9th – 12th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Although every effort has been made to separate books according to age-appropriateness, we realize that tastes differ and not every book on these lists may be appropriate for your family. For this reason, we encourage parents to choose books and read and discuss these books with their student. Titles/authors marked with an asterisk are advanced reading selections.

FICTION: Night Journey Solar Flare

*Adams, Richard Bacher, June Masters Burnett, Frances Hodgson Watership Down Any Age-appropriate Title/Series A Little Princess The Secret Garden Aiken, Joan Bagnold, Enid Black Hearts in Battersea National Velvet Byars, Betsy The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Cracker Jackson Barrie, J.M. Midnight Fox *Alcott, Louisa May Peter Pan Summer of the Swans Any Age-appropriate Title Trouble River Beach, Eric Alder, Elizabeth Cassell Military Series Calhoun, Mary The King’s Shadow Katie John *Blackmore, R.D. Alexander, Hannah Lorne Doone Carroll, Lewis ER Series Alice in Wonderland Bligh, William Through the Looking Glass Alexander, Lloyd Mutiny on the Bounty The Chronicles of Prydain Series *Cather Willa Bly, Stephen My Antonia Anderson, Sherwood Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Winesburg, Ohio Cavanaugh, Jack Borntrager, Mary Christpher An American Family Portrait Series Arnold, Francena Ellie’s People Series A Brother Beloved *de Cervantes, Miguel The Deepening Stream Bradbury, Ray Don Quixote Fruit for Tomorrow Dandelion Wine The Light in My Window Chaikin, Linda Lee Not My Will *Bronte, Charlotte A Day to Remember Series The Road Winds On Jane Eyre Straight Down a Crooked Lane *Chekov, Anton Then I am Strong *Bronte, Emily The Cherry Orchard Three Shall be One Wuthering Heights Clark, Ann Nolan Attema, Martha *Buck, Pearl S. Secret of the Andes A Time to Choose Big Wave The Good Earth Cleaver, Vera Aurandat, Paul Where the Lilies Bloom Paul Harvey’s the Rest of the Story Bunn, T. Davis More of Paul Harvey’s the Rest of Any Age-appropriate Title/Series the Story Bunting, Eve Collier, James Lincoln *Austen, Jane SOS Titanic My Brother Sam is Dead Any Age-appropriate Title Jump Ship to Freedom

Colson, Chuck *Bunyan, John Gideon’s Torch Pilgrim’s Progress (not children’s version) *Cooper, James Fennimore Avi The Deerslayer Captain Grey Burkett, Larry The Last of the Mohicans Crispin The Illuminati The Prarie The Secret School The Thor Conspiracy 9th – 12th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Although every effort has been made to separate books according to age-appropriateness, we realize that tastes differ and not every book on these lists may be appropriate for your family. For this reason, we encourage parents to choose books and read and discuss these books with their student. Titles/authors marked with an asterisk are advanced reading selections.

Costain, Thomas B. The Man in the Iron Mask Pittman The Silver Chalice The Three Musketeers Gates, Doris Courtney, Dayle *Du Maurier, Daphne Blue Willow Jaws of Terror Rebecca Gilge, Jeanette *Crane, Stephen Edwards, Julie Andrews Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Mandy Red Badge of Courage Gipson, Fred *Eliot, George Old Yeller *Craven, Margaret Silas Mariner I Heard the Owl Call My Name *Golding, William Again Calls the Owl Evans, Mike Lord of the Flies The Jerusalem Scroll *Dana, Richard Henry Gray, Elizabeth Janet Two Years Before the Mast *Faulkner, William Adam of the Road As I Lay Dying *Dante Go Down, Moses Gunn, Robin Jones Inferno Christy Miller Series Paradisio Field, Rachel Sierra Jensen Series Purgatorio Hitty, Her First Hundred Years *Guterson, David De Angeli Fielding, Henry Snow Falling on Cedars Door in the Wall Joseph Andrews *Hansberry, Lorraine *Defoe, Daniel *Fitzgerald, F. Scott A Raisin in the Sun Robinson Crusoe The Great Gatsby *Hardy, Thomas Dekker, Ted Fleischman, Paul Return of the Native Any Age-Appropriate Title Bull Run Path of the Pale Horse Hawes, Alberta Dickens, Charles Vinegar Boy David Copperfield Forbes, Kathryn Great Expectations Mama’s Bank Account *Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hard Times Forbes, Esther The of the Seven Gables Oliver Twist Johnny Tremain The Scarlet Letter A Tale of Two Cities Fox, Paula Heitzmann, Kristen Dodge, Mary Mapes Slave Dancer Diamond of the Rockies Series Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates Rocky Mountain Legacy Series Fox, John *Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Little Shepherd of Kingdom *Hemingway, Ernest The Brothers Karamazov Come The Old Man and the Sea Crime and Punishment The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Henderson, Dee Douglas, Lloyd C. Fritz, Jean Any Age-appropriate Title/Series The Big Fisherman Brady The Robe Early Thunder Henty, G.A. Any Age-appropriate Title Dubois, William Pene Funderburk, Robert The 21 Balloons Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Herriot, James All Things Bright and Beautiful *Dumas, Alexander Gaines, Ernest All Things Great and Small The Count of Monte Cristo The Autobiography of Miss Jane All Things Wise and Wonderful 9th – 12th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Although every effort has been made to separate books according to age-appropriateness, we realize that tastes differ and not every book on these lists may be appropriate for your family. For this reason, we encourage parents to choose books and read and discuss these books with their student. Titles/authors marked with an asterisk are advanced reading selections.

The Lord God Made them All Lowry, Lois Kingsbury, Karen The Giver Hess, Donna Any Age Appropriate Title/Series Dust of the Earth McDonald, George In Search of Honor Kipling, Rudyard The Fisherman’s Lady Captains Courageous The Marquis Secret Hesse, Karen The Jungle Book Out of the Dust Just So Stories *Marshall, Catherine Christy Hoff, B.J. *Knowles, John Any Age-appropriate Title/Series A Separate Peace *Melville, Herman Billy Budd Holm, Anne Larson, Elyse Moby Dick I am David Women of Valor Series North to Freedom *Miller, Arthur Lawhead, Stephen The Crucible *Homer The Dragon King Saga Series The Illiad The Odyssey *Lee, Harper *Milton, John To Kill a Mockingbird Paradise Lost Hope, Anthony Prisoner of Zenda Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maude) Lee, Robert C. Anne of Green Gables Series *Hugo, Victor It’s a Mile from Here to Glory Emily of New Moon The Hunchback of Notre Dame Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Les Miserables *Leroux, Gaston Morris, Alan B. Hunt, Angela Elwell The Phantom of the Opera By Honor Bound Any Age-appropriate Title Guardians of the North Series Lewis, Beverly *Irving, Washington Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Morris, Gilbert The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Rip Van Winkle *Lewis, C.S. The Chronicles of Narnia Myers, Bill Irwin, Bill The Screwtape Letters Forbidden Doors Series Blind Courage ‘Till We Have Faces Journey’s to Fayrah Series The Space Trilogy: Ishiguro, Kazuo Out of the Silent Planet Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Pale View of Hills Perelandra Shiloh That Hideous Strength Jacques, Brian Any Age-appropriate Title O’Hara, Mary The Redwall Series My Friend Flicka The Flying Dutchman Series Locke, Thomas Thunderhead The Spectrum Chronicles Series Jenkins, Jerry B. The Omega Network Oke, Janet Left Behind Series (Adult Version) The Delta Factor Any Age-appropriate Title/Series

Karon, Jan *London, Jack Orczy, Baroness The Mitford Years Series Call of the Wild The Scarlet Pimpernel Series The Sea Wolf Keillor, Garrison White Fang *Orwell, George Lake Wobegone Days 1984 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Animal Farm Kerr, Judith Evangeline When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit Palmer, Catherine 9th – 12th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Although every effort has been made to separate books according to age-appropriateness, we realize that tastes differ and not every book on these lists may be appropriate for your family. For this reason, we encourage parents to choose books and read and discuss these books with their student. Titles/authors marked with an asterisk are advanced reading selections.

The Happy Room Lineage of Grace Series Mark of the Lion Series *Paton, Alan Sons of Encouragement Series Cry, the Beloved Country Any Age-appropriate Title/Series

Paulsen, Gary Roddy, Lee Brian’s Hunt Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Sutcliff, Rosemary Brian’s Return Beowulf Brian’s Winter *Rostand, Edmond The Light Beyond the Forest Hatchet Cyrano De Bergerac The Road to Camlann The River The Sword and the Circle *Scott, Sir Walter The Warrior Scarlett Peart, Jane Ivanhoe Brides of Montclair Series *Swift, Jonathan Shaara, Michael Gulliver’s Travels Pella, Judith Killer Angels Ribbons West Series Any Age-appropriate Title Theone, Bodie and Brock Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Peretti, Frank Shakespeare, William Hangman’s Curse Any Age-appropriate Play *Thoreau, Henry David (Except Romeo and Juliet and Walden Piercing the Darkness Julius Caesar) Tolkien, J.R.R. The Sheldon, Charles The Hobbit In His Steps The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Tilly The Simiarillion Any Age-appropriate Title/Series *Shelley, Mary Frankenstein *Twain, Mark Phillips, Michael R. A Connecticut Yankee in King Caldonia Series Siegel, Robert Arthur’s Court The Journals of Corrie B. Hollister Whalesong Huckleberry Finn Series The Prince and the Pauper The Russians Series *Sinclair, Upton Tom Sawyer Secret of the Rose Series The Jungle Stonewyck Trilogy *Verne, Jules Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Smith, Betty 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Joy in the Morning Around the World in 80 Days Plath, Sylvia A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Journey to the Center of the Earth The Bell Jar *Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Wallace, Lew *Potok, Chiam One Day in the Life of Ivan Ben Hur The Chosen Denisovich *Wharton, Edith Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan *Stevenson, Robert Louis Ethan Frome The Yearling The Black Arrow Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Wick, Lori Rawls, Wilson Kidnapped Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Summer of the Monkeys Treasure Island Where the Red Fern Grows *Wyss, Johann David *Stone, Irving The Swiss Family Robinson Richter, Conrad The Agony and the Ecstasy Light in the Forest NON-FICTION *Stowe, Harriet Beecher (Including Biography) Rivers, Francine Uncle Tom’s Cabin 9th – 12th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Although every effort has been made to separate books according to age-appropriateness, we realize that tastes differ and not every book on these lists may be appropriate for your family. For this reason, we encourage parents to choose books and read and discuss these books with their student. Titles/authors marked with an asterisk are advanced reading selections.

Adamson, Joy Hall, Mark Born Free Dobson, James Lifestories Any Age-appropriate Title Adkins, Mike Hautzig, Esther A Man Called Norman Dravecky, Dave The Endless Steppe Comeback Aitken, Jonathan When You Can’t Come Back Hershiser, Oral Nixon: A Life Out of the Blue Elliott, Elizabeth Akers, Michelle A Chance to Die Heyerdahl, Thor The Game and the Glory Passion and Purity Kon-Tiki The Savage My Kinsman Alexander, Shaun Through Gates of Splendor Jennings, Peter Touchdown Alexander Walk Across America Estes, Steve The Walk West Baker, Rachel Called to Die The First Woman Doctor Keller, Helen Evans, Tony The Story of My Life Barrett, Eric The Battle is the Lord’s Scientists Who Believe Kennedy, John F. Falwell, Jerry Profiles in Courage Bernall, Misty Building Dynamic Faith She Said Yes Falwell: An Autobiography Lacy, Al Strength for the Journey Battles of Destiny Series Bishop, Jim The Day Lincoln was Shot Foxe Landry, Tom Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Tom Landry: An Autobiography Boas, Jacob We Are Witnesses *Frank, Anne Lauber, Patricia The Diary of Anne Frank Volcano: The Eruption and Healing Brother Andrew (not the play) of Mt. Saint Helens God’s Smuggler Frankl, Viktor *Lewis, C.S. Byrd, Denis Man’s Search for Meaning The Abolition of Man Rise and Walk Mere Christianity *Franklin, Benjamin Any Age-appropriate Title Carson, Ben The Autobiography of Benjamin Gifted Hands Franklin Lucado, Max Any Age-appropriate Title Catton, Bruce Fritz, Jean Stillness at Appomattox Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Ludwig, Charles Any Age-appropriate Title/Series Collins, David R. Gibbs, Joe Noah Webster: Master of Words Fourth and One Maynard, Kyle Colson, Chuck Gibson, William No Excuses Any Age-appropriate Title Miracle Worker Mc Dowell, Josh Daugherty, James Gilbreth, Frank B. New Evidence that Demands a Daniel Boone Cheaper by the Dozen Verdict Under Siege Gunther, John J. Any Age-appropriate Title DiMarco, Hayley Death Be Not Proud Mean Girls Gone Morris, Harold 9th – 12th GRADE SUMMER READING LIST

Although every effort has been made to separate books according to age-appropriateness, we realize that tastes differ and not every book on these lists may be appropriate for your family. For this reason, we encourage parents to choose books and read and discuss these books with their student. Titles/authors marked with an asterisk are advanced reading selections.

Twice Pardoned *Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery

Petry, Ann Wilkerson, David Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the The Cross and the Switchblade Undergroud Railroad Williams, Pat Piper, John Play 2 Win Any Age-appropriate Title Wind, Crying Reagan, Ronald Crying Wind In His Own Hand Yancey, Phillip Richardson, Don Disappointment with God Eternity in Their Hearts The Jesus I Never Knew Peace Child Reaching for the Invisible God What’s So Amazing About Grace Saint, Steve Any Age-appropriate Title End of the Spear Yates, Elizabeth Sandburg, Carl Amos Fortune, Free Man Abe Lincoln Grows Up

Stagg, Kristen If God Should Choose

Sterling, Dorothy Freedom Train – Harriet Tubman

*Strobel, Lee The Case for Faith The Case for Christ The Case for the Creator

Tada, Joni Eareckson A Step Farther Joni

Ten Boom, Corrie Any Age-appropriate Title Thomas, Andy Morning Star of the Reformation

Tiner, John Hudson Champions of Discovery Series For Those Who Dare: 101 Great Christians and How They Changed the World The Sowers Series When Science fails

Van Stone, Doris Dorie: The Girl Nobody Loved