New Hope High School Summer Reading List

The team made the following grade level selections: Regular 6th grade English Required:

Pre‐AP 6th grade: Required: Alabama Moon by Watt Key Student‐selected List: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Lawn Boy by Gary Paulson A View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli

Regular 7th grade English Required:

Pre‐AP 7th Grade Required: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Student‐selected List: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers The Ransom by Lois Duncan The Graveyard by Neil Gaiman

Regular 8th grade English Required:

Pre‐ AP 8th Grade Required: Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt Student‐selected List: The Giver by Lois Lowry The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Old Yeller by Fred Gipson Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Regular 9th grade English: Required: Stand Tall by Joan Bauer

Pre‐AP 9th Grade Required: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Student‐selected List: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Mythology by Edith Wharton The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Regular 10th grade: Required: 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Pre‐AP 10th Grade Required: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Student‐selected List: Looking for Alaska by John Green The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Regular 11th grade English: Required: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

AP Language (11th Grade) Required: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Student‐Selected List: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen The Shame of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Regular 12th Grade English: Required: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

AP Literature (12th Grade) Required: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Student‐Selected: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines