John A. Ferguson High School Reading List, Summer 2011

JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2011

In an effort to maintain high academic standards, summer reading is a requirement at John A. Ferguson Senior High. Required books are listed below for each grade level, academic level and academy. Students will be held responsible for all the books listed under their appropriate category. Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year.

Gifted 9 th Grade 10 th Grade City of Beasts by Isabel Allende Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11 th Grade 12 th Grade Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

International Business and Finance 9 th Grade 10 th Grade The Firm by John Grisham Freakonomics by Steven Levitt The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11 th Grade 12 th Grade Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Design and Architecture 9 th Grade 10 th Grade Speak by Laurie Anderson The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11 th Grade 12 th Grade Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Information Technology 9 th Grade 10 th Grade The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick Digital Fortress by Dan Brown The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11 th Grade 12 th Grade Neuromancer by William Gibson Prey by Michael Crichton The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Medical Skills and Biomedical 9 th Grade 10 th Grade Coma by Robin Cook It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11 th Grade 12 th Grade The Adromeda Strain by Michael Crichton Experimental Heart by Jennifer L. Rohn The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Hospitality and Tourism 9 th Grade 10 th Grade Married to the Mouse by Richard E. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell Foglesong Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima 11 th Grade 12 th Grade Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Sparks The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

International Baccalaureate 9 th Grade Pre IB AP Literature/10 th Grade Pre IB The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Barron’s AP English Literature and Composition 3rd Edition by George Ehrenhaft, Ed.D. 11 th Grade 12 th Grade 1984 by George Orwell The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Fiela’s Child by Dalene Matthee Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Advanced Placement AP Language and Composition (all) Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield On Writing by Stephen King In Cold Blood by Truman Capote AP Literature (all) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Intensive Reading Plus 9 th Grade 10 th Grade The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Street Pharm by Allison Van Diepen Cooney 11 th Grade 12 th Grade The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks Crank by Ellen Hopkins