ​ Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy ​ Wickenden

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability by David Margolick Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity by Ben ​ Mattlin

A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey *Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt ​ From the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron ​ Suskind

*I’m Down by Mishna Wolff *My Losing Season by Pat Conroy ​ ​ Science

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert ​ ​ David George Haskell

The Girls of Atomic City, The Untold Story of Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us by Joe ​ Women Who Helped Win World War II by Palca & Flora Lichtman ​ Denise Kiernan

That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by ​ Repulsion by Rachel Herz Mary Roach ​ Gulp: Adventures of the Ailmentary Canal by Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by ​ ​ Mary Roach Oliver Sacks

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer ​ Food Birds Eye: The Adventures of Curious Man by Tomatoland: HOw Modern Industrial Agriculture ​ Mark Kurlansky Ruined Our Most Alluring Fruit by Barry ​ Estabrook

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer ​ the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer B. Lee ​ Travel

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner Who’s Been Everywhere by Susan Orlean ​ ​ Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant by Robert Sullivan ​ *Additions to NMSI list based on teacher recommendation.