Perry Hall High School Summer Reading Assignment

“Children and teenagers need to read during the summer months to maintain current reading levels. Reading just 4-5 books during the summer can prevent a decline in a student’s fall reading scores.” ~James Kim, Harvard University

DIRECTIONS: Select one fiction title and one nonfiction title from the list attached for your grade level. Read these over the summer and complete the attached assignments. Some books are marked as GT, but all students can read all book titles provided (so if you are in standard or honors, you can challenge yourself and pick a GT book). GT students MUST pick and read GT-level books. Parents: Please talk to your students about their book picks. Some may have controversial subject matter. If you are uncomfortable with this, steer them toward another choice. Parent/Guardian Signature: ______

DUE DATE: September 29th

WHAT’S DUE: Assignments for one fiction book and one non-fiction book from the appropriate grade level list (GT students must select GT books.)

TURN IN TO: Your English teacher at Perry Hall High School

Where can I find summer reading books?

 At the Perry Hall branch of the Baltimore County Public Library – also check out their eReader apps on your phone!  At a book store or online book store such as Amazon (if you would like to annotate directly in the book)  Some books can be found by doing a google search for the book title and “full text”  Talk to your current English teacher and Mrs. Adams at the PHHS library

Please direct all questions or concerns to Chris Turner, English Department Chair, at [email protected]. 9TH GRADE Fiction Choices 10TH GRADE Fiction Choices Fahrenheit 451 (GT) by Ray Bradbury Crime and Punishment (GT) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Dog Stars (GT) by Peter Heller The Poisonwood Bible (GT) by Barbara Kingsolver All Quiet on the Western Front (GT) by Erich Maria Remarque The Kite Runner (GT) by Khaled Hosseini Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson One Hundred Years of Solitude (GT) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 1984 (GT) by George Orwell Just Listen by Sarah Dessen A Thousand Splendid Suns (GT) by Khaled Hosseini Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Wonder by R.J. Palacio Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya The Arrival by Shaun Tan A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock 9TH GRADE Nonfiction Choices 10TH GRADE Nonfiction Choices Autobiography of a Face (GT) by Lucy Grealy The Woman Warrior (GT) by Maxine Hong Kingston The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Toltec Hiroshima (GT) by John Hersey Wisdom (GT) by Don Miguel Ruiz The Road to Oxiana (GT) by Robert Byron The Omnivore’s Dilemma (GT) by Michael Pollan I Am Malala (GT) by Malala Yousafzai The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt with Autism (GT) by Naoki Higashida This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Isadora Duncan: My Life by Isadora Duncan Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland Miracle on the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain by Nando Parrado When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Michel Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand Chikwanine March: Book One by John Lewis The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach I am Nujood, age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition by Katie Rain Hill American Shaolin by Matthew Polly

Name: ______English teacher: ______11TH GRADE Fiction Choices 12TH GRADE Fiction Choices The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Beowulf by Unknown Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Lamplighter by Maria Cummins The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Our Town by Thornton Wilder The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Brunt Grendel by John Gardner Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison White Teeth by Zadie Smith Native Son by Richard Wright The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Beloved by Toni Morrison The Road by Cormac McCarthy Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler Patternmaster by Octavia Butler Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 11TH GRADE Nonfiction Choices 12TH GRADE Nonfiction Choices In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil W. White Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill A Dream Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell by Sampson Davis The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Young Men and Fire by Norman McLean Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Nine years under: Coming of Age in an Inner-city Funeral Home The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriquez by Sheri Booker A Higher Call by Adam Makos Into Thin Air by Joh Krakauer The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

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